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Between that and the potential $300 CPU upgrade you’ll want to get—the AMD Ryzen 9 HX 370—the laptop will start at $2,449, and it’ll only go up once you add other components like memory and storage. To put things in perspective, the extremely high-end Razer Blade 16 with the RTX 5070 is around $2,300 (though it frequently dips on sale below $2,000). With the Framework Laptop 16, you’re paying extra for the ability to swap out parts in the future.Fortunately, what you get in return is solid gaming performance. It’s good enough to give you an option of playing in…

The Iowa Hawkeyes (11-2, 1-1) return to Big Ten play to face the UCLA Bruins (10-3, 2-0). It’s the Hawkeyes first power conference game since Iowa State, 20+ days ago, and kicks off the conference season in earnest. Since my previous blog, the Hawks have pantsed 3 buy games by a combined margin of 275-152.Doing a quick round up of Iowa’s advanced analytics, KenPom ($) has them 18th after starting out the season 48th. Bart Torvik has Iowa 17th, up 21 spots from the beginning of the season. In TeamRankings post-UMass Lowell victory, they place Iowa 21st and give them…

You might recognize Bosch as a home appliance name (thanks to its partnership with Siemens), but the German multinational brand’s core business is really about providing the underlying technology and engineering that powers cars, homes and factories around the world. That focus is reflected at CES 2026, where much of what Bosch is unveiling is intended to be licensed to other companies rather than sold as Bosch-branded products on store shelves.Case in point is Bosch’s automotive plans at CES. The company is showcasing what it calls “AI in the car,” or more specifically, in the cockpit of the car. “Bosch’s…

For investors looking for a cybersecurity comeback story, Palo Alto Networks may be quietly writing one. 2025 performance: 1.2% Forward price-to-earnings multiple: 43.7 versus a five-year average of 53, according to FactSet data. Our rating: Buy-equivalent 1 Our price target: $225 a share PANW YTD mountain PANW stock performance YTD. With a roughly 1% gain in 2025, Palo Alto’s stock appears to have had a muted year, but beneath the surface, it was volatile. In the second half of the year, in particular, shares were held back by investor concerns over CEO Nikesh Arora’s dealmaking spree. Despite creating an overhang…

Automakers and buyers will be resetting their expectations and plans in the electric vehicle market in the U.S. in 2026. While some large companies have made quick decisions to cut slow-selling, much-promoted models from their rosters—at least temporarily—most are continuing with plans to roll out new, less-expensive models. And that could be the best thing for the American EV market going forward. With the end of the $7,500 federal tax credit in September and a generally softer retail market in the last quarter of 2025, expectations for car sales in 2026, gas-only engines included, are pretty muted, and the emphasis…

No. 6 Duke is 12-1 with wins over NCAA Tournament teams like Kansas, Arkansas, Florida and Michigan State, and yet it enters 2026 with questions aplenty after a second-half collapse to Texas Tech, followed up by Wednesday’s sweaty, six-point win over Georgia Tech as a gargantuan 27.5-point favorite.Are we making a mountain out of a molehill? Perhaps, but even Jon Scheyer seems to be searching for the right combinations. Duke shifted the starting lineup for the third time against Georgia Tech, inserting freshman point guard Cayden Boozer into the fray and diverting wing Nik Khamenia to the second unit.We’ll learn…

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we’re all using our computers wrong. We’re still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be. Have you ever seen Picard touch a keyboard? Of course not.And it’s odd because our computers are all capable of turning speech into text by default. The problem? It just doesn’t work very well. Or, at least, it didn’t. In recent years AI models like Nvidia’s Parakeet and OpenAI’s Whisper, both open source, have made great strides in turning human voices into text.…

It’s hard to talk about St. Lucia without gushing about its natural beauty first. The island is often referred to as one of the prettiest in the entire Caribbean, thanks in no small part to the presence of the iconic Pitons, two emerald-green volcanic peaks that seem to rise directly from the sea. The best hotels offer unobstructed views of said Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton), and Sugar Beach falls firmly into that category.Picture-perfect views of the Pitons aside, the property also has all sorts of other luxuries you’d expect from a five-star Caribbean resort, including excellent design (mostly…

It’s time for more speedrunning (and other shenanigans) with the Games Done Quick (GDQ) crew. The first event of the year, Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ), kicks off on Sunday, January 4, with Super Mario Sunshine. Donations for this year’s shindig will benefit the Prevent Cancer Foundation.AGDQ 2026 has a whole week of 24/7 speedruns on tap. You’ll see slots for some of 2025’s biggest games: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Hades II are part of the festivities. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater gets both a standard run and a “versus” showdown. There’s also plenty of…

TGL action continued Friday night as the Los Angeles Golf Club faced Boston Common Golf at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.After going winless during the inaugural TGL season in 2025, Boston Common picked up its first win in team history to start the 2026 season, beating Los Angeles 7-5 in a back-and-forth match.Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley and Michael Thorbjornsen were the active players for Boston. Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama were all inactive. For Los Angeles, Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala competed, while Tommy Fleetwood sat out.Here’s a look at the best moments from Friday’s match.Boston…