Intel announced yesterday that it's developing an entire "handheld gaming platform" powered by its new Panther Lake chips and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is hinting about potential Windows gaming handhelds showing up at the Game Developers Conference in March, and AMD's new Strix Halo chips could lead to more powerful handhelds.According to IGN and TechCrunch, sources say Intel is going to compete by developing a custom Intel Core G3 "variant or variants" just for handhelds that could outperform the Arc B390 GPU on the chips it just announced. IGN reports that by using the new 18A process, Intel can cut different di …Read the full story at The Verge.

We get to test a lot of laptops each year, and most of the ones we get to spend time with are actually pretty good. However, price becomes a huge factor in this day and age, especially one that sits on the line between good and great.

While most attention in the AI race is focused on model builders and cloud platforms, Lenovo sits closer to millions of users than most companies. As the world's top PC maker by volume, Lenovo ships tens of millions of devices every year. What it decides to ship, bundle, and integrate can directly shape how AI shows up in many everyday lives.That's what made Lenovo's announcement today at CES notable. At a flashy event on Tuesday at The Sphere in Las Vegas, it introduced Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant designed to live across Lenovo laptops and Motorola phones. It's Lenovo's most ambitious AI effort to date and a rare look …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've been keeping tabs on our CES 2026 news, you may have noticed a recurring trend of AI. Some companies, like Razer, have seemingly gone all-in on the tech, while others have experimented with different levels of integration. Some companies have seemingly added NPUs and Copilot+ certifications to all of their products, while others haven't.

I've been self-hosting for a while now, so most services are rarely a challenge. Be it a media server, photo library, the ever-present Home Assistant, monitoring dashboards, backup tools and more, I don't usually run into any odd hiccups. The issues, if ever, are bad volume mapping or reusing a port. These problems tend to be predictable enough that I can fix them without sifting through multiple solutions. But my experience with Authentik was different.

Ever since I made the jump over to Linux, I've grown a new respect for the terminal. When I first started with the OS, I feared it, and for good reason; the terminal can easily do damage to your system if you copy-paste the wrong command. However, now that I have some experience with it, I love using it for pretty much everything.

It doesn't feel that long ago when people said that Linux was for work, and Windows was for gaming. The idea of games working on Linux was pretty much a pipe dream, and it wholly depended on developers working hard on a separate Linux build for them to work.

Roblox is rolling out its previously announced requirement for all users to go through an age estimation process to be able to use the platform's chat features. The policy was announced in November 2025 and was rolled out to Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in December, but now users will be prompted to complete an age check to be able to chat in "all regions where chat is available," Roblox says.The company's facial scan age check process uses technology from Persona, which is also used by Reddit. If a user wants to appeal the result of their age check, they can also verify their age via ID verification, and a parent can also u …Read the full story at The Verge.

As tends to happen every year, CES is here to ring in 2026, and with it comes some of the most exciting tech of the whole year. CES always sets the stage for the next 12 months, and as per usual, this year's edition brings us some incredible new devices to look forward to.

It's been less than a year since I got into the idea of self-hosting, but in that time, it's already changed a lot about how I use my devices and services. Of course, I no longer pay for Microsoft 365 or Google One since I have my own storage, but self-hosting has also removed the need for many extensions I used to have in my browser.

DRAM prices have skyrocketed in the past few months, which has had a cascading effect on associated products like PCs, phones, storage devices, and more. And it doesn't look like 2026 is going to get any better, so whenever you spot a deal on storage or RAM, it's going to be a good time to pick some up if you need it.

SpatialAware lets Hue know where lights are in your room, so it can apply lighting scenes more effectively. Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designed scenes to help you light your space, but the lights don't know where they are physically in your home, and the effect can get diluted. Philips Hue has a solution to this problem: SpatialAware.SpatialAware knows your room's layout and the placement of your Hue lights, so it can determine the best way to distribute the scene's colors and effects across them. It gets the data when you scan your space with your smartphone in the Hue app. Using your phone's AR capabilities …Read the full story at The Verge.