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Linus Sebastian Is Done Sweating: Why LTT's Tech House Mini-Split Install Is a Masterclass in Modern Home Cooling
Heat pumps with mini-split systems are the future of home HVAC — and Linus just proved it by tearing apart the Tech House to show exactly how they work.

Someone Actually Got macOS Running on an iPad — No Remote Desktop, No Tricks
Snazzy Labs pulled off what Apple won't let you do: a hardware-accelerated macOS virtual machine running Steam, Final Cut Pro, and more on an iPad Pro — and the jailbreak rabbit hole to get there is jaw-dropping.

GPU Prices Just Spiked Again — Here's Exactly How Bad It Got in September 2026
Hardware Unboxed has crunched the numbers across 10 global regions, and the results are brutal. From the RTX 5050 to the RTX 5090, almost nothing is getting cheaper.

AirPods 5 Review: Apple's Cheapest AirPods Yet Are Shockingly Good — But There's a Catch
ShortCircuit takes Apple's new AirPods 5 to a Renaissance fair for real-world testing, and the mic quality alone has the internet losing its mind.

Linus Tech Tips Gave a Tattoo Artist a $5,000 AMD-Powered Upgrade — and It's One of Their Best Episodes Yet
From a custom NAS server built around an AMD Ryzen 5 8500G to a wireless tattoo station and an M4 iPad Air, Lisa from Creator Warehouse just won the internet's most creative tech makeover.

The Keyphone Hybrid Wants to Kill Your Doomscrolling Habit — But at What Cost?
ShortCircuit's Riley goes hands-on with a $380 QWERTY 'dumb phone' that blocks apps, bans browsing, and lets you swap its battery. The internet is not impressed.

DLSS 5 Is Destroying RTX 50 Series Performance — And the Internet Is Furious
Hardware Unboxed's rigorous real-world testing of DLSS 5 in NBA 2K27 reveals a catastrophic performance cost that has the PC gaming community questioning everything Nvidia has been promising.

Xiaomi's IFA 2026 Event Is Its Biggest Ever — Here's Everything Announced for Europe
From AI-powered smart home systems to a landmark Mijia debut on European soil, Xiaomi just redefined what a tech ecosystem launch looks like.

John Ternus Is Apple's New CEO: What the Leadership Shake-Up Means for the Future of Apple
After 15 years at the helm, Tim Cook's era is officially over. John Ternus steps up — and the tech world is already making puns.

150 Million IDs Exposed: The Massive Data Breach That Proves Age Verification Was Always a Privacy Disaster
SomeOrdinaryGamers' Mutahar breaks down a landmark identity leak that may have compromised nearly half a population's government IDs — and the internet is furious, but not surprised.

The Ikko Mind One Pro Is a Bold, Square 'Cyclops Phone' With a Fatal Flaw That JerryRigEverything Just Exposed
The most eye-catching smartphone design of 2026 has a glaring weak point — and it's exactly where you'd expect a Cyclops to be vulnerable.

Hardware Unboxed's RTX 5090 Literally Burned — And Nvidia Is Still Silent
Top GPU reviewer Steve from Hardware Unboxed joins a growing list of victims after his RTX 5090's 12VHPWR connector melted, reigniting the industry's most dangerous hardware controversy.

Steam 'Teraleak': Valve's Exposed Server Dumped Terabytes of Game Data — But Half-Life 3 Is Still Nowhere to Be Found
A misconfigured Valve server sat open long enough for someone to pull terabytes of internal game data from multiple studios. The internet has opinions — and most of them are about what *wasn't* leaked.

POCO F9 Series Goes Global: Everything You Need to Know About POCO's Most Ambitious Launch Yet
POCO has officially unveiled the F9 Series on the world stage, and the internet is already divided over pricing, availability, and whether this flagship killer has finally lost its edge.

DLSS 5 Is Here — And It's Creating Uncanny Valley Nightmares in Real Games
Nvidia promised a reinvention of computer graphics. Linus Tech Tips went hands-on with DLSS 5 across five games, and the results are more complicated — and creepier — than anyone anticipated.

Valve's Massive Steam Server Leak Exposes Scrapped Half-Life 3 Content — And Valve Doesn't Even Seem to Care
A trove of internal Valve data has surfaced online, revealing cut weapons and prototype builds from Half-Life's past. The internet is losing its mind. Valve is staying silent.

ASUS's $15,000 ROG Edition 20 PC Is the Most Unhinged Anniversary Flex in Gaming Hardware History
To mark 20 years of Republic of Gamers, ASUS built a collector's dream — a gold-trimmed OLED monitor, a 3000W power supply, and an RTX 5090, all wrapped in a price tag that rivals a used car.

DLSS 5 Has Been Leaked and It's Already Turning Gaming's Most Iconic Faces Into Nightmare Fuel
Nvidia's next-gen upscaling tech got out early, and gamers injecting it into their titles are discovering a horrifying side effect: it absolutely cannot handle human faces.

Austin Evans Bought 'AI' Gadgets from Temu and They Are Exactly What You'd Expect
From an AI Tic-Tac-Toe board to a robot dog that tried to phase through a desk, the latest Mystery Tech episode is a masterclass in how the word 'AI' has completely lost its meaning.

GPU Prices Are Spiraling Out of Control: Hardware Unboxed's August 2026 Data Tells a Brutal Story
Across 10 global regions, graphics card prices have surged dramatically in just weeks — and the community is reaching its breaking point.