Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Is “An Amazing Sendoff… But Not The End”, Says Showrunner

Summary Star Trek: Lower Deckscreator Mike McMahan says season 5"feels like an amazing sendoff… but not the end of a series.“Fans ofStar Trek’s first animated half-hour comedy were crushed when Paramount+ announcedLower Decksseason 5 would be the final season. McMahan hinted that this was a possibility while promotingStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 4 last year, and the upcoming end of the voyages of the USS Cerritos is a sad affair. But also a happy one, asthere are still 10 more episodes ofStar Trek: Lower Decksto come in fall 2024....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 493 words · Abigail Martinez

Support for dual GPUs could be making an unexpected comeback

Intel seems to be bringing back something that Nvidia and AMD had long given up on: the ability, and the incentive, to use dual graphics cards in a single system. Multi-GPUs were once a big deal, but the latest generation abandoned that idea for a variety of reasons. However, Intel has allegedly confirmed that you’ll be able to use multipleIntel Arc GPUsat once. Will that help Intel capture some of Nvidia’s and AMD’s customer base?...

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Sarah Salinas

The 50 best PC Games of all time

The 50 best PC Games of all time What are the best PC games of all time? Well, working that out is no easy task. PC gaming goes back decades, and every year, more great games hit the market. It’s a platform that offers everything from sensationalshootersto marvelousMMOs, and you’re able to even pretend to be someone else by indulging in anRPG. So, from the thousands of PC games out there, how did we narrow it down to just 50?...

August 7, 2025 · 37 min · 7766 words · Richard Harris

The Acolyte Showrunner Reveals Breaking Bad's Surprising Impact On Her Star Wars TV Show

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Acolyte season 1, episode 1. Summary Leslye Headland, the showrunner forThe Acolyte, recently revealed a surprising source of inspiration for her work on theStar Warsshow:Breaking Bad. SinceThe Acolyteis set during theHigh Republic era, about 100 years before the Skywalker saga, its place intheStar Warstimelineallowed it to break several of the franchise’s molds. It still has to fit into the largerStar Warscanon, but the show also has entirely original aspects, likeThe Acolyte’s characters, which lets it experiment more....

August 7, 2025 · 4 min · 700 words · Andrew Webb

The animated LED matrix comes to an ROG gaming keyboard — and it looks killer

At CES 2022, Asus announced a range of new ROG peripherals joining its lineup from mice and keyboards to headsets. The company revealed five products in total, headlined by the ROG Strix Flare II Animate. It builds on the Strix Flare Asus released in 2019, fit with a redesigned body and now the iconic AniMe Matrix LED display added to the top right corner. Asus ROG Strix Flare II Animate and Strix Flare II The AniMe Matrix first showed up on the Zephyrus G14, which is currently one of thebest gaming laptopsyou can buy....

August 7, 2025 · 4 min · 666 words · Amanda Crawford

The best new characters in You season 4, ranked

You, one ofthe best shows on Netflix, commenced its fourth season with the first five episodes on February 9 and the remaining five set for release on March 9. Now that Joe (Penn Badgley) is going by the name Jonathan and working as a professor in London, he is reluctantly making new friends. Once again, something about Joe draws people in the upper echelon of society to him, even when he doesn’t quite fit in....

August 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1099 words · Joshua Martinez

The best places to drop in Warzone 2.0

Where are we dropping? Now thatWarzone 2.0has come out and introduced the brand new Al Mazrah map, that’s a tough question to answer. Just like with the originalWarzone, where you choose to land will have a major impact on how long or short your game will last. This new map is packed with named locations of various sizes, layouts, and general loot quality. Plus,Warzone 2.0introduces Strongholds with AI soldiers to add even more to consider....

August 7, 2025 · 5 min · 889 words · Christine Reyes

The filmmakers behind ESPN’s This Magic Moment talk Shaq, ’90s NBA, social media

ESPN Films’ latest30 for 30documentary,This Magic Momentexplores the brief period in history when the Orlando Magic captured lightning in a bottle in the 1990s by taking a young expansion team all the way to the NBA finals — and how it ultimately was the team’s undoing. From Shaquille O’Neal admitting to intentionallyshattering the backboardin a 1993 NBA game to Penny Hardaway not speaking to Shaq over a commercial,This Magic Momentuncovers the history buried in archival footage from the pre-internet ethers....

August 7, 2025 · 8 min · 1634 words · David Dean

The Verizon GizmoWatch puts a quick-communication device on your kid’s wrist

Today’s smartwatches may be largely tailored to adults, but that doesn’t mean that kids have to be left out completely. In fact, Verizon has announced a new addition to its lineup of smartwatches for kids — the Verizon GizmoWatch. The GizmoWatch is the first device in the lineup to offer 4G LTE connectivity, meaning that your child should have decently fast connectivity most of the time, especially if they stay within the limits of a city....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 359 words · Crystal Ray

There’s now proof that quantum computing is superior to the classical variety

Researchers from IBM Research, the University of Waterloo, and the Technical University of Munich just provedquantum computing‘s mantra of “I can do what you can do, only better” true. Described as a major milestone in computer science history, the researchers ran an experiment, proving for the first time with a tangible example, that a quantum computer can do tasks that classical computers cannot. Prior to publication of this research, the benefits of quantum computing were mainly described in theoretical terms....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Angela Weaver

This 55-inch QLED TV dropped below $500 for a limited time

Here’s your chance to get a decent-sized QLED TV for less than $500, as Best Buy has slashed the price of the 55-inch TCL QM7 Series 4K QLED TV with a $302 discount as part of its Tech Fest sale. From $800, it’s all the way down to only $498, which is an excellent price,so you’ll no longer have to wait for the launch of this year’sLabor Day TV deals. The sale ends on August 25, but there’s a chance that stocks don’t last until then — we’re basically saying you should make your purchase for this QLED TV right now if you don’t want to miss out on the savings....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 385 words · David Clark

This is how the lunar eclipse looked from space

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) managed to photograph the awesome sight of Monday’s lunar eclipse. Recent ISS arrival Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted several photos (below) of a partially eclipsed moon, as seen from the orbital facility about 250 miles above Earth. Happy Monday from space! Were you lucky enough to be able to see the lunar eclipse last night? We were! / Buon lunedì dallo spazio! Avete avuto la fortuna di vedere l'eclissi lunare di ieri sera?...

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Amy Gardner

To celebrate World Emoji Day, Google’s blobmoji are back as sticker packs

Apparently, it’s World Emoji Day, and while that probably doesn’t mean much for most of us, for Google it means the return of what many consider to be the rightful emoji on Android — the blob emoji, or blobmoji. For the uninitiated, blobmoji were basically the default emoji on Android for a number of years, before Google replaced them with more standard emoji last year. While the switch was largely aimed at keeping emoji a little more uniform across platforms, many still considered it an unwelcome change....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Russell Duarte