Ask any PC enthusiast who's been here for a decade or more about the greatest GPU lineup to ever come out, and you'd probably hear a long monologue about Nvidia's "Pascal" GTX 10 series. These GPUs not only left AMD far behind in 2016, but did something that no other GPU lineup has been able to do ever since. Not only did Pascal boast phenomenal performance-per-watt numbers, but it was also relatively affordable, widely available, and free of major faults and bugs.

Galaxy S24 owners will have to wait a little longer to get Android 15.Samsung has, by all accounts, halted the rollout of its long-awaited One UI 7 update following the discovery of a bug that prevented some Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones. The pause was first reported by leaker and tipster Ice Universe, who said that a “serious bug” had been found. While the complaints seem to have specifically come from South Korean owners of Galaxy S24 series handsets, Samsung has played it safe and paused the rollout across all models worldwide.While some users will have already downloaded the update to One UI 7, using the app CheckFirm we’ve confirmed that the update is no longer listed on Samsung’s servers as the latest firmware version across several Galaxy devices, with older patches appearing instead. Samsung hasn’t confirmed the pause in the rollout, nor plans to issue a fix for users who have already downloaded the One UI 7 update. We’ve reached out to the company for comment.The update, which brings Android 15 and a host of AI updates, began rolling out to Galaxy S24, Z Fold 6, and Z Flip 6 handsets on April 7th, with the US getting the patch on April 10th. It’s been available on Galaxy S25 models, along with updates to the cheaper Galaxy A series, since those phones went on sale in February.The paused rollout follows a lengthy delay in the update’s release to older phones. It arrived seven months after Android 15 was made available to developers, and two months after the S25 series launched running the software.

With the launch of new CPUs or GPUs, if there's one thing consumers wait for the most, it's gaming benchmarks. Seeing how the latest and greatest pieces of silicon perform in the latest titles seems so scintillating that we can't look away, even if many of us have no intention of buying a new CPU or GPU any time soon. However, many users still believe in the myths surrounding benchmarking.

The modding community is abundant for the various titles out there, including our titled game: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. They range from being the most useful quality of life improvements to just hilarious “but why?” additionsthat folks would have a quick laugh about. Below is a list of some of my favorite mods I found for the game. I won’t say “essential” because everyone’s tastes differ, but I think you’ll find some helpful information if you keep reading below.

As addicting battle royales and massive open world RPGs threaten to take over your life, escape from never-ending games with a brain-teasing puzzle instead. Some people might enjoy the lure of a 1000-piece jigsaw or a Sudoku book, but my favorite puzzles have always been found in puzzle games. I can’t say no to a puzzle-filled video game, especially one that doesn’t overstay its welcome. My favorite puzzle games can all be conquered in an afternoon (around four hours or less), with some offering more challenges than others.

April 24th, 2025 marks 10 years of Apple Watches.April 24th will be the 10th anniversary of the day the first Apple Watch shipped to customers. A decade is a major milestone in the gadget world, but you won’t see a lot of anniversary-themed fanfare to mark the occasion. Instead, Apple is dubbing the 24th as Global Close Your Rings Day — and it has some research from its studies to convince people why they should partake.Global Close Your Rings Day is exactly what it sounds like. If you close all three rings — move, exercise, and stand — you’ll get a limited edition badge and 10 animated stickers in the Messages app. You can also pick up a physical pin inspired by the award at Apple Stores while supplies last.Apple has often used these types of limited edition award badges to motivate users, especially tied to holidays or other events. But for folks who are less motivated by fitness gamification, Apple is also throwing its own research data into the mix. Based on its Apple Heart and Movement Study, the company says people who close their rings most of the time were 48 percent less likely to have poor sleep and 73 percent less likely to have elevated resting heart rate levels. They are also 57 percent less likely to feel elevated stress.All in all, this is a relatively low-key way to celebrate the Apple Watch’s 10th anniversary, especially since all Apple Watch owners know the device never takes a day off from poking you to close your rings.

I've been using networking gear for decades, but in recent years, I've gravitated towards a more simplistic, "If it works, I'm not messing with it" attitude. Gone are the days of making crossover cables for multiplayer Diablo 2 sessions in the university common roomsand other odd but workable LAN party setups with Ethernet strung everywhere. I just needed stable Internet andgood Wi-Fi coverage, and that's about it.

Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lime will ship them to Redwood’s North Nevada recycling facility, where the first step will be to figure out how much of the battery is reusable, such as various connectors, wires, plastics, and other components.After that, Redwood will begin a chemical recycling process, in which it strips out and refines the relevant elements like nickel, cobalt, and copper. Most of that refined material can then be reintegrated into the battery-making process. The company takes the materials and transforms them into “high-quality” battery materials that can then be sold back to its many partners to make new EV batteries. Around 95–98 percent of these materials are eventually recovered and returned to the supply chain, Redwood claims.Lime says it was impressed by Redwood’s high recovery rates, which helped persuade the scooter sharing company to make a deal. The company plans on recycling its batteries from its shared bikes and scooters in just three countries: the US, Germany, and the Netherlands. Lime says it currently operates 270,000 shared vehicles in 30 countries.“We’re in shared micromobility. So part of what we do, in essence, is a circular play,” said Lime’s head of sustainability, Andrew Savage. “Circularity of downstream, end of life batteries is quite similar, where we want to ensure that if a battery is no longer available for moving people around that we can get it back into the supply chain for its highest and best use.”Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by Jeffrey “JB” Straubel, a founder and former chief technology officer of Tesla. In addition to breaking down scrap from Tesla’s battery-making process with Panasonic, Redwood also recycles EV and e-bike batteries from Ford, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, GM, Rad Power Bikes, Specialized, Amazon, Lyft, and others.“We’re in shared micromobility. So part of what we do, in essence, is a circular play.”Redwood notes that each e-bike and scooter battery is around 0.5kWh, as compared to an EV battery, which is approximately 65kWh. Collecting around 130 so-called medium-format batteries provides enough recyclable material for one battery-electric vehicle. Alexis Georgeson, VP for government relations at Redwood, called the effort to recycle medium-format batteries “a massive opportunity.”“We recycled 20 gigawatt-hours worth of material just in 2024,” she said. “That’s enough to produce another 250,000 EVs. And that was spread across production scrap from the gigafactories to small consumer electronic devices, medium formats like these bikes and scooters, and then large-form EV packs and stationary storage.”In terms of material production, Georgeson said Redwood’s focus is on cathode, which represents 60 percent of the cost of the battery. “We have produced anode copper foil and delivered it to partners like Panasonic already,” she said, “but are really turning our attention right now to just scaling and investing more in cathode.”

The Pop is also compatible with Apple’s and Google’s tracking apps, but Chipolo’s app offers extra functionality for its new trackers. | Image: ChipoloChipolo has announced a new Bluetooth tracker called the Pop, featuring the same bright color options as its Chipolo One but with support for both Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find My Device networks. The Chipolo Pop also has a much larger Bluetooth range than the company’s current lineup of trackers and features improved water and dust resistance, expanding where it can be used.Previously, Chipolo offered three versions of its disc-shaped AirTag-like trackers. The $25 Chipolo One worked with Chipolo’s own app and limited network, the $28 Chipolo One Spot worked with Apple’s Find My network, and the $28 Chipolo One Point supported Google’s Find My Device network. The new Chipolo Pop is compatible with both Apple’s and Google’s networks (but only one at a time), so you don’t have to worry about choosing the correct version that works with your devices — a convenience well worth the Pop’s small price bump to $29.The Pop tracker is 1.53 inches in diameter, making it about a half-inch larger than a quarter, and measures about a quarter of an inch thick. It’s available in blue, black, green, red, white, and yellow color options and is powered by a user-replaceable CR2032 coin cell battery that will keep it running for up to a year.It features the same 120dB alarm as Chipolo’s other trackers but boosts Bluetooth range from 200 feet to 300 feet, potentially making it easier to locate. The Pop also features an improved IP55 rating, meaning it’s both dust- and water-resistant, but not waterproof. You can clip one to your dog’s collar and not worry about them being out in the rain, but should your pup go for a long swim, the Pop won’t survive a complete dunking.Although the tracker is designed to work with Apple’s and Google’s tracking apps, it’s also compatible with Chipolo’s own app, which offers unique features. You can change the sound the Pop makes when pinged, get a notification when you accidentally leave something behind (only on Android), use the Pop as a remote camera shutter, and ring your misplaced phone by squeezing the tracker twice, even if it’s set on silent.

Few works of art have left a mark on me quite like The Last of Us franchise. It's more than just a game — it’s a part of my emotional vocabulary, a story that has stayed with me through the years, reshaping how I view storytelling in gaming.

Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, and the four other women on Blue Origin’s NS-31 flight.Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to put pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31, will launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, with a launch window opening at 8:30AM CT / 9:30AM ET. It’s being livestreamed both on YouTube and Blue Origin’s website.Past New Shepard flights have taken passengers just to the edge of space, where they’re allowed to unbuckle and roam freely for a few minutes inside the capsule before buckling up again for re-entry. The capsule then deploys a parachute and touches back down in west Texas. During the flight, the New Shepard rocket itself returns to its landing pad.In a video posted to Instagram before the flight, Perry said she plans to make a “special reveal coming to you from zero gravity.” She posted an earlier video touring the capsule that she and the others will be aboard, and said she will probably sing in space. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)This is Blue Origin’s 31st New Shepard launch. The rocket’s last flight was in February, and previous tourists aboard it include William Shatner, and 90-year-old Ed Dwight, who was America’s first astronaut candidate, but who never made it to space.

If you're out of games to play but you're not in the mood to spend money, why not check out Metro 2033 Redux? It's a 2014 remake of a classic FPS that was released back in 2010, and it still has its fans to this day. If you act fast, you can snag Metro 2033 Redux for free for life, and it doesn't come with the additional DRM that comes with storefronts such as Steam and the Epic Games Store.