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Gaming laptops are the true Transformers of the PC world: They’re powerful enough to play your favorite titles, ensuring you get the best gaming experience, but you can also harness their speed for media creation or extreme multitasking, like streaming high-resolution gameplay to Twitch. Today, you can even find a few that weigh less than the smallest MacBook Pro, making them solid options for daily drivers as well. For the demanding Apex Legends player, or the power user just looking for a capable GPU to handle video encoding, it’ll be easier than ever to find the best gaming laptop to…
Solid-state batteries have the potential to make EVs much more affordable and practical, but their commercial development has been riddled with false promises, even surpassing Tesla’s self-driving cars. This means that reporting on solid-state batteries is difficult, but there is some promising news coming from Imec, a well-established Belgium-based R&D giant.As part of the SOLiDIFY project, the EU-backed company and 13 partners have produced a solid-state battery prototype with an energy density of 1070 Wh/L, nearly 25 percent higher than the best lithium-ion batteries (800 Wh/L). Even better, the battery uses a manufacturing process that works at room temperature, is…
The Chromebook market has grown so much over the past few years that choosing the best Chromebook for you can be hard. The combination of years worth of software updates and manufacturers making laptops with more power, better build quality and long battery life means there are a ton of good Chrome OS machines that work well as everyday drivers. While Google did make things simpler last fall by introducing the Chromebook Plus initiative (more on that below), there are still multiple things to keep in mind when shopping for a new Chromebook. I’ve been testing and reviewing Chromebooks for…
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocket Pair in Tokyo. Pocket Pair is the Japanese video game developer behind Palworld, a well-known parody game of Pokémon featuring cute monsters with guns. Released as an early access version on January 18, the game became an instant hit, selling 15 million copies on Steam and reaching over 25 million players in just one month. A few days after the release of Palworld, The Pokémon Company announced that it would investigate the game, which will be released in January 2024, and “will take appropriate measures to address any…
With just a week to go until the release of a new update for Mortal Kombat I (MK1), which brings new character skins, new finishing moves, and (finally) a new fighter to the “combatant” selection screen, NetherRealm Studios has released a preview of Carnage “running” around a “corner” (okay, no unnecessary Ks).A new trailer released on Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon’s X-page shows off some of the new features MK1 players can expect in the Khaos Reigns pack and upcoming updates, due to be released on September 24th. The base game will cost $49.99 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S,…
X is reportedly back online for many users more than two weeks after its services were blocked in Brazil, but the change isn’t due to the Brazilian government shifting its stance towards the Elon Musk-owned platform. X appears to have started using Cloudflare’s DNS services, which for now is helping the social network get around the Brazilian government’s restrictions, but it’s unclear for how long that will last.X has been blocked in Brazil since the end of August, when Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered Brazilian internet service providers to block X after months of public feuding with Musk…
When a goat herder meets a princess, sparks fly (and maybe a few goats fly too). Kate Wheeler’s new graphic novel, “Goat Herder” (published by Oni Press), tells the polar opposite story. The story revolves around a goat herder and a princess who go on a journey together to break a curse. “Goat Magic is a thrilling fantasy adventure centered around becoming who you want to be, instead of who you’re expected to be,” Wheeler said. “The story will appeal to mischief-makers and risk-takers (i.e., those with strong Goat energy), as well as readers with a soft spot for queer…
Timothy Zahn, author of arguably the most important Star Wars Expanded Universe arc of all time, would turn heads if he were to write a new title featuring his iconic villain. The novel was released in 2018 and received mostly positive reviews from fans and critics, so its adaptation into comic book format boded well. Like most of these reworkings, the Star Wars: Thrawn Alliance graphic novel captures the main thrust of the storyline well enough, accompanied by some very beautiful artwork, but it feels like an abbreviated summary of the book with a questionable ending.The story takes place under…
Google has reportedly offered to sell its AdX advertising marketplace to quell monopoly concerns in the EU. According to Reuters, European publishers have rejected Google’s proposal, arguing that the company needs to sell more assets to resolve conflicts of interest in its online advertising business. Lawyers specializing in antitrust litigation said this is the first time Google has offered to sell assets in response to such a lawsuit.Despite the proposed sale, Google has publicly remained firm about its ad tech business. “As we’ve said before, the European Commission’s lawsuit against our third-party display advertising products is based on a misinterpretation…
Stan Lee often said that the Marvel universe is a reflection of the world outside our windows, a place where the anxieties of its characters very much match our own. These characters are rooted in identity and insecurity, and they’re not shallow enough to be dismissed simply by their image of spandex. It also helped that most of the characters were New York natives, and their civilian lives were familiar to their New York-born creators. Peter Parker’s rent was like anyone else’s.Marvel ComicsSome of The Incredible Hulk’s early failure may have to do with the book’s incredibly unfamiliar nature. Set…