Category: Hardware

Star Trek fans who have long envied the Star Wars franchise’s collaboration with Lego are finally getting something to celebrate: Lego is introducing a version of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, specifically the Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Because we don’t live in the post-money utopian society of the 24th century, the kit will cost…

In September, the Neon app briefly became a sensation on app download charts by promising to pay users for recording and sharing their phone calls. Then it abruptly went offline amid controversy over its security practices, privacy protections and payment structure.  More than a month later, a new version has returned to the iOS App…

Epic Games recently added support for Arm64 to its Epic Online Services (EOS) developer kit, which means that more games can now be played on computers with Arm-based chips. For example, Fortnite can finally be played on computers with Snapdragon X Plus or X Elite chips without emulation, provided you’re running at least version 38.00…

The latest Blink Video Doorbell offers higher resolution and a wider field of view than its predecessor. | Image: Blink With Black Friday and the holiday season approaching, packages will start piling up, making now a good time to take steps to protect your doorstep from porch pirates. Thankfully, multiple retailers are already offering early…

Alrighty, PC gamers, it’s time to upgrade to an OLED monitor if your budget will allow it. And it’s particularly easy today, as Walmart has a deal on an MSI 34-inch ultrawide OLED that’s pretty hard to beat. You can get it for $499.99, a couple hundred bucks beneath the going rate even for refurbished…

A brand new Intel graphics card, a free AAA game, plus an $80 saving, and it isn’t even Black Friday yet? This graphics card deal isn’t one to miss if you’re thinking about upgrading your gaming rig. Thanks to the folks at B&H Photo, this Acer Intel Arc B580 Nitro OC GPU is down to…

The recent heist at the Louvre, in which jewelry worth around €88 million (US$101 million) was stolen from the museum in broad daylight, has revealed glaring weaknesses in the museum’s security systems. According to the French publication Libération [machine translated], a security audit by the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI)…

Apple released iOS 26 in September, about a week after the tech giant unveiled the iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air. The update brought a load of new features to your iPhone, including Liquid Glass design, call screening and other hidden features. The company has released a few other iOS updates for the software since then. We put together…

Tinder is testing an AI-powered “Chemistry” feature that learns about your interests and personality by analyzing your camera roll. In its latest earnings report, the dating app’s parent company, Match Group, described it as an interactive matching feature that’s designed to combat “swipe fatigue” by surfacing fewer, more compatible matches. Chemistry requires the user’s permission…