Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET When I first picked up the Asus Zenbook A14, I thought I was holding an empty prototype. Then it turned on, and the brilliant OLED display proved me wrong. At 2.1 pounds, it’s not just one of the lightest laptops I’ve used, it’s also well-balanced — both physically and in terms of hardware — and epitomizers the thin, battery-efficient category that’s exploded over the last year.  Also: My top 5 picks for the…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $799. Asus’ new ultraportable is a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. apr / 2025 When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I…

Last year’s Garmin Forerunner was one of my favorite smartwatches. Matthew Miller/ZDNET Regular readers know that I always wear a Garmin with an LED flashlight on one of my wrists, and I use it daily. It’s exciting to see, for the first time, that Garmin now has a Forerunner model with this flashlight, which serves as an important safety feature for runners. Garmin’s new Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 970 launch with vibrant AMOLED touchscreen displays, a…

“Facility water loops sometimes have good water quality, sometimes bad,” says My Troung, CTO at ZutaCore, a liquid cooling company. “Sometimes you have organics you don’t want to have inside the technical loop.” So there’s one set of pipes that goes around the data center, collecting the heat from the server racks, and another set of smaller pipes that lives inside individual racks or servers. “That inner loop is some sort of technical fluid, and…

ZDNET’s key takeaways A Shine Turbine kit, which includes a turbine, stand, guy lines, and pegs, costs $399, while the Essentials Kit, which adds a few more bits such as a wind speed meter, costs $488 — though both are on sale right now The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and…