Author: Press Room

Portable PCs are the absolute best. Forget the Nintendo Switch 2 and its disappointing LCD screen. For me, it doesn’t get any finer than the Steam Deck OLED. The ultimate version of the most accessible and best-designed handheld PC on the market, I can’t get enough of Valve’s breakout device. Annoyingly, I’ve been having a nightmare with my Deck as of late. After two years of flawless service, one day, my OLED model stopped functioning as it should. Enter an unskippable, desktop-like boot menu, and far more importantly, the major issue is that most of the buttons on my Steam…

Plenty of TV shows have ended only to continue on as movie series, either right after they were finished or years later. The Muppets had a successful run of big screen outings back in the day. Star Trek resurrected itself from the dead with a series of movies before returning to the small screen, and Downton Abbey capped off its six-season run with a trio of feature films. It happens all the time. It’s rarer for a TV show to spin off into a movie series while that TV show is still running, but it does happen. For instance, South…

Summary YouTube Music has finally added Title, Artist and Album sorting to playlists. The service still lacks crossfade, device handoff and lossless audio that rivals offer. The rollout appears to be staged, so if you don’t see it yet, keep your eyes peeled. YouTube Music appears to be getting a major update to playlist sorting that should solve one of users longest-standing complaints. While that’s great news, the fact that this wasn’t a feature before is baffling — and it’s not the only obvious feature that’s missing from Google’s music streaming platform. Related I ditched Spotify for a self-hosted music…

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie dropped into theaters on April 1, 2026, and immediately became a smash hit. In fact, it looks like it’s going to be the first movie of 2026 to make over a billion dollars at the box office. As of May 19, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is also available to stream at home through services like Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube. The catch is that you have to pay for it, generally around $24.99 to rent or $29.99 to buy. And right now, there’s just not enough reason to do that. The…

I have confidently recommended VLC to people. And that’s with the energy of someone who really knows what they are talking about. “Just use VLC,” I would say, as if that settled the matter. What I failed to mention, because I had no idea, was that I had been using roughly 50 percent of what the application could actually do. I was the equivalent of someone who owns a cooker and only ever uses it to boil rice. So for many years, I kept boiling my metaphorical rice and calling myself experienced. Every time a media task came up that…

Brandon Sanderson is the most prolific fantasy authors working today; his book series Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive are about to be adapted for the screen, and the biggest question is why it took this long. Sanderson is also an author who’s very open with his opinions about books, movies, and TV; he’s quick to share what he loves, and also what he doesn’t. In a snippet from a recent episode of his podcast Intentionally Blank, he weighed in on his favorite shows from 2025. “K-Pop Demon Hunters is my top film of the year, and Arcane and Residence are,…

Nvidia does more than make AI chips. While it’s true that their chips power the data centers that run most of the large language models (which you can now run locally) for OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude and others, Nvidia also makes the Tegra X1+ processor which has an insane 256-core GPU and is used to power a device that I’ve been using in my living room for years for all of my TV watching needs. It’s a device that you can still buy today if you want the very best in streaming, TV apps (though be aware of…

YouTube TV offered a lot, including a clean interface, a solid channel lineup, and unlimited DVR storage for $82.99 a month. But as costs rose, I realized I needed to seriously weigh whether what I got was worth it. I was paying nearly $1,000 a year for a service I used mainly for background noise, some live sports, and network TV shows available elsewhere. So I canceled it. That was four months ago, and I haven’t looked back. Here are the three free apps I use now — and how they stack up against what I gave up. Related I…

I try not to judge people for using AI for writing. People may have different requirements, and different scenarios may have different rules. Yet, everyone would agree that it is definitely a disappointing situation when something you wrote is flagged as AI-generated. Sure, AI writing detectors aren’t always reliable, but there’s another possibility: your writing sounds like ChatGPT. As you probably know, AI content detectors work by analyzing the structure and writing patterns. So, if you use the same writing conventions as ChatGPT, your writing is likely to be flagged as AI-generated. You may have learned to write like that…

Working at home or in an office setting is a fantastic thing, but it does come with some unforeseen drawbacks. One of the major issues is the amount of time that I spend sitting behind a computer during the day. I’m a big fan of PC gaming, so when I’m done with work, I’ll typically spend some time playing games with friends or diving into the latest indie games that are hitting Steam or other platforms. As expected, sitting all the time is not the best thing for you by any means. Lower back pain from slouching in a chair,…