Alien: Earth succeeds where Ridley Scott’s Alien sequels failed
Alien: Earth delivers everything you’d want from a series with “Alien” in the title: The iconic Xenomorphs hunting down hapless humans; gratuitous body horror; and androids who you can never fully trust. But writer/director Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo) and his team also manage to push the franchise to new heights, delving into the philosophical questions…
The best E Ink tablets for 2025
I’m a longtime lover of pen and paper, so E Ink tablets have been intriguing to me ever since they started becoming more widely available. After having hundreds of half-filled notebooks over the years, I, at some point, turned to digital tools instead because it was just easier to store everything on my phone or…

10 most powerful cybersecurity companies today
Geopolitical unrest. Uncertainty about tariffs. A tough regulatory climate. Heightened concerns about AI-generated attacks. Add it up and you get a high-anxiety, high-stress climate in which protecting enterprise assets is a top priority. IDC predicts that global security spending will grow more than 12% in 2025.The increasing complexity and frequency of cyberthreats are driving organizations…

Why I still use a Lenovo Thinkpad that debuted in 2011 — the X220 helps me stay focused on my most important tasks
IBM and later Lenovo’s Thinkpad laptops are, to me, beautiful slabs of computing that may not be the most elegant pieces of technology, but they are workhorses. In fact, I have an older Lenovo X220 that was released all the way back in 2011, but I still find it useful even today to help me…

RISC-V basics: The truth about custom extensions
The era of universal processor architectures is giving way to workload-specific designs optimized for performance, power, and scalability. As data-centric applications in artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, automotive, and industrial markets continue to expand, they are driving a fundamental shift in processor design. Arguably, chipmakers can no longer rely on generalized architectures to meet the…

Made by Google 2025: We Found All the Biggest Pixel 10 Leaks and Rumors
The new Pixel 10 line will debut on Aug. 20 at the Made by Google event, and it almost feels like the phones have been revealed in detail thanks to a multitude of rumors and presumed leaks. Google itself isn’t hiding that the Pixel 10 is coming, posting multiple looks of the phone when promoting…

Nebius AI Advances Open-Weight LLMs Through Reinforcement Learning for Capable SWE Agents
The landscape of software engineering automation is evolving rapidly, driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, most approaches to training capable agents rely on proprietary models or costly teacher-based methods, leaving open-weight LLMs with limited capabilities in real-world scenarios. A team of researchers from Nebius AI and Humanoid introduced a reinforcement learning framework…

Why Does AI Feel So Different?
A lot is changing with AI. It’s been confusing, and slightly overwhelming, for me to get a grip on what’s changing, and what it all means for me personally, for my job, and for humanity. What’s going to happen in the next 5 years? Will my skills be relevant? How do I truly add value…

GTA Actor Says Disastrous Florida Gaming Convention ‘Put the Con in Comic-Con’ – IGN
Last weekend, a number of gaming fans traveled to Tampa, Florida to attend the National Gaming Expo. The convention, in its first year, promised encounters with actors such as the casts of Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mortal Kombat, as well as the former voices behind Nintendo’s Peach and Bowser, Donkey…

5 techniques I rely on to keep my Pixel phone juiced up for longer
Summary Keep tabs on battery metrics from within Settings to familiarize yourself with power and usage statistics. Proactive charging optimization and health assistance measures can ensure long-term battery life performance. Give the boot to non-essential apps running in the background to improve overall battery efficiency. There’s a lot to love about Google’s Pixel line of…