If your PC has been slow, has been freezing while in use, or crawling to load, you’re not alone. Eventually, even behemoth rigs will slow down thanks to software bloat, out-of-date drivers, and too many programs running in the background. But never fear, good news: you can give life to your PC again — and some will not cost you a single penny.

Game Awards 2025 helped to understand that the visual palette of the gaming industry is much bigger than photorealism and the latest ray tracing. While this year's reveals spanned from claymation magic to graphic body horror, they all represent an incredible variety of artistic styles pushing the limits of what games can look and say. Such reveals not only remind us of the infinite varieties of gorgeous game art but each have a different story to tell.

Cellphones lose their value quickly. Within years, a previously top-of-the-line Android can start to lag, drain battery, or collect dust in a drawer. Nevertheless, an old Android is not obsolete. With the correct tweaks, it can be remarkably helpful again—either as a backup, smart home controller, or hobbyist-specific device. Breathing new life into dead hardware takes both tweaks and creativity, and the exercise is rewarding as well as handy.

The desire to make pickup trucks and heavy-duty haulers electric has been crashing into the reality of the harsh American market. Electric trucks, which were once touted as the future of the transport industry, are currently facing an uphill battle to maintain their existence, with lower demand and deficits in infrastructure development and tactical withdrawals of key automakers. What was going to be a smooth shift into a zero-emission transport is proving to be exposing very harsh challenges- and showing the road ahead to be quite challenging.

Early in 2026, a rather ordinary utility app bearing an attention-grabbing moniker reached the top ranks of sold applications in the iPhone App Store of China: Are You Dead? or, in Chinese, Sǐ le ma. The app only briefly turned out to be China's top-selling application, having easily elbowed aside the popular commercial productivity application lineup and video games. Its meteoric rise was not cheered by vigorous marketing or celebrity endorsement, but by pure word of mouth and social media talk. The app was downloaded by many simply out of curiosity through the existence of such a provocative name, only to discover that behind that even more provocative name was a very simple idea targeted toward the increasingly social reality in China.