That little red nub on a ThinkPad keyboard has been there since IBM launched the line in 1992. Here's what it actually does and why Lenovo kept it.

close-up of lenovo laptop keyboard with trackpoint visible - Stas Malyarevsky/Shutterstock Since IBM launched the ThinkPad in 1992, the iconic laptop has carried a ...

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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X-series has long been the benchmark corporate ultralight laptop, and the ThinkPad X13 Gen 6 (starts at $1,119; $1,872 as tested) shows why. Weighing just over two pounds, it ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

THE Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition is part of the brand’s lineup of artificial intelligence (AI) PCs. It is primarily marketed as a commercial Copilot+ PC and is powered by Intel Core ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...