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Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 Review: A Rare Double-Duty Laptop for Gaming and Work

8.8 / 10 SCORE Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 $1,569 at Newegg Pros 2.5K OLED display is crisp, bright and fast Snappy keyboard feels fast for games Thin and light for its size Free M.2 slot to add second SSD Cons Short battery life No biometrics for easy, secure logins Lacks fast Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 ports Always-on power button LED is annoying The Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 is overkill for most budget gaming laptop shoppers, both in terms of price and features. But if you view it as two laptops

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Nissan axes the Ariya electric SUV from its model-year 2026 lineup

Last week we drove the new Nissan Leaf, an inexpensive compact electric vehicle. Now equipped with things like active battery thermal management, the new Leaf is actually Nissan's second modern EV, after the debut a couple of years ago of the Ariya SUV. But if you want an Ariya, you ought to hurry—the model has been cut from Nissan USA's offerings for model-year 2026, according to a report in Automotive News. According to a letter sent by Nissan to its dealers, obtained by the trade publication

What’s the Best iPhone to Buy or Avoid Right Now? (2025)

What's New in iOS 26? Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Wait, what happened to iOS 19? If you're confused as to how we got to iOS 26 when the last version was iOS 18, don't worry: You didn't miss anything. Apple decided to change the naming structure for all of its operating systems to 26 this year to reflect 2026. It's kind of like new car models. The highlight in iOS 26 is the design: Liquid Glass. It's divisive, but there are ways to tone down the glassy look. The most practical and useful feat

How to Back Up Your iPhone to iCloud, MacOS, or Windows (2025)

Your iPhone is so much more than just a screen for texting. Smartphones are how we get work done, stay on top of the crazy news cycle, rock out, keep in touch with friends and family, and capture life’s most important moments. Carrying all of that information in our pockets is incredibly powerful, and it makes getting through our days a little easier. It also means that your most important data can get lost when you forget your phone on the train or have an unfortunate spat with the sidewalk. I

Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups and community building

With friendship apps continuing to gain popularity, Bumble announced on Wednesday the relaunch of its Bumble For Friends (BFF) app. With younger generations seeking to expand their social circles, the revamped app aims to help users connect with new friends beyond the traditional one-on-one matching that BFF has been known for. The app is built on Geneva, the community-focused social platform Bumble acquired last year. This also means that the Geneva app will be shutting down. The move should

I love book-style foldables, and they’ve ruined slab phones for me

Prakhar Khanna / Android Authority Ever since I used the Galaxy Z Fold 3 in 2021, I have seen the benefits of having a book-style foldable — better productivity, flexible usability, and more. The form factor has only become more and more polished over the years, thanks to better app optimization and thinner designs. In this time, I have used book-style foldables from Samsung, Google, HONOR, OnePlus, vivo, HUAWEI, Tecno, and more. While Samsung delivered its most improved folding phone with the

These 8 updates would transform Google Maps into an incredible road trip companion

Andy Walker / Android Authority Many believe in the idea that you should critique what you love. If that’s true, then I must have a strong affection for Google Maps. I use this navigation app on Android and Android Auto almost daily, and each day I’m reminded of its missing features. This is particularly evident when I’m on a longer drive. Google Maps isn’t the ideal road trip companion for all intents and purposes. Sure, it gets you from A to B (eventually), estimates travel time, and provide

This overlooked Gmail setting fixed my biggest problem with the Android app

Joe Maring / Android Authority 2025 has been a shockingly great year for the Gmail Android app. Between a big Material 3 Expressive redesign, a new tool for easily unsubscribing from subscription emails, and a helpful way to track your online orders and deliveries, Gmail is in a better place today than it’s been in years. It’s because of all these updates that I recently switched back to the Gmail Android app after using a third-party email client for most of this year. And while I’ve thorough

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A rare look inside Apple’s AirPods testing and refinement labs

Apple runs literally thousands of tests while validating, tuning, and refining AirPods in a facility which includes mini recording studios with real instruments. One tech writer got a rare tour of the facility, which is even home to a large vintage hi-fi setup donated to an earlier generation of Apple audio engineers by Steve Jobs … It doesn’t sound like the deck and speakers see any use these days, but Engadget’s Billy Steele says that it still serves as a source of inspiration and a reminder

iPhone 17 review: Closer to Pro

For years, the “regular” iPhone received hand-me-downs from the Pro models. This was less so with the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, but the trickle-down philosophy was still there to a degree. For 2025 and the iPhone 17 ($799) is no longer the compromise that the base model used to be. Apple finally blessed it with a 120Hz display and this year’s most exciting camera feature, Center Stage. While it may seem like Apple is no longer forcing iPhone users to compromise, or at least not to the degree it us

I biked with the Meta Oakley Vanguard, and they're easily the best smart glasses for athletes

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Meta Oakley Vanguards start at $499 and come in four shades. They're based on the classic Sphaera design. The glasses pair with Garmin for real-time workout info. I'm not a professional snowboarder, nor will I ever bike down a mountain like I have nine lives, but putting on the new Meta Oakley Vanugard glasses this week sure gave me false hope. The Vanguards were introduced at Meta Connect this

CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)

About CircuitHub CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid , a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production. The result? A 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries. We've raised $20M from top-tier investors, including Y Combinator and Google Ventures ,

7 Pieces of Wellness Tech That Could Be Covered by Your HSA

A health savings account or flexible savings account can help you pay for qualified medical costs, but that doesn't just mean doctors' visits or medications. "They're also a powerful way to pay for a huge range of modern wellness technology and products," said Chris Byrd, senior vice president at WEX, a global commerce platform that administers HSAs and FSAs. According to Byrd, recent research from WEX and Visa found that having the flexibility to use HSA funds on qualified expenses was one of

A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that instead of being destroyed, it was transformed, incorporating the mass of that foreign body to become the planet we know. Recent research adds another layer of relevance to that hypothesized cosmic event: Scientists believe that without that other body, the basic conditions for life to emerge on Ear

Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google: users in exchange for content

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Reddit wants more users and more money from Google in exchange for an even bigger mountain of data feeding its AI machine, according to Bloomberg. The negotiation shows a new front in the struggle between Big AI and content providers as they try to harvest new revenue streams without bleeding out the very traffic and engagement tha

One UI 8 update for Galaxy S25 series starts rolling out globally

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has released the stable version of One UI 8 to the Galaxy S25 series in Europe. This expansion comes a few days after the update was initially released in Korea. The update still hasn’t launched in the US as of writing. Samsung finally pushed out the stable version of its One UI 8 software to the Galaxy S25 series on Monday. Unfortunately, this release was initially restricted to Korea. Thankfully, there’s good news for some global users. Don

Google patches sixth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year

Google has released emergency security updates to patch a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, the sixth one tagged as exploited in attacks since the start of the year. While it didn't specifically say whether this security flaw is still being actively abused in the wild, the company warned that it has a public exploit, a common indicator of active exploitation. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-10585 exists in the wild," Google warned in a security advisory published on Wednesday. This

European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

The same Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) queen produced the hairy male Messor ibericus (on the left) and the hairless male Messor structor (on the right), despite them being members of distantly related species. Queen ants in southern Europe produce male clones of an entirely different species — tearing up the playbook of reproductive biology and suggesting we need to rethink our understanding of species barriers. The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all

History of the Gem Desktop Environment

Sometime in 1988, the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K was finally broken beyond repair, and I asked my parents for a 128K version of the same computer. Instead, they surprised me with an Atari 520 ST. It was my first real-world experience with a graphical desktop environment, complete with windows, icons, and a mouse. The ST was an amazing machine, not only compared to my poor old “Speccy” and similar cheap home computers, but even to the IBM PC compatibles in my school’s comp-sci lab,

India leads the way on Google’s Nano Banana with a local creative twist

Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month. But in India, it has taken on a creative life of its own, with retro portraits and local trends going viral — even as privacy and safety concerns begin to emerge. India has emerged as the No. 1 country in terms of Nano Banana usage, according to David Sharon, multimodal generation lead for Gemini Apps at Google DeepMind, who spoke at

iPhone Fold and iPhone 18 Pro set to get faster mobile data

Sure, the iPhone 17 lineup hasn’t even shipped yet, but that doesn’t stop the news cycle rolling on. A new report details the chipset we can expect to find inside the iPhone Fold and the iPhone 18 Pro models. This will of course include the A20 chip, the first to be made using a 2-nanometer process, but the report suggests we can expect mobile data speeds to be faster thanks to a new Apple modem chip … A20 chip for iPhone Fold and iPhone 18 The iPhone 17 models use TSMC’s 3nm process, but the

Oakley Meta Vanguard are the smart glasses athletes might actually want

When Meta announced its first pair of Oakley-branded sunglasses, the HSTN frames, earlier this year, it called them "performance AI" glasses even though they only came with modest upgrades compared with Meta's Ray-Ban lineup. But the new Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, which were just unveiled at Connect, are much more clearly aimed at serious athletes and they have the features to back it up. The $499 sunglasses feature Oakley's familiar wraparound frames and shiny (swappable) lenses. They are t

I tried the Meta Oakley Vanguard smart glasses, and I'm ready to ditch my Ray-Bans for them

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Meta Oakley Vanguards start at $499 and come in four shades. They're based on the classic Sphaera design. The glasses pair with Garmin for real-time workout info. I'm not a professional snowboarder, nor will I ever bike down a mountain like I have nine lives, but putting on the new Meta Oakley Vanugard glasses this week sure gave me false hope. The Vanguards were introduced at Meta Connect th

Can Your GrimDark Beat the Germans (2022)

Press enter or click to view image in full size When Germans want to make a show that is ‘Dark’ they are really good at picking names. This is an article with a title written in the form of a question but ending with an exclamation point because the obvious answer is of course No, it fucking can’t. Your GrimDark cannot beat the Germans! First of all the Germans are unbeatable on this front because their national park is called the Black Forest and their children’s literature is all about littl

Grade 2 Braille

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

Boring is good

The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have yet to see a positive outcome. It’s understandable to feel confused. When I get confused, I write. This is why I wrote the first part of this series, Hype is a Business Tool as the online debate had become so overheate

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Heading to Nashville. Everything to Know About the Self-Driving Service

Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Wednesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Nashville through a partnership with Lyft. Waymo will start driving autonomously there in the "coming months," it said in a blog post, before opening to the public next year. Riders will hail self-driving vehicles through the Waymo app (formerly Waymo One) and will eventually have the op

Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models

It takes time to realize you don’t have to hold your hand out in front of you for these gestures to be recognized, but a surprisingly short amount of time to find yourself using them with very little second thought. Of course talking to Meta AI remains a key way of interacting with the glasses, but Meta hopes that adding the visual elements will enhance the chatbot experience. For example, live speech captioning and language translation is still switched on by voice—but with Meta Ray-Ban Displa