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I Tried Acer’s New Aspire 18 AI, and, Yes, 18-Inch Laptops for Ordinary Folks Are Now a Thing

In the Aspire 18, Acer rolled out its biggest-screen Aspire model ever at Computex 2026. Also: a slick new ‘Swift Spin’ ...
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Hands On: Acer's Predator Helios 18 Can Moonlight as an AI Warrior

Acer’s alpha-dog gaming laptop gets a massive boost to its peak RAM capacity, aiming to give this flagship machine the chops for AI model crunching, too. Plus: The new Nitro 16 adopts AMD Ryzen X3D ...

MIT's MeMo lets teams swap in a better LLM without retraining — and performance jumps 26%

MIT's MeMo keeps AI memory separate from reasoning, so teams can upgrade their LLM without retraining and see a 26% performance gain, researchers say.
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Sequential Silicon Stacking Extends Moore's Law

For more than half a century, the power of computers has grown by shrinking transistors and packing them more tightly onto flat chips. It worked too well. Devices are now becoming so small that they ...
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I Tried Acer’s New 1-Kilo TravelMate P6. It's Light Enough to Forget, Powerful Enough Not To

I went hands-on with Acer's 2-pound carbon-fiber laptop, built for road-weary execs. This feathery heavy hitter will pack Core Ultra Series 3 processors, and Acer claims up to 30 hours of battery life ...