If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the likes of both Hamnet and Obsession.Covering a sprawling festival like TIFF solo is next to impossible, so I do my best to see as much as I can, and then write about everything with bite-sized reviews published each day. For 2026, that means exciting upcoming films like Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and a gigantic Elon Musk documentary, and even a few streaming series, like Crystal Lake and Carrie.You can keep up with my thoughts on everything I watch right here. The four-hour-long Elon Musk documentary might be preaching to the choir Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth New York City’s last pickpocket doesn’t need a smartphone

When first starting out building a smart home, you'll probably buy a hub, some smart bulbs, and a couple of door sensors, but realistically you've spent hundreds of dollars to build a complicated light switch. The real intelligence lives in a cheap, utilitarian sensor placed in the weird, unglamorous locations of your home. You don't need dedicated industrial monitoring gear that costs hundreds of dollars.

I thought I already knew Android Auto inside out. I had my favorite apps pinned, Gemini ready for voice commands, and my usual navigation and music setup dialed in. Then I came across one feature that changed how I use Android Auto on every drive: Gemini Actions.

The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is available as a beta today for English-only devices, and Apple says support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming in October.Siri AI isn't the only big feature in iOS 27, though. Apple is adding a new Liquid Glass opacity slider that lets you pick between a clearer UI or a more frosty one. A lot of built-in apps are also getting new icon designs, with subtle twea …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs - Apple released its final big update for Intel-based Macs last year with macOS Tahoe.Siri AI is arguably the biggest feature in macOS 27, and it allows you to ask questions, search through things involving your personal context like photos and emails, and take actions in apps such as Messages and Reminders. There's a new dedicated Siri app that keeps an archive of your chats for easier reference. However, Siri AI will …Read the full story at The Verge.

I got a MacBook last year and, as I started using it more for work, Terminal quickly became one of those apps I rarely closed. I initially used it the usual way — type a command, get the result, and move on. But macOS is constantly doing things in the background, and checking on the machine usually means digging through separate apps or opening yet another Terminal tab.

Super Mario Odyssey is among the discounted games. | Image: Nintendo As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as its own digital storefront. Its “Customer Appreciation” sale is happening because of tariff-related refunds it received from the US government, and it ends on September 26th at 8:59 PM PT.Nintendo games and accessories tend to stick close to their list price, so it’s nice to have some big discounts, especially this far ahead of the holiday season. Some of the company’s best titles for the original Switch are significantly marked down, with a few Switch 2 titles thrown in, too. The most notable inclusions include the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe digital bundle with the Booster Course pass for just under $60 (Amazon, Nintendo), The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $49 (Amazon, Nintendo, Best Buy), and Animal Crossing: New Horizons with the DLC for $60 (Nintendo). The Switch 2 Editions aren’t currently discounted, but upgrade packs are fairly affordable, costing $9.99 for the Tears of the Kingdom (Amazon) or $4.99 for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Amazon).We’ve gathered some more of our favorite picks down below, and Nintendo has a dedicated page for all of the discounts.The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Physical)Tears of the Kingdom is the latest mainline installment in the Zelda franchise. The storyline and gameplay are similar to Breath of the Wild’s, but enough has changed to make Link’s return to Hyrule plenty special. Read our review.Where to Buy: $69.99 $48.99 at Best Buy $69.99 $48.99 at TargetMario Kart 8 Deluxe (Physical)Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a popular kart racing game packed with plenty of courses and characters, as well as 48 new tracks if you opt for the paid DLC. Where to Buy: $59.99 $41.99 at Best BuyNintendo AlarmoThe Alarmo takes dozens of characters and scenes from classic Nintendo franchises and places them in a charming alarm clock that’s designed to help you sleep and wake. It uses motion sensors to detect whether you’re still in bed and gets more aggressive the longer you sleep in.Where to Buy: $99.99 $76.99 at Best Buy $99.99 $76.99 at NintendoNintendo Switch Pro ControllerThe Switch Pro released alongside the Switch console in 2017, and it’s a tough controller to beat. It offers an unmatched set of features (HD rumble, motion controls, NFC), and it’s one of the most comfortable Switch controllers out there.Where to Buy: $69.99 $55.97 at Amazon $69.99 $55.97 at Walmart $69.99 $55.99 at Best BuyMetroid Prime 4: Beyond (Physical)Metroid Prime 4 is still a first-person adventure game like prior entries in the series, but this time around, bounty hunter Samus Aran is armed with a motorcycle and a slate of psychic powers. Not all of the new gameplay elements work, but Beyond is a fitting follow-up to what came before, with a lore-heavy story, great combat, and plenty of eerie exploration.Where to Buy: $59.88 $41.97 at Amazon (Switch) $59.99 $41.99 at Best Buy (Nintendo Switch) $69 $50.99 at Amazon (Switch 2)Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Digital)Explore the mysteries of an abandoned civilization in this 3D platformer for the Nintendo Switch. It’s still a Kirby game, with a delightful tone that had us smiling the whole way through. Read our review.Where to Buy: $59.99 $41.97 at Amazon $59.99 $41.99 at Best BuySuper Mario Odyssey (Physical)Super Mario Odyssey is one of the crowning achievements of the original Switch thanks to its tight platforming, ingenious level design and a game mechanic that lets you control certain enemies and parts of the environment. There are still bosses to battle and coins to collect, but Odyssey feels like a breath of fresh air.Where to Buy: $59.99 $41.97 at Walmart $59.99 $41.99 at Best Buy $59.99 $41.99 at TargetSplatoon 3 (Physical/Digital)Splatoon 3 is proof that Nintendo isn’t done showing off its take on an online shooter—with paint instead of bullets, of course. The game looks great, and has a single player mode that fills out the series’ lore through scrapbook pages you find while navigating and shooting your way through each level. Online multiplayer remains Splatoon’s 3’s big draw, so be prepared to square off against fellow squid kids. Read our review.Where to Buy: $59.99 $41.97 at Amazon $59.99 $41.99 at Best Buy $59.99 $50.99 at Target

Qwen 3.5-9B is actually quite a good alternative to cloud models. It strikes the right balance between being a general-purpose LLM and handling agentic coding. My hardware is an M5 MacBook Air with 16 GB of RAM, so it’s quite limited. I’ve been model-hopping to see what works best for me. Originally, I used a customized Qwen 2.5 Coder for tool calls. It was relatively fast, but it would often fail at calling tools correctly.

Modern PC cases are just boxes with a bunch of fans inside them. While there are best practices to achieve optimal airflow, like keeping a slight positive pressure, the fluid dynamics are an absolute mess inside; hot air goes everywhere and gets recirculated multiple times before it escapes the case. I’m going to try to direct some of that airflow so that the GPU doesn’t suck up the hot air it’s trying to expel.

I've been intrigued by the possibilities of an e-ink monitor as a second display to keep an eye on to-do lists or music playback. However, even years later, e-ink monitors command sky-high prices. Prices I absolutely was not willing to pay. I have an old Kindle that I barely use anymore. It's perfectly functional, but it's just sitting around as I have newer readers. So, instead of letting it collect dust, I decided to see if it could be used as an e-ink reader.

The memory crisis has stung the dedicated graphics market, making already expensive GPUs a lot more expensive for consumers. Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs launched within an MSRP range from $299 for an entry-level card to $1,999 for the flagship. Street prices right now, however, tell another story, because somehow, the entry-level card is near $470 and the flagship regularly crosses the $5,000 territory, with the entire lineup carrying a massive premium on the launch price.

The Steam Frame headset is here, and it may not surprise you: it was supposed to cost less than $1,059. "We set out to come out with a device that would have been far more affordable, but the global RAM market, the global storage market have impacted us the same way they've impacted everybody," Valve developer Jeremy Selan told the BBC. "We fought hard to get it even to this price."I haven't yet seen Valve say whether it's selling the Steam Frame at cost, like the company confirmed it was doing with the $1,049 Steam Machine living room PC. But Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais hinted maybe so in an interview with Tom's Hardware: "there' …Read the full story at The Verge.