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Fractal Design North Momentum Edition Review (Page 1 of 4)

In the past December, I met up with a few of my friends from high school and one topic of conversation was to plan a trip to Japan. This was in the back of my mind until earlier in January we decided to put the idea into action. This became more real when we saw a sale with All Nippon Airways. I have never flown with them, but I have only heard positive things about ANA. For some reason, we decided to take one more evening to confirm our travel...

Spotify Adds Offline Support for Lyrics, Makes Translations Available Worldwide

From PC Mag: Spotify announced three updates to its lyrics feature this week. The streamer will now support offline lyrics, expand translation to all users worldwide, and display a new lyrics preview in the Now Playing tab.

Lyric translations have been available on the platform since 2022, but they...

Valve’s Steam Machine is now late and more expensive. Thanks, AI

From PC World: I had a feeling this was coming. While Valve has never confirmed the price of its hotly anticipated Steam Machine revival, the specs of the tiny, console-style PC indicated something cheaper than a full gaming desktop—and its exact price will be crucial to its success. But a bit of...

Fitbit Launches Luffu, AI-Powered Health Tracking for the Whole Family

From CNET: If you've ever wanted a way to keep all of your family's health records in place, Fitbit may have come up with a solution. Fitbit, well-known for its fitness wearables, announced the launch of its own health care system on Wednesday.

Luffu, which translates to the Old English word for...

Adobe Reverses Decision to Shut Down Animate After Backlash

From PC Mag: Following social media backlash over plans to shut down its 2D animation software Animate, Adobe has reversed course and decided to keep the service running.

Instead of a complete shutdown, Adobe Animate will now be in maintenance mode for existing and new customers. It will receive...

GTA 6’s release date confirmed, for real this time. Seriously.

From PC World: The eagerly awaited (and repeatedly delayed) release of Grand Theft Auto VI now has an official-for-real-this-time date of November 19th, 2026. Take-Two Interactive announced this via IGN, confirming the most recent release date. Publisher Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two, plans to...

Mozilla Adds Option to Disable New AI Features Coming to Firefox Browser

From CNET: Mozilla Firefox is adding new AI features this month, but you'll have the option to turn them off, according to a Tuesday blog post from Firefox head Ajit Varma.

"AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it," Varma wrote in the post. "Listening to our community...

AVerMedia Expands Creator Ecosystem Across Mobile and PC

From AVerMedia Press Release: AVerMedia Technologies today announced the launch of Live Streamer, a new mobile streaming app, and new updates to its PC-based Streaming Center software. These updates together expand AVerMedia’s creator ecosystem across mobile and PC workflows.

Developed to...

Adobe Is Killing Its Popular 2D Animation Software Next Month

From PC Mag: Adobe plans to shut down Adobe Animate, a 2D animation software used to create vector-based animations for websites, games, and cartoons.

As of March 1, the company will stop accepting new sign-ups. Existing users can continue using the software beyond that date, but technical support...

Are hard drives back? WD promises 800% speed increase

From PC World: Some might think the hard disk drive (HDD), which is rarely found in consumer computing devices these days, is obsolete. In truth, it’s nowhere near kaput. Why? Hard drives provide capacity that SSDs can only dream of. At least at anything close to an affordable price.

With the data...