Alienware updates Area-51 and Aurora laptops with OLED and Arrow Lake-HX Refresh

Alienware is finally addressing one of the most obvious gaps in its premium gaming laptops. After years of sticking with LCD ...
PCMag

Alienware Beams OLED Back Into Its Laptops, Alongside New Intel 'Arrow Lake' CPUs

The gaming brand's updated 2026 gaming laptops include Intel's refreshed Core Ultra 200HX Plus chips in the 16- and 18-inch Area-51 models, plus OLED screens in the 16-inchers—available now.

Nvidia's new graphics tech is impressive, until you see what it does to faces

GPU maker Nvidia has an answer that I bet you've never thought of: What if you paid thousands of dollars for a computer graphics chip that makes it seem like you've put a Snapchat beauty filter over ...
TechCrunch

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by ...
Ars Technica

“Windows 11 26H1” is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

Since its release in the fall of 2021, Microsoft’s Windows 11 has received an “annual feature update” in the second half of every year. These feature updates sometimes include new Windows features and ...
Windows Central

Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 version 26H1 will not be updated to version 26H2 this fall — won't get a new version until 2027

In a new support document, Microsoft has confirmed that new PCs which ship with Windows 11 version 26H1 this spring should not expect to receive an update to Windows 11 version 26H2 this fall. This is ...
Soompi

Watch: BTS Drops Teaser For Version 4 Of Official Light Stick

A new BTS light stick is coming out! On February 5, HYBE unveiled the design for Version 4 of BTS’s official light stick, showing a sleek black design and the BTS logo embedded in the center of the ...
Forbes

Fans Might Know What’s Coming In Final Fantasy VII’s New Steam Version

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. So, there’s no release date. If you want to still the 2013 Edition, you should go ahead and ...
Futurism

Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One

It’s been a little over three years since the launch of the first commercially-available large language model (LLM) chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. And though the AI model has certainly made performance ...
The New York Times

There’s a New American TikTok. What Does That Mean for You?

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...
IGN

How to Update Your Game Manually (And Access 3.0 Update Early!)

At long last, the Version 3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available for the Nintendo Switch! Scheduled to launch on January 15th, 2026, it appears that many people in different regions ...
gematsu

Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 3.0 update now available

Added new articles to the Island Newspaper. The Catalog now supports new items added in Ver. 3.0.0. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Switch, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons – ...