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I was looking at the cameras on my Samsung S25 Ultra, as you do, and wondered to myself, "Could you use two of these cameras to take 3D photos or videos?" After all, I can take 3D photos with my old Nintendo 3DS, so maybe someone's made an app for that.

With memory prices flying through the roof, becoming a growing concern for smartphone manufacturers, I wouldn't be surprised if virtual RAM becomes the next big marketing gimmick. Different OEMs call this feature by different names; Samsung calls it RAM Plus, while others refer to it as virtual RAM, extended RAM, and more.

In 2025, The Ugly Stepsister was one of our favorite horror movies of the year, reimagining the Cinderella princess tale as a critique of the extreme lengths girls are pressured to go to be beautiful. But if that sounds a bit intense for you (or your kiddos), Netflix has a less savage spin on this story. Steps also imagines how this story of fairy godmothers and glass slippers played out for the maligned stepsisters. And honestly, it's more charming than any of these princes.

Aimed squarely at being family-friendly, Steps leans on the Disney and DreamWorks movies that have come before to tell a story that feels familiar yet fresh. Like classic Disney princess stories, there's a picture-perfect maiden in Cinderella, who is kind, cheerful, and talks to animals when she's not singing to villagers. But like Shrek, Steps opens with a classic storybook hinting at the familiar fairy tale, then has a snarky protagonist step into frame who's tired of being misrepresented.

In this case, it's no ogre but a so-called "Evil Stepsister." And sure, Lilith (voiced by Ali Wong) is kind of mean to the orphaned Cinderella. She did technically order her to clean the fireplace. And she scorned Cinderella’s animal friends. Plus, she tore up the dress that Cinderella had planned to wear to the prince's ball. But in context, these actions come off way less evil and way more teen angst. This is not a princess tale, but a story about misfits, alt fashion, sisterhood, and assimilation. And it's a joyously entertaining ride to boot!

Steps offers a parable about being true to yourself. Lilith and Margot go to the ball in their self-designed dresses in "Steps." Credit: Netflix

Lilith objects to being dubbed the evil stepsister and sets out to tell the story of Cinderella from her perspective. Sure, you might know about her bad behavior, the magic, the romance, the search for the girl who fits the lost slipper. But Lilith's name on its own suggests she's more complicated than her reputation allows. Lilith is a figure of folklore who has been alternately demonized and revered, depending on the storyteller. Here, she's an accidental witch with a Gothic sense of fashion. But before all that, she was the new girl in town, in need of a friend.

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Before she met Cinderella (Amanda Seyfried), Lilith and her younger sister Margot (Stephanie Hsu) traveled with their seamstress mother from town to town selling her wares — until love struck. Cinderella and her dad were welcoming to his new wife and stepdaughters. But others in this predominantly white kingdom sneered at the Asian seamstress and her daughters, who wore Eastern styles of dress and told stories of a slithering snake-woman. At Lilith's first social event in this new setting, she's harshly shunned by the resident mean girl, Priscilla (Nikki Glaser). And when the gaggle of villager girls follow suit, Cinderella — despite her noble reputation — does nothing to intervene.

Cue Olivia Rodrigo's "Brutal," because here comes a musical makeover montage, where Lilith follows in the Doc Martens-wearing footsteps of many ostracized girls before her. If you've ever quoted The Craft's "We are the weirdos, mister" or told your mom sincerely, "It's not a phase," you'll feel seen here. While Lilith's peers diligently copy Priscilla's white bouffant hairdo and poofy pinky gowns, Lilith favors black and purple, from her DIY asymmetrical haircut to her homespun skirts adorned with embroidered skulls, to her big leather boots. If they're going to stare, she'll give them something to stare at!

However, Lilith's self-expression is a bit tangled up in her desire to distinguish herself from her seemingly perfect stepsister. Lilith's jealousy sparks a rebellion that not only jeopardizes Cinderella's happily-ever-after with the prince (Daniel Radcliffe) but also threatens the lives of Lilith and both her sisters. So, like it or not, Lilith and Cinderella must team up to rewrite their narrative together, before a rampaging Priscilla destroys everything.

Steps makes moves Disney would never. Lilith, Margot, and Cinderella make a hasty getaway in "Steps." Credit: Netflix

Early on, this Cinderella seems like a typical Disney princess, with her pretty bobblehead, agreeable nature, animal sidekicks, and ability to burst into a rousing song at a moment's notice. But when the fairy godmother (Bette Midler) shows up, Lilith realizes her stepsister has had a magical guardian all along.

Just like that, Steps introduces a parable about privilege, as the godmother's magic gave the white girl with a rich father advantages that her sisters were denied. Lilith is understandably seething over this revelation, but she's not alone. When the spell is broken, Cinderella is confounded to learn about perspiration and body odor, and naively wanders into one dangerous scenario after another. Lucky for her, Lilith isn't as evil as her reputation would have us believe. She'll save the day whether she likes it or not.

Cheers to the small army of writers who've earned screenplay and story-by credits on this film (Ava Tramer, James Madejski, Jen Chuck, Dana Schwartz, Felicia Ho, Riki Lindhome, and Kate Micucci). Steps gives audiences a familiar dose of fairy-tale tropes, then uses them to explore topics that can be tricky to explain to kids, like how Lilith is wordlessly urged to assimilate or risk alienation. It's not even that all the girls in the kingdom don't like her clothes or her affection for spooky folklore. It's more that they fear Priscilla's cruelty more than they think for themselves. But it's through the conflict of two sisters — one privileged and playing by the rules, the other marginalized and defiant — that each learns how to be better and more loving to themselves and each other. And kindness is contagious.

Better yet, Steps does all that while working in a biker gang of rowdy trolls who ride goats like motorcycles, a maniacal man servant (Peter Dinklage), and a crush-worthy troll (Young Mazino) who is oddly reminiscent of Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck. And by that I mean, yes, he's hot, lanky but muscular, and flops about his hair as freely as he confesses his feelings.

I mean, you see it, right? Credit: Netflix

All this makes for a wonderfully weird fairy tale that celebrates Cinderella and Lilith alike, recognizing their virtues and flaws with compassion. Simply put, Steps is a pleasure to watch, and I suspect will be one many Netflix subscribers will revisit over and over.

Steps debuts on Netflix on Nov. 20.

November is packed with new movies on Netflix in the U.S. Even though we're only about a week into the new month, two of our top picks have already been released, including A Dog's Perfect Christmas and Possible Love. Stick around the service, and you'll see more movies coming your way, including Heartland and The Mosquito Bowl.

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Inside, you’ll find must-see sights, insider tips, and researched recommendations from professional travel writers. The guides cover getting around, deciding what deserves a spot on your itinerary, and what you might skip. That structure helps you move from general inspiration to actual decisions without piecing everything together from scattered search results.

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Adding another node to a Proxmox cluster comes with a few hardware considerations. When I added my fifth node, a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910s, I also needed more USB connectivity. The machine had limited USB ports available, and I wanted a straightforward way to connect external storage and other peripherals.

Running a homelab gives you plenty of freedom to host your own applications, websites, and services. However, before exposing your homelab to the internet, take a few steps to avoid security problems and unnecessary headaches down the road.

Fire OS limits Amazon’s Fire tablets to the Amazon Appstore. In about 30 minutes, you can add the Google Play Store for free and, with some optional tweaks, make the interface look closer to standard Android.

Ask any film fan, and they'll tell you some classic movies they've never seen. I've never seen Gone with the Wind. It's frequently ranked among the highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation. That's probably one I need to check off of my list sooner rather than later.

Fixing your Windows laptop has never been easier, thanks to the boom in LLMs and their ability to read logs and provide commands for investigation and repair. If you open the Windows Event Viewer on a perfectly healthy PC right now, you will almost certainly see a terrifying wall of red error icons. Windows quietly logs (right-click on the Windows icon to open Event Viewer) every minor background timeout and permission glitch.

I enjoy planning trips, but turning my rough notes into a proper itinerary is a different story. For my upcoming trip to Finland, I’ve scribbled down places to visit, train times, hotel check-ins, and activities on paper. Earlier, I could ask Gemini to create a PDF, but if I wanted to fix something or change a section, I’d have to download the file and edit it elsewhere. I wanted a way to make those changes without leaving Gemini.

Spotify already uses AI to help pick what plays next. But its planned remix tool, reportedly set for release early next year, would let listeners change what they're hearing. How does it work? Let's say a slow breakup ballad comes on at a party. A subscriber could turn it into a dance track that better fits the vibe. Want a new artist's voice? The tool could also make a different singer cover the song, even if they've never recorded it before.

Spotify first announced the tool in May, but it got people talking again on Oct. 30, when the Financial Times reported that the company was targeting an early 2027 launch and considering charging Premium subscribers an extra $4 to $5 a month.

SEE ALSO: Spotify already has AI playlists. So what does Meta’s Muse add?

What subscribers would get for that extra fee depends on which musicians sign up in the first place. At this point, Spotify has deals with Universal Music Group, Merlin, Believe, and Kobalt, but the FT reported that artists would decide individually whether to participate, even if their label had signed a deal. Believe and TuneCore artists would first have to agree to be considered for AI projects, then decide separately whether to join Spotify's program.

Some listeners are already talking about leaving

The plan raises different questions for fans and musicians. For people who’ve been paying for Spotify for years, the discussion quickly moved past whether they’d buy the add-on to whether they wanted to keep their subscription at all. "If @Spotify ends up going through with this, then I’ll be cancelling my subscription," wrote one X user, who said they'd subscribed since 2017. Another user wrote, "I want to hear that you've finally wrapped it up and quit spotify."

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Others were already thinking about what it would take to switch. "Please does anyone know good ways to transfer all my Spotify songs to another site?" one user asked her followers. Over on the subreddit r/indieheads, people were comparing Tidal and Qobuz and discussing buying music directly on Bandcamp. One vinyl buyer explained why leaving would still be hard. "Having podcasts and the ability to just look up new bands instantly is something I'd really struggle to part with," they wrote.

That convenience is part of what Spotify has been using AI to build on. As Mashable has reported, its AI DJ can take spoken requests, and its Prompted Playlist feature lets listeners describe what they want to hear in their own words. AI is showing up in the songs themselves, too. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated band, drew more than a million Spotify streams in 2025, and AI-powered singer Xania Monet made it onto Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay chart that same year. There's, of course, some irony in Spotify asking listeners to pay to make AI covers while it’s also trying to limit AI spam and help people tell when an artist persona is AI-generated.

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For artists weighing whether to opt in, there's the question of what Spotify would do with their music and what they'd earn from it. The Future of Music Coalition put it plainly on X. "What’s it being trained on? Is it opt-in only? How’s the $ work?" the group wrote.

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Spotify and Believe, the French music distributor that owns TuneCore, have answered part of the money question. In an October announcement about their licensing deal, the companies said each remix would link back to the original song and artist. "Streams of these remixes will generate royalties for the participating artists and rights holders behind the original works," they said. The FT also reported that those plays would count toward the original song on Spotify's charts. So a fan-made version could earn royalties while giving listeners a way to find the track that inspired it.

Even if Spotify can make the royalties work, there’s still the question of whether anyone really wants more AI-generated music in the first place. As one X user put it, "Why would anyone want this?"

On Election Day, voters approved more than 40 measures to slow or ban data center growth. But not all Americans decided against data centers.

The majority of voters in Harwood, North Dakota, said "no" to a ballot measure calling for additional steps when the town evaluates, approves, and administers developments like that of data centers, Tech Insider reported. In a town of 845 people, 430 voted, and around 75 percent voted against added restrictions. (As Tech Insider notes, however, that documentation on small towns could be varied — The Washington Post reports that Harwood's population is 845, while other outlets report 940.)

SEE ALSO: Data center security is an American problem, too

The big project in question is a $3 billion, 1.8-million-square-foot data center right outside Harwood, the Washington Post reports. Data center developer Applied Digital is behind the project.

The vote caused the Post to claim that Harwood is "the only town in the U.S. that said yes to data centers." While the building of a data center itself wasn't on the ballot, Harwood residents indeed voted against further bureaucracy towards them.

Harwood breaks the trend of what happened on Election Day, which Mashable's Rebecca Ruiz said was a clear message: "The AI reckoning is here." Backlash to both AI and data centers had been mounting in 2026, and voters were able to express their discontent last Tuesday. The list of U.S. states that ban data centers could grow in 2027.

As someone who has been trying to get into camping and hiking a lot more recently, I have very quickly learned how important it is to be prepared. When you're exploring places where there is no mobile service, let alone a Wi-Fi connection, you need to make sure that you have all the information that you need ready and on hand.

I plugged my NAS into the first open port on the back, watched the lights blink, and assumed the job was done. The shares mounted, nothing threw an error, and I moved on. However, I later found out the connection was crawling at a fraction of what the hardware could do, and nothing ever warned me. That's what makes this mistake so annoying. Any server or storage can look perfectly healthy while running slowly.

DVDs are a phenomenal piece of technology. I remember the very first DVDs I ever bought: Oingo Boingo: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre and Ghostbusters. One of those is pretty rare now. The other has been re-released so many times I lost count. But they were truly astonishing tech at the time.

I use OneNote for everything from saving article ideas to keeping track of things I need to do later. The problem? My brain treats half of these things like temporary files. I save a useful webpage, forget where I put it, and then waste time searching for it again. Brilliant system, right?

Ever used hidden developer options on your Android phone to unleash its true potential? You can do the same on your Google TV. These hidden settings unlock additional options that can significantly improve your smart TV experience. Since many smart TVs come with relatively limited RAM and internal storage, their interfaces can become sluggish over time.

Against my better judgment, I have spent a lot of time with Google's "ambitious" new computing platform, even outside my Lenovo Googlebook 15 review. Before I stepped away completely, a conversation with my colleague revealed that you can already find returned Googlebooks for hundreds of dollars off, and the poor critical and consumer reception indicates further discounts are inevitable. Each first-generation Googlebook actually boasts excellent hardware, making these laptops potentially unbeatable deals—if only they didn't run the buggy and incomplete Googlebook OS.

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There are a number of really interesting fixtures taking place in La Liga this weekend, but Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona is the standout. It's a battle between first and second place, with only two points separating them before they kick off. It's going to be a tense clash where anything could happen.

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Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona in La Liga kicks off at 3 p.m. ET on Nov. 8. This fixture takes place at the Metropolitano Stadium.

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