The 17-inch LG Gram Pro weighs 3.3 pounds while the 16-inch model weighs 2.73 pounds. | Image: LG LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that go beyond its current Gram laptops.The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished as the only model using the Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors. Image: LG The three LG Gram Pro laptops, including the 2-in-1. The LG Gram Pro will be available in 17-inch and 16-inch models featuring 2,560 x 1,600 displays, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The 16-inch Gram Pro and the 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 will have Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will instead feature an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small language model derived from LG AI Research’s EXAONE large language model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which lets users quickly revisit “web pages, documents, videos and audio files” they’ve recently accessed. LG’s software is adding tools similar to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, but given the trouble Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to wait and see how it all measures up. It also might make those features available on more PCs, but LG hasn’t specified which AI features will be available on which laptops in the new Gram lineup.Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries using “vast web-based datasets for detailed and comprehensive responses” while integrating with calendar and email services. It requires an active internet connection and will only be free for the first year.All of the new Gram laptops also support LG’s Gram Link 2.0, which streamlines document and file sharing with other PCs and iOS or Android-based smartphones. It also allows incoming phone calls to be answered through the Gram laptops, so you don’t have to swap headsets or Bluetooth headphones to another device temporarily.LG will also introduce its entry-level Gram Book to the US market next year. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch 60Hz full HD display, a 720p webcam, and configurations of up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 memory.

With Windows 11 slowly receiving more and more ads across its system, people are getting a little tired of seeing new ones pop up. Over the past few days, some users have spotted ad pop-ups advertising the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and the paid Microsoft Defender security app. Fortunately, Microsoft has cleared up this little mess by stating that these aren't ads at all but instead "giving the people the option to purchase" a product. Phew. Well, that clears that up, doesn't it?

Image: Verge staff We take a look back at 20 of our favorite projects from 2024. Read the full story at The Verge.

Qualcomm and Arm haven't had the best of years, have they? 2024 was rife with conflicts and accusations as Arm accused Qualcomm of breaching licensing law after it bought up Nuvia. Well, after a year of trading punches, Qualcomm finally won the legal battle against Arm. Well, most of it.

Apple’s 42mm flagship is down to just $329 with various bands. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether or not you subscribe to them, New Year’s resolutions are a capital-T Thing for many people in the US. Thankfully, if your goals for 2025 revolve around health and fitness, the 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting at $329 ($70 off), matching its Black Friday low. You can also pick it up in the 46mm sizing at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting at $359 ($70 off), which remains the best price we’ve seen on the larger model.While there are certainly better fitness trackers for hardcore athletes, none of them offer the kind of robust third-party support you’ll get with a flagship Apple Watch, nor do they integrate as well with Apple’s larger device ecosystem. The Series 10 is a pretty minor update over the previous model, but it’s still a solid bet for casual athletes, with a terrific wide-angle OLED display, sleep apnea detection, a thinner design, and a larger charging coil that lets you juice it from zero to 80 percent in just 30 minutes.The more substantial fitness updates come in the form of watchOS 11, Apple’s latest software update for the Apple Watch, which brings a selection of new training features to the midrange wearable. These include the new Training Load feature, an app called Vitals that can contextualize a set of recovery metrics, and the long-overdue ability to pause your Activity Rings (praise be). I wouldn’t say any of them are revolutionary, but if you’re upgrading from an older model or you’ve never owned an Apple Watch before, they’re certainly welcome. Read our Apple Watch Series 10 review.More deals, discounts, and ways to saveNomad is still running its annual Holiday Hangover Sale, offering you a chance to save 20 percent on select items with coupon code HOLIDAY20. The promo applies to an assortment of Apple Watch bands and mobile accessories, including Nomad’s Traditional Leather Case for the iPhone 16 Pro (now $48), the keychain-friendly ChargeKey (now $20), and the second-gen Stand One charger (now $88). You can even grab a sleek leather case for the latest AirPods Pro for $32, assuming you want something a bit more rustic.Anker’s Soundcore Sport X10 earbuds are available from Amazon and Anker (with promo code WS7DV2YU66HE) for $49.99 ($30 off), matching their all-time low. The relatively cheap pair of earbuds offers quite a bit for the money — including powerful bass response, an IPX7 rating for water and sweat resistance, and flexible, wraparound hooks — all of which make them a great pick if you want a pair of wireless workout buds for the new year.Looking for an Android-based alternative to the Apple Watch Series 10? The Google Pixel Watch 3 is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store starting at $299.99 ($50 off), which remains its second-best price to date. The handsome third-gen smartwatch is one of the best fitness trackers you can buy thanks to a host of excellent Google integrations and a slew of running features, not to mention a new battery-saver mode that activates when your watch falls below 15 percent. Read our review.

Considering the prices of the best graphics cards today, this question is more relevant than ever. I'd like to start with a disclaimer, though: this article isn't about telling people what to do with their money. Of course, you can spend whatever you like on a gaming GPU, but my intention is to analyze multiple factors and arrive at a realistic price that allows gamers to enjoy a reasonable quality of gaming in 2025.

Chrome extensions are never completely safe, even if the developer would never dream of infecting their user base with malware. Unfortunately, it's these kinds of loyal developers that bad agents love to target; if a scammer manages to trick them into handing over their login details, they can use their established foundation of trust against them. Such is the case of 35 Chrome extensions, which were caught performing malicious activities after their developers were phished.

If you're heading to CES 2025, you might want to pop a head into the LG section. The company has only just announced that one of its monitors has already won three awards including "Best in Innovation," and the event hasn't even started yet. Now, LG is back with yet another medal, this time for its laptops.

Half-Life 3 has been a long-running meme, given that the ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 leaves the series on a massive cliffhanger. Fans have been desperately clinging to the hope of a successor, and now, finally, that might be happening. The company has been documented to be working on a successor on several occasions, with all of those potential successors eventually being canned. This time, though, there are a lot of reasons to hold out hope that the company is finally working on something that will see the light of day and continue to tell the story of The Combine, the Uprising, and Gordon Freeman.

Despite its roots as a general-purpose operating system, it’s possible to turn your Windows 11 machine into a reliable server. From Type-2 hypervisors like VirtualBox and VMware Workstation Pro that can simplify VM deployment to support for WSL2 and Docker containers, you can use a myriad of apps to create an experimentation-cum-self-hosting environment within Windows 11’s simple UI. Heck, I’d go so far as to say that it’s one of the easiest server OS for beginners to the home lab landscape.

Our digital workflow requires taking notes, writing documentation, and creating content at a rapid pace. While you are probably using the best tools for the job, you might be missing out on the simplicity and efficiency of Markdown. By offering a clean and intuitive approach to formatting text, this lightweight markup language is changing the way we write.

We love our practical Raspberry Pi projects here at XDA. Just ask Jeff Butts, who recently wrote our tutorial on turning a Raspberry Pi into an air monitor. While Jeff is always on the hunt for something to make or 3D print, he may want to revisit his old project for 2025, as someone has shown off a Raspberry Pi-powered air monitor you can take wherever you go.