“I’m going to enjoy seeing it bend out of the way that you thought it was going to go.” Halo TV series cast and showrunner talk Season 2, disrupting hierarchies, and the incoming fall of Reach.

“Crisis.” So says David Wiener, new showrunner for Halo The Series Season 2, when I ask him what single word he’d choose to describe this season’s story arc. I recently had the chance to speak with some of the team on Halo The Series Season 2, with actors Bokeem Woodbine (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Fargo, Queen & […]

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ASUS just perfected one of my favorite laptops of recent years and my first thought is WOW

What you need to know ASUS has revealed its newest generation ZenBook Duo at CES 2024.  The new version extends the additional display of old to become a pair of full 3K 120 Hz OLED panels.  It has both a detachable keyboard and a built-in kickstand, and is powered by Intel’s latest Core Ultra chips […]

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“I did everything I thought I needed to do to prevent it” Baldur’s Gate 3 save deleting bug is still alive and well on Xbox, with players losing over 80 hour saves

What you need to know Baldur’s Gate 3 recently launched on Xbox Series X|S, following the launch of the Windows PC and PlayStation 5 versions in August and September 2023, respectively.  Some players on Xbox are running into a problem where they are losing save progress, some reporting up to 80 hours of progress lost […]

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Psst… thought you should know Best Buy has knocked $50 off the Xbox Series S Starter Bundle. That’s the console PLUS 3 months of Game Pass Ultimate — basically everything you need to dive into gaming at it’s lowest ever price.

Microsoft released the Xbox Series S Starter Bundle to the public after announcing it on October 12, 2023, and it already represented the best value in Xbox gaming with the combination of a current-generation console and a three-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass, one Xbox Wireless controller, a HDMI cable, a power cable, and two […]

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Uppermost Galaxy S24 Ultra variant might have way more storage than we thought

Last week, we were able to confirm that the Galaxy S24 Ultra will have a 1TB storage option. We said the Galaxy S24 series may hold no storage surprises, but new information suggests otherwise. And if the data is accurate, Samsung sure has a big surprise in store for future Galaxy S24 Ultra buyers. According […]

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Apple’s AR Vision Pro headset isn’t the HoloLens competitor I thought it was going to be

Apple just unveiled the Vision Pro, a device that Apple CEO Tim Cook prefaced by calling augmented reality (AR) a “profound technology,” setting the wheels in motion for its first wearable headset. But the product Apple announced isn’t an AR headset the way you might be thinking. It’s nothing like the HoloLens, which I’d consider […]

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Feral Hogs Are the Worst Invasive Species You’ve Never Thought About

Think of the worst invasive species you know. Kudzu: smothering trees and houses, growing a foot a day. Burmese pythons: stripping the Everglades of small animals. Asian carp: hoovering streams clean of plankton and swimming toward the Great Lakes. They all came from somewhere else, arrived with no natural predators, outcompeted local flora and fauna, and […]

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The new Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 are the best gaming laptops you never thought about

I’ve loved the Dell XPS line of laptops for some time. Ever since that CES back in 2015 when the redesigned XPS 13 debuted with its insane display trimmed by almost no bezels and the form factor of an 11-inch MacBook Air. But as a gamer, they were always missing something.  I owned and used […]

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This Razer Raptor 27 Cyber Monday monitor deal is so good we thought it was a mistake

The Razer Raptor 27 goes toe-to-toe with the best gaming monitors on the market. Right now, it’s also one of the best Cyber Monday deals.  Usually, the latest and greatest version of an item costs more than its predecessor. That’s not the case with the Razer Raptor 27, however, thanks to its Cyber Monday sale. […]

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A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life

In addition, the second law of thermodynamics signifies the statistical nature of the universe. Its building blocks are not stars, planets, humans, or bacteria—they’re the atoms and molecules that make us up. You can think of the atoms in the universe as a deck of cards, constantly being shuffled and reshuffled. By the end of […]

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The Origins of Covid-19 Are More Complicated Than Once Thought

In October 2014, virologist Edward Holmes took a tour of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, a once relatively overlooked city of about 11 million people in the central Chinese province of Hubei. The market would have presented a bewildering environment for the uninitiated: rows of stalls selling unfamiliar creatures for food, both dead […]

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Galaxy Z Flip 4 could get even bigger batteries than initially thought

Samsung is planning to upgrade the battery inside its upcoming foldable flip phone. Interestingly enough, new evidence suggests that the company is testing two sets of batteries for the Galaxy Z Flip 4. And the great news is that both battery sets have a higher rated capacity than the Galaxy Z Flip 3’s dual-battery system. […]

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69% of WC readers thought the Halo TV show had a nice debut

It’s a rare day, in the sense that the general mood over the Halo TV show is more or less unified across the board. As of this writing, 60% of critics and 60% of Rotten Tomatoes-surveyed audience members approved of the show’s debut, and 69% of our own readers liked it as well. When’s the […]

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