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A 27-inch OLED monitor on a designer's desk showing crisp text, with a magnified red-green-blue sub-pixel grid in the corner

220 PPI puts LG's 5K Tandem WOLED into retina territory

LG's 27-inch 5K Tandem WOLED hits 220 PPI by dropping the white sub-pixel, trading peak brightness from 335 nits down to 250 nits at 100% APL.

Bambu Lab A2L open-frame 3D printer on a wooden bench printing a tall yellow sculpture beside green, yellow and purple filament spools

A 330mm print bed now lands on Bambu's budget A2L printer

The Bambu A2L 330mm bed adds 105 percent more volume for $469. See how much of that space prints reliably once warping and the open frame are counted.

A large amber smartphone with a full battery over a red China map beside a smaller phone with a half battery over a blue world map

China's phones now carry 1,000mAh more battery than yours

China leads global average phone battery capacity by over 1,000mAh, with 6,000mAh phones jumping from 10% to 29% of world sales in twelve months.

TCL 27C3A Pro mini LED monitor glowing bright white full screen on a sunlit desk beside its rear view

Mini LED holds 1,400 nits full screen where OLED dims

Mini LED full screen brightness holds 1,400 nits on TCL's 27C3A Pro while OLED drops to 152 nits, because a backlight runs no auto brightness limiter.

An operator at a glowing central control dashboard dispatching print jobs to five different 3D printers arranged in a ring.

Print Farm Manager runs Prusa, Bambu and Klipper as one

Print Farm Manager is a free, self-hosted tool that runs Prusa, Bambu, Klipper, Elegoo and OctoPrint printers from one local dashboard with no cloud.

A flagship smartphone crossing a glowing starting line ahead of a queue of other phones, a bright chip on its back.

The Xiaomi 18 gets Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 before Honor

Xiaomi 18 is tipped to ship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 first, while Honor's Magic 9 splits chips inside one series and leaves the base model on Gen 5.