A little over a decade ago, I was all in onsmart home devices. Nearly all of the lights in my home were smart, and I had an internet-connected thermostat androbot vacuumson every floor. Almost every product I owned was Wi-Fi connected in some way. While I’ve pared down my setup considerably, I still have a lot of smart devices hooked up around my house, includingseveral Hue lights in my backyard. What I’ve learned over the years, though, is that not everything needs to be smart....

Take Your Health And Fitness Goals To The Next Level With These Android Apps Changing your habits can be tedious work, but fitness apps are here to make the task a little less herculean.Google Playhas a good selection of such apps, both free and paid, and they cover a wide range of health-related topics. These apps can help you start doing cardio, get into yoga, count your calories, or turn yourself into a Thor-lookalike with Chris Hemsworth’s help....

Movie fans, rejoice! Despite the ongoing pandemic, there are a bunch of new films premiering soon. In fact, we’ve put together a list of thebest upcoming movies. These are all set to release either in the last month of 2021 or sometime next year. But we’re only including movies with actual release dates and trailers. So, although studios have announced films that are coming in 2022, if there is no exact date or trailer for it yet, you won’t find it below....

The Legendary Honda Motorcycle Designed To Sound Like A Fighter Jet Superbikes are about the closest thing you can get to afighter jetwithout getting a pilot’s license. Very few wheeled vehicles let riders fulfill their “need for speed” like a superbike with a large displacement engine and a canyon road to carve up. The fighter jet iconography is literally part of the official product description for Honda’s foremost superbike,the CBR1000RR. While an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet will eventually top out at a brisk Mach 1....

The Terrifying Accident That Decommissioned The USS Chopper Sometimes, a navy vessel that’s severely damaged cannot be repaired and the only solution is to send it to a watery gravy, so it’s scuttled and sent to the briny deep. The USS Chopper (SS-342) was a Balao-class diesel-powered submarine operated by the U.S. Navy until it suffered a serious accident. Commissioned on August 24, 2025, the sub remained in service for over two decades....

What do you do if you’re a really successful singer and songwriter? Pivot to becoming a really successful comic book writer, of course. That’s exactly what Gerard Way, lead singer and co-founder of alternative rock band My Chemical Romance, decided to do. Alongside illustrator Gabriel Ba, Gerard Way created a comic series calledThe Umbrella Academy. First released in 2007, aNetflix adaptationof the comics was greenlit in 2017, with the first season of the show airing in early 2019....

Madame Webopened this week to poor critical reviews and audience scores, but that hasn’t stopped producers of the film from thinking about a sequel. In fact, a follow-up to the critically maligned film will all come down to audiences embracing it. Madame Web During an interview withDiscussing Film, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura was asked about the three Spider-Women in the film played by Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor, and if there were future plans for them in a spinoff or sequel....

Valorant players call for Riot to disable Split over “crazy” new wall bang spot Valorant players discovered a “crazy” new wall bang spot in the Sewers on Split, and it’s overpowered, it’s got them asking Riot to disable the map in competitive games until it’s patched. For the most part, wall banging is an intentional feature in Valorant. It’s based on the premise that most weapons can shoot through walls to a degree, which is a surefire way to deal damage to enemies without risking your life....

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt is the latest battle royale around the block, and it features a war between Vampire Clans set across the vast city of Prague. The game puts players against each other in a dark, eerie environment, where the basic battle royale mechanics come into play. Vampires are not the only ones roaming the streets, as you will spot several civilians loitering around the map. Should you skip the Tutorial in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt?...

The Steam title, described as a high-flying four-player PvE, is made by Polaris Team, an offshoot of Variable State. In the game, players will assume the role of freedom fighters retaliating against the ruthless Regime, who’ve taken over many worlds. It’s up to you to take back your homeworlds and decimate their forces. First-Person Thriller ‘Virginia’ Launches September 22 The Worlds Are Your Playground Polaris will feature a variety of highly-destructive environments that you and three others can battle in with your superpowers....

Last week,metal-laden back covers, reportedly belonging to the next-generation iPhone, started popping up online. The components were intriguing, because with theirelongated bodiesandredesigned charging ports, they lined up perfectly with previous speculation. Well today, we’ve come across a video showing off the part. The folks atCydiaBlogpoint to a new YouTube video from ETradeSupply, a third-party parts dealer, who appears to have gotten its hands on one of these “iPhone 5” back covers....

This content was produced in partnership with GameStop. Bethesda is known for its expansive open-world games with rich experiences, and it’s looking likeStarfield— their next big adventure — will turn out precisely that way. Maybe it will even be the best yet asthe culmination of every Bethesda gameall wrapped into one. But since it’s a Microsoft exclusive, you will need either a current-gen Xbox – Xbox Series X or S – to playStarfieldor a beefy PC....

Developer Zak Woolley has released Quick Fire – a game that essentially just cuts and pasts the formula of the inimitable WarioWare, Inc. Mega Microgames!, that cult-favorite Game Boy Advance game that was released by Nintendo almost twenty years ago. The conceit of the game is simple: you are presented, essentially as soon as you boot the game up, with a random 4-to-8-second-long game, where the only clue is a brief command which is almost never more than one word long....