A live blog of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026, where the company announced the Galaxy S26 series
all the latest leaks and rumors ahead of today's big Unpacked eventAman Gupta /Livemint:Samsung Galaxy S26 Launch LIVE: Galaxy S26, S26+, S26 Ultra to be unveiled todayAnuj Bhatia ...
Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits screen legibility, a new agentic AI, an improved night mode, and more
must read — Read now — ZDNET's key takeaways — Samsung's Galaxy S26 series sports a much-needed design upgrade.
Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI ...
Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped architect SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on ARM
In an exclusive interview, Valve reveals it's the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm.
Google and Epic Games settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with Android and Google Play changes to expand competition and choice, pending a US judge's approval
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” …
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI
What does “Xbox” mean? Some might say it can only refer to a box-shaped Microsoft game machine.
Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026
What we know about the next Intel Core Ultra. … Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years.
Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30
Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: the small display adds new functionality, real-time translation are useful, and the Neural Band seems like the ideal input method
Incredibly, @vicmsong.bsky.social calls them “the best I've ever tried.” — www.theverge.com/tech/779566/ ... @hypervisible.blacksky.app : What I've come to hate about a lot of re...
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), doubling the battery life to 8 hours and with 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available now for $329+
The Gen 2 glasses have up to eight hours of continuous battery on a single charge, up from four on the previous edition.
Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30
Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.
Nvidia announces Install-to-Play for GeForce Now, letting users install games opted into Valve's Steam Cloud Play, without waiting for Nvidia to curate them
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
Nvidia debuts Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model, saying it achieves comparable or better accuracies than Qwen3-8B on reasoning benchmarks
Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch …
Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky unveils the Pebble Time 2 in four colors, with a 1.5" e-paper display, multicolor RGB backlighting, and a 30-day battery life
The Time 2 sports a sleeker profile and RGB backlighting. … Now that Pebble is Pebble again, we're getting an official look …
Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2
Victoria Song / The Verge :
Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer”
will be replaced by new black Windows 11 ‘unexpected restart screen’ Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death Reece Bithrey / The Shortcut : Windows...
Microsoft showcases a full-screen, Windows-based Xbox experience optimized for handheld gaming on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, rolling out to other handhelds in 2026
eventually Richard Speed / The Register : Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds Jacob Fox / PC Gamer : I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows s...
Xbox Ally X hands-on: an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a super-slim Windows, and more
The Xbox handheld impresses, but pricing remains the biggest question. — PC gaming handhelds have flooded the market at this point …