Expect the company to take a boxy direction when the next Unpacked rolls around. Samsung (modified) We’re likely coming up on another Samsung Unpacked event, but the brand has dropped some teasers about what we’ll be seeing when the next showcase does happen. A series of new videos shared to social media point…
Summary SteamOS matters: Valve’s OS and updates let others build and customize Steam Machines. Meta PCs’ Steamroller ships with SteamOS, standard PC parts, and runs AAA titles at high frame rates. If SteamOS becomes common, builders could drop Windows licenses and shave roughly $100 off prebuilt PCs. When the Steam Machine arrived, everyone, understandably, focused…
As a major fan of physical media formats, I’ve come to appreciate optical-based technologies for what they are. While certainly imperfect, they’re nonetheless impressive on a technological level — much more so than many people give credit for. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions swirling around when it comes to optical media like…
Discord is one of those apps that has helped kill off good ol’ internet forums. If you look hard enough, you can find a Discord server for most any niche hobby, online course, or fandom of choice. I’d been aware of the app for a while, but I didn’t join Discord myself until I found…
A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can also take actions on your behalf, bringing AI tools directly into the apps…
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Illumination‘s next animated feature, Not Alone. The movie was first announced last week during the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The trailer depicts Timothée Chalamet (Dune, Marty Supreme) and Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building) as two rocket scientists falling in love. While this is…
Limoncello promptly replied: “My apologies; but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic.” With that, the discussion and Kilpatrick’s inquiry were over. The Lendacky comment in 2020 Kilpatrick referred to came in this thread discussing encryption features available in AMD CPUs. Lendacky said that the Ryzen 3700x, a consumer CPU, “should…
There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the Google ecosystem, creating images in a fraction…
Five streaming subscribers filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in April 2026 seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. On June 3, 2026, Paramount filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland seeking dismissal of the case, arguing that the plaintiffs’ allegations…
