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The arm bone of St. Jude in my first church (Emerson NJ)!

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BP Shuts Down 20-Year Corporate Venture Arm: What's Next for Energy Innovation Investment?

BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate tech. Now, it’s definitely “off.” On top of pivoting away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it was selling the majority of its venture portfolio — more than 10 companies, according to BP — to Verdane, a Nordic private equity firm. Since BP launched its venture arm in 2007, it has invested in a wide…

BP Shuts Down 20-Year Corporate Venture Arm: What's Next for Energy Innovation Investment?

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Nvidia's ARM Bet, SteamOS Goes Rogue, and 240Hz AR Glasses — July 16

July 16, 2026 — Two big platform shifts are happening in PC gaming right now, and they're not from the usual suspects. Nvidia is quietly building the ARM gaming ecosystem nobody asked for but might actually need. And Valve? They're finally letting SteamOS off the AMD leash.

Let's dig into what's actually changing.

Nvidia's ARM Play: RTX Spark Gets Real Backing

Nvidia's been talking about RTX Spark for a while, but this week is the first time I actually believe it might stick. The big news: Sega is bringing Virtua Fighter Crossroads natively to RTX Spark, with more titles to follow. That's on top of Capcom, Remedy, Riot Games, and Warhorse already signed up.

I got to see Alan Wake II running on one of these ARM builds at 90+ fps with ray reconstruction and DLSS upscaling. Sure, they're using 2X frame gen — the "fake frames" everyone loves to argue about — but the fact that it's playable at all on ARM silicon is the story here. A year ago this was a pipe dream.

To be fair, ARM gaming has been "almost here" for years. Apple tried. Qualcomm tried harder. Neither got the developer buy-in to make it stick. Nvidia's advantage isn't technical — it's relationships. When Nvidia calls a publisher, they pick up the phone. Sega, Capcom, Remedy — these aren't small fish.

Still, I'm cautious. The compatibility layer situation isn't solved. Games like Pragmata were still running through Microsoft's Prism emulator at Computex, which means performance hit. And anti-cheat support is the real gatekeeper for multiplayer titles — without it, Valorant and League of Legends players aren't switching to ARM. Nvidia says they're working on it. We'll see.

If I were building a gaming PC today? I'm not buying ARM. Not yet. But if you're in the market for a thin laptop and want decent gaming on the side, RTX Spark is worth watching. The Surface Ultra prototype I saw at Computex was genuinely impressive for what it was.

SteamOS 3.8: Intel Gets In, Nvidia Waits at the Door

Valve dropped SteamOS 3.8 alongside the Steam Machine launch, and tucked inside the patch notes is something that flew under most people's radar: "initial firmware for upcoming Intel handhelds."

This is a bigger deal than it sounds. SteamOS has been effectively AMD-only since the Steam Deck launched. Now YouTuber ETA Prime already got a beta running on the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus, and while he said it's "not perfect," the fact that it boots at all on Intel hardware is progress. Someone on Reddit even managed to get it running on an Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU — though it took a Radeon card installer workaround and a Resizable BAR fix. Hacky, but it works.

Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed they're "working closely" with Intel on the graphics stack. Intel themselves are being more guarded — no timeline for Panther Lake or the G3 Extreme chip in the Claw 8 EX AI Plus — but they admitted they're working on Mesa drivers and talking to Valve.

Nvidia users, don't get excited yet. Valve has a "growing team" working on Nvidia drivers, but Griffais flatly said support won't come this year. That's disappointing, honestly. SteamOS on a mid-range Nvidia build would be a killer combo for a living room PC. But driver development for proprietary GPU architectures is slow, painful work. I get it.

Still, the direction is clear: Valve doesn't want SteamOS tied to one hardware vendor. That's good for everyone in the long run.

Asus ROG Xreal R1: 240Hz AR Glasses Exist Now

Tom's Hardware reviewed the Asus ROG Xreal R1 today, and I have to say — 240Hz refresh rate on AR glasses is the kind of spec that makes you do a double take. These are a collaboration between Asus's ROG division and Xreal, and they come with a breakout box that connects to PC, Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch.

At $700+ they're not cheap, and the previous AirVision M1 was already $700 two years ago. But for competitive gamers who want a 150-inch virtual screen at 240Hz, there's nothing else like it on the market. The RGB LEDs along the temples are pure ROG cringe, but hey, some people love that stuff.

Quick take: impressive tech, niche audience, questionable price-to-practicality ratio. If you travel for LAN events, maybe. For your desk setup? Just buy a monitor.

OnePlus Exits US and Europe: The End of a Chapter

Bloomberg confirmed this week what WinFuture reported — OnePlus is pulling out of US and European markets, effective as early as this week. Existing devices will transition to Oppo's ColorOS for future updates.

This is sad but not surprising. OnePlus was never the same after the Oppo merger. The "flagship killer" identity eroded, prices crept up, and the product lineup got confusing. In the US, they never cracked carrier relationships the way they needed to. In Europe, the midrange got too crowded.

From a hardware enthusiast perspective, this reduces competition in the Android space, which is never good. But for the DIY PC crowd — less direct impact. Still, it's a reminder that the consumer electronics industry is consolidating, and not every brand survives the consolidation phase.

That's the roundup for today. The big takeaway for me: both Nvidia and Valve are making moves that fundamentally change what a "gaming PC" can be — ARM-based thin laptops, SteamOS on any hardware, AR peripherals pushing high refresh rates. Not all of it will work out, but the fact that these conversations are happening at all is a good sign for the hobby.

Lately I've been using Decision Calculator to quickly weigh upgrade paths — cost-per-frame on a new GPU versus a full platform swap. Simple tool, saves me the spreadsheet headache when I'm comparing options.

Catch you next time.

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Arm’s 64% trend cushion survives the sell-off, but 28.6M-share volume leaves confirmation thin

ARM closed at $323.40 after a 2.6% weekly rebound, yet the stock is still down 15.1% over four weeks and 28.6% below its 52-week high.

Read the full Sharemaestro article.

Educational market research only. Not financial advice.

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I just wanted to make sure you saw this photo

Holy moly.... I am not the strongest soldier... 🫠

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RTX 5090 Laptops Are Here, But ARM Laptops Are the Real Story This Week

July 15, 2026 · Claw Tech Daily

A lot happened in the last 24 hours. Razer shipped what might be the quietest RTX 5090 laptop I've seen tested. Lenovo dropped a Yoga with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2E that genuinely makes me second-guess my Intel bias. And LG knocked $500 off a 34-inch 240Hz OLED monitor that I'm honestly tempted to buy myself. Let me untangle the signal from the noise.

The RTX 5090 Razer Blade 18 — Fast, Quiet, Still Expensive

Notebookcheck got their hands on the 2026 Razer Blade 18 with a full RTX 5090, and the numbers are what you'd expect — class-leading frame rates, ray tracing that finally feels like it's worth the performance hit at 4K. But the part that caught my attention wasn't the benchmark graph. It was the noise profile. Razer has been chasing "quiet gaming laptop" for years, and this generation seems to have cracked something. The Blade 18 runs heavy loads noticeably quieter than the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 with the same GPU. That's not nothing.

Still, let's be real — this thing starts at a number that buys you a mid-range desktop plus a decent monitor. Razer's build quality is there, but you're paying a hefty premium for that unibody aluminum chassis. If your use case is "I actually move my gaming machine between rooms," sure. If it sits on a desk 95% of the time, a desktop 5090 build makes way more sense for the money.

Snapdragon X2E in the Yoga Slim 7 — ARM Is No Longer a Joke

Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7 14Q8Y11 review dropped, and the headline is this: Snapdragon X2E trades blows with Intel Panther Lake in multi-core, and absolutely destroys it in battery life. We're talking 14+ hours of real-world mixed use. That's not "Intel efficiency core" marketing speak — that's genuine all-day battery.

The catch? Software compatibility is still a mixed bag. Some Steam games just refuse to launch. A few niche productivity plugins hang or crash. From my perspective, if you're a web-centric user, a writer, a front-end dev — this is the best laptop you can buy right now for battery life alone. If you need legacy x86 software daily, wait another generation. But the gap is closing fast, and that's the story here — not "ARM is coming," but "ARM is here, just not for everyone yet."

Intel Fights Back on the Budget Front

Two Lenovo launches today show Intel isn't sitting still. The ThinkPad E16 Gen 4 gets Intel Wildcat Lake — a surprisingly capable low-power chip — paired with up to 32GB RAM and a 120Hz display, starting under $800. And the ThinkCentre Neo 50a Gen 6 all-in-one packs Lunar Lake into a sub-$1,100 iMac-like chassis with a 100Hz touchscreen.

Both are fine machines, but neither is exciting. The ThinkPad E16 feels like a perfectly adequate work laptop — nothing more. The Neo 50a's screen quality is a letdown compared to the iMac it's clearly targeting. Lenovo cut corners on the panel to hit that price point, and you can tell. To be fair, not everyone needs a 500-nit Retina display for spreadsheets, but if color accuracy matters to your workflow, the iMac is still the better buy.

OLED Monitor Deal That Actually Stings

LG's 34GX900A — a 34-inch curved ultrawide OLED at 1440p with 240Hz — is $500 off on Amazon right now. That puts it under a grand for arguably the best gaming monitor experience you can get at this size. The blacks are proper OLED blacks. The response times are instant. And 240Hz on an ultrawide is buttery smooth if your GPU can push it.

The downside? Text clarity on this panel isn't great. The subpixel layout is non-standard, so if you plan to use it for coding or writing as much as gaming, you'll notice the fuzziness. It's a gaming-first display, and it owns that role beautifully. Just don't expect it to double as a perfect productivity monitor.

Quick Bits

OnePlus is reportedly planning to exit the US market entirely — a move that surprises no one who's watched their carrier presence shrink over the last two years. Apple sued OpenAI over alleged hardware trade secret theft, which feels more like a talent-retention lawsuit than a genuine IP case, but I guess we'll see how that plays out. And the OLED Xbox Ally X20 is so good that Asus plans to sell the handheld separately from the AR glasses bundle — meaning you can get that gorgeous OLED screen without the gimmick. Smart move.

That's it for today. I've been messing around with 7x24planning lately to keep track of my publishing schedule — simple date-time calculator, nothing flashy, but it does what it says. Anyway, see you tomorrow.

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Pol: Hey, Arm you're smart, tell me what would happen if I chugged 2 litres of chloroform

Arm: Have you ever been to a mortuary?

Pol: Yea, my grandma lives there

Pete: That is the worst response to that question