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2020 GPU Sales Failed to Impress, Despite Record Demand

Home News (Image credit: ASUS) Sales of PCs increased sharply in 2020 as people needed new desktops and notebooks to work and learn from home. As a result, shipments of GPUs (graphics processing units) also increased compared to 2019, mostly because the majority of today’s CPUs (central processing units) come with integrated GPUs. But while… Read more

Tom King’s Vision comics are the perfect follow-up to WandaVision

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This weekly Verge column recommends comic series new and old, whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer. WandaVision’s season finale has hit Disney Plus, but if… Read more

Upcoming Avengers update makes it even harder to level up

Mustafa Mahmoud 53 mins ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Marvel’s Avengers released last September to less fanfare than publisher Square Enix had hoped. After years of development and anticipation, the game launched in a manner that fell into many of the trappings of other live service titles including repetitive gameplay and grindy mechanics…. Read more

The days of knowing how big a movie is are seemingly over in a streaming-first era

Last week, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry debuted on Apple TV Plus. The documentary became the “biggest hit title for young adult audiences that Apple has had so far across its slate of films and TV series,” according to Deadline, drawing a “record-breaking 33 percent new viewers to the service.” Sounds impressive, right?… Read more

Hulu’s animated MODOK series looks like Robot Chicken meets Marvel

Hulu has released the first trailer for MODOK, its upcoming animated show that will see Patton Oswalt voice the titular Marvel villain in a more light-hearted, Robot Chicken-style take on the franchise’s usual portentous superhero dramas. The show also got a release date: it’ll debut on May 21st on the streaming service. MODOK (Mental Organism… Read more

Disney Plus

Our Verdict A well-stocked, easy-to-navigate catalogue of new and original content that Disney fans are bound to enjoy For Huge, intuitive catalogue 4K, HDR10 and Dolby Atmos/Vision Vast device support Against Poor 4K HDR discovery Once upon a time, a man called Walt Disney founded Walt Disney Studios with his brother and became one of… Read more

Marvel’s Loki series will premiere on Disney Plus on June 11th

Loki, the Tom Hiddleston-starring series about Asgard’s god of mischief, will land on Disney Plus on June 11th, Marvel Studios announced today. The series was described by Marvel Studios as a “crime thriller” in December during Disney’s big streaming investor day. It follows Loki as he faces off against the Time Variance Authority, otherwise known… Read more

Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Review: Gaming Router Opulence

Our Verdict The high-end Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 router brings oodles of highly configurable features to your network. But in our testing, the performance wasn’t quite in line with the high price. For Tri-band router Trend Micro security included High-end hardware specs WTFast Against Manual firmware upgrade bug Only five Ethernet ports Expensive For those… Read more

In WandaVision’s new episode, somebody thinks of the children

WandaVision is moving closer to its endgame, as SWORD clashes with Wanda, Vision continues to question his reality, and the mystery of who is actually behind the Westview Hex grows. But as we get closer to getting those answers, WandaVision has also started to lay the groundwork in this week’s episode for whatever might come… Read more

Audi reveals its Porsche-powered E-Tron GT

Images: Audi Starting at a cool $100,000 Audi has announced the E-Tron GT, an expensive new high-performance electric sedan built on technology developed for Porsche’s first EV, the Taycan. Due out this spring in Europe, the E-Tron GT will start at €99,800 with a top-spec RS version starting at €138,200. It will then come stateside… Read more

New trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premieres during Super Bowl

We had an inkling that there might be big movie news during the Super Bowl and there was: Marvel released a new trailer for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, a six-episode series that debuts on Disney Plus March 19th. The show takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Steve Rogers has retired from… Read more

In WandaVision’s third episode, the devil really is in the details

It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right for Wanda and Vision, who have time warped from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the 1970s. The third episode picks up right where the last ended: Wanda is pregnant, but she and Vision are still trying to figure out how they ended… Read more

WandaVision welcomes a new line of Earth’s first defense in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

WandaVision, the first original television series produced by Marvel Studios, isn’t quite like anything Marvel has released before. It’s absurdist and pays authentic tribute to some of the best American sitcoms produced in the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, including Bewitched and The Dick Van Dyke Show. WandaVision is still a Marvel Studios show, however,… Read more

WandaVision can be weird because Marvel has already won

WandaVision is the Marvel universe’s most comic book show yet, if not in content at least in concept. It’s a dense-looking storyline that will be released on an episodic basis, with characters and a setting that are virtually impenetrable to new viewers — so much so that Marvel Studios even went so far as to… Read more