From Quantum to Containers – 4 big things you might have missed at Microsoft Build 2026

We round up some of the other major news from Microsoft Build 2026.

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Samsung Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition review: Beautifully engineered business laptop but at this price, I expected better ports than USB 3.2 Gen 2

The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition is a heavyweight business laptop that uses Intel’s latest 300 series silicon.
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‘A personal, instantaneous doctor integrated into their devices’ — how a new skin computer patch could run life-saving AI processes directly on your body

New compute patch developed by University of Chicago researchers performs instant, on-skin AI analysis for health data.
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‘Communities across the UK are paying the price for this criminal behaviour’: Openreach teams up with metal recycling giant to tackle UK’s £4bn a decade cable theft problem

Openreach is fighting the escalating £500m yearly cable theft problem with new partnerships, DNA tracing and grid alarms.
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LaCie 8big Pro5 review: I tested LaCie’s huge 256TB DAS solution, and it’s ideal for 8K video editing but it comes with a price tag that’s just as big

The LaCie 8big Pro5 is a RAID-ready DAS solution that offers huge amounts of storage that’s easy to manage and use, both in the studio and on set.
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HP announces the most powerful Windows AI PC ever built — Nvidia GB300 workstation can handle one trillion parameters thanks to its 784GB unified memory, but it won’t be cheap

HP’s upcoming ZGX Fury GB300 is the best-in-class desktop AI option money can buy in 2026.

One year ago, Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb to destroy billions of dollars worth of Russian combat planes – It ‘served as a warning to the United States’

A landmark Ukrainian drone strike in June 2025 destroyed or damaged up to 41 Russian strategic aircraft, cementing the role of drones in the modern battlefield.
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‘Our hardware is designed to be picked up and shaken about’: Aquark Technologies takes quantum sensing outside of the lab as a viable GNSS alternative

Aquark Technologies is making quantum sensing portable – cold-atom hardware will offer high-precision, resilient alternatives to vulnerable GNSS.
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Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: “When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical” — wisdom on the power of simplicity

The man responsible for designing some of the most elegant devices in the world believed in how amazing technology needn’t be complex
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Inside the “disappearing battery” revolution — how forest-powered supercapacitors could keep wireless sensors running for years

Swedish startup Ligna Energy’ S-Power supercapacitors use forest-derived materials to replace unsustainable batteries in IoT sensors.
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