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Two men walk in from opposite directions in the barren Nevada desert. Neither has a hat or a gun. Both have something more interesting: handheld gaming devices. As two men in the desert are wont to do, they start a podcast. It’s called Expedition: Handheld. PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray is teaming up with a fellow handheld expert, Russ Crandall from Retro Game Corps, to make a show all about handhelds for The Full Nerd Network. Expedition: Handheld will cover the exploding handheld gaming segment, which has evolved from a handful of retro emulating gadgets into the fastest-growing segment in the PC market. And to be clear, this experiential show will cover more than just the Steam Deck and its various competitors — anything that can play games in your hand is fair game. Smaller, more affordable Linux- and Android-based emulators have a huge and growing following, and if you like one side of the market you’re probably at least interested in the other. The format will be a little less technical, a little more casual, covering news and just what the guys have been using and playing lately. The first episode is dropping this Saturday, February 28th. You can tune in live, and join us over on The Full Nerd Discord to be a part of the show. As always, be sure to check out The PCWorld channel for the latest news and reviews on PC hardware, The Full Nerd for our weekly show, and watch Dual Boot Diaries if you want to dive into running Linux. Read...

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Lenovo has become synonymous with unveiling concept devices, many of which eventually arrive in the market. But Lenovo’s latest is truly bizarre: a folding tablet which doubles both as a laptop and a handheld gaming display with accompanying controllers. It truly looks like something a Lenovo designer would Photoshop and leak as a joke, but WindowsLatest claims that the new Legion Go Fold Concept the real deal, and will be formally announced to the world this coming Monday at the MWC show in Barcelona. The Legion Go Fold Concept is built around a foldable 11.6-inch POLED (plastic OLED) which folds down into a 7.7-inch screen. The interesting angle is that the Legion Go Fold Concept can apparently be used in as a gaming device in either configuration: as a compact, folded handheld, or in what is apparently known as Horizon Full Screen Mode (above), which attaches the handheld controllers on either side of the display just like something like a Microsoft Surface Pro. That’s an apt comparison, as Lenovo will apparently also ship the Legion Go Fold Concept with a a hard, separate keyboard that the tablet can be docked into (along with a folding support) to allow it to work as a traditional PC tablet. One of the handheld controllers can double as a mouse. WindowsLatest says that the tablet will forgo Intel’s latest Panther Lake processors (boo!) for an older Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) chip instead, and that the battery is disappointing. Lenovo has (at least for now) bundled a ton of memory inside of it — 32GB — which is good news in a world of memory shortages. We’ve seen some weird concepts before that haven’t come to market (yet), like the Smart Motion Concept stand that positions itself. Lenovo has also wowed us at CES 2026 with a number of concepts that have made it to market, like new iterations of the ThinkBook Rollable concept that expanded the display up and out. But my shelves have also included less successful launches like its AR debut, Marvel Dimension of Heroes, too. Which category will the Legion Go Fold Concept end up in? Whether the Legion Go Fold Concept will ever come to market, or what it will be sold for, is completely unknown. It’s just Lenovo’s track record for showing off what its designers are cooking up in their studios which makes us believe that we’ll see this sometime soon. Read...

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Rendering accurate text has long been a stumbling block for even the most advanced AI image generators, but it’s among the strongest suits of Google’s just-updated Nano Banana 2 engine. Available now in the Gemini app (you’ll also find it in Google Search, AI Studio, and other Google products), Nano Banana 2 boasts a range of new features, including up to 2K resolution that can be upscaled up to 4K, “enhanced” instruction following that helps the model adhere better to your prompts, and the ability to lean on Gemini’s “real-world” knowledge, allowing it to draw real-time information via web search as it renders images. Not bad, but even more impressive is Nano Banana 2’s text fidelity. I’ve been asking Nano Banana 2 to create images with billboards, signs, newspapers, and other objects with embedded text, and it’s been performing like a champ, largely avoiding the gibberish that earlier AI image generators typically produced when trying to render letters and words. For example, I prompted Nano Banana 2 to render an image of a robot smoking a cigarette in Times Square, with a neon marquee reading “Nano Banana 2 on Broadway” in the background. No problem, and it rendered the image (above) in roughly 10 seconds. I then asked Nano Banana 2 to create a photo of a woman reading a newspaper in a breakfast nook, with the newspaper headline reading “Nano Banana 2 makes its debut.” But for this test, I upped the ante: I asked the engine to write the sub-headline and the article itself, and directed that the story should specifically be about Nano Banana 2.  Google Well, the model got the subheadline just right, but even better, it did write the article–up to a point, anyway. The article text is a tad wiggly, but you can almost read it. I then pushed Nano Banana 2 a little more, asking it to zoom in on the article and enhance the text. Google Here, the text rendering broke down a bit, “Google has unveiled its latest akthrough [sic] in generative AI, the ‘Nano Banana 2’,” the article reads, “promising a major leap [the word “leap” is partially obscured by a finger] in image generation fidelity.” Not bad, but as you keep reading, the text fidelity does starts to crumble. Finally, I tried asking Nano Banana 2 to draw a diagram of–well, itself. “Render a diagram of nano banana 2’s architecture within the greater Gemini framework, complete with text captions,” I prompted, and about 15 seconds later I got this: Google Looking closely at the diagram, I didn’t see any text gibberish at all, and the diagram and captions seemed to make sense, or at least it did to my untrained eye. Plugging the diagram into the Gemini app, the “thinking” version of Gemini assured me it was a “remarkably accurate architectural map” of the overall Gemini framework, accurately depicting how the new model can handle up to five consistent characters within an image workflow. It also correctly referenced the brand-new GemPix 2 Diffusion Renderer, the Nano Banana 2 component that takes the engine’s native 2K image renders and upscales them to 4K. All in all, very impressive, although Nano Banana 2 also begs the question of when OpenAI will counter with a follow-up to last year’s GPT Image 1.5. That could happen any day now, if not today. Read...

Nvidia has some more bad news for PC gamers: GPU shortages are here again. Nvidia warned that supply constraints would be a “headwind” in its fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call, though the company didn’t specifically say whether its GPUs or the associated memory would be tight. It really doesn’t matter. “Gaming revenue for the fourth quarter was up 47% from a year ago [to $3.727 billion], driven by strong Blackwell demand,” Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress told analysts. “Gaming revenue was down 13% sequentially as channel inventory naturally moderated following a season of strong holiday demand. We expect supply constraints to be a headwind to Gaming in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and beyond.” Whether or not you care about how Nvidia did financially, the takeaway is pretty clear: Nvidia can sell its GPUs for about whatever it wants right now, and the shortages in the market will drive prices even higher. Nvidia is facing the same pressures as virtually every other component maker: AI is gobbling up and creating shortages in the RAM and storage markets. Now, both Nvidia and Intel have warned of supply constraints, basically subjecting the vast majority of PC components to supply limitations. All that will continue to drive PC prices higher in 2026. In early 2025, Nvidia warned that its high-end GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUs could sell out. During its 2026 call, the company did not identify which GPUs would be under pressure. Kress was asked about the shortages in the context of the AI memory demand, however. If there’s any hope, it might be that the supply issues will be temporary, sort of. “As much as we would love to have more supply, we do believe for a couple of quarters, it is going to be very tight,” Kress replied to an analyst question about shortages. “If things improve by the end of the year, there is an opportunity to think about what that is from a year-over-year growth. But it’s still too early for us to know at this time, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.” Nvidia reported net income of $42.96 billion, up 94 percent from a year ago, on revenue of $68.127 billion, up 73 percent from the same period last year. Read...

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Everybody needs at least one properly fast USB-C cable for charging, whether it’s for your phone, tablet, laptop, or what have you. If you’re still wasting your life waiting on slow charge times, you owe it to yourself to get a fast cable—like this one by Baseus that’s now on sale for $7.99. That’s a small price to pay for super-fast charging! This Baseus USB-C cable supports up to 100 watts of power, which is fast enough for most laptops while in use. Of course, you’ll need an equally powerful charger block to supply that much power, but I’m assuming you have that already. If you do, then a slow cable will be the bottleneck that throttles your charging time, in which case you’ll need this. Need it for data transfers, too? No problem. This cable also supports data speeds up to 480 Mbps, which isn’t the fastest on the market but still plenty fast for the occasional transfer of documents, photos, and even videos. But it doesn’t support video output, so don’t expect to use this cable for connecting, say, your laptop to a USB-C monitor. And it’s designed for longevity. This cable has a nylon-braided exterior to resist wear and tear, and it will endure thousands of bends as you coil it up and toss it into your bag, drawer, or pocket. At 6.6 feet long, this cable is convenient to use anywhere, even in bed without having to hang over the edge while your phone is plugged to the wall. What are you waiting for? If you don’t have a fast-charging USB-C cable yet, now’s a great time to pick this one up for cheap on Amazon. Get this 100W USB-C cable on sale for just $7.99Buy now at Amazon Read...