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Shadow PC users have had a rough stretch in 2026. The service split its lineup into Lite, Neo, and Power tiers, added a 120-hour Fair Use cap on the cheaper plans, and left the promised “additional hours” add-on unshipped as of late August. If you’re one of the people who opened a support ticket after…
Typing a GameShark code into a Game Boy Advance cartridge in 2004 meant fumbling with a plastic dongle and a printed booklet. In 2026, the process happens inside mGBA’s cheat editor, and most players still get it wrong on the first try. A mistyped hex digit doesn’t just fail silently — it can freeze your…
Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in October to give AI enthusiasts, developers and creators…
After seeing Lenovo’s new IdeaPad Vibe lineup in New York City earlier this summer, I came away genuinely impressed. Starting at just under $700, these laptops combine solid specs, surprisingly premium hardware, and an unprecedented level of personalization that makes Apple’s MacBook Neo and Dell’s newest 14-inch challenger look a little conservative by comparison.
Lenovo is announcing a new concept laptop for IFA 2026 that uses solid-state cooling instead of traditional fans, making it incredibly thin and super light. The 14-inch Project AeroBlade concept laptop is less than 10mm thick and weighs under 1.8 pounds / 830g. For reference, recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons are around 14mm at their thickest…
Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad Vibe, a productivity laptop aimed at taking on the MacBook Neo with a similar starting price and a wider range of colors. The Vibe comes in 14- and 15-inch sizes, with AMD and Qualcomm chip options due out in October and November, respectively. Intel versions (likely Wildcat Lake) are set…
Three code editors are pulling developers in three different directions this year, and picking wrong costs more than a subscription fee. VS Code still anchors the market at 75.9% usage share according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Cursor has rocketed to an 18% share as an AI-native fork built on that same VS Code…
Sega killed the Genesis Mini line years ago, but the actual 16-bit hardware it imitated is still one of the easiest consoles on Earth to emulate accurately on a laptop from 2015. The catch is that most “Genesis emulator” tutorials online point at Kega Fusion, a program that stopped receiving updates over a decade ago,…
Perplexity AI open-sourced Lily, a Rust and Metal inference engine built to run a single model, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, on a single hardware family, Apple Silicon, the company confirmed on September 2, 2026. The release, first detailed by MarkTechPost, positions Lily as the local half of Hybrid Compute, the split-execution mode inside the Perplexity Computer Mac app…
Anthropic’s Agent Skills format has quietly become one of the most-searched features in the Claude ecosystem. “Claude code skills” now pulls roughly 12,100 monthly US searches, and terms like “claude skills marketplace” and “claude skills github” add thousands more, according to keyword data pulled in September 2026. Yet most of what shows up when you…
