External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your computer’s…
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Final Fantasy 7 Speedrunners Just Figured Out How to Save Aerith…and Save Two Hours
Ever since the release of the original Final Fantasy 7, fans have agonized over the game’s biggest, best-known tragic moment: Aerith’s death. Could she be saved? Was it possible? For years, rumors…
Save 40% on Anker’s fast-charging power station for campers
Whenever you go camping or hiking, it’s always good to keep a reliable power source with you, whether to keep your phone juiced up in case of emergency or to power your…
LG’s 39-inch ultrawide OLED monitor is insanely cheap right now
If you’ve been waiting for an incredible deal to pounce on an OLED gaming monitor, this might just be the one. Right now, Amazon’s closeout site Woot is offering a 39-inch LG…
Best gaming laptops under $1,000: Expert picks that won’t break the bank
If you’re a PC gamer, you know how expensive it can be. In addition to purchasing your favorite triple-A titles, you also need a powerful machine to run them on. When it…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Preseason Patch Notes Released Amid Global Release Date Rollout
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is rolling out now (some have been playing it for hours at this point), and Activision has published its preseason patch notes that detail changes made…
Roblox Makes Big Changes to Parental Controls After ‘Pedophile Hellscape’ Report
Roblox is implementing some major changes to the control it gives parents over their children’s accounts following damning reports that its platform was rife with child exploitation and abuse. In an email…
TCL says cheaper, brighter, more efficient OLED monitors are coming
Everybody wants an OLED monitor, including yours truly. Now that the display tech is ubiquitous on phones, it’s getting far more common in TVs, laptops, and tablets, too. But OLED tech has…
Intel’s Core Ultra desktop CPUs keep AI simple to make gamers happy
Intel’s new Arrow Lake architecture, aka the Core Ultra 200S series, brings AI capabilities onto Intel desktops. But the chip doesn’t use the Copilot+ capabilities of Intel’s mobile Lunar Lake chip —…
Hyperthreading is dead in Intel’s new Core Ultra PC chips
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been…