Ever since Nvidia unveiled the latest version of DLSS at CES 2026, it has been clear that DLSS 4.5 boasts the sharpest image quality and temporal stability in their proprietary upscaler to date. In fact, DLSS 4.5 even makes low internal resolutions like DLSS Performance and even Ultra-Performance genuinely viable on 4K displays. Sure, it comes with a slight performance cost with fewer frames and increased VRAM usage, but DLSS 4.5 has earned every bit of that extra resource tax.

For the past few months, a couple of ARM-based mini PCs have been sitting in my online shopping cart. What really caught my attention was the passively cooled chassis and the low idle power draw, which are suitable for my home lab experiments. Also, the price tag seems good enough not to hurt the wallet.

The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base and fold down like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI puts it, "humanoid robots don't need to look human." That explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Genesis says Eno is designed "around human capability" rather than human appearance and is intended as a fully "general-purpose" robot rather than a machine built around a single task, like folding laundry. One part is still very human though: its hands, which the company says are designed to "exactly match the form and fu …Read the full story at The Verge.

Most local LLMs feel predictable now. You download a model, point a runtime at it, ask a question, and then watch text move across the screen one token at a time. The model might be better or worse than the one you used yesterday, but the basic experience is usually the same.

There’s no denying that cloud platforms are extremely accessible, especially for folks who don’t want to manage all the aspects of hosting their own apps. But despite their extra benefits, I’ve started to grow disillusioned with tools that rely on external servers. For one, cloud apps tend to shove ads in my face if I don’t shell out extra money on premium subscriptions, all while collecting my usage statistics to build an advertisement profile.

Running Linux on a Windows machine means two things. You either need to create a virtual machine that can share the system resources and run a Linux distribution inside it. Or, you can avoid Type 2 hypervisors and dual-boot Linux alongside Windows. Both of these methods let you learn the Linux way, although dual-booting means direct access to the system kernel and hardware.

There are two things I love about Raspberry Pi tinkerers: they always push the limits of what their beloved SBC can do, and they always do so with style. It's not enough for them to make us wonder why they do what they do; they also need to do so with the coolest-looking enclosures we've ever seen.

It hasn't been a good few months for people who want to run their four-decade-old hardware on Linux. A few days ago, we had to bid farewell to i486 support after Linux 7.1 was finally released, and it doesn't seem like Linux 7.2 will be any more merciful. A new commit confirms that everyone who runs a modern-day Linux distro on a 44-year-old GPU will be left out come the next kernel update, but I have a sneaking suspicion that nobody will miss it.

As Europe strives to achieve digital sovereignty from proprietary software, there has been a big rush to move toward open-source software. We're seeing laws passed in some EU countries declaring that governmental PCs should run open-source operating systems and productivity apps, and it's easy to assume that, if an app is open-source, it means it has you in the front of its mind.

Budget 3D printers used to fight over speed, auto-leveling, and how little patience they could demand from a new owner. Those things still matter, but they’re no longer enough to make a printer feel meaningfully different. The basic experience has improved so much that a cheap printer can now be fast, tidy, and mostly painless without feeling unusual. That means the next fight has to move somewhere else, and Bambu’s A2L makes the answer pretty obvious.

The cool thing about e-paper displays isn't just that they look amazing, although that's definitely a huge plus. No, one of its more practical features is its low power profile. This makes them perfect for displays around the home that you want to leave on 24/7, but you don't want them making a dent in your energy bill.

Building a rig is a sizable investment of time, energy, and of late, a lot of money. It requires making the best decisions out of the resources you have, picking out the right platform, choosing the right set of chips that you know and trust, and exercising a fair bit of foresight. In that, you want to know what you want now, but also what you'll need a few years down the line.