Got me all twisted up. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept, the 14-inch thin-and-light sports a motorized pivoting hinge, allowing it to twist and angle its screen toward you. It can be manually controlled, but the real trick is tracking your head and automatically adjusting to your position or posture. It can follow you around a portion of a room while giving a presentation, and you can knock on its closed lid to have it automatically open.The Auto Twist will also have an emoji-like AI companion software that reminds me of GERTY from the 2009 sci-fi movie Moon, turning to follow you and react to your ac …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

Samsung Display and Intel have teamed up on laptop technology called SmartPower HDR that they claim can minimize power usage while you're watching HDR content on an OLED screen. Intel showed off this technology last year, but Samsung Display is sharing details about how it works and the power savings you might expect. However, the company didn't say which laptops may get SmartPower HDR, so it's still unclear when it will actually be in laptops you can use.With SmartPower HDR, Samsung Display says the laptop's chipset monitors the peak brightness of each frame it's rendering in real-time. Then the OLED panel's timing controller chip uses th …Read the full story at The Verge.

Wider is better. Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop. It has a flexible OLED display that expands horizontally - as opposed to Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, which rolls up and down. The Legion Pro Rollable's screen goes from a conventional 16-inch 16:10 aspect ratio to an extra-wide 21.5 inches, all the way to an ultrawide 24 inches. That's even bigger (diagonally, at least) than the ridiculous $9,000 21-inch gaming laptop Acer once made.The Pro Rollable concept is based on the Legion Pro 7i, and it'll come with an Intel Core Ultra processor and Nvidia's flagship RTX 50 …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

Networking gear for smart home setups and individual use is typically affordable, but there are often items in MicroCenter aisles and on Amazon that leave us scratching our heads as to why someone would put so much money down just for better internet. The answer lies mostly in what you'd define as acceptable quality of internet service, and how much money you're willing to fork to get it to that level. For instance, an overwhelming majority of ISP subscribers are content with the ISP-supplied router, trashy as it may be. However, it is dangerous and expensive to presume home networking problems go away if you just throw money at them.

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.

The Moto Watch will be available on January 22nd. At CES, Motorola announced its latest smartwatch, the Moto Watch. According to Motorola, the Android watch offers up to 13 days of battery life, alongside Polar-powered health tracking, open-source software, and dual-frequency GPS - a combination that helps set it apart from Apple's and Google's flagship wearables.Battery life is easily its most notable feature. Motorola says the 47mm watch can last up to 13 days on a single charge, or around seven days with the always-on OLED display enabled. If those claims hold up, it would put the Moto Watch well ahead of rivals like the Apple Watch Series 11, Google Pixel Watch 4, and even Fitbit's Ch …Read the full story at The Verge.

This year at CES 2026, Lenovo introduced a whole range of concept devices, as it often does. For the most part, these are products that won't actually be sold, but the tech may show up in a shipping product down the line.

Yes, that nice big stylus is included. Lenovo's new pair of Yoga laptops for CES 2026 are its most powerful and most lightweight models. The flagship Yoga Pro 9i is a creator-focused laptop with a 16-inch 4K tandem OLED reaching 1,600 peak nits of brightness, Intel Panther Lake processor options, and up to an RTX 5070 for a discrete GPU. It also includes a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus that can magnetically attach to the lid, either on its own or in its protective case. The pen can be used on the screen or on the trackpad.The new Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition will start at $1,899.99 when it launches in Q2 2026. The new Lenovo Yoga 7i Slim Ultra Aura Edition is also e …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

In the broader PC hardware community, upgrading your components somehow became an expectation rather than a choice like it used to be. Hardware seems to age faster on YouTube and Reddit, and one scroll is all it takes to be told that your GPU is unfit for modern gaming. The algorithm is indeed working overtime to get you to throw away your perfectly capable hardware for the annual refresh cycle.