This review underscores a recurring reality in PC components: brand names on power supplies often mask anonymous OEM platforms, and buyers need to judge the builder rather than the badge. Thermalright, known for budget coolers, is leaning on price ($91) and a five-year warranty rather than engineering pedigree, with the HKC-built TR-KG750 barely clearing 80 PLUS Gold and lacking Cybenetics data.

Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE delivers solid but largely unchanged performance from its predecessor while costing more, making it hard to recommend at $700. With the flagship S26 frequently discounted to the same price and cheaper midrange rivals abundant, the 'Fan Edition' value proposition is eroding. It's a reminder that incremental upgrades paired with price hikes push buyers toward last year's models or competitors.

Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 shows how far 18-inch laptops have come, offering an RTX 5080 at 175W, a 24-core Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, 64GB of RAM and a Gen 5 SSD that the reviewer found essentially matched a desktop PC for work and gaming. The tradeoffs are now less about performance and more about weight and cost, with a 7.7-pound chassis, 400W brick and a price the reviewer calls 'almost comical.' For buyers, it signals that true desktop replacement is finally real, but only at the luxury end of the market.

Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 shows how far 18-inch flagship laptops have come, packing a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX, a 175W RTX 5080, 64GB RAM and a Gen 5 SSD into a machine the reviewer says rivals a desktop with almost no compromises. The catch is the price and the bulk: 7.7 pounds alone, over 10 pounds with the 400W adapter. It signals that true desktop replacement is now real, but only for buyers willing to pay a premium and give up portability.

Air purifiers are increasingly sold on the promise of real-time air-quality data, and this review of Coway's Airmega Halo highlights the gap between strong cleaning performance and trustworthy sensor readings. For consumers, it's a reminder that the on-device numbers driving purchase decisions may not be as reliable as the hardware itself.

Libernovo, barely a year into the gaming chair market, is already fragmenting its Omni line into budget, premium, and big-and-tall variants — a sign of how quickly a newcomer can iterate against incumbents like Herman Miller. The Omni Pro's seat ventilation fan, which pulls air away rather than blowing it at you, actually works, but at roughly $1,109 street price buyers are betting on the durability of an unproven brand.

Insta360's Luna Pro trims the Ultra's dual-lens gimbal down to a single lens while keeping the same 1-inch sensor, Leica lens and 8K/30 capabilities, and adds true 4K vertical shooting. That last point matters for the huge population of creators shooting for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, who have been stuck with lower-resolution portrait capture on rivals like the Pocket 4.

Two stories highlight how emerging technologies outpace the guardrails around them: a pastor's INDXcoin raised over $3 million from 500+ investors in evangelical circles before collapsing, showing how crypto can exploit affinity and faith-based trust. Meanwhile, nonprofit Reflective has published the first detailed road map for the research needed to decide whether solar geoengineering should ever be deployed, filling a gap left after 50 years of scattered study.

Vari's Ergo electric standing desk shows that the mid-price desk market has matured: buyers can now get a stable, lifetime-warrantied sit-stand desk without the wobble or multi-hour assembly ordeal that plagued cheaper models. For remote and hybrid workers outfitting home offices, ease of setup and build quality are becoming the real differentiators rather than raw feature counts.

Microsoft says AI-assisted 'vibe coding' has caused a surge in Edge extension submissions, so it's automating much of the add-on review pipeline with AI while routing complex cases to human reviewers. It's an early example of platforms using AI to absorb the volume that AI itself created, and it matters for both developers waiting on approvals and users who rely on store review to catch malicious or low-quality extensions.

Fox's $22 billion bid for Roku now faces a DOJ second request, meaning regulators want a deeper look at how combining a major content owner with one of the largest TV operating systems could affect competition. Because Roku's OS acts as gatekeeper for how millions of viewers discover streaming apps, rivals worry Fox could favor its own services like Tubi and leverage Roku's viewer data for advertising. The review also lands amid broader scrutiny of how the DOJ handles politically sensitive media mergers.

Companies are increasingly measuring AI adoption by raw usage — tokens burned, prompts sent, leaderboards climbed — and even folding it into performance reviews. Predictably, workers optimize for the metric rather than the outcome, as Meta's 'Claudeonomics' leaderboard and its 60 trillion tokens in 30 days suggest. For enterprises buying AI tools, it's a warning that consumption dashboards measure spend, not productivity.

Tom's Hardware finds Goodram's PX700 punches above its weight among budget PCIe 4.0 SSDs, offering strong performance, high power efficiency and a cool-running single-sided M.2 2280 design. It's a reminder that lesser-known but established EU brands can beat familiar names using similar controller/NAND hardware. The catch is pricing, which currently undercuts its value case.

Tom's Hardware finds Goodram's PX700 punches above its weight for a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD — solid performance, strong power efficiency, and a cool-running single-sided M.2 2280 design suitable for laptops and handhelds. It also signals that established EU memory assemblers can be a safer bet than the flood of no-name drives appearing on AliExpress and Amazon. The catch is pricing, which undercuts the value argument that budget drives depend on.

Phanteks' AMP GH 750W shows how PSU brands quietly swap OEM platforms — this one moves from a Seasonic-based design to Helly Technology — meaning brand reputation alone is no longer a reliable buying signal. It delivers ATX 3.1/PCIe 5.1 compliance, strong 12V regulation, Japanese caps and an 8-year warranty for under $90, but its 12V-2x6 connector is capped at 450W, which matters for buyers eyeing power-hungry GPUs.

Fairphone's repairable, ethically sourced Android phone is finally available in the US at $650, giving American buyers a rare mainstream alternative built around sustainability and user-serviceable parts. The Gen 6+ is an incremental update, but 12 GB of RAM and more polished software make it a more credible daily driver against similarly priced flagship-adjacent phones.

Dell's Alienware AW3926QW brings 39-inch 5K2K ultrawide OLED gaming to $1,100, roughly $700 less than LG's competing 39GX950B, signaling fast price erosion in a premium display category. It also shows panel choice matters: Dell's RGB-stripe, glossy Tandem WOLED behaves differently from LG's RGWB matte panel despite matching specs.

Dell's Alienware AW3926QW brings 39-inch 5K2K ultrawide OLED gaming to $1,100, undercutting LG's earlier $1,800 39GX950B by a wide margin. Despite similar specs, the two use different panels — RGB stripe with glossy coating versus RGWB matte — which meaningfully changes brightness and color behavior. It signals that the premium ultrawide OLED category is maturing and getting price-competitive fast.

Slow Horses is one of Apple TV's few reliable prestige hits, and it's the rare streaming series that ships a new season every year. Strong early reviews for season 6 suggest the show survived a showrunner and lead-writer change intact, which matters for Apple as it leans on a small slate of flagship titles to justify its $14.99 monthly price.

Lenovo's ground-up redesign of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon shows that legacy business laptops can still evolve, cutting weight to 2.2 pounds via a new metal 'Space Frame' and a 20 percent smaller double-sided motherboard while adding a 70 percent larger fan for better thermals and 30W CPUs. For enterprise buyers, it signals that ultraportables no longer have to trade performance or screen quality for weight, with a 14-inch 2.8K 120Hz OLED now standard.

MIT Technology Review's annual Innovators Under 35 list offers an early read on where biotech, AI, computing and robotics, and climate and energy are heading, based on 550 nominations vetted by 44 expert judges. The issue also highlights spiderwebs as a surprisingly potent source of environmental DNA, a cheaper, less laborious way to survey biodiversity for conservation.

Insta360's X6 narrows the gap between 360 cameras and traditional action cams, notably with 5K single-lens capture and InstaFrame 2.0 recording a 4K flat file alongside 8K/30 360 footage. That matters because the biggest barrier to 360 adoption has been the editing hassle, and a usable simultaneous flat file removes much of it. It also posts the best low-light 360 video the reviewer has shot, ahead of the X5, GoPro, and DJI's Osmo 360.

After 16 years, three candidate cities and a reported $1 billion price tag, George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art has finally opened to a divided critical response. It's a notable test of whether tech- and entertainment-fortune vanity institutions can win cultural legitimacy, and of how much money and time such projects consume before delivering.

Nothing has reopened its Community Review Program, giving selected fans early access to unreleased hardware and software plus a direct line to the product team. It's a low-cost marketing and feedback play that leans on creators rather than traditional press, reflecting how challenger brands build hype and loyalty.

This is a curated Labor Day deals roundup from WIRED's Reviews team, limiting picks to gadgets its editors have actually tested, including laptops, headphones, vacuums, and AirTags. For consumers, holiday-weekend sales like these increasingly serve as an early on-ramp to fall and holiday buying, and vetted lists help cut through discount noise.

Montech's Century II Gold 850W shows that ATX 3.1/PCIe 5.1 compliance with a native 12V-2x6 cable is now reaching the $90 mainstream tier, not just premium units. For builders pairing modern GPUs with mid-range budgets, it narrows the gap with pricier competitors by delivering Cybenetics ETA Platinum efficiency, solid regulation, and a ten-year warranty.

Montech's Century II Gold 850W shows how quickly ATX 3.1/PCIe 5.1 compliance and native 12V-2x6 cables have trickled down to $90 mainstream power supplies. Measured efficiency reaching Cybenetics ETA Platinum plus a ten-year warranty puts pressure on pricier Seasonic- and CWT-based competitors, giving budget GPU upgraders a safer, standards-current option.

Anycubic's Photon P1 MAX pushes large-format resin printing further downmarket, offering a 285 x 214 x 300 mm build volume, 12K mono LCD, heated vat and locking plate for around $1,100. That combination of size and convenience features signals that prosumer-grade resin printing is becoming cheaper and easier for hobbyists and small studios, though early firmware bugs show the product is still maturing.

Nathan Fielder's surprise 174-minute Telluride documentary about Elizabeth Holmes marks a notable convergence of tech's most infamous fraud story and boundary-blurring reality entertainment, backed by A24. For an industry still reckoning with founder mythmaking, the film's focus on what made Holmes tick — rather than her guilt — signals how Silicon Valley scandal has become durable prestige content.

FSP's Mega GM 1200W is a rare case of a PSU maker shipping its own in-house platform rather than rebadging an OEM design, and it delivers Platinum-level efficiency while only claiming Gold certification. For buyers, it signals that certification labels don't always reflect real performance, and that a compact, quiet, native 600W 12V-2x6 unit with a ten-year warranty is available near $229.