Withings launches a cheaper version of its flagship scale
Withings' mid-range BodyFit is targeted at GLP-1 users who need to keep a closer eye on their muscle mass.
Why Content Creators Are Ditching Complex Camera Gear
The evolving design of creator cameras is reshaping how they are categorized and used. As Tech Court explains, distinctions between devices like action cameras, smartphones and mirrorless systems are fading. For example, action cameras such as the GoPro Mission 1 Series now feature cinema-grade capabilities like interchangeable lenses, while smartphones integrate advanced stabilization and high-quality […]
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ASUS Just Returned to Tablets, and It’s Coming for the iPad
Android tablets have had a complicated few years. The iPad solidified its lead at the premium end, and Android alternatives often competed on price rather than experience, producing devices that were acceptable but rarely compelling. Demand for something that genuinely rivaled the best tablets in the room, not on price alone, but on the quality of the thing itself, has been there for a while. It just hasn’t always been answered.
ASUS steps back into the conversation with the Pad, an Android 16 tablet announced at Computex 2026. The company stepped away from the tablet category for several years, and this is its return, built around a 12.2-inch dual-layer OLED display and a chassis light enough and slim enough to suggest that sitting on the couch with it for three hours isn’t something to plan around.
Designer: ASUS
The display is the obvious starting point, because the choice of dual-layer OLED is a meaningful one. Where a conventional OLED pushes through a single emission layer, the tandem structure stacks two of them. The result is better brightness, longer panel life, and improved power efficiency without demanding that any of those things trade off against each other. At a 2.8K resolution, 144Hz refresh rate, and full DCI-P3 coverage, the screen is built for content that benefits from all of that.
The body that carries it measures just 6.5mm thick and weighs 523g, built from a magnalium chassis with a fiberglass back. Those proportions bring the Pad well within the range of a device someone would actually carry in a bag or hold over a long flight without a second thought. Four speakers tuned with Dolby Atmos back up the display with audio that punches harder than the form factor suggests.
A MediaTek Dimensity 8300 chip handles the performance side, paired with 8GB of LPDDR5x RAM and storage in 128GB or 256GB configurations. A micro TF slot extends that to 1TB, keeping the device practical for anyone loading it with locally stored video or large files. The 9,000mAh battery charges to 50% in 30 minutes at 45W, and Wi-Fi 6E keeps the streaming side of things moving.
Software runs Android 16 with a handful of genuinely useful additions. ASUS GlideX handles cross-device connectivity, letting the tablet function as a secondary screen or swap files with a nearby laptop. Google Gemini integrates directly into the experience for AI assistance, while Circle to Search lets users search from anything visible on screen without disrupting what they’re doing. Face Login handles security without a passcode step.
Accessory support rounds out what the Pad can do when the watching stops. ASUS Pen 2.0 enables handwriting and sketching, and Bluetooth keyboard support turns the tablet into something closer to a light laptop for longer text work. A protective case with a multi-angle origami stand ships in the box, meaning the setup is functional out of the packaging without anything additional to buy. Availability and pricing haven’t been confirmed yet, but the ASUS Pad is shaping up as a considered answer to a market that doesn’t always reward patience.
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The Best Fitbit Air Features You Probably Aren’t Using Yet
The Google Fitbit Air is not just a fitness tracker; it is a versatile tool designed to enhance your health and wellness journey. While its primary functions, such as step counting and sleep monitoring, are well-known, the device also offers a range of lesser-known features that can elevate your experience. By delving into these hidden […]
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Open Source MiniMax M3 Outperforms Opus 4.7 for a Fraction of the Cost
The MiniMax M3 is making waves in the AI community as an open source model that combines advanced capabilities with affordability. Highlighted by World of AI, this model stands out for its ability to handle both text and visual data through multimodal reasoning, allowing applications like image captioning and multimedia generation. Its support for a […]
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The Surface Laptop Ultra Just Got NVIDIA’s Answer to Apple Silicon
The laptop has always been a machine of compromises. Workstation-class performance typically arrived in thick chassis with short battery life and fan noise audible from across a room. Getting genuine power in a form factor thin and light enough to carry without a second thought has been largely Apple’s territory, a problem it’s been solving with its own ARM-based chips while Windows machines played catch-up.
NVIDIA is changing that calculus for Windows with RTX Spark, an ARM-based superchip that fuses a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU carrying 6,144 CUDA cores, connected by NVIDIA’s NVLink-C2C chip-to-chip interconnect. Microsoft built the Surface Laptop Ultra around it from the silicon up, designing the machine and the chip in concert, producing what it describes as the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.
The reason ARM architecture matters for laptop design is power efficiency. Compared to x86 chips, ARM-based designs deliver significantly more performance per watt, and that ratio determines what’s physically possible in a chassis. RTX Spark laptops are engineered to be as slim as 14mm and as light as 3 pounds, proportions that previously excluded any serious dedicated GPU from the equation entirely.
The Surface Laptop Ultra lands at under 18mm thick and under 4.5 pounds, housed in CNC-machined aluminum in Platinum and Nightfall finishes. The 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen reaches up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness with a 3:2 aspect ratio and 262 pixels per inch, making it the brightest display Microsoft has ever shipped on a Surface. A full port set, including HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, SD card, and headphone jack, rounds out a machine designed for professional use.
RTX Spark’s most defining architectural choice is unified memory, where up to 128GB of RAM is shared dynamically between the CPU and GPU. A 3D rendering job, a video edit, and a locally running AI model can all draw from that same pool simultaneously, without the bottlenecks discrete memory architectures create. That arrangement enables 1 petaflop of AI compute, enough to run 120-billion-parameter models entirely on the device.
The full CUDA software stack runs natively on RTX Spark, which matters directly for creative professionals. Adobe is rebuilding Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up for the chip, targeting 2x faster AI and graphics performance. On the creative side, RTX Spark handles 12K video editing, renders 90GB-plus 3D scenes using NVIDIA OptiX, and generates 4K AI video, tasks that previously required a dedicated workstation to complete without serious compromise.
NVIDIA describes RTX Spark as the most efficient PC chip ever built, a statement aimed squarely at Apple Silicon’s grip on the high-end creative laptop market. That efficiency is also what allows the Surface Laptop Ultra’s all-new thermal system to sustain heavy workloads without the throttling and fan noise that defined previous Windows machines in this tier. Microsoft’s own engineers worked across mechanical, thermal, materials, and industrial design disciplines simultaneously, treating the chassis and the chip as a single system.
All-day battery life holds even while running on battery power, and the compact charger is small enough to fit in a jacket pocket. The Surface Laptop Ultra and additional RTX Spark-powered devices from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI are expected in fall 2026. For a platform that has long asked users to choose between portability and capability, the arrival of an ARM PC chip in NVIDIA’s hands changes the terms of that conversation considerably.
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Instagram tests new limits on what types of posts teens can ‘repeatedly’ see
The restrictions affect posts related to body image and mental health.
The Hidden Strategy Behind Anthropic’s New Claude Opus 4.8 Release
Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, introducing updates designed to enhance its AI’s performance in areas like coding accuracy, reasoning and task management. A notable feature is the addition of dynamic workflows, which break down complex operations into smaller, verifiable subtasks to streamline automation. According to Universe of AI, these updates reflect Anthropic’s attempt to meet […]
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Clutch is an open-world driving game from the former creative director of Forza Horizon
Maverick Games has unveiled Clutch, an open-world driving game.
The Hidden Setting You Must Change After Installing iOS 26.5.1
Apple has officially released iOS 26.5.1, a focused update aimed at resolving a critical wired charging issue that has been affecting specific devices. If you own an iPhone Air or a model from the iPhone 17 series, this update is particularly important to ensure your device operates as expected. Alongside this update, Apple has also […]
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