Now it will ‘reimagine’ the Expert Review feature, and allow experts a choice about participating in future AI plans. is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop ...

Microsoft seems more determined than ever to combine Xbox and Windows — to the point that its next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will play PC games too. Today, we learned Helix will go alpha in ...

We review the first Lego Smart Brick sets, including the $70 Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter, the $90 Luke’s Red Five X-Wing, and the $160 Throne Room Duel.

The Smart Bricks do have other working sensors. The NFC reader registers nearby Smart Tiles through as many as seven Lego ...

We’d heard it was at the Game Developers Conference and here it is: the original metal X prototype, which predated the Bill ...

Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia ti ...

The Galaxy S26 Ultra at least benefits from the company’s new privacy display, but the two smaller S26 phones lack a killer hardware feature. They both have new chipsets, and th ...

New York AG Letitia James called loot boxes ‘quintessential gambling, but Valve says it’s more like Pokémon cards and Labubu.

Magic Layers lets you change specific parts of generated images without prompting.

It’s not clear, and Microsoft VP Jason Ronald wouldn’t tell us in person, saying more info about its Game Preservation program is on the way. But his written remarks include the phrase: “we’ll be ...

Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” up to and including path tracing. It will also include a ...

Apple’s foldable iPhone will swap Face ID for Touch ID to accommodate a thinner front display, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s foldable iPhone will swap Face ID for Touch ID to accommodate a thinner ...