News type content about announcements or whatnot. Mostly for temporary things.
HP got a number of CES 2026 awards for some of their existing computing and consumer electronic technology this year. My favorite is the HP ZBook Fury of course as that’s an extremely powerful mobile workstation. I reviewed the G8 version some years ago, and the latest version is equally as impressive with an easily removable back panel and tons of upgrade options. Here’s a list of HP’s other award winners this year. HP EliteDesk …
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I love it when electronic hardware manufacturers get innovative even if it’s already been done several times in the past. There’s a new Pocket PC or Ultra-Mobile PC or Mini-PC that’s gotten nicely funded over on Kickstarter. Traditionally, “Pocket PC” was Microsoft’s term for “Palm-sized PCs” running the Pocket PC operating system embedded on smartphone sized devices or PDAs (personal digital assistants) at around the turn of the century. This is a full Windows 11 …
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We got to see a demonstration of a cool ComfyUI template that NVIDIA created to showcase how quickly their RTX 5090 GPU can process image generation locally on a laptop computer. Most people think we need a high-end server farm in the cloud to do all of these new “Artificial Intelligence” imagery, video, and text generation, but there are numerous smaller models that can actually run locally and can run pretty nicely if you have …
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, recently tweeted a long post that complains about “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” He’s referring to the internet as a whole but may not realize the hypocrisy of his statements. A number of countries are starting to implement laws enforcing privacy violating technologies such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning …
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UPDATE Jan 27, 2026 – even more lawsuits now Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption | PCMag New Lawsuit Claims that Meta Can Read All the WhatsApp Users Messages Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy – Bloomberg Meta can access all WhatsApp chats, lawsuit claims; Company replies – The Times of India Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secure – The Economic Times UPDATE Oct …
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The Bild Expo first started in September of 2023 as a big 50th anniversary for the B&H Photography & Video super store. After attending that, I figured it was just a one-time event for the photography store’s big birthday, but in 2025 a second Bild Expo was scheduled. It was actually even bigger than the previous one two years ago. It is great to see that maybe a new big photography expo will regularly come …
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