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DirectStorage can do wonders for your games. But you'd be surprised by how many people don't use it, or aren't aware it exists, despite being a staple Windows feature.

Does your thermostat or other temperature sensor feel out of whack? Do you find that certain parts of the house feel too hot or cold, even when you set the temperature to a comfortable number?

Super Bowl LX is just a few days away. Do you have a plan for how you're going to watch it without cable?

If you're reading this, we're guessing the answer is no. That's why we're here today. People who subscribe to cable or satellite TV or use an antenna don't have to worry about this, but cord cutters around the United States need answers. Let's find them.

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Whether you're watching for the intriguing on-field matchup between the Seahawks and Patriots, the Bad Bunny halftime show, or the Pokémon 30th anniversary commercial, cord-cutters need a way to see all that stuff.

The good news is that the game is airing on NBC this year, meaning all of the festivities will livestream on Peacock. The bad news is that Peacock no longer offers a free trial, and the cheapest service tier doesn't offer live sporting events. At minimum, you'll need to pay $10.99 for a month of the service. Or, you know, get a password from a friend.

The game is scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET.

After the game is over, you can just cancel it and go on with your life, or you can use it to watch all of Yellowstone or whatever before the month is up. The world is your oyster.

There are some other slightly more complicated options, but none of them are free without caveats. Streaming cable alternatives like YouTube TV, Fubo, Hulu with Live TV, and any others should work as long as they carry your local NBC affiliate. Some of those, such as YouTube TV, do offer free trials for those who have never taken advantage of that before, but be warned: The monthly charge for these services is significantly higher than Peacock because they're meant to replace cable. If you forget to cancel after the game is over, you could be out nearly $100.

So yeah, in summary, biting the bullet and buying a month of Peacock is probably the simplest solution here if you want to host a Super Bowl party without paying for cable.

We all have a bunch of old cables that work just fine, so there's no apparent pressure to get rid of them or replace them right away. A good quality cable won't have any sort of physical failure during normal home use ever.

There was a time when saving a Word doc to your desktop was the best way to find it the next day. That time ended a decade ago. Today, saving an Office file to your desktop is the most dangerous habit in your workflow because it's a modern productivity dead-end.

Home Assistant gets most of the hype, and I’m happy to see an open-source project get so much love—but that doesn’t mean it’s your only local smart home option. If you find Home Assistant intimidating, unreliable, or requiring more maintenance than you care to put in, know that there are other smart home hubs available that give you cloud-free control of your smart home.

Oftentimes, I catch myself using data instead of Wi-Fi to stream Netflix or YouTube. It's almost never on purpose, and I end up burning my data plan for no reason. Since these apps don't give you a warning when you're streaming on data, I set up my own warning system using a simple automation.

You've probably heard of the Emacs text editor, but did you know it's often repurposed to replace full-blown desktop applications? It's not common knowledge, but Emacs has a very mature ecosystem and is multi-functional beyond its original purpose. From RSS readers to email clients, I have four Emacs use cases I prefer over traditional software.

Microsoft Publisher, the king of the church bake-sale flyer, is officially retiring in October 2026. If you're still using it for your layouts, you're on a collision course with a "file not found" error. Here's why this once-popular legacy app is disappearing, how to rescue your files, and the modern tools you can use instead.

Operating systems are complex and large pieces of software, and the same goes for Linux systems. Fortunately, there are still plenty of small Linux distros available. They're also quite useful things to keep on spare USB drives or virtual machines. Here's why.

Windows 11 comes loaded with a bunch of different apps and features that I neither want nor use. Normally, after a fresh install I spend quite a bit of time just getting rid of things. This application let me create my own Windows 11 ISO that cuts the bloat before I even install it.

Your Galaxy Watch can do far more than track steps and show notifications. It can be your productivity partner, complete wellness companion, and even an entertainment device. Here are over ten hand-picked apps (and games) to help you get the most out of your smartwatch.

When it first arrived on the scene, there really was nothing else like the Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Here was a full PC capable of running a desktop operating system that fit in the palm of your hand. It wasn't long before people discovered all sorts of other uses for these little computers, beside being disposable educational tools.

If you use your garage to park your car, charge your power tools, or store things you’d rather not keep in your house, you might be missing out on some useful smart home upgrades. Here are some accessories you can add to your garage, and the best ways to use them.

Your Linux command line is filled to the brim with commands you can use to learn about and use your device more effectively. Recently, I figured out a few handy uses for the lsusb command. Here's what I found.

Go Viking was designed to capture the most dangerous question in tabletop gaming: do you push your luck, or return home while you still can?

When the Artemis II spaceship carries four astronauts around the moon, it will also bring four miniature proxies of the crew made from their own cells. 

Alongside crew commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will fly lab-grown tissue samples designed to mimic parts of the crew's bodies, particularly bone marrow, a key component of the immune system. The NASA experiment, called AVATAR — short for A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response — aims to show how living human cells respond to deep-space radiation and weightlessness.

Before launch, which could occur as early as March 6, doctors will draw blood from each crew member. Scientists will then grow cells from those samples and place them into chips about the size of a computer thumb drive. During the 10-day mission, the chips will soak up the same radiation and microgravity as their human counterparts. 

"This is a small experiment, but it could lead to really big impacts for healthcare, both for our astronauts, but also people here back on the earth," said Jacob Bleacher, NASA’s chief exploration scientist.

Artemis II marks NASA's first crewed mission beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo — and the first to place biomedical research at the center of a lunar flight. The Orion spaceship, named Integrity by the crew, will travel beyond Earth's protective magnetic bubble, exposing the astronauts to radiation levels far higher than those aboard the International Space Station. That's an opportunity for scientists to begin writing the playbook for interplanetary travel, learning how to keep humans alive in the unforgiving wilds of space. 

SEE ALSO: NASA aims for March Artemis 2 launch after test ends early

Outside the ship, space is vast — incomprehensibly so. But inside the capsule, "space" is among the scarcest resources. Orion's habitable area is closer to a studio apartment than a space station, shaping everything from how astronauts move to how they store biological samples. NASA researchers have built that constraint into the studies themselves.

The Artemis II astronauts will wear NASA's version of a fitness tracker on their wrists for the Archer study during their 10-day flight. Credit: NASA / Helen Arase Vargas Immune Biomarkers study

One investigation, known as Immune Biomarkers, focuses on how deep space alters immune systems. Previous research has shown that spaceflight can weaken immune responses and awaken dormant viruses, such as shingles and cold sores. 

Because Orion lacks refrigeration, astronauts will collect their spit by licking treated paper like stamps and storing them in small booklets. Scientists will rehydrate the samples after the capsule returns to Earth.

"Saliva is basically a window into how our immune system is functioning," Bleacher said.  

Archer study

Another study, Artemis Research for Crew Health and Readiness (Archer), will examine how astronauts sleep, think, and get along in deep space. Crew members will wear wrist devices, similar to a Fitbit, to monitor their activity and rest. Researchers will pair that data with cognitive testing and behavioral assessments. 

The fitness trackers will also help NASA study how the foursome handle exercising in Orion's confined quarters, where increased breathing will raise carbon dioxide levels.

The Artemis II crew in orange flight suits, from left: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA Spaceflight Standard Measures study

A third effort, Spaceflight Standard Measures, extends a health-monitoring program NASA began in low-Earth orbit in 2018. Astronauts will provide blood, urine, and saliva before and after the mission and complete tests of balance, strength, and endurance. 

Microgravity takes a toll on astronauts' bones and muscles, but NASA wants to know how quickly the crew can bounce back to physical labor. Shortly after splashdown off the California coast, the crew will don spacesuits and complete a simulated spacewalk and obstacle course to gauge their recovery.

After all, if NASA wants to send humans on a months-long journey to Mars, those astronauts won't have rehab to get them in shape once they arrive.

Radiation exposure study

Radiation remains one of the largest unknowns for long-duration space travel. Earth's magnetic field and the Van Allen radiation belt, a zone of charged particles around the planet's magnetosphere, help shield low‑orbiting spacecraft like the space station from much of the sun's outbursts and cosmic rays. But Artemis II will go beyond that, into a more hostile radiation environment. 

Artemis II astronauts will carry personal radiation sensors in their pockets, while detectors mounted throughout the cabin will track exposure levels. Additional monitors developed with the German Space Agency will measure high-energy particles believed to pose increased health risks.

AVATAR study

Radiation data will also inform one of the mission's most unusual experiments: the organ-on-a-chip devices containing the crew's living cells.

NASA will house the AVATAR tissue chips in a battery-powered box that regulates temperature and nutrient delivery throughout the flight. After the mission, scientists will analyze how gene activity changed within individual cells, comparing flight samples with copies on Earth. 

The work aims to reveal how deep-space radiation and weightlessness affect the development of blood cells. And it will also serve as a test case for whether these chips can predict health outcomes.

"This will be very important for building both our understanding of the stresses of just doing the very first Artemis II, but [also] later on, as we go and establish a sustained presence on the moon and then hopefully go to Mars," said Mark Clampin, deputy associate administrator for NASA science. "It's a way, maybe in the future, that we can actually build [personalized] health kits that help us ensure our astronauts are safe."

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Sri Lanks are not one of the favorites to win the 2026 T20 World Cup, but you can never count out the hosts. Playing in front of a passionate home support goes a long way, and although the final knockout rounds are all hosted by India, the Sri Lankan fans could well inspire their team to make the latter stages of this competition.

Sri Lanka start their campaign against Ireland. Fans will be expecting Sri Lanka to win this opening game comfortably. It's important that they do, as they'll be coming up against Australia later in Group B.

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Fresh off his historic Album of the Year win at the 2026 Grammys for DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Bad Bunny is set to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8 — a performance poised to become yet another culture-shifting moment on the world's biggest stage.

At the Grammys, the Puerto Rican superstar didn't shy away from politics, directly calling out U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a pointed "ICE out" during his acceptance speech for Música Urbana Album. Now, as he prepares for one of the most-watched performances in the world, the question remains: Will Bad Bunny bring that same unapologetic message to the Super Bowl?

Bad Bunny's history of speaking out against ICE

If Benito does take on ICE at the Super Bowl, it wouldn’t be the first time. In a September 2025 interview with i-D magazine, he said concerns over potential ICE raids and the safety of his Latino and Puerto Rican fans were a key reason he excluded the United States from his 2025–2026 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour.

SEE ALSO: Bad Bunny slams ICE during Grammys speech

"People from the U.S. could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world," he said. "But there was the issue that … ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about."

Instead, the artist staged a historic 31-date residency in Puerto Rico — one intentionally designed to prioritize local fans, keep ticket prices accessible, and inject more than $400 million into the island's economy. The decision underscored not only his connection to the island but also his ongoing concern for the communities most affected by immigration enforcement.

That awareness surfaced again during the Grammys telecast, when host Trevor Noah joked, "If things keep getting worse in America, can I come live with you in Puerto Rico?" Bad Bunny gently corrected him: "Puerto Rico is part of America." The moment landed lightly, but its implications were a reminder of Puerto Rico's complicated political status and the way Latinx communities are often treated as both central to and peripheral within American life.

His criticism of ICE has been consistent. Last June, Bad Bunny shared a video on his Instagram Story condemning federal agents operating in Puerto Rico, urging them to stop harassing people who were simply trying to work. With ICE operations intensifying under the Trump administration, his past comments suggest this activism is not a fleeting statement but a throughline in his career.

And as a Puerto Rican artist whose music openly celebrates the island, it wouldn’t be surprising if the Super Bowl stage became yet another place where he chooses to make that message heard.

Has Bad Bunny ever criticized President Trump?

While Bad Bunny has rarely named Donald Trump outright, his criticism of the former president — and the policies of his administration — has been clear. In 2024, the artist endorsed Kamala Harris for U.S. president, citing frustration with the Trump administration’s handling of Hurricane Maria and its devastating impact on Puerto Rico. He made the public endorsement in the wake of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, where the island was referred to as a "floating island of garbage."

His commentary has also surfaced through his music. On this past Fourth of July, Bad Bunny released the music video for "NUEVAYoL," a salsa tribute to the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York.

The visual features the singer perched atop the Statue of Liberty, who wears a Puerto Rican flag across her forehead like a bandanna. In the final moments, a Trump-like voice plays over a radio broadcast, issuing an imagined apology to immigrants. "This country is nothing without the immigrants," the voice says, naming Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, and Cubans in an unmistakable rebuke of Trump-era immigration rhetoric.

Tensions escalated further after the NFL announced Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem publicly criticized the decision, saying ICE agents would be "all over" the Super Bowl and suggesting the event should be reserved for "law-abiding Americans who love this country."

The following night, Bad Bunny addressed the backlash during his Saturday Night Live monologue. Speaking first in English, then in Spanish, he framed the moment as a collective victory for Latino communities in the United States, emphasizing their labor and cultural impact. "Our footprints and our contribution in this country," he said, "no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it." He closed with a pointed aside in English: "And if you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn."

Trump himself responded dismissively when asked about Bad Bunny in October, telling NewsMax he had "never heard of him" and questioning why the NFL selected him as the halftime performer. Just last month, he told the New York Post that he would not attend Super Bowl LX, citing Bad Bunny and opening act Green Day as reasons. "I'm anti-them," Trump said, "I think it's a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible."

We'll have to wait until Super Bowl Sunday to see if Benito responds.

So, will Bad Bunny mention ICE or Trump at the Super Bowl?

Whether or not Bad Bunny directly addresses politics at Super Bowl LX, the act of bringing Puerto Rican culture and its history to the world's biggest stage is itself a statement. For Bad Bunny, music and identity have always been inseparable, and this halftime show will surely be no exception.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has broken the mold of what viewers expect from a Westeros-set show. It's smaller-scale, it's funnier, and it even sidesteps Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon staples like an elaborate title sequence.

These switch-ups from the Game of Thrones formula extend to the show's score, which sounds nothing like Ramin Djawadi's sweeping soundtracks for Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. Like all the stylistic differences between A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and its companion shows, these sonic differences are by design.

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"Obviously, the original series, which is the most beautifully scored series probably of all time, is quite epic and orchestral because of the nature of the drama that is unfolding," A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker told Mashable in a video interview. "And we are quiet and simple, and Dunk [(Peter Claffey)] has a very different energy."

To capture the energy of sweet knight Dunk and his friendship with squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), Parker looked to Dan Romer, the composer behind projects like Station Eleven, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Far Cry, and Parker's self-described "pie-in-the-sky" pick to work on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' score brings the Western to Westeros. Peter Claffey in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." Credit: Steffan Hill / HBO

Parker and Romer collaborated extensively and bounced ideas off one another throughout the making of the series. They knew that they wanted to bring a Western-style sound to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. After all, Dunk's story does follow some Western beats: A wandering hero arrives in a new town, crosses paths with a villain in Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), and winds up in a public duel.

"We wanted to give the feeling of a Western without actually having the sound of a Western," Romer told Mashable in a video interview. "We wanted the music to still feel like something that could exist in the Game of Thrones world, but still had a bit of a nod to a spaghetti Western, Ennio Morricone kind of vibe."

Enter one of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' most potent musical weapons: lilting whistled ditties, performed by Romer's frequent collaborator Giosuè Greco.

"People have been whistling since hunter-gatherer times. That sound can be anywhere at any time. So even though we haven't heard whistling in the Game of Thrones universe before, it works for me, where it doesn't feel outside of what could have been at that time period," Romer explained.

SEE ALSO: 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' episode 3: What does Egg's song mean?

For Parker, the whistle was the perfect entryway into Dunk as a character. "It sounds like the music that is playing most of the time in Dunk's head," he said. "He's just there, happy to be getting along. 'Hey, this is pretty nice. I'm a knight, I'm at a tournament,' and just whistling as he goes."

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' score also relies heavily on stringed instruments, including fiddles, cellos, and guitars.

"As far as using guitars, there's been guitar-type instruments forever in different parts of the world," Romer said. "I'm generally tuning the guitar in a way that feels a little bit darker than maybe a modern guitar would sound, but I think that sort of a sound works in that world. We can accept that sound as part of Westeros, for sure."

Romer worked on two main melodies for the show: a Dunk theme and an Egg theme.

"I think that because they're together so much, those things fade together," he said. The thing with themes is, it's difficult often to say, 'This is what the theme is.' You can do character themes, but I think often themes become situational over time. You can say what your intention for a theme is at the beginning, but then as you go on, it takes on its own meaning. Themes become what they want to become."

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms knows exactly when to unleash an epic score. Dexter Sol Ansell in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." Credit: Steffan Hill / HBO

One undeniable theme that appears in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is Djawadi's original Game of Thrones theme. The iconic tune gets repurposed twice in different ways across the show's first four episodes. In episode 1's opening minutes, Djawadi's theme swells beautifully, only to get cut off by Dunk pooping in a field. It's a toilet humor twist on audience's expectations of what kind of fantasy they'll be getting in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and a clever weaponization of Game of Thrones' own musical style. (The show pulls something similar in episode 4, when a rousing, epic fiddle theme leads into a fart.)

"You use two farts in six episodes, and it's all anyone ever wants to talk about," Parker laughed. "In the 14th century, they love their poop and fart jokes. They went crazy for this shit! Like Chaucer, that's all poop and fart jokes. But using the music as punctuation was important for us."

He continued: "A lot of it is playing on expectations, especially in a world as familiar as Game of Thrones. Sometimes you want to go directly against those, because we have a character who is very much not like the other characters that we have come to know in Game of Thrones. We wanted to say, 'This is his unique point of view. He still has all those normal feelings. He still feels that heroic call to action, but then he has, you know, a nervous stomach.'"

There are no nervous stomachs around when the Game of Thrones theme makes its return in episode 4, though, when Baelor Targaryen (Bertie Carvel) declares he will fight on Dunk's side in the trial of seven.

"Now the call of greatness is fucking here. Now it's go time. You'd have to be dead not to feel anything," Parker said of reusing the theme. "Then Dan Romer took that score, and if you watch all through the credits at the end, he melds it with Dunk's score, and I think it's honestly the most beautiful piece of music that I've ever heard. It just goes so well together. In that moment, it feels like, 'Oh, Dunk has become a real part of this world now.'"

Using the Game of Thrones theme is one of the rare instances when A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms diverges from the sweetness of the Dunk and Egg melodies. Other instances come in the tourney scenes, when audiences can hear the low droning of horns, as if the onlookers are sporting the Westerosi version of vuvuzelas.

"At those moments, we are blurring the line of what's score and what's happening in real life," Romer explained. To get the sound just right, he played peck horns, and he recruited his friend Kenny Warren, of the brass band Slavic Soul Party, to make homemade horns using piping from Home Depot.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms also breaks from its usual mode when it comes to the Targaryens, whose royal standing lies well above Dunk's humble origins. The music matches that, getting loftier and fuller when they're involved. When Aerion stabs Ser Humfrey Hardyng's (Ross Anderson) horse during a joust, he's accompanied by a darker, string-heavy, more villainous theme. When Egg reveals his true identity at the episode 3, Romer brings in more orchestral strings and operatic vocals to boot.

"There's something about [the Targaryens] that feels like they just want to have this more operatic, classical thing going on," Romer said. "That brings up a tradition or a history of villainy, almost."

"It's such a big turn. We couldn't stay away from how operatic this moment is," Parker said of episode 3's musical switch-up. And indeed, the reveal that Egg is actually Aegon Targaryen opens the show up beyond Dunk's relatively small world, both on a story level and a musical level. Without it, we wouldn't get musical cues like episode 4's meshing of Dunk's theme and the GoT intro.

These moments of more "epic" music are the exception, not the norm, of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' score. However, they're proof of careful curation, of knowing when Dunk's world radically shifts from his normal state of happy-go-lucky whistling to more dramatic Targaryen entanglements.

The result is a score that cannily bridges the gap between the preestablished musical conventions of Game of Thrones and the whimsical play of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

"When Dan came in, I don't even know how to say it musically, but it's almost like he added a little sparkle within the music that makes you feel like it's a coming-of-age story," Parker said. "It feels a little hopeful, amidst everything else."

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes hitting HBO and HBO Max Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.