Fortnite is bringing back classic mobility item but with a huge nerf

Fortnite is bringing back classic mobility item but with a huge nerf Leakers claim Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 will introduce the Rocket Drill as the new version of an old mobility item, but one nerf may limit its capabilities. Epic Games originally added theRocket Ramto Fortnite’s loot pool in Chapter 4 Season 4. While it could easily dismantle cracked walls, players most notably used the Ram as a mobility item for covering large distances on the map....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Crystal Scott

Garmin’s new D2 Air X10 adds voice controls for $550

Garmin today introduced a newsmartwatchaimed at pilots and people who love flying. With the Garmin D2 Air X10, a successor to the older D2 Air, the company has built a typical smartwatch experience with a discrete aviation mode that builds in features that pilots would find necessary as well as added a little extra on the top. The Garmin D2 Air X10 has one major upgrade over the previous D2 Air model — the inclusion of voice functionality....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 386 words · Melissa Thompson

Google finally makes sharing easier in Docs and Drive

Google rolled out an update toDocsandDrivetoday that makes sharing files a little bit simpler. As originally reported by9to5Google, the new Share menu is considerably smaller, and all of its elements are more compact and better organized. The first thing you will notice is that “Share with people” and “Get link” have been condensed to one box. In the last version, Sharing with individual people was its own stand-alone box, with another box for link sharing directly beneath it....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 297 words · Jennifer Ray

Google Pixel 6a vs. Pixel 6: Does $150 make a difference?

Google had a very good 2021 in the smartphone department, with thePixel 6andPixel 6 Proproving to be its best-selling devices ever. Now it’s back with theGoogle Pixel 6a, which it announced as part of itsGoogle I/O 2022 event. The Pixel 6a boasts many of the same features that made the Pixel 6 such a runaway success, including the speedy Google Tensor chip, a luscious OLED display, impeccable software, and a highly versatile dual-lens rear camera setup....

August 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1416 words · Judy Grant

Here’s who won the 2018 Nobel Prizes in Science and why

Love them or hate them, the Nobel Prizes in Science remain some of the highest accolades in the world. Awarded almost annually by the Nobel Foundation and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the prizes honor individuals who’ve made outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, and medicine. Some saythe Nobel prizes fail modern-day science. Others have called theman absurd way of honoring achievement. For their part, the Nobel Foundation probably thinks their awards help grease the wheels of progress and keep researchers doing the things they’re doing....

August 17, 2025 · 4 min · 772 words · Corey Watson

Honor vs. Huawei camera battle shows the master still rules

Not that long ago, Huawei and Honor could have been considered the same company. While they technically operated independently of each other, they shared resources and software, but targeted different buyers with their marketing. In 2020,Huawei sold Honor, allowing it to have a chance of survival on its own as Huawei faced the challenges of making phones without Google and the assistance of various other U.S. companies due to thegovernment restrictions placed on it....

August 17, 2025 · 10 min · 1996 words · Anthony Brown DDS

How to get free Midas-inspired Golden Scythe Pickaxe in Fortnite

How to get free Midas-inspired Golden Scythe Pickaxe in Fortnite Fortnite’s Midas-inspired Golden Scythe Pickaxe is one of the free rewards you can obtain in Chapter 2 Remix and here’s how to unlock it. Fortnite’s Remix Chapter 2 didn’t justbring back classic POIsto the Battle Royale island but also some of thefan favorite characters with a twist. Among them is Meowdas, who is essentially a mix of both Meowscles the cat and Midas....

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Daniel Rivera

HP launches a work-from-home PC to take on the new iMac

Though it may bear a slight resemblance to Apple’s recentlyredesigned iMac desktop, HP’s EliteOne 800 G8 all-in-one is actually made for business. The enterprise desktop comes with all the bells and whistles you’d come to expect in a business PC, but it adds some A.I. smarts to reduce background noise. And given that this is a business PC, the EliteOne is clad in a professional hue of silver, eschewing its competitor’s bright colors....

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 493 words · Mary Arnold

I'm Worried Below Deck Mediterranean's Chef Johnathan Is A Villain (He's Showing Signs Already)

Summary Below Deck Mediterraneanseason 9’s Chef Johnathan Shillingford may be good at what he does in the kitchen, but I’m concerned that he’s already showing signs of being a villain. WithBelow Deck Mediterraneanseason 9just getting started, the series has already shown us the start of some interesting storylines.Below Deck Mediterranean’screw, which features Captain Sandy Yawn, returning Chief Stew Aesha Scott, and returning Stew Elena Dubaic, has plenty of new faces working hard aboard Mustique....

August 17, 2025 · 5 min · 883 words · Jacqueline Scott

Intel is already shipping mobile Alder Lake-P chips to hardware designers

Intel recently released its12th-gen Alder Lake processorsfor desktops, and it’s now preparing for the launch of the chip’s mobile version by shipping it to laptop manufacturers. The tech giant confirmed via Twitter that it has commenced the shipping phase for Alder Lake-P CPUs to customers. In this case, that doesn’t mean the general public, but rather various hardware companies who can begin incorporating the chip into their laptops. Another incredible 12th Gen@intelCore milestone: today, we began shipping our high-performance mobile processors to customers!...

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Christine Smith MD

I’ve used ultrawide monitors for a decade. Here’s why I’ve given up on them

I’ve been using anultrawide monitorfor a decade. I bought in early, sometime back in 2013, picking up LG’s first ultrawide display: the 29EA93. It’s terrible by today’s standards, but I fell in love immediately. I was using Pro Tools a lot at the time, and the extra screen real estate was a godsend for seeing more of my window. It also helped that I could pull up two browser windows side by side to multitask, as well as enjoy the deeper immersion in games....

August 17, 2025 · 5 min · 1023 words · Kimberly Jensen

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s hardcore mode is out now and it’s no joke

IfKingdom Come: Deliverance 2isn’t Souls-like enough for you, the new Hardcore Mode update will correct that. The update is now live, and the new mode ramps the difficulty up to roughly that of trying to survive the Bubonic Plague era on an immunosuppressant. It’s been part of the roadmap for a long time, but players are just getting to experience what the mode actually means. It’s intended to make gameplay more immersive by shutting off conveniences like fast travel, your own location on the map, or even directions to your next quest....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Christopher Barron

Logitech’s C922 is a webcam made for live-streaming gamers on Twitch, YouTube

Gaming isn’t just about your own enjoyment anymore. These days, swarms of gamers record and upload footage of their virtual adventures, and many even stream it live for others to enjoy in real-time, using services like YouTube and Twitch. Gamers aren’t only playing for fun, but also becoming content broadcasters at the same time (many even make money off said content on the side). It is this phenomenon and market that Logitech is targeting with its new webcam....

August 17, 2025 · 5 min · 869 words · Mrs. Amy Sweeney