The Youyeetoo NestDesk is a little computer that's almost small enough to fit in a pocket. But with an Intel N150 processor, dual 2.5 GbE LAN ports, 12GB of RAM, and four M.2 2280 slots for PCIe NVMe storage, it's a versatile little system that could be used as a network-attached storage solution or for a wide range of other applications.

Pimoroni's new Badgeware line of wearable electronics are basically high-tech replacements for paper badges that hang from a lanyard around your neck or "hi my name is" stickers you affix to your shirt. Available with a choice of E Ink, IPS LCD, or LED matrix displays, each member of the Badgeware family is basically a tiny wearable computer with a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microprocessor, support for WiFi and Bluetooth, and button-based navigation.

Android and iOS may dominate the smartphone space, but Finnish-based Jolla has been driving development of a Linux-based mobile operating system called Sailfish OS for well over a decade, picking up where Nokia left off when it abandoned the MeeGo project. While Jolla is primarily a software company at this point, the company has released a handful of phones and tablets over the years, and now the company is getting ready to release an updated model.

A month after launching a pocket-sized eReader with a 6.13 inch black and white E Ink display, Android-based software, and support for cellular data, Viwoods is now offering a color model as well. The new Viwoods AiPaper Reader C is available now for $349. While the original Viwoods AiPaper Reader has an 824 x 1648 pixel E Ink Carta grayscale display with 300 pixels per inch, the new color model has an E Ink Kaleido 3 display that supports up to 4096 colors.

The ACEMAGIC Tank line of mini PCs are small, cube-shaped desktops with the kind of hardware you'd expect to find in a gaming laptop. ACEMAGIC has been selling them for a few years: The TANK03 model Ian reviewed in 2023 that featured an Intel Alder Lake-H processor and  discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU. Now it looks like ACEMAGIC is preparing to launch a new model that doesn't need discrete graphics.

The CIX P1 processor is a 12-core Arm-based chip designed to offer PC-class CPU, graphics, and AI features. MINISFORUM tapped this processor for its MS-R1 desktop computer, and Radxa and Orange Pi have used it for single-board PCs. Now a Swiss company called MetaComputing is bringing the chip to laptops. Rather than designing a complete laptop from scratch though, the company is selling a mainboard designed to fit into the modular…

Well this certainly isn't going to help bring down the skyrocketing prices of RAM & SSDs. Micron has announced it's shutting down its Crucial brand of memory & storage products for consumers in order to focus primarily on meeting the ever-growing demand for enterprise products. Thanks AI. You will still find Crucial products on store shelves for a little longer - the company says it'll keep shipping its consumer products until the end of February 2026.

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A small team of developers is building a pocket-sized, modular computer with a 4.1 inch, 1080 x 480 pixel touchscreen display, an an STM32MP157 dual-core Arm Cortex-A7 processor, and 4GB of DDR3 memory. At a time when high-end smartphones have the kind of processing power you'd expect from a decent laptop, the the "Linux Platform Kit" may not be the most powerful device you can fit in your pocket.

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The Framework Laptop 16 is a modular laptop computer with support for user-replaceable memory and storage, support for up to 6 expansion cards that let you choose your own ports (or other features), and even a removable, replaceable mainboard. It's also Framework's first laptop with an expansion bay that lets you add an optional discrete GPU. When the Framework Laptop 16…

Lepton appears to be the new official name for Valve's version of Waydroid (Android in a Linux container).

Just a day after introducing two Sonic the Hedgehog-themed retro mini game consoles, My Arcade is back with... two identically priced PAC-MAN devices. Google is bringing a bunch of new features to Android with the latest QPR (Quarterly Platform Release) update. And it turns out the same company responsible for making it possible to run most Windows PC games on Linux devices like the Steam Deck is 

It’s expected to launch in February.

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With today’s Android 16 release, your device is getting smarter, more personal and easier to manage.

See the emotion behind speech in captions, send new emoji combos, let friends know when your call is urgent and more.

The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.

Samsung is expanding its line of smartphones with foldable displays with the first model featuring a three-part design. By folding like a tri-fold wallet, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gives you a 10 inch, 2160 X 1584 pixel tablet-sized screen when unfolded, and smaller 6.5 inch, 2520 x 1080 pixel screen when folded for use in phone mode. The phone goes on sale in South Korea on December 12, and should expand to the US and other countries in the coming months.

With tech companies investing heavily in building out the infrastructure for AI systems that you may or may not have asked for, prices for certain PC components have shot through the roof as manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand. GPUs were the first casualty, and now RAM and SSDs are seeing major price hikes as well. While that's most likely to take a toll on your wallet if you're trying to build a high-end gaming PC or workstation-class computer, even cheap, low-power devices are seeing the impact.

MEDIA ALERT SEGA OF AMERICA AND MY ARCADE LAUNCH NEW SONIC THE HEDGEHOG RETRO VIDEO GAME DEVICES SEGA of America, a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment, and My Arcade®, the industry leader…

The MNT Reform is a modular laptop with an open source design and open source software. While it's hardly the most powerful laptop available, those features make it one of the most customizable... and now there's a new customization option. MNT is now selling a new version of the laptop's motherboard, which brings support for USB-C charging and increased the number of PCIe 3.0 lanes available to the NVMe slot from one to four, which means SSDs should offer much faster read and write speeds.

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