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Middle-earth is officially heading back to the big screen, and the latest casting news from CinemaCon suggests a mix of nostalgia and fresh energy. Warner Bros. recently revealed the lineup for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and for those of us who grew up with the original trilogy, there is plenty to recognize. Familiar faces return to Middle-earth According to Variety, Andy Serkis is pulling double duty for this project, stepping into the director’s chair while also returning to the motion-capture suit as Smeagol/Gollum. And he isn’t the only veteran making a comeback. Sir Ian McKellen…
The 3DS release of the charming Tomodachi Life exceeded my expectations. The Nintendo-developed product provided a fun sandbox life-sim experience where things often ended up at their silliest and strangest possible outcomes. It felt like a fun one-off experiment for Nintendo, but I always held out hope for a new entry. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream revives the franchise, and though the technology is vastly improved and it doubles down on the weirdness, Nintendo strips any meaningful social element from the game, creating a massive void for what should be one of its most viral games.After the initial setup, the…
Intel‘s upcoming Nova Lake chips have just surfaced in the rumor mill, and the latest leak drops a few juicy details about how the Core Ultra Series 4 desktop family could take shape. The company’s Nova Lake desktop lineup may be built around three different die variants. These are reportedly labeled Nova Lake-S 8P+16E, 8P+12E, and 6P+8E, giving us an early idea of how Intel could segment its next mainstream desktop CPUs across high-end, midrange, and entry tiers. Why is this leak getting attention? Intel is not just refreshing its desktop lineup, but potentially reorganizing how it scales core counts…
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro could end up being one of its most effective weapons next year. Though it’s not because it will be cheap, but because the competition may be getting even more expensive. According to a Korean leaker, Apple is facing higher memory costs for the iPhone 18 series, especially on the Pro models, due to rising DRAM and NAND prices as suppliers prioritize AI server demand. Even Apple’s next chip is rumored to cost more than the generation before. What is Apple doing? The more interesting part of the leak is not that costs are rising. It is…
Notta’s new Bot-Free mode is redefining how professionals record and transcribe meetings – no interruptions, no waiting, and no awkward “who invited that?” moments. If you’ve ever used an AI meeting assistant, you know exactly how it goes. You’re mid-conversation, the discussion is finally gaining momentum, and then a bot joins the call. Everything pauses. Someone asks if a recorder was invited. The flow breaks. That visible presence, while functional, often disrupts the very meetings these tools are meant to support. With its latest update, Notta offers desktop users a different approach. Bot-Free mode eliminates the need for a virtual…
A newly surfaced patent suggests that Samsung is working on a tri-fold phone with a wide screen format, and if it ever actually makes it to market, it would be one of the most ambitious foldable designs the company has ever attempted. The ambitious part sThe patent that has caught everyone’s attention is for something Samsung is calling the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold Wide, and it takes the wider Fold concept much further. The device features two hinges and three panels, and when fully unfolded, it looks less like a phone and more like a compact tablet you could get work…
Most wearable tech asks you to make a visible compromise on how you look to get the features you want. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses don’t. They’re down to $224.25, a $75 saving off their $299 list price, and they put a 12MP ultra-wide camera, open-ear speakers, and AI assistance into a Wayfarer frame that looks exactly like a regular pair of Ray-Bans from across the room. What you’re getting The 12MP ultra-wide camera captures photos and video from a first-person perspective in a way that a phone simply can’t replicate naturally. It’s the kind of capability that changes how…
Samsung seems to be in a bit of a rush to raise prices on its devices. Hot on the heels of a surprise price hike on the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the company has now pushed prices up across a much wider slice of its lineup. Phones, tablets, budget models, flagships, nothing has been spared. If you have been saving up for a new Samsung tablet, you might want to sit down for this one. No tablet left behind, unfortunately Samsung has raised prices across nearly its entire tablet lineup, and the increases are not small. The Galaxy Tab S11…
At this point, managing streaming subscriptions feels a lot like playing whack-a-mole with your bank account. Every few months, something goes up in price, or a new tier appears. So when a deal actually makes sense, it is worth paying attention to. Amazon is now bundling Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus together for $20 a month on Prime Video, saving you $10 compared to subscribing to both individually. What you are getting The bundle brings together two services that have built some of the best content libraries in streaming. Apple TV brings originals like Shrinking and Pluribus, while Peacock…
Samsung Galaxy S26+ MSRP $1,099.99 “A middle child that’s perfectly fine, but fails to excite.” Pros Excellent display Great Performance Battery life Cons Zero innovation Design Too much AI The middle child is out. For years, Samsung has stuck to its holy trinity formula for the Galaxy S lineup: the regular, the Plus, and the top – tier Ultra (formerly known as “we killed the Note but kept its soul”). And somewhere in that evolution, the Plus model quietly lost its identity. Quick Take Once upon a time, the Plus was Samsung’s version of today’s Pro Max – big screen,…