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NVIDIA just made a big splash at CES 2026 with some exciting news for cloud gaming fans. GeForce NOW, the company’s popular game streaming service, is expanding to new platforms and adding features that gamers have been requesting for years. If you’ve been waiting to play high-end PC games on your Linux machine or want to turn your Fire TV stick into a gaming device, NVIDIA has you covered. Let’s break down everything announced and what it means for different types of gamers. ...

Imagine for a second that 70% of all car accidents were caused by the exact same mechanical failure—say, a specific bolt that just happened to shake loose on every highway in the world. We wouldn’t just tell drivers to be more careful; we would demand a new kind of bolt. In the world of software, we’ve been living with that loose bolt for forty years, and its name is memory corruption. ...

Something historic happened on January 1, 2026. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest organization of computing professionals, flipped the switch on one of the most significant changes in academic publishing history. Every single article, conference paper, and research artifact in the ACM Digital Library is now completely free to access. No subscriptions. No paywalls. Just open knowledge for everyone. This isn’t a small collection we’re talking about. The ACM Digital Library houses over 600,000 full-text articles spanning decades of computer science research, from foundational algorithms to cutting-edge AI breakthroughs. If you’ve ever tried to access a research paper and hit a paywall asking for $25 or more for a single PDF, you understand why this matters. ...

Dyson has been busy throughout 2025, rolling out significant updates to its flagship product lines. The British technology company, known for its premium approach to home appliances, has introduced the V15 Detect Absolute Pro cordless vacuum, expanded its air purifier range with enhanced sensor technology, and launched a global trade-in and recycling program. These moves signal Dyson’s commitment to making home cleaning not just more powerful, but genuinely smarter. Let’s break down what’s new and whether these premium-priced products are worth your attention. ...

$20 billion. For a company most people have never heard of. When NVIDIA—the undisputed heavyweight of AI hardware—writes a check that size, you can bet it’s not for the office plants. The Groq acquisition (or licensing deal, reports vary) represents something bigger than just another tech giant buying a competitor. It’s a signal that the entire AI industry just pivoted hard. The training era is over. The inference era just arrived with a $20 billion price tag. ...

147 trillion tokens. 80 million virtual computers. A few months of operation. Those numbers don’t just describe a successful startup—they describe infrastructure that’s already running at scale while most AI agent companies are still writing whitepapers. Meta just paid roughly $2 billion for that head start, and if you think this is just another acqui-hire, you’re missing what’s actually happening. What Manus Actually Built Before we get into why Meta cares, let’s talk about what Manus is. Imagine you need to research a complex topic—say, comparing healthcare policies across twelve countries, pulling recent legislative changes, and summarizing how they’d affect a specific demographic. You could spend three days doing that yourself, or you could hand it to an AI agent that breaks down the task, spins up the necessary tools, and delivers a structured report while you grab coffee. ...

When you casually exit a $5.8 billion Nvidia position to fund your next bet, you’re either catastrophically wrong or playing a different game than everyone else. SoftBank chose the latter this week, dumping those chips into a $40 billion stake in OpenAI. That’s not a typo. Forty. Billion. Dollars. For context, that’s roughly what Disney paid for Fox’s entertainment assets, or what Microsoft spent acquiring Activision Blizzard after a year-long regulatory cage match. Except SoftBank just did it for a slice—about 10%—of a company that makes chatbots. Well, chatbots that happen to be reshaping how we work, write, and think about intelligence itself. ...

Here’s something that should make you uncomfortable: we’re building machines that might be conscious, and we have no way to check. Not “no way right now.” Not “no way until better neuroscience tools arrive.” Dr. Tom McClelland, a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, argues in a recent analysis that we may never have a reliable method to detect consciousness in AI—and honestly, I’m not sure which possibility is more unsettling. ...

Here’s something I didn’t expect to be impressed by at CES 2026: a projector that works on curtains. Not well on curtains—that would be unrealistic—but at all. Samsung’s new Freestyle+ doesn’t care if you point it at a corner, a textured wall, or that off-white ceiling you’ve been meaning to repaint. It just figures it out. The company unveiled the portable projector ahead of this year’s Las Vegas tech showcase, and while “AI-powered” has become the tech industry’s favorite phrase to slap on anything with a processor, this one actually uses it for something useful: making projection less finicky. ...

OpenAI just posted what might be the strangest job listing in tech: they’re looking for 15 people to join their Grove program, and the main qualification is not having your life figured out yet. No startup idea required. No previous company necessary. Not even a concrete plan. In fact, if you show up with a fully-baked business model, you might be overthinking it. This is OpenAI’s second run of Grove, a five-week program that sits in an awkward space most accelerators avoid—the murky territory before you even know what problem you want to solve. Y Combinator wants traction. TechStars wants a product. Grove wants curiosity and a willingness to show up in San Francisco with a notebook. ...

Google’s December Drop: AI is Finally Getting Boring (In a Good Way) Every December follows the same script. We’re all trying to clear our desks for the holidays, our brains are essentially fried, and tech companies usually choose this moment to either bury a project or scream for attention one last time before the year ends. Google’s latest round of AI updates feels different. There are no “mind-blowing” sci-fi demos here. Instead, we’re seeing a shift toward utility—tools that actually address the minor, daily annoyances of being a person on the internet in 2025. It feels like AI is finally moving out of its “look what I can do” phase and into its “let me help you with that” phase. ...

Ever feel like the tech world throws new job titles at us faster than we can update our LinkedIn? Data Whisperer. Prompt Engineer. Cloud Evangelist. It’s enough to make your head spin. But there’s one title that’s not just surviving the buzzword barrage—it’s exploding. And for good reason. It’s the AI Product Manager. You’ve seen it everywhere lately. It’s the #1 trending topic in tech circles, and it’s not because it’s the shiniest new thing. It’s trending because it’s the answer to a massive, frustrating gap we’ve all felt. It’s the role that finally asks the question we’ve been missing: “Okay, we can build it… but should we?” ...