Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Sept. 21, the animated series Haunted Hotel crept onto the list of most-watched shows. Haunted Hotel isn’t necessarily an “adult animation” series the way that something like Big Mouth or BoJack Horseman is, and it […]

In a surprising twist, tech giant Microsoft has pulled the plug on some cloud services for an Israeli military unit. This move targets a division in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, linked to reports of spying on Palestinian phone calls. The company made the announcement on Thursday, September 25, 2025, after digging into a news […]

If you want to know if your computer can handle a certain game or run creative software smoothly or how to figure out what’s wrong, one of the first things to check is your graphics card. This hardware is responsible for rendering everything you see on your screen. If things feel slow or laggy, your […]

8.3/ 10 SCORE Alienware 16X Aurora Pros Strong performance for the price Big, bright and fast display Free M.2 slot to add second SSD User replaceable RAM Crisp, 1080p Windows Hello webcam Cons Keyboard isn’t best for gaming Audio output underwhelms When sitting side by side, Dell’s two midrange gaming laptops, the Alienware 16 Aurora […]

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Some of the clues, like 1-Down, took me a while. Want the answers? Read on. […]

Companies use big tech events to reveal their new products, but increasingly they’re also making a point of showing off how they’re doing it. At Wednesday’s Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2025, the livestreamed keynote included a prominent Shot on Snapdragon badge during some of the wider camera angles inside the Monarch Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency […]

With every passing year, our phones get smarter, more capable and more adept at handling anything we throw at them with speed and precision. Perhaps the biggest contributing factor in enabling this never-ending cycle of improvement is the fresh set of chips that we get on a yearly basis. When it comes to the top […]

Bringing AI to smartphones and tablets has been a massive success for Google, which earlier this month saw its AI assistant Gemini become the top free app on Apple’s App Store for the first time. More specifically, AI and Gemini have become integral parts of the past few major Android updates and are super-well integrated […]

If you’ve been using someone else’s Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, but you don’t live in the same house, you may need to pay another subscription fee soon. According to Amazon’s updated customer service page, the online retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program Oct. 1. Amazon’s Prime Invitee program is being replaced […]

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a fun one. If you’re good at spotting other connected words buried within the clues, you’ll do well. If you’re […]