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Let’s settle a musical debate: which music streaming platform should you use: Spotify or Pandora? Both services have their unique strengths and weaknesses. Spotify boasts a more extensive music catalog, robust social features for sharing and discovering music with friends, and a more polished user experience across devices. But don’t count out Pandora just yet. Its robust Music Genome Project algorithm excels at surfacing new music you’ll love based on detailed song attributes. And with a cheaper $5 per month ad-free radio tier, it’s more budget-friendly than Spotify Premium. From music discovery capabilities to podcast support to cost and third-party…

Despite a rocky start, Intel’s Arc GPUs are now among the best graphics cards you can buy. Targeting budget PC gamers, Intel has established itself as a major player in gaming graphics cards, and all eyes are on Team Blue with its next generation of GPUs, codenamed Battlemage. We know Battlemage GPUs are coming, and Intel has slowly been dropping hints about the graphics cards over the past year. Although we’re still waiting on an official release date, specs, and pricing details for Battlemage GPUs, there’s a lot we can piece together already. Intel Battlemage: specs Intel hasn’t confirmed any…

Marvel Studios’ WandaVision spawned countless fan theories when it originally aired in early 2021. Many of the theories that sprouted around it turned out to be incorrect. The most well-known among these is the belief certain viewers had that WandaVision‘s final episodes would reveal a red-skinned comic book figure named Mephisto as the show’s secret villain. However, one strong rumor that also grew in the weeks leading up to WandaVision‘s finale back in March 2021 was that Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) was going to make a surprise cameo appearance in the show. That never ultimately came to pass, but it turns…

Without a doubt, the PlayStation 5 Pro is the most powerful game console we’ve ever seen. It’s set to launch next week, promising “45% faster rendering” on the back of a beefier graphics card and faster memory. It won’t be enough to outclass a proper gaming desktop packing one of the best graphics cards — not even close. But the PS5 Pro could have an edge over PCs in one area. I say “could” because we really don’t know. AMD pointed me to Sony, and Sony hasn’t returned my request for comment about the specifics under the hood of the…

The Scream franchise has proven to be one of the horror genre’s most enduring properties. In the nearly 30 years since it began, the series has produced six films and a spinoff TV show that lasted three seasons on MTV. Across its various sequels and spinoffs, the franchise hasn’t deviated all that much from its original formula of meta jokes, third-act twists, and gruesome kills, either. It has instead tried to consistently elevate the stakes of its stories and the violence of its set pieces. One of the franchise’s original stars, however, seems to think that it went a little…

Early November typically kicks off the run-up to the Black Friday sales season, and this year Rivian is betting it’s the perfect time to lure gasoline drivers towards its EVs. If you own or lease a vehicle that runs on gasoline, which means even a hybrid vehicle, Rivian is ready to give you $3,000 off the purchase of one of its select fully electric vehicles — no trade-in required. The offer from the Irvine, California-based automaker extends to customers in the U.S. and Canada and runs through November 30, 2024. The program applies to Rivian 2025 R1S or R1T Dual…

HP OmniBook Ultra 14 MSRP $1,680.00 “The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is fast and efficient, but a couple of shortcomings hold it back.” Pros Excellent build quality Strong productivity performance Good battery life Very good keyboard High-resolution webcam Cons Touchpad should be haptic IPS display is just OK List prices are expensive HP continues to roll out new consumer laptops under their OmniBook brand, which replaces its previous Spectre, Envy, and Pavilion lineups. The OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 was one of the first, and it’s a solid replacement for the Spectre x360 14. Now, I’m reviewing the OmniBook Ultra 14,…

The Apple Intelligence toolkit has witnessed a staggered mix of delayed features and underwhelming perks. But it seems that the most promising set of those AI tools that Apple revealed at WWDC earlier this year is right around the corner. In the latest edition of his PowerOn newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that the iOS 18.2 update will start rolling out via the stable channel in the first week of December. The aforementioned iteration of iOS is already in the beta testing phase and has introduced a trio of the most interesting AI upgrades destined for the iPhone. Among them…

Welcome to a special edition of You Asked: The Editor’s Cut! Today, we’re diving into a topic that’s shaping how we access tech, entertainment, and even everyday essentials: subscription culture. Caleb Denison is joined by three expert editors from Digital Trends who will help unpack the pros, cons, and quirks of this pervasive trend. What is subscription culture? Subscription culture represents a major shift in consumer behavior. Instead of purchasing products outright, people are increasingly opting to pay recurring fees to access them. This shift promises convenience and flexibility — no need for long-term commitments, just the freedom to come…

Twenty years ago, Half-Life 2 changed the world of gaming forever — and also sealed Half-Life 3 as perhaps the most anticipated sequel of all time. Since then, Valve has thoroughly enjoyed teasing its fans, but there has been nothing official about Half-Life 3. Fans have taken it upon themselves to create the sequel they apparently aren’t going to get in the form of Project Borealis, and now it finally has a Steam page. Project Borealis isn’t new. It was originally intended to be an interpretation of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 — a game that never released — but the developers…