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Rising stars among Kiwi contingent confirmed for return of high-profile golf tournament
Zackary Swanwick will headline a six-strong Kiwi contingent when the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC) returns to New Zealand soil for the second time.

Completion of the NBA's investigation of the Clippers could facilitate Leonard trade to the Raptors
The NBA began investigating in September 2025 whether a US$28 million endorsement contract between Leonard and Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC — a company that filed for bankruptcy last year — broke league rules.

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe laptops combine color, chatbots, and computing
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe is here to answer the question: What am I going to buy as a cheap, productive PC this holiday? If you can spare $699.99, Lenovo has the answer: Either 14-inch or 15-inch Vibe laptops, with attractive colorways, available initially with either first-gen Snapdragon X processors or the new...

Nvidia wants to turn your house of gaming PCs into an AI supercomputer
Nvidia and its partners are ready to roll out new RTX Spark-powered devices in October, shoving the GPU goliath into the CPU spotlight with a beastly first processor that’s augmented by powerful integrated graphics. It’s all to chase the allure of local AI. And to set the stage, at IFA Berlin...

Lenovo’s fanless laptop makes AirJet feel real at last
In 2022, I broke the story on Frore Systems and its AirJet Mini and AirJet Pro, two solid-state cooling solutions that could replace traditional fans in laptops. Since then, readers have been grumbling: “Where are they? Is the AirJet just vaporware?” Apparently not, as Lenovo has built them into its Project...

For all their talk about AI, few companies are quantifying gains

21 banks back USD stablecoin venture for global use
The move could give banks a regulated foothold in digital payments as they seek to challenge crypto issuers and settle transactions faster.

Oukitel’s new rugged laptop charges via sunlight and survives water jets
Oukitel, a Chinese consumer electronics company with a 10-year pedigree, just unveiled its new RG14-P laptop at IFA 2026 in Berlin. What makes this laptop unique is that it’s not only exceptionally durable but can also charge its own battery using solar power, reports Notebookcheck. According to Oukitel, the laptop’s solar...

Why Erasmus is a hypocrite and what is ‘walking around’ a scrum anyway
Rassie Erasmus isn’t used to losing scrum battles. Maybe that’s why he’s so irate about Dave Rennie winning an off-field tighthead between tests one and two.

Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face
The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and developer community.

Nvidia’s RTX Spark PCs launch in October with bold 100fps gaming promises
Windows laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Arm chips hit the market in 2024—their reception has been tepid, to say the least. Initially, incredible battery life was offset by poor gaming performance, and both Intel and AMD have caught up on efficiency since then. Now, in 2026, during the worst time in...

Lenovo made a ThinkBook that literally stretches sideways
At CES 2026, we saw a Lenovo gaming laptop that slowly unrolled into a widescreen laptop. At IFA, we’re seeing a second: a ThinkBook prototype that Lenovo is calling “Project Swan.” Let’s face it: Lenovo seems to have this rollable laptop concept sewn up. Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Rollable from last year...

Tesla's Cybercab event is tonight. Here's what the industry — and Wall Street — expects

Nvidia confirms $13 billion acquisition of open-weight AI platform Hugging Face

Never defragment your SSD. Do this instead to keep it in tip-top shape
Remember when you had to defragment your hard drive regularly? With traditional HDDS, this made sense because files could become fragmented into small pieces over a period of time. The mechanical read head then had to jump across the magnetic platters to find all the pieces of a file, which...