You might be hearing about future plans to colonize Mars or establish a base on the moon, but these ideas are older than humankind's first forays out of the atmosphere. In fact there have been several serious and semi-serious space colonization plans that obviously haven't panned out because there are no space colonies.

Browser games are almost as old as the web itself, and believe you me it saved many a boring computer class in high-school, or eternal Friday afternoon at work.

Google is such a huge search engine, that the very act of searching for something on the net is often referred to as "googling" something. Yet, Google has become a service that not everyone likes for reasons of privacy and, in some cases, even accuracy.

You might have seen the news reports with tongue-in-cheek segments noting the uptick in people collecting and listening to cassette tapes. Yes, those fiddly plastic rectangles I thought we'd left long behind once people figured out how to put a CD player in a car.

Against all my personal expectations that the fad would pass, vinyl records continue to be popular and there are hobbyists all over the world saying "no thanks" to digital music and prefer dropping a needle onto a vinyl disc.

You might not have thought much of Nintendo's recent update that introduced "virtual" game cards to the Nintendo Switch, but when you think about it a little, it has some profound implications for digital games.

While gameplay is the most important part of any game, music is an essential part of setting the mood or getting you pumped for the action that's to come. Over the years I've played thousands of games, and in a few rare cases the music was so good I had to stop what I was doing, and listen.

I still tend to think of miniLED technology as a high-end feature, with affordable entry-level and mainstream TVs still using backlighting, or a low number of large dimming zones. However, that's just not true anymore. There are now miniLED TVs for well under a thousand dollars—and they are awesome.

While it should surprise no one, there's been a pretty solid leak indicating that not only is a ROG Ally 2 on the way, but it's probably going to be soon. Soon enough to likely overlap, or be near to the release of the Nintendo Switch 2. If you've been lucky enough to secure a preorder of Nintendo's next handheld hybrid system, then there are some bits of info from the leak you might want to know.

As someone who lived through the fastest-shrinking period for technology in history, I love things getting smaller. Our first computer at home took up a whole desk, which I believe is why they called it a "desktop." Now, I have a tiny supercomputer in my pocket, which I use to doomscroll nonsensical Instagram videos at 4am.

The most important aspects of headphones are things like comfort, sound quality, and features. However, they're also something we wear on our bodies, or leave out in the open when not using them, so what a pair of cans look like is also pretty high up on the list.

Linux is in a lot of stuff, but did you know it's in ChromeOS too? Well, sort of. There's a strong connection between ChromeOS and Linux, but they aren't the same thing.

When you think "arcade stick" well you naturally think of the "stick" part, which is actually referred to as a "lever". That seems like a crucial bit, but there are in fact arcade sticks without the stick—leverless all-button controllers.

Xbox, the youngest of the extant major console brands, has been having a rough time over the past few years, with flagging sales and lackluster content starting with the Xbox One and dipping even further into the doldrums with the Xbox Series consoles.

Anthology shows combine the brevity of TV series episodes with the variety of movies, and you never know what the next episode will bring! I've always loved shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, but today might actually be the golden age of TV anthologies.

Chromebooks were designed to be cheap education machines, or lightweight and affordable portable work laptops. They were never meant to replace general-purpose laptops, or personal computers in general, which includes the entertainment functions of most devices.

Did you know that Steam was available on some Chromebooks? I didn't, until my boss sent me a Chromebook Plus and I stumbled on the installation option in its menus. A few clicks and a login later, and I was in business, but how good could it be?

Logitech's MX Master series of mice has become a common sight in YouTube videos or photographs of tech-savvy people's desk setups, but what makes this now-iconic mouse so special?

I like live action shows just fine, but I also like the recent trend of making animated spin-offs of popular live action shows. Some, like Star Trek: Lower Decks didn't really do it for me, but this is still an idea with plenty of potential.