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Christian has over three years of experience writing in the gaming industry, including guides and reviews, for publications such as DualShockers, Attack of the Fanboy, and PC Invasion. He has been an ...

If this machine had an easily removable underside and it came with dual SODIMMs, I’d be scoring it a 4.5, not a 3.5. Given the lovely engineering of the enclosure, that Geekom didn’t realise a single ...

In Stranger Things 5, Volume 1, it finally happened. Will Byers went from victim to fully in control as he discovered his own powers. Okay, so technically, they aren’t his own powers, they’re Vecna’s ...

One St. Petersburg woman quit her job at a municipal agency to avoid installing the app. Siberian university students were told they couldn’t take final exams, or even threatened with expulsion, if ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation to warn against using a noindex tag in the original page code on JavaScript pages. Google wrote, "if you do want the page indexed, don't use a noindex ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

After Play Ultra, Lava is getting ready to launch Lava Play Max in India. The launch date is still a mystery, but Lava has started sharing early teasers of the phone via social media handles. Lava ...

Max has returned to its original branding as HBO Max recently, though the service remains the same otherwise and includes an impressive library of HBO and Warner Bros Discovery movies and TV shows, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Documents filed in a California court last week are finally giving us a better idea of how big individual payouts will be in the $725 million class action lawsuit over Facebook users’ ...