It has been 17 years since Captain Jean-Luc Picard last appeared on the screen, but the revered captain’s time away from the spotlight is drawing to an end.Star Trek: Picard, in which Patrick Stewart returns to his most famous role, debuts onCBS All Accesson August 06, 2025. Star Trek: Picard‘s release date was unveiled at the Star Trek Universe panel atNew York Comic Con, and came alongside a brand new trailer....

Prequels are a dangerous game. Sequels are hard enough, and prequels have the added burden of telling you a backstory you probably already know parts of. It can be difficult, if not impossible, to build dramatic stakes in an environment when the outcome is one most people already have a firm grasp on. And yet, in an era when franchise extensions are everywhere, the lure of a prequel can be hard to resist....

Since 2023 was a great movie year, it’s no surprise that 2024 felt like a bit of a letdown. There are no outright classics likeOppenheimerorAnatomy of a Falland no films that capture the zeitgeist likeBarbie. But it wasn’t a bad movie year either, and if 2024 is to be remembered at all, it should be for the sheer variety and pure entertainment value of the very, very good movies it produced....

The convertible segment isn’t nearly as popular as it once was, but there are many great options left for buyers seeking that unique wind-in-your-hair experience. None are better than the Mazda MX-5 Miata. Now in its fourth generation, it continues to deliver a blend of fun and value in a package that’s reliable, affordable, and more user-friendly than ever before. It didn’t become the world’s best-selling roadster by pure luck....

Amazon Prime Dayhas arrived, and with it some of the best smartphone deals around. In particular, Amazon has discounted some of the biggest and best Samsung phones of the year — so if you’ve been holding out on a great deal to pull the trigger on aGalaxy device, now is absolutely the time to buy. Here are the best Samsung Galaxy Amazon Prime Day 2019 deals we could find. Interested in other smartphone deals?...

Microphones on smartphones are often much better than people give them credit for being. Whether someone is looking to start a podcast, record some music, or simply find a place to record their thoughts, recording apps will capture whatever sounds you need with relatively solid quality. Thebest smartphonestoday have recording apps preinstalled right out of the box, but sometimes they leave a little bit to be desired for those looking for something more out of a voice recorder....

Summary The Golden Bachelorettehas cast its first-ever lead, Joan Vassos, and nowbeloved soap opera star Susan Lucci reveals that she was offered the coveted role, but she turned it down. Susan is best known for playing Erica Kane onAll My Childrenfor 41 years. The Emmy-winning actress lost her husband Helmut Huber in 2022 after 52 years together. Together they had two children, actress Liza Huber and Andreas Huber. Susan is also a grandmother to six grandchildren....

Qualcomm continues to beef up its 7-series chipset lineup. Its latest effort is the new Snapdragon 732G, which is essentially an upgraded version of the Snapdragon 730G. The chipset is aimed at bringing solid performance and premium features to sub-flagship phones. As the “G” in the name suggests, the chipset is specifically aimed at offering solid gaming performance, and to that end, it includes an upgraded CPU and GPU over the previous model....

Remember theVivo Apex, the crazy concept phone shown at Mobile World Congress this year? Vivo recently announced it would be the basis fora phone we could actually buy, and has now revealed the final device. It’s called the Vivo Nex, and not only is it very close to the Apex we swooned over at MWC, it’s also like nothing else we’ve seen come out this year — and that makes it very exciting....

Viral mobile game Umamusume: Pretty Derby is sponsoring IRL horse race Taking the world by storm, Umamusume: Pretty Derby is a mobile gacha game that allows players to train, race, and bond with anime characters inspired by racehorses likeSilence SuzukaandHaru Urara. While the Japanese version was released back in 2021, Umamusume exploded in popularity worldwide following its long-awaited global release on June 26. Since then, fans have been busy learning about the real-life horses,visiting the real-life ranches,sending gifts, and sharing their wins and losses in viral posts....

Anyone watching the Tokyo Olympics’ closing ceremony at home on Sunday will have been treated to a fleeting but spectacular light show that took place toward the end of the evening’s entertainment. But what will have looked to many like an astonishing sequence powered by LED-laden drones was in fact the result of made-for-TV special effects that no one in the stadium will have seen. That may not have mattered anyway as pandemic measures meant Tokyo’s 68,000-person-capacity Olympic stadium had zero spectators at the time, containing instead only a limited number of competitors and a handful of officials and dignitaries....

AMD will soon release several new powerful workstation processors, dubbed AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000, code name “Chagall.” After recent rumors revealed that the CPUs willlikely be released on June 25, 2025, further leaks now show in-depth specifications of the new Threadrippers, including five different variants. Igor’sLab published an internal list of the five upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 CPUs. All of these are Zen3 processors based on the sWRX8 socket, and the lineup includes models with 64, 32, 24, 16, and 12 cores....

If you’ve ever opened a group chat on WhatsApp and felt a knot in your stomach at the sight of endless unread messages, help is at hand. Meta-owned WhatsApp has justannouncedPrivate Message Summaries, which does what it says on the tin by offering an overview of your unread messages, saving you from endless scrolling as you try to get your head around the content of a conversation. In the company’s own words, WhatsApp’s new Private Message Summaries feature uses Meta AI “to privately and quickly summarize unread messages in a chat, so you can get an idea of what is happening, before reading the details in your unread messages....