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This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three different scientists who advanced the development of quantum dots – nanoscale particles that exhibit unusual characteristics thanks to their diminutive size.

To get the best from HDR10+ on a living room TV, you may have to dim the lights. But Samsung's next batch of QLED televisions will support a new optimization feature that will adjust the viewing experience to cater for varying lighting conditions.

Samsung is beefing up its Galaxy Book lineup with two new laptops: The Galaxy Book Flex, with a touchscreen and reversible hinge that lets it flip into a tablet, and the Galaxy Book Ion, a lightweight workhorse for more professional pursuits.

​Although many people have fought to get smartphone videographers to shoot everything in landscape mode (horizontally), it appears that the battle has been lost. The proof? Samsung has unveiled an HD TV designed for Millennials, that has a vertical screen.

Ahead of CES next week, Samsung has revealed three new 2019 monitors it will be showing off at the expo. Leading the line-up is the Space Monitor, designed to take up as little room as possible, along with an ultra-wide gaming monitor and a 4K curved display aimed at content creators.

Samsung has entered the 8K arena with the Q900FN/R. Built around Samsung's quantum dot LCD technology that is designed to compete with OLED, the TVs pack over 30 million pixels and feature AI-powered 8K upscaling – which is just as well given the distinct lack of native 8K content currently.

With IFA 2018 about to kick off, Samsung is launching a new line of ultra-wide, curved, quantum dot monitors. But the main new addition is the Thunderbolt 3 port, which can transfer power, data and display much faster.

Samsung has whipped the covers off its lineup of 2018 TVs. The flagships of the range are built with QLED displays, varying in size up to a monstrous 88 in. Taking up so much living room real estate, Samsung has also packed in a few new features to let the TVs earn their keep even while not in use.

Alongside its usual LCD and QLED offerings, Samsung has a new TV technology on show at CES 2018. MicroLED technology has enabled the creation of "The Wall", a modular 146-in "true" LED display that works like stadium scoreboards, but on a much smaller scale.

Whereas CRT technology used to limit TV size, the move to flat screen technologies has seen the creation of some monster panels. Although it’s not quite as impressive as the 262-in (6.65-m) TV we covered last month, the latest 88-inch offering from Samsung is the largest QLED TV to hit the market​.

New “spintronic” OLED technology promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the LEDs found in the current crop of TVs, computer displays, traffic lights and other electronic devices.

QD Vision and LG Display have just announced a joint development agreement focusing on electroluminescent quantum dot LED (QLED) nanotechnology that promises to sweep all display technologies before it, including OLED.