Valve quietly pushed one of the more useful PC VR updates of the year in September 2026: a public beta that lets Steam Link talk to a Meta Quest headset over a plain USB-C cable instead of relying only on Wi-Fi. For anyone who has fought a router for a stable SteamVR session, that’s a…
After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year. Roslansky’s departure has triggered another leadership shuffle inside Microsoft. “Ryan leaves the organization…
Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some of its key enterprise customers. Instead of a flashy media event, Nadella outlined the future of Copilot directly to the customers Microsoft really cares about, pitching its latest rethink of the AI assistant as the “OS for work.” Microsoft is…
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups are getting creative, finding ways to use relatively small batteries in unexpected places,…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…
The biggest blockbuster shooter of 2026, Gears of War: E-Day, launches today for early access players. Additionally, Coalition has laid out its plans for updating the game’s multiplayer content in Season 1 while giving players a peek at Season 2.
With Windows 11 version 26H1 and 26H2 built on different Windows codebases, Microsoft is planning to bring everyone back onto the same platform release with version 27H2 in 2027.
In hands‑on testing, Panasonic’s latest TOUGHBOOKs show a clear shift toward AI‑driven field operations, offering upgraded durability, smarter modularity, and the computing muscle needed to support police, military, and emergency teams in real‑world missions.
A stock fan curve is a compromise. Motherboard makers tune it to keep every chip alive across a huge range of cases, coolers and ambient temperatures, which means most gaming PCs either run louder than they need to at idle or ramp too late once a game actually loads the CPU and GPU. Setting up…