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Google’s still struggling to crack PC gaming

March 12, 2026
Do PC gamers long to play mobile games…on the PC? Google continues to think so, and the company is making incremental moves to improve its Google Play platform on the PC. Google is adding a Steam-like trial period of one hour, called Game Trials, while adding more paid games. An AI-like assistant called Sidekick is also being turned on for some of those games; if you’re still stumped, you can…
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad laptops get a perfect iFixit repair score

March 11, 2026
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld highlights Lenovo’s new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 laptops achieving a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit, marking a significant improvement over previous models. These ThinkPads feature easily swappable batteries, keyboards, screens, and introduce user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM offering higher speeds and lower power…
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Nvidia gobbles up 94% of the PC graphics card market

March 10, 2026
When we think of the PC graphics-card market, we usually think of three players: Nvidia, AMD, and to a lesser extent, Intel. Those days are over. According to market data released by Jon Peddie Research for the fourth quarter of 2025, AMD’s market share in the PC…
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Logitech’s radical new mouse ditches clicks for magnets

March 10, 2026
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld highlights Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse, which replaces traditional clicks with innovative magnetic switches that measure press distance and offer adjustable actuation. The $180 mouse delivers rapid…
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‘Claude’ AI is coming to Microsoft 365

March 10, 2026
The agentic world that Microsoft and others have envisioned for AI is now arriving in the company’s office apps, where prompts are replacing the need to build PowerPoint presentations from scratch, even with Anthropic’s Claude. Microsoft is pushing several major changes for office workers. Part of those will be part of what Microsoft calls its “Frontier” program for enterprises, where the…
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Nvidia loves the RAM crisis

March 9, 2026
Storage is hard to find. Graphics cards are hard to find. RAM is extremely hard to find, even if you’re a PC manufacturing giant. And it’s all thanks to the “AI” data center buildout. But Nvidia, or at least its highly visible CEO Jensen Huang, couldn’t be happier…
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Newegg’s $7,500 RTX 5090 card is a sad, depressing omen

March 9, 2026
Just a year ago, we complained that MSI was bumping up prices for RTX 50-series cards to levels that were outrageous at the time, ranging from $819 to a whopping $2,400 at the high end. Today, I spotted Newegg selling an Asus ROG Matrix Platinum GeForce RTX 5090 for…
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PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia

March 6, 2026
When we think of the PC graphics-card market, we usually think of three players: Nvidia, AMD, and to a lesser extent, Intel. Those days are over. According to market data released by Jon Peddie Research for the fourth quarter of 2025, AMD’s market share in the PC graphics-card market has plunged to well under 10 percent. Intel is virtually non-existent. The remainder — over 90 percent — is…
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