Google is testing a change that gives some new accounts 5GB by default, with the full 15GB unlocked only after phone verification.

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The Samsung T9 delivers read and write speeds of up to 2,000 MB/s, making large file transfers feel instant.

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The WD_Black SN850X is currently enjoying a major price drop on Amazon for its gigantic 4TB model, with several bonus discounts for its 1TB, 2TB, and 8TB models for a limited time.

The Samsung Pro 990 SSD is enjoying discounts on its 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models on Amazon, giving hardcore PC gamers a chance to upgrade their storage space and cut down on loading times for less.

The WD_Black SN8100 is a mighty PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD that will improve your PC's storage space while boosting its performance. Normally, the WD_Black SN8100 2TB model costs over $1,000, but with this limited time 54% discount, it's now more affordable. Discounts for the 1TB, 4TB, and 8TB are also available.

WD_Black's SN7100 is a solid M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD suitable for PC gaming, and although it normally costs more than $1,000 due to the RAMpocalypse, it's now down to just $500 at Best Buy for a limited time. 1TB and 2TB models are also on sale.

Most people treat their Rimowa suitcase like a very expensive houseguest: it arrives looking spectacular, gets shoved in a closet, and stays there until the next trip. Rimowa, apparently, has thoughts about this. And so does Lehni.

The two brands have just unveiled a limited-edition furniture collaboration at Salone del Mobile 2026 in Milan, and it might be the most quietly audacious thing either brand has done in recent memory. The collection consists of two pieces: a Bench and a Drawer, both crafted in anodized aluminum, both designed to hold cabin-sized Rimowa suitcases inside your home. Not in a storage room. Not under your bed. On display, like they were always meant to be there. Which, if you’ve ever owned a Rimowa, you’d know they kind of were.

Designers: Rimowa x Lehni

The Bench is an open-shelving unit that holds two cabin-sized suitcases side by side. It is clean, low-slung, and just architectural enough to look at home next to a mid-century credenza or a spare Scandinavian sofa. The Drawer offers a different kind of storage: a sculptural, closed-frame unit with a built-in drawer for smaller items. Both pieces come in silver and black anodized aluminum, and both carry the embossed Grid pattern that echoes the grooved exterior of a classic Rimowa Original. That detail is not accidental. It’s the kind of material continuity that makes a collection feel cohesive rather than like a brand licensing deal gone slightly off the rails.

The craft side of this is worth paying attention to. Lehni has been working with aluminum since 1922, when Rudolf Lehni opened a sheet metal workshop in Zürich that quickly became a gathering place for artists and architects. That legacy still shows. Today, the company is run by the fourth generation of the Lehni family out of Dübendorf, and every piece is handmade in their Zurich factory. Each shelf on the Bench, for instance, is lined with a specially developed scratch-resistant felt mat to protect the cases stored on it. You notice that kind of thinking. These are small decisions that add up to something much larger than the sum of their parts.

Rimowa, for its part, has been on a quiet but consistent streak of repositioning itself as something more than a travel brand. The aluminum suitcase has already crossed over into fashion and streetwear culture through collaborations with names like Dior, Supreme, and Porsche. Moving into furniture feels like the next logical step, and frankly, it makes more sense than most luxury crossovers I’ve seen. The material language stays the same. The level of craft stays the same. The only thing that changes is the context, which is exactly what makes this feel like a genuine design idea rather than a marketing exercise.

That said, let’s be real: this is not furniture for everyone. The Bench is priced at $4,275, the collection is limited-edition, and in the US it’s only available in the continental states by contacting Rimowa’s client services directly. There’s no add-to-cart button. That purchasing friction is intentional, and it’s the kind of intentional that has a very specific audience in mind: the person who already owns the suitcase, already loves it, and wants their home to reflect the same aesthetic sensibility. I don’t think that’s a bad audience to build for. Niche, yes. But well-defined.

My honest take is that the Rimowa Lehni collection succeeds because it doesn’t try to explain itself too hard. It doesn’t need to. Two brands that both work in aluminum, both care about precision, and both have long histories with good design sat down and made something that looks exactly like what you’d expect from that pairing. The result is a bench and a drawer that feel less like a product launch and more like an obvious conclusion. Sometimes the best collaborations aren’t the surprising ones. They’re the ones that make you wonder why it took this long.

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Several discounts have been discovered for the Seagate Storage Expansion Cards for Xbox, giving people a chance to increase the storage space of their Xbox's (and PC's via a special peripheral) for less.

Storage prices keep rising, and it's getting ever more difficult to find affordable SSDs for PCs and laptops. That changes with this 1TB Kingston NV3 SSD, nearly 50% off for one day only.

Amazon is hosting a special 25% discount for the vaunted WD_Black SN770M SSD in honor of World Backup Day, allowing portable gamers to upgrade their handheld console's storage size for less.

World Backup Day is just around the corner, making it a great time to invest in a NAS for extra data protection. This one's perfect for beginners, and it's down to the lowest price of the year at Amazon's Big Spring Sale.

Newegg has procured an exclusive 44% discount for the 4TB variant of the WD_BLACK (SN850X) internal SSD with heatsink, giving PC gamers a rare opportunity to upgrade their rig's storage space without cripplling their budget.

Microsoft breaks its Windows update cycle with 26H1, a targeted release built for Snapdragon X2 devices and next-gen ARM-powered PCs.

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The Exascend PE4 16TB SSD, the world's largest internal solid state drive and first to reach 16TB of storage, is now available for purchase at Amazon for a military-grade price of $16,000, and stock is running out fast.

Windows 11’s Built-In Video Editor Just Changed — And Not Everyone Likes It In a controversial move, Microsoft is now forcing users to use OneDrive with Clipchamp, the default video editor in Windows 11. This change is sparking frustration across the tech community—and it could completely change how you edit videos on your PC. ⚠️ […]

In Mandarin, the phrase 马上 (mǎ shàng) translates literally as “on horseback,” but its common meaning is “immediately” or “without delay.” It’s a concept of swiftness and forward momentum. For its Year of the Horse timepiece, CIGA Design has built an entire watch around this clever piece of wordplay. The design embodies that feeling of instant progress and unstoppable movement, creating a narrative woven directly into the mechanical and aesthetic choices. It is a watch about the philosophy of action.

The central tourbillon is the engine of this idea, its constant rotation a visual metaphor for momentum that the wearer sees with every glance at the wrist. The dial’s concentric grooved rings radiate outward from this spinning core, amplifying the sense of energy in every direction. A 24K gilded horse at six o’clock connects the concept directly to its zodiac inspiration, rendered small and precise, more like a seal than a decoration. CIGA Design, the first Chinese watchmaker to win the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, has a track record of treating mechanics as design language, and this is the clearest expression of that philosophy yet. The cultural reference and the engineering are telling the same story, which is rarer in theme watches than it should be.

Designer: CIGA Design

Putting a tourbillon front and center is a serious power move. Most watchmakers tuck it away at the six o’clock position, but CIGA’s in-house CD-12-SI caliber was clearly designed for the spotlight. The entire visual architecture of the watch is built to serve this mechanism. It runs at a modern 28,800 vibrations per hour, which gives the balance wheel a smooth, fluid sweep. A 38-hour power reserve is perfectly serviceable for a manual-wind piece, meaning you get to have that tactile interaction with it daily. It’s the kind of engineering that invites you to look closer, to appreciate the complexity instead of just accepting that it works.

The case material, Grade 5 titanium, is a choice that speaks volumes. At 45.5mm, this watch could have been a heavy, unwieldy piece of metal in steel, but titanium makes it surprisingly light and comfortable on the wrist. The black DLC coating gives it a tough, scratch-resistant finish that feels both modern and understated. Those concentric grooves on the dial are the most impressive part of the case work. They give the flat black dial a sense of depth and texture that plays with light in interesting ways. It’s a very architectural approach that prevents the watch from feeling boring, which is a real risk with monochrome designs.

You solve the problem of telling time without cluttering the main event with a pair of floating diamonds for hands. It’s a brilliant, minimalist solution. Legibility might take a slight hit in certain lighting, but it’s a worthy trade-off for maintaining an unobstructed view of the tourbillon. The strap is shell cordovan, a fantastic, non-porous leather known for its durability and rich patina over time. Pairing it with a hidden butterfly clasp was the right call, preserving a clean, unbroken line around the wrist. These details show a design team that was thinking about the complete ownership experience, not just the initial wow factor.

The $2,699 price fundamentally challenges the idea that an in-house tourbillon must cost as much as a mid-size sedan. This watch appeals directly to the enthusiast buying the complication itself, not the logo on the dial. The 199-piece production run feels like a calculated appeal to a very specific customer who values the engineering over the emblem. With this move, CIGA methodically builds its credibility on accessible complexity and a design language that is unmistakably its own. They are carving out a space by delivering serious horology without the traditional five-figure barrier to entry.

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Monter un pipeline RAG, c'est un peu le parcours du combattant... entre le choix de la base vectorielle, le modèle d'embedding, l'orchestrateur, le parser de documents, vous en avez pour des heures de config avant de pouvoir poser la moindre question à vos PDF.

Mais c'était sans compter sur OpenRAG qui emballe tout ça dans un seul paquet prêt à l'emploi !

En gros, c'est un package open source (Apache 2.0) qui vous colle un orchestrateur visuel, un moteur de recherche vectorielle et un parser de documents hyper costaud, le tout déjà branché ensemble. Bon, dit comme ça, on dirait juste un assemblage de trucs existants... sauf que l'architecture est propre (FastAPI derrière, Next.js devant) et que tout est câblé d'entrée.

L'installation tient en une commande : uv run openrag (il vous faudra Python 3.10+ et uv, le gestionnaire de paquets rapide en Rust) et ensuite vous aurez un serveur local avec une interface de chat prête à bouffer vos documents. Vous uploadez vos fichiers (PDF, Word, HTML, Markdown...), le système les découpe, les indexe, et vous pouvez commencer à poser des questions dessus. Pas besoin de choisir un modèle d'embedding, de configurer une base Chroma ou Qdrant, ni de câbler un pipeline LangChain à la main. C'est plutôt confortable comme outil !

Et c'est pas juste un chatbot documentaire puisque la plateforme déploie une couche agentique qui va bien au-delà de la simple recherche de similarité. En fait, quand vous posez une question, le système ne se contente pas de chercher le passage le plus proche dans vos documents... il reformule, il croise plusieurs sources, il re-classe les résultats par pertinence. Et tout ça se configure visuellement dans Langflow, en mode drag-and-drop, sans écrire une ligne de code.

L'interface d'OpenRAG

D'ailleurs, pour ceux qui veulent aller plus loin, y'a des SDK Python et JavaScript pour intégrer ça dans vos propres apps. Un petit pip install openrag-sdk et vous pouvez interroger votre base documentaire depuis n'importe quel script. Et l'autre truc super chouettos, c'est le serveur MCP intégré : un pip install openrag-mcp et vous connectez directement votre base de connaissances à Claude Desktop ou Cursor. J'utilisais pour ma part LEANN jusqu'à présent mais je pense que je vais basculer rapidement sur OpenRAG. Et grâce à ça votre IDE / Claude Code / Ce que vous voulez, a accès à toute votre documentation technique sans quitter l'éditeur.

Côté technique, le projet est porté par l'équipe de Langflow (DataStax), ce qui explique la qualité de l'intégration. Et le déploiement se fait aussi en Docker, Podman ou Kubernetes pour ceux qui veulent du plus fiable.

Après comme c'est une solution tout-en-un, ça embarque pas mal de dépendances. OpenSearch à lui seul est connu pour être gourmand en ressources et si vous avez déjà votre propre stack RAG bien rodée avec une base vectorielle légère comme LEANN , c'est peut-être overkill. En fait, OpenRAG s'adresse plutôt à ceux qui partent de zéro ou qui veulent un truc clé en main pour une équipe, parce que tout est déjà branché.

Prêt à chatter avec vos docs ?

Le vrai intérêt par rapport à un assistant comme Khoj , c'est le côté plateforme extensible. Langflow vous permet de construire des workflows RAG personnalisés visuellement, d'ajouter des étapes de filtrage, de brancher plusieurs LLM en parallèle, ou de créer des agents spécialisés par type de document. C'est donc clairement plus "usine" que "bricolage"... mais parfois c'est ce qu'il faut, surtout si vous bossez en équipe et que le bricolage perso finit toujours par casser au bout de 3 mois.

Si vous en avez marre de bricoler vos pipelines de recherche augmentée à la main, allez jeter un œil !

Samsung launches the Galaxy S26 series and Galaxy Buds4 worldwide, with the Galaxy S26 Ultra leading preorders and introducing new AI, privacy, and camera features.

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Microsoft says Xbox mode is coming to Windows 11 in April, bringing a console-style interface, faster game loading tools, and a unified PC strategy.

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