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Wired is making a bold claim this week, calling the Lenovo LOQ fifteen the only gaming laptop worth buying under fifteen hundred dollars. The publication says it outperforms competitors on both processing power and display quality — a meaningful argument at a time when gaming hardware prices keep climbing and budget options keep shrinking.

On the more experimental side of things, a developer has managed to get Windows eleven's twenty six H two update running on just one hundred twenty eight megabytes of RAM. To put that in perspective, modern Windows installations typically demand at least eight gigabytes to function. It's a technical stunt more than a practical solution, but it raises genuine questions about software bloat and what operating systems actually require to run.

And in a story that sits right at the intersection of physics and curiosity, a video making the rounds explains why touching an AM radio tower with a blade of grass can actually produce audible sound. It turns out the electromagnetic field around a transmitting tower is strong enough to induce a small current — even through something as thin as a single piece of grass.

That's the day's tech landscape in brief. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.

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  8. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/how-to-watch-the-assembly-canada-season-2-online-in-the-us-1235650612/
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