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Mobile gamers who demand performance in a thin-and-light form factor won’t have to look beyond Acer’s Predator Triton series. In addition to announcing a slim gaming laptop in the form of theAcer Predator Triton300 at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, Acer has also refreshed its sleek Predator Triton 500 gaming notebook with a display that supports a fast 300Hz refresh rate and Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. With a screen this fast, you’re sure to be able to stay ahead of your opponents, while display artifacts like screen tearing and lags will all be things of the past when you’re playing on the Triton 500....

Now that Intel’s neweighth-generation processors for latopsare here, it’s time for manufacturers to flush out the current stock for new, updated models. That means big discounts and flash sales to make room on store shelves for the latest and greatest.Two spotted discountsstem from Acer and Dell, which are slashing prices on their gaming laptops starting at $700. If you’re on a budget and don’t care about having the latest CPU, now is the time to buy....

Summary NCIS' parent show is finally getting all of its episodes available for streaming. More than two decades since it premiered in 2003, the famed police procedural created by Donald Bellisario and Don McGill remains a primetime staple for many. It continues to be among the most-watched shows on TV, withNCISseason 21becoming the second highest-rated project on TV last year, only bested by Justin Hartley’s small-screen comeback,Tracker. Despite its popularity, however, one of the most overlooked aspects ofNCISis the fact that it isn’t an original show but a spinoff....

For many, Shane Black is best known as the writer of classic 1980s and ’90s action movies likeLethal Weapon,The Last Boy Scout,Last Action Hero, andThe Long Kiss Goodnight. As legendary as his screenwriting credits are, though, Black has built an almost equally impressive second career for himself over the past 20 years as a director. He has made two of the most beloved crime comedies of the 21st century. On top of that, he’s directed two franchise sequels that, whether you like them or not, manage to subvert your expectations at nearly every turn....

Like the crazed killer in a campy horror film, cable boxes refuse to die. Sure, the number of cord-cutters continues to grow, but the cable box remains a stalwart in millions of homes across the country, despite repeated reports of its death. There have been plenty of valiant attempts from would-be hero devices likeRoku, Chromecast, and Apple TV, as well as from live TV streaming services likeSling TV and PlayStation Vue....

Tech giants Apple and Twitter will be partners in separateDemocratic presidential candidate debatesscheduled for the first two months of 2020. Apple News will partner with ABC and WMUR-TV for the January 14 debate in Des Moines, Iowa, and Twitter will be a partner for the February 25 debate in Charleston, South Carolina, as reported byAxios. This will be Apple’s first time hosting a debate. In the past, Twitter hosted a Democratic debate in 2015, and Google hosted a Republican debate in 2016....

Earlier this month, Apple introduced theiPad Pro (2024)andiPad Air (2024). This fall, Apple will likely update the original iPad, which was last updated in 2022. But what about the often-overlookediPad mini, whose current version is actually a year older? We may be waiting a while longer for new iPad mini hardware, but when it does finally arrive, it should be well worth the wait. According to a Korean news site calledNaver, Apple and Samsung Display are working to bring OLED to upcoming versions of the iPad Air and iPad mini....

Baldur’s Gate 3 players disgusted after spotting disturbing Act 2 boss detail A Baldur’s Gate 3 player has shared a full image of Thisobald Thorm’s body, which has led to others being both stunned and disgusted. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Act 2 has some of themost interesting fights in the game. This is mainly because a portion of them can be skipped entirely, assuming that you nailed the checks. One that comes to mind is, of course, the encounter with Thisobald Thorm....

Bosch developed artificial intelligence-powered technology that sees sound, and it will put it through its paces by sending it to space. Its lunchbox-sized SoundSee module is scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station on November 2, and the data gathered during the pilot project will help the firm fine-tune the technology for a wide array of other uses which potentially include automotive, smartphone, industrial, and infrastructure applications. “Sound has a lot of stories to tell, and we are not extracting them enough....

The Milwaukee Bucks’ California road trip continues tonight with a showdown against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. If you want to watch the game, you better choose a streaming option soon. It starts at 10:00 p.m. ET and will be televised nationally on ESPN. There are also a handful of different ways you can watch a live stream of the game, including some free options. The Best Way to Watch the Bucks vs Lakers Live Stream Sling TV‘s “Sling Orange” package comes with 32 live-TV channels, including ESPN....

TVs are pretty good these days. That is to say, most any TV you can buy right now – bargain basement, ultra-low budget brands being the one possible exception – is going to do what it does fairly well. That wasn’t always the case, however. It wasn’t even the case a decade ago. So what has changed? For one, manufacturers of LCD panels have refined their techniques to the point where even lower-priced screens look fairly decent, but that isn’t the main reason....

People sometimes talk about robots being able to carry out all the jobs which are considered too dull, dirty or dangerous for humans to do. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore apparently want to add one more “D” to that list: Jobs that are frustrating. With that in mind, they have demonstrated how a pair of off-the-shelf robot arms can be used to assemble a flat-packedIkeachair in mere minutes. Best of all?...

In 2019, Comcast debuted a unique way for people living with physical disabilities tocontrol their TV experience using just their eyes. Now, the company is doubling down on its accessibility commitments with new features aimed at folks with reduced vision, such as increased font sizes, higher contrast visual elements, and announced text descriptions. The cable giant says the new features are possible because of its transition to a web-based platform that runs an open-source JavaScript framework called LightningJS....