Author: Geek Planet

Lenovo’s next lineup of Windows-on-ARM laptops has started to leak in full ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026, and the early details paint a picture of thin, light, and highly efficient machines powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 series chips. According to Windows Latest, Lenovo will showcase multiple devices, from premium clamshells to mainstream convertibles, built around the next generation of ARM silicon. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family was announced in late 2025 with promises of significant performance and efficiency gains over its predecessors, bringing improved CPU and GPU capabilities along with a beefier NPU for on-device AI tasks.…

This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Editors of many of the world’s top scientific and medical journals are destroying or — better stated, perhaps — have destroyed the public’s trust in scientific and medical leadership because these journals can no longer be deemed objective purveyors of truth. Image Credit: Itsaraporn – Adobe Stock Nature and its associated science journals (Nature Portfolio), supposedly the most elite of the lot, are among the worst offenders. For example, in 2024 Nature endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in part because of her support for abortion. Nature also endorsed Biden in 2020. To say the least, blatantly engaging…

Gifted nerds can often find logical solutions to gnarly problems using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation). With this in mind, here’s this week’s Micro Softy. Four men with faces covered drive up to a mansion in a large truck. They hurriedly exit the truck. Two of the men forcibly break the front door down and go into the house. They come out, restraining a terrified screaming girl. The girl is handed to and restrained by one of the men outside. A second older woman approaches, sees the situation, and hysterically runs towards the house. She is tackled and,…

Today at the Bitcoin Policy Institute’s “Bitcoin for America” summit in Washington DC, U.S. Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis announced that she is going to reintroduce her strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation in the Senate today. “I am so pleased to announce that today I will be reintroducing The Bitcoin Act,” Senator Lummis stated. “And I’ll be joined here shortly by Senator Justice of West Virginia, who is one of the cosponsors. And we have several other additional cosponsors. And a lot of it is a result of the excitement that’s been building.” “So far cosponsors are [Tommy] Tubberville, [Marsha] Blackburn,…

OpenAI and other AI software startups are at the economic center of the generative AI economy. End users pay OpenAI for the use of its software and OpenAI pays the AI cloud providers to process those models. In turn, those cloud providers pay Nvidia and other semiconductor companies for their chips, particularly graphical process units (GPUs). Image Credit: Nadiyah – Adobe Stock These cloud providers are now building so many data centers that electricity has become the biggest bottleneck in the overall AI value chain according to some sources, including the Financial Times. But the Financial Times says that this…

If you’ve been holding off on a graphics card purchase, hoping for better deals, recent reports suggest that GPU prices might soon climb significantly. As reported by Korean Tech outlet, Newsis, industry sources indicate NVIDIA and AMD are planning price hikes across their graphics card lineups beginning early in 2026, potentially reshaping the PC-gaming hardware market and squeezing budgets for gamers and creators alike. Much of the chatter centers on the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA’s current flagship GPU. Originally launched with an MSRP near $2,000, some reports now claim prices for this top-tier card could escalate to around $5,000 by…

In a recent episode of the GeekPlanet podcast, hosts Robert J. Marks and Brian Krouse talked to Dr. Joseph Green*, a computational neuroscientist and contributor to the book Minding the Brain (2023). Their discussion centered not on the technical details of neuroscience, but on the deeper philosophical questions it raises  especially the claim that we are nothing but our brains. The result was an illuminating conversation about what neuroscience can explain, what it can’t, and how philosophy fits into the picture. Neuroscience works with what it can measure — but that’s not everything Dr. Green acknowledges that neuroscience, like all…

Earlier today, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, hosted the “Bitcoin For America” summit. The event occurred in the wake of President Trump’s signing an executive order (EO) to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) and the White House’s hosting its first-ever Crypto Summit. One might have expected jingoistic overtones from an event with such a title. However, many of the speakers acknowledged that Bitcoin is something that will benefit the whole world, and that, partially because of this, the U.S. should lead the way in adoption. David Zell, Director of BPI, set the tone for…

All encyclopedias have their biases but Wikipedia, consulted by many millions who deserve better — some of whom should know better — is surely legendary. Here’s a traditional Wikipedia entry on the intelligent design controversy, first paragraph: Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as “an evidence-based scientific theory about life’s origins”.[1][2][3][4][5] Proponents claim that “certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.”[6] ID is a form of creationism that lacks empirical support and offers…

California Legislators have endorsed bitcoin nonprofit founder Dom Bei in his campaign for a seat on the board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). CalPERS oversees a massive $500 billion pension fund serving over 2 million public sector retirees. If elected, Bei would be the first openly pro-bitcoin voice on the 13-member board. Bei is a 16-year veteran firefighter who founded Proof of Workforce, a nonprofit providing bitcoin education to workers, unions and pension funds. He previously served on Santa Monica’s pension advisory board and played a key role in the city’s firefighters union, becoming one of the…