Beware dryer sheets and fabric softeners I skip dryer sheets and fabric softeners in testing because they can build up on textiles and affect absorbency. Anything you add to your laundry to make it softer is going to leave a residue behind. Youre essentially coating your textiles in conditioners, which…

Texas senator Ted Cruz energetically opposes vaccine and Covid mandates. He even introduced legislation to ban mandates. On Monday Cruz told Foix News, “That means no mask mandates regardless of your vaccination status. That means no vaccine mandates. That means no vaccine passports. And I’ve introduced legislation, a bill to…

Assassin Creed Valhalla’s Siege of Paris expansion has arrived, and much like the previous DLC episode that saw Eivor leave England behind for an adventure in Ireland, the Viking Warrior is on another globe-trotting expedition. This time the journey takes Eivor to France for a chance to dethrone King Charles…

The summer is still going strong, and Windjammers 2 will be closing it out with an open beta. Dotemu announced today that a Windjammers 2 open beta will go live tomorrow, Aug. 11, and run through Aug. 22 on PlayStation 4, PS5, and PC via Steam. Alongside this announcement, Dotemu also confirmed PS4…

I like 99 a lotthe modern take is introducing more chaos over the simple gameplay, says Lapetino. Jeff Pickles knows a little something about the enduring appeal of the game. In December of 2013, Pickles achieved gaming immortality, becoming only the eighth man in history to achieve a perfect score…

These days when I go to Twitter I see so many claims that current caseload or hospitalization numbers (in some not all regions) are approaching their peaks from the third wave last winter. But don’t be misled by that rhetoric — speed of growth is not at this stage of…

Last summer the temperature in London, where I live, climbed above 37 degrees Celsius—or 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was hotter outside my body than it was inside it. To someone raised under the sodden, used-tissue skies of Britain, that felt like an offense against nature. Everywhere I went, I felt…

Whenever HP sends out a round of review units, it holds a workshop where we can refresh our knowledge of the product, ask questions, etc. For the HP Pavilion Aero 13, I only had one question — why is this a Pavilion? You see, HP has four tiers of laptops.…

It looks as if conventional wisdom on the Covid vaccines has run head first into some ugly realities. Eric Topol of Scripps, formerly a “Get vaccinated, problem solved” cheerleader, grapples out loud with troubling data about Covid deaths and breakthrough cases with a serious journalist, David Wallace-Wells of New York…

From the Vault: As the streaming space keeps growing, massive studio catalogues are becoming more and more available. These include lost and forgotten gems, so-bad-its-good duds, and just plain weird pieces of film history. And you probably wont find them by waiting for streamers to put them in front of…