The Making Of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977 Review: A Must-Have For D&D Historians

Quick Links It’s been 50 years sinceDungeons & Dragonschanged the tabletop gaming landscape, and to celebrate, Wizards of the Coast has releasedThe Making Of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977. The new book is a comprehensive and extensive look at the earliest era ofD&D, often shown from the perspectives of its co-creators Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax through reprinted drafts, letters, and drawings. The Making Of Original D&Dis a massive book. Compared to the rulebooks and campaignsD&Dreleases, it’s nearly triple the size....

July 11, 2025 · 4 min · 687 words · Blake King

The most exciting laptops trends from CES 2022

Laptop manufacturers showed up in full force at CES 2022, unleashing dozens of new models, updates, and more. Among thebest new laptopsfrom Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Asus, we noticed a few important trends that are going to have an impact on laptops throughout 2022 and beyond. Haptic trackpads are here to stay For many years, haptic feedback trackpads were Apple’s domain. Haptic feedback means instead of a physical click mechanism, the trackpad uses motorized haptics to simulate the feeling of a click without an actual button involved....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 614 words · Kathleen Schroeder

The Suunto 5 sports watch is durable, but the display holds it back

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ Suunto is known for its rugged outdoor watches that can take a licking and keep on ticking. The company’s latest GPS watch, the Suunto 5, is no exception. It’s a ruggedmulti-sport watchyou can confidently wear while mountain biking, rock scrambling, or trail running....

July 11, 2025 · 12 min · 2497 words · Douglas Smith

The U.S. government plans to drop $500M on a ridiculously powerful supercomputer

The United States government has announced plans to build Aurora, a blisteringly fast “exascale” supercomputer by 2021 — an effort to boost research projects related to public health issues and environmental science. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) formally announced its plans forthe $500-million exascale supercomputerproject on March 18. Once built, the Aurora supercomputer is expected to offer a combination of “high-performance computing and artificial intelligence at exascale.” In context, the word “exascale” refers to the fact that the Aurora supercomputer will be designed to perform at least one exaFLOP, which, according to the DOE, “is equal to one quintillion floating point computations per second....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Anna Larson

The Witcher 3 is getting one final patch 10 years after it was released

The Witcher 3 is getting one final patch 10 years after it was released Over a decade after its original release,The Witcher 3, CD Projekt RED’s acclaimed RPG, is getting one final patch to add a long-awaited feature. Announcing the news in a May 30blog post, the developer confirmed that Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC versions of Geralt’s third outing will receive cross-platform mod support sometime in 2025. As of writing, mod support for The Witcher 3 is currently only available on PC versions of the game....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 351 words · Dustin Martin

This Instant Pot deal knocks $50 off the 8-quart model

Best Buy has one of the betterInstant Pot dealsaround with $50 off the Instant Pot 8-quart Duo Crisp with 11 functions. It usually costs $200, but it’s down to $150 today. The 25% discount makes now a great time to buy with the slow cooker and other features sure to save you plenty of time and money in the future. If that sounds tempting, we’re here to explain all you need to know about it before you buy....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Jesus Zamora

This is no doubt the best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 pre-order deal

If you want to be the very first to get one of the newest, greatest Samsung phones, you’re probably pretty excited right now. That’s because theGalaxy Z Fold 6is coming out on the 24, which is just about two weeks away from the date this is being written. And that means it is pre-order season. When we exploredGalaxy ZFlip6 pre-order deals, we found a fairly robust landscape with a ton of best options for you depending on your carrier of choice....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 619 words · Zachary Smith

Twitter’s experimental Twttr app is even more popular than the real thing

Twitter’s experimental “Twttr” app is looking like a hit among those trying it out. The social media companyreleased the app a month agoas a way of testing new features with regular Twitter users. Participants’ feedback will have a big influence on Twitter’s usability as Twttr’s more popular innovations will transfer to the main app. Atweet posted this weekby Sara Haider, Twitter’s director of product management, said initial reactions suggest that most of those using Twttr prefer it to the main Twitter app, with many of the features currently undergoing testing proving popular with the participants....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Preston Price

Uncharted’s latest poster echoes its video game roots

Tom Holland is currently headliningSpider-Man: No Way Home, the Marvel sequel that has quickly become the sixth-highest-grossing film of all time. Next month, Holland is stepping into another big-name franchise by starring as Nathan Drake in Sony Pictures’Uncharted. And unlike Holland’s Spidey adventures, the young actor has to be more physically present for the video game adaption’s stunts. Sony has released a new poster forUnchartedthat finds Holland’s Drake hanging on for dear life to cargo falling out of a plane....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 287 words · John Porter

Under Paris Parents' Guide: Is The Netflix Movie Suitable For Kids?

Summary Netflix’s original movieUnder Parisis a bona fide hit, but since it revolves around man-eating sharks feasting on triathlon participants in the French capital, it might not be suitable for children. Three years after her entire team was wiped out by a hungry shark, a scientist is forced to confront her troubled past when a swarm of similarly peckish sharks show up in the Seine. Directed by Xavier Gens and starring Bérénice Bejo,Under Parishas proven to be a sleeper hit for Netflix....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Yolanda Wilson

Walmart Prime Day Lego deals: Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, more

If you’re trying to get away from sitting on a screen all day long, then building Lego is probably one of the best alternative pastimes, especially because it seems like there’s a Lego set for everything, from Marvel to fancy cars; there is probably a set out there you’ll love. Now, even though Prime Day is over, there are a lot of excellentLego dealsthat are still worth grabbing, and while there aren’t as many or as great as in the past couple of days, there is still a good chunk of them to check out below....

July 11, 2025 · 6 min · 1076 words · Kevin Perkins

Why Filming Jack & Rose's Iconic Titanic Kiss Was A "Mess" Explained By Kate Winslet

Summary FilmingTitanicwas so challenging that even the iconic kiss was a disaster during production. The movie told the true story of theTitanic’s sinking in 1912, while adding in a romance between Leonardi DiCaprio’s Jack and Kate Winslet’s Rose. The movie proved to be a massive success, earning over $2.25 billion on a budget of just $200 million. The most iconic scene in the movie features Jack and Rose kissing at the end of the ship shortly before the entire vessel sank....

July 11, 2025 · 4 min · 843 words · Linda Lewis

Windows 11 will soon harness your GPU for generative AI

Following the introduction ofCopilot, its latest smart assistant forWindows 11, Microsoft is yet again advancing the integration of generative AI with Windows. At the ongoing Ignite 2023 developer conference in Seattle, the company announced a partnership with Nvidia onTensorRT-LLMthat promises to elevate user experiences on Windows desktops and laptops with RTX GPUs. The new release is set to introduce support for new large language models, making demanding AI workloads more accessible....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Wesley Smith