I recently reviewed the Alienware 16X Aurora (with its Arrow Lake-based processor) and the Alienware 16 Aurora (with its Raptor Lake-based processor), and both were branded as “Series 2” chips—neither were Lunar Lake! That started me down a rabbit hole: What exactly does Intel’s “Series 2” CPU branding mean these days?
Turns out, not a whole lot.
When Intel unveiled simple branding…
MSI’s latest Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG mini PC is as much smart speaker or laptop as it is a small, compact, desktop NUC: It boasts a dedicated hardware Copilot button as well as a dedicated fingerprint reader, and you can talk to it, too.
Starting at $899, MSI’s little mini PC…
The best USB-C hubs add ports to your PC, providing connections to legacy peripherals like mice, keyboards, printers or more. If you follow my advice, you shouldn’t pay that much, either.
I’ve selected the best USB-C hub I’ve tested and put it at the very top of this…
Free-to-play hybrid action RPG Duet Night Abyss recently revealed in a special program that it will launch globally on PC and mobile on October 28 and that it’s making significant changes to its core monetization system.
For the uninitiated, Duet Night Abyss is developed by Pan Studio, a studio under Hero Games. It was first announced in 2023, and the story is told through a dual narrative from…
Nintendo Direct Reportedly Set for September, as Metroid Prime 4 Release Date and Mario 40th Anniversary Speculation Mounts
August 27, 2025
A fresh Nintendo Direct broadcast will air in September, according to a new report.
Speculation around the next major Nintendo Direct date has been rife following a series of other presentations over the past few months focusing on third-party games or individual titles…
Ninja Gaiden 4 Developers Assure Newcomers That the Tools Are Available to Train Themselves to Get Better at the Game
August 27, 2025
You’ve heard what we think of Ninja Gaiden 4 — from an expert point of view. But what if you’ve never played a Ninja Gaiden game before? Will this latest entry in the notoriously difficult action series offer newcomers something they can get to grips with? Will the…
Bitcoin is trading at $114,627 on Sunday morning within a narrow intraday range of $114,575 to $115,549, reflecting a period of low volatility and market indecision. With a market capitalization of $2.28 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of $25.22 billion, the digital asset shows signs of consolidation following a broader corrective phase.
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On Aug. 24, leveraging the daily chart…
SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane into orbit last week.
The pictures capture the nighttime launch on Aug. 21, when the robotic X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), lifted off…
James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results
August 27, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS for the first time. The powerful space telescope trained its infrared vision and its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRspec) on the comet on Aug. 6, 2025.
Discovered on July 1 by the…
World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
August 27, 2025
The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun’s corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery that powers the ferocious flares that routinely blast out from our star.
“It’s a landmark moment in solar science,” said Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado…
