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March marks an interesting month at the movies. Hollywood is still waiting for the Academy to award Best Picture at the 2026 Oscars. In terms of major releases, the biggest movie hitting theaters is Project Hail Mary, the Ryan Gosling space adventure based on Andy Weir's popular novel. Other than that, March is a fairly quiet month for new movies.

Two of the most feared Titans in the universe—Godzilla and Kong—have returned to Apple TV. After a two-year break, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is now streaming on Apple TV. The show has aired two episodes since its February 27 premiere. Despite the hiatus, Apple's Monsterverseshowhas immediately become a streaming success.

The smartphone is now the universal computing device, but there have been a few attempts to replace it, from smartwatches to AR glasses. However, they all come up against the same problem: the smartphone as a form factor is just too good, and it probably won’t be replaced anytime soon.

Even though Apple TV kind of marches to the beat of its own drummer when it comes to how much new content it adds and when (*quickly looks at watch), if you put your mind to it, you can still find some upper-crust TV show titles to watch—or rewatch, as the service does have some of the best shows in the world.

You might think that storage is expensive and scarce today, but kids these days have no idea what it is like to scrounge every kilobyte you can. Which is why a floppy disk hack from the early '90s promising twice your data seemed too good to be true. In a lot of cases, it was.

If you store your 3D printer filament on a shelf or out in the open, chances are you’re storing it wrong. If you live in a very dry climate, that might be fine, but for those in more humid environments, the moisture in the air is likely what’s ruining your 3D printing projects—here’s how to fix it.

What I've learned over the last 15+ years of paying internet bills is that it doesn't matter what kind of gear you have, how many devices you run, or which settings you've optimized. Ultimately, if your internet service provider (ISP) is bad, you'll never have a stable connection.

How often do you replace your phone? For over a decade, I've been on a two-year cycle on a phone contract. With my last phone, and iPhone 14 Pro, I lengthened that to three years. Now my three years are up, but I don't feel any need to upgrade to a new phone.

When your smart home goes down, all those clever automations that make your life easier stop working. There are some handy tricks that homelab users often use that help keep Home Assistant running or minimize the impact if it does go down.

Want to do more with the Linux terminal? You might not instinctively put videos and the command line together, but with FFmpeg you can actually do a lot with a video file just by typing a simple command in your terminal.

Your physical Ethernet port has lasted the test of time despite slowly getting phased out. Lots of modern laptops and smaller PCs don't even have this familiar connector anymore, and some people may not know what Ethernet is. This can make people think a wired connection is just old news, something slow and clunky from the dial-up days. We will show you that your computer's often-ignored Ethernet port is actually a hidden Swiss Army knife. It can make dedicated high-speed links for moving files between devices, give power to remote equipment, and let you set up advanced networks way beyond just getting online.

Twin Peaks remains one of the most iconic television shows of all time, marking a major cultural shift and creative transition in TV between the 1980s and 1990s. The show took the familiar formula of the classic murder mystery that was popular at the time and flipped it on its head by purposefully obscuring the murderer and blending unexpected elements of surrealism and horror into it.

Android phones have a lot in common with computers. They have a file system, support for keyboards and mice, advanced multitasking, and even a full-fledged desktop mode. One thing Android doesn’t have, however, is a native clipboard. Thankfully, Gboard can fix that.

Linux is famously customizable, and when you hear its perks discussed, you'll usually see mentions of "flexibility" and "personalization" in the conversation. Despite those strengths, I've gotten tired of customizing my Linux PCs.

Arch Linux has a reputation for being brutally hard to install and maintain. That reputation isn’t wrong—but don’t let it fool you into thinking it’s the final boss of Linux distributions. Here are three distros that are a lot harder than Arch—reserved for truly advanced users who deeply understand how Linux works.

There are plenty of problems with using smart bulbs in your home. One of the most frustrating things is that if the light switch is off, your smart bulb won't work at all. Smart switches solve this problem, but there are some things smart bulbs can give you that smart switches can't.

Sci-fi and fantasy are my favorite genres (big surprise), but for most of my life the movies in these genres always felt like they had less substance than the SF&F books I devoured over the years.

These days, it takes a special trick to silence a noisy hard drive (HDD). And if not for this unfortunate patent war and lawsuit, we may have had a proper solution that could have kept our HDDs quiet, or at least quieter.

Memory card slots on flagship phones are a thing of the past and are unlikely to return. So if you want extra storage on your phone, your main option is to choose a higher capacity when you first buy it. But I go a different way. I still buy the base model, and then expand the storage by plugging in an external SSD. It might sound strange, but it actually works pretty well.

The best way to learn stats and data science is to actually do it. And to do it, you need datasets. One good place to find them is Kaggle. Here's how I find, download, and explore Kaggle datasets.