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There was a brief moment when it seemed like the most exciting laptop developments—folding screens and multiple displays—were hitting an insurmountable roadblock. Sure, various PC vendors showed off their versions of these devices, but that was before Microsoft canceled Windows 10X and component shortages strangled…Read more...

We may have just suffered through the year the billionaires traveled to space, but Asus wants you to know it made it there first, and it’s commemorating the achievement with a laptop that looks like it was designed for another planet.

That the Arctic is a hot mess due to climate change is well-established at this point. But it’s always nice to have a reminder of just how out of whack things are getting, isn’t it?

Have you been enjoying the thrilling mid-air action sequence of Tom Holland’s Nathan Drake getting knocked out of a moving plane, then having to pull himself along a dangling series of cargo boxes while fighting a dude and dodging debris, as already seen in both Uncharted trailers? I hope so, because here’s more of it.

Putting out gaming rigs with top-notch performance is a never-ending battle, so at CES 2022, Lenovo is giving its Legion gaming laptops a full refresh with new tech and even beefier performance.Read more...

CES 2022 has been strange for a lot of reasons, and now you can add another, because one of the coolest things shown at this year’s event is a...business laptop?

Every company wants to make a smartwatch, but Razer—a company best known for gaming peripherals decked out in RGB lighting—at least had the good sense this time to partner with an experienced watch maker.

The origins of a notorious bacterial superbug can be traced back to hedgehogs that lived centuries ago, new research this week suggests. The study found evidence that one particular type of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, first emerged on the skin of hedgehogs. The bacteria likely…Read more...

My XPS 15 is in bad shape. In an ironic twist of fate, the 4-year-old laptop slid out of my hand as I slide into my car to drive to Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. When it hit the concrete, a chunky of the back spine cracked off, leaving a window to the exposed hinge.

If you refuse to take a side in the console wars, you probably have several gaming systems all connected to the same TV through multiple HDMI ports to make it easier to switch from one to the next. With IOGEAR’s new KeyMander Nexus Gaming KVM (which stands for keyboard/video/mouse), it gets even easier if you console…Read more...

The premiere of The Book of Boba Fett painted a portrait of Boba Fett that fans have wanted to see for decades, even if that portrait added little to the larger Star Wars tapestry. Its sophomore episode sees the show start to build Boba into something more.Read more...

In a time when taking temperatures is a required daily routine for some as part of Covid-19 safety precautions, instant-read digital thermometers are a welcome convenience—assuming you don’t pull it out of a medicine cabinet with dead batteries. The BCool’s solution to that problem is to trade batteries for a…Read more...

A bizarre experiment from Israel suggests goldfish are capable of navigating environments far removed from their natural habitats.

Ice Age returns in our first trailer for The Adventures of Buck Wild. Ming-Na Wen discusses returning as Fennec Shand for The Book of Boba Fett. Plus, get a glimpse at Snowpiercer’s return, and the new Scream gets some classically retro posters. Spoilers go!

A reality TV star who sells her farts in jars has decided to stop selling them, despite making $1,000 per jar. But fans of her work shouldn’t worry too much. She’s still going to sell her farts as non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs.

It now seems inevitable that one day all of our food and beverage needs will be delivered in pod form. The Keurig showed us how easy it was to make brown caffeinated water from beans, and now Black+Decker’s Bev will do the same thing for cocktails, mixing ingredient-filled capsules with five different liquors for…Read more...

Wireless earbuds effectively work like sound-blocking earplugs when crammed into your ears, and while that’s great for tuning out distractions, it’s not so great when it’s safer to hear what’s going on around you. Shokz’s solution to the problem has been to skip the ears altogether and deliver sound through a user’s…Read more...

When it comes to modern, customizable media-viewing experiences, Samsung seems to get it better than almost anybody. While the brand’s Frame TV advanced the art of incorporating your TV into your living room’s eclectic design, the Freestyle portable projector is designed for those who want to make the world their…Read more...

Samsung has previously tested the limits of monitors with displays like the Odyssey Neo G9, but now the company is pushing boundaries even further with the absolutely gigantic 55-inch Odyssey Ark and its wild “flexible” display.Read more...

Samsung is continuing its quest to make its SmartThings platform your smart home app of choice, overhauling the interface, making the platform more friendly to tinkerers, and even bundling it with the company’s line of fancy Bespoke kitchen appliances.

The Federal Trade Commission has a message for companies that aren’t taking the threat posed by log4j to heart: Patch up or lawyer up. Consider yourselves warned.Read more...

A Russian businessman and accused hacker may have critical information on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. Luckily for U.S. authorities, the businessman in question was arrested and recently extradited to the U.S. on unrelated criminal charges.Read more...

What would it take for you to leave your whole life behind and set off into the stars in search of a mystery from the past? Bryan Tan’s short film The Emissary explores the lonely journey of an astronaut who decides the risk is worth it.Read more...

Mutantkind’s revitalization at Marvel Comics in the Dawn, Reign, and now Destiny of X—something that has given mutants a secluded home and status as a global superpower on the sovereign, living island of Krakoa—has raised all sorts of fascinating questions about what it means for the publisher’s oft-persecuted…Read more...

The U.S. has once again reached an ignoble pandemic milestone, with more than 100,000 Americans currently hospitalized with covid-19. The rise in hospitalizations follows a dramatic surge in cases fueled by the emergence of the Omicron variant. But there are several considerations that will make this peak in illness…Read more...

A lawsuit filed by the man who modeled as a baby for Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind album cover has been dismissed—for now. Spencer Elden was 4 months when he was photographed nude in a Pasadena swimming pool back in 1991. As an adult, Elden tried suing the band on child pornography charges this past August.Read more...

Another year, another life-sized replica of a walking testament to the atrocity of mechanized warfare. Yes, Japan has another life-sized Gundam statue on the way soon, and to celebrate, Sunrise has taken the latest mobile suit to hit the real world and animated it... for the first time.

A few weeks after nuking the Democratic Build Back Better Agenda live on Fox News, Sen. Joe Manchin would like you to know the climate part is a piece of cake.Read more...

Like every other laptop maker, MSI is taking CES 2022 as an opportunity to overhaul its gaming and creator-focused machines with powerful new chips.Read more...

We’ve gotten accustomed to tracking sleep with smartwatches and fitness trackers, but wearing something on your wrist to bed can be annoying. Companies like Google have come up unique ways to track sleep using radar, and now smart bulb company Sengled is applying the same technology to its lights.

Michael Keaton is all in on Batman again. We know he’s returning to the cape and cowl for this year’s The Flash and recently we heard he’d be kind of passing the torch in the upcoming Batgirl as well. It’s exciting to see, especially when you remember why he left in the first place.Read more...

Asus’s ROG Zephyrus G-series gaming laptops have had an unlikely rise to stardom, piggybacking off the recent success of AMD’s Ryzen processors. The Zephyrus G14 was among the first gaming systems to opt for those red-toned CPUs, and while expectations were initially set low, the laptop ended up as something of a…Read more...

When Asus released the ZenBook Pro Duo, its first dual-screen laptop, in 2019, it seemed inevitable that others would follow closely behind with their own takes on the multi-screen laptop. And for a while, it looked like a war was brewing—Dell revealed its own concept, HP released a short-lived dual-screen gaming…Read more...

Asus is on a quest to make the ideal gaming system—one that serves as an ultra-portable device when you’re traveling and a powerful gaming rig when you’re at home. The company’s latest attempt builds upon last year’s ROG Flow X13, a compact 13-inch convertible laptop with the ability to connect to an optional XG…Read more...

The premise seems rom-com enough: two adults literally crash into each other then quickly form a friendship followed by romance. But one has a secret. A very big secret. And the show’s title makes it seem like this rom-com blends some other genres too. Maybe even horror.Read more...

A team of researchers found 2,700-year-old eggs of parasitic intestinal worms under a stone toilet in what is now Israel. The team suspects the worms may have been responsible for poor health of some of the residents of the palatial complex.

Getting a close shave with an electric razor isn’t impossible, but it requires some fierce engineering to match the effectiveness of a razor-sharp metal blade and a lathered-up face. With the new Arc6, Panasonic has defied the laws of our universe, and probably many others, with a cutting head packed with six moving…Read more...

It’s a big day for Star Wars fans. Yes, a new episode of The Book of Boba Fett drops later this evening but there’s even more book news from a galaxy far, far away. The final chapter of phase one of Star Wars: The High Republic kicks off today in the form of Claudia Gray’s The Fallen Star, and now we know much more…Read more...

Acer’s Swift X is an interesting laptop. From the outside, it doesn’t look like much—a simple, thin notebook with some fun lid colors. But glance at the specs sheet and suddenly the Swift X could be a do-it-all laptop you’d be happy to spend money on.

Acer is clearing its digital shelves and stocking them with new gaming laptops. After launching three new Chromebooks earlier in the week, the Taiwanese laptop maker has revealed refreshed versions of the Nitro 5, Predator Helios 300, and Triton 500 SE this week at CES 2022, each equipped with the latest Intel or AMD…Read more...

Intel’s response to Apple M1 series and AMD Ryzen processors has arrived—at least, partially.

Intel announced today that Arc, its long-awaited high-end discrete graphics, has started shipping to laptop and desktop vendors. The chipmaker also gave us a brief reminder about the graphics’ underlying technologies but stopped short of providing any benchmarks or comparisons against AMD Radeon or Nvidia RTX graphics.

Intel at CES 2022 finally took the wraps off of the full suite of its 12th-gen Alder Lake desktop processors from Pentium on up to Core i9 SKUs.

At CES 2022 on Tuesday, Alienware revealed a concept that it believes to be the next generation of eGPUs. It’s just the ‘GPU’ part that might be a problem.

Dell’s XPS 13 has been the most important Windows laptop of the past decade, serving as the flag bearer in the battle against Mac. It has topped countless “best laptop” pages and is a straightforward recommendation to anyone searching for a premium Windows PC. Its claim to fame was debuting ultra-thin display bezels—a…Read more...

Alienware surprised us last year when it introduced its new X-series laptops, the first thin and lightweight gaming notebooks from the Dell-owned brand. This year, Alienware is introducing an even smaller model that the company claims is the thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop ever.

Projectors have always been the preferred way to get a truly big-screen movie theater experience at home, but their size and steep price tags have always made them solutions for home theater fanatics. A lot has changed in the past few years, and while Anker’s new Nebula Cosmos Laser 4K projector isn’t cheap, it’s…Read more...

Razer is often labeled the Apple of gaming, and while it isn’t a perfect analogy, the company’s deliberate approach to updating its Blade laptops isn’t unlike what you see with MacBooks. At CES 2022, the company is choosing again to refresh its lineup instead of making any groundbreaking changes.Read more...

Many of us are still (somehow, maybe even forever?) working from home, completely dependent on webcams for face-to-face interactions with our co-workers, and grainy 720p streams don’t make your work-from-home PJs look as nice as you think they do. It’s long past time for an upgrade, and Anker’s new webcam includes…Read more...

December 2021 can now add another dubious superlative to the weather record books. Preliminary data indicates it was the hottest December ever for the Lower 48.Read more...