Author: Geek Planet

Most gaming laptops at this price ask you to compromise somewhere: either a great screen with mid-tier specs, or strong internals with a dull panel. This Legion Pro 5 deal is appealing because it gets the balance right. You are getting a 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 processor, RTX 5060 graphics, 32GB of RAM, and a 2.5K OLED display for $1,299.99, which is $360 off the regular $1,659.99 price. What You’re Getting This configuration of the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 centers on a 16-inch 2.5K OLED display, which is a big step up from the washed-out 1080p panels you still see…

The corner office in retail has rarely felt so precarious. More than 1,500 chief executives have left their posts so far this year through August, up 4% from last year and the highest on record over that period since business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking CEO churn in 2002. Retail companies are leading the charge. A number of high-profile retailers — including Kohl’s, Ulta and Kroger — said goodbye to their top brass in 2025. Retail companies have reported 41 CEO exits year-to-date, a 116% increase from the 19 during the same period in 2024.…

In my recent OnePlus 15R review, I claimed it had the best battery life I’d ever experienced in a smartphone. That felt, from a month’s use, to be the case – now I’ve got the figures to back it up. The OnePlus 15R’s 7,400mAh battery is larger than most of the best Android phones, and day after day during testing I was constantly wowed by how much charge was left in the tank when I went to bed. I fell out of the habit of regularly charging my mobile – who knows how I’ll cope when I go back to…

Target’s widespread corporate layoffs this week trimmed down teams throughout the company, leaving some who remain picking up responsibilities from those affected. The layoffs included employees spanning across engineering, product design, analytics, guest experience, creative, strategy, merchandising, HR, operations and legal, according to a Modern Retail analysis of around 60 posts from Target employees who posted on LinkedIn this week looking for work, as well as posts from remaining employees. Employees of the Minneapolis-based retailer were informed Tuesday whether or not their positions had been affected. The company decided to cut around 1,000 team members and to not fill an…

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to jump into a new AM5 build, this bundle is an easy shortcut. For $363.99, you get an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and a Gigabyte B650 AORUS Elite AX motherboard together, instead of buying both pieces separately at the usual $529.98. That is $165.99 you can throw toward a GPU, RAM, or a bigger SSD, which is exactly what you want when you’re trying to stretch a PC budget. What you’re getting This combo pairs a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 7600X with a full-featured B650 AORUS Elite AX ATX board. The 7600X is…

It is fascinating to watch how Apple operates when the rest of the tech world is tapping the brakes. While most smartphone manufacturers are bracing for a tough year in 2026, Apple seems to be preparing for yet another victory lap. A fresh investor note from analyst Jeff Pu gives us a rare peek behind the curtain at Cupertino’s strategy, and if his predictions hold water, the iPhone 18 era is going to be about much more than just a new camera bump or a slightly faster chip. What stands out immediately is the contrast in market confidence. Pu is…

WPP, Digiday has learned, has partnered with analytics firm Sightly to tap its brand mentality platform that suggests content targets based on what marketers want their brands to be associated with. The move signals an era of agencies putting AI to use helping brands help themselves is upon us. And both holding companies and independent agencies are getting into the game. And similarly, in other breaking news, independent full service agency Zambezi has launched an brand performance gap tool that helps brands assess ways to improve brand-driven advertising to reach a $1 billion valuation threshold. Both tools employ AI tools…

During the Wednesday, November 19, plated dinner at COSM 2025, Dr. Michael Egnor and historian of science Michael Shermer participated in a panel moderated by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay W. Richards. Egnor and Shermer take opposite views on whether an immortal soul exists and whether human beings are machines. Michael Egnor Dr. Egnor, a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, an award-winning brain surgeon, and first author of The Immortal Mind (2025) told the audience that he began his career as an atheist. He was informed by his textbooks that consciousness is…

Google has added a new feature to NotebookLM that turns messy research into something you can actually use. The company has introduced Data Tables, a tool that pulls information from multiple sources and automatically organizes it into clean, structured tables that can be exported directly to Google Sheets for further editing, sharing, or use in Google Docs. NotebookLM has always been about helping users make sense of scattered notes, PDFs, and documents using AI. Data Tables builds on this idea by handling one of the most time-consuming parts of research, which is manual organization. Instead of copying and pasting information…

For years, small- to medium-sized businesses without big budgets turned to independent creative shops for their ads. Now, tech tools like Google Pomelli and Canva Grow are offering new AI-powered agency-in-a-box tools, promising everything from brand management to campaign execution. As tech behemoths vie for SMBs (and their ad dollars), independent agencies may soon find themselves feeling squeezed.“It’s cynical almost because it’s the agencies that have built the advertising business together with Meta and TikTok and Google,” said Rogier Vijverberg, founder and head of creative — or his formal title at the creative shop SuperHeroes, “chief creative hero.” He added,…