If you like to do your holiday shopping online, it’s important to make your purchases with enough time left before the holidays to account for shipping times. This can be a little tricky, as the closer we get to the holidays, the more people there will be trying to make last-minute purchases, and thus adding to already-lengthening shipping times. Several retailers offer purchase deadlines as late December 23 with Christmas delivery still guaranteed....

LE Audio— the next big thing in Bluetooth — is rapidly approaching, and Marshall wants you to know that the latest versions of its full-size homeBluetooth speakerswill be ready when it gets here. TheWoburn III,Stanmore III, andActon IIIare now compatible with the Marshall Bluetooth app, and as such will be able to receive software updates, including Bluetooth LE Audio compatibility as well as Marshall’s own multispeaker system for pairing several of its speakers to a single phone....

Before humansgive up the wheelfor good, Mercedes-Benz believes there will be a transitional period where people and machines share the workload. The German automaker’s Experimental Safety Vehicle (abbreviated ESF, for some reason) 2019 was designed to demonstrate how that could work. This safety-focused concept car is capable of driving itself, according to Mercedes, but also features safety tech to help human drivers. Based on aMercedes-Benz GLE, the ESF 2019 is capable of driving itself in most situations but still has a steering wheel and pedals....

Ti West’sPearlpremiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival to considerable critical acclaim. The prequel toWest’s well-received ’70s slasherX,Pearlstars Mia Goth as the titular character. Having already played the older version inX, Goth continues to show her versatility as a horror icon, delivering another compelling and engaging performance with even more bite. Rewarded for their consistency and effort, Goth and West will get their trilogy, as A24 announced a third and seeminglyfinal film in the series,MaXXXine....

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas found some striking oddities in theplanet’s atmosphere, including exotic lightning and slushy hail “mushballs.” Juno spotted an unusual form of lightning which is formed not from water clouds, like lightning is here on Earth, but from an ammonia-water solution. This “shallow lightning” sparks through Jupiter’s atmosphere, creating flashes which were captured by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit camera. Scientists had seen these flashes on Jupiter before, back in the 1970s from the Voyager mission, but they assumed these lightning storms were originating in deep water clouds, the same way they would be on Earth....

The four astronauts embarking on a mission to the moon next year have had their first good look at the Orion capsule that will take them there. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, got up close and personal with the Orion spacecraft during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center from where the moon-bound Artemis II mission is currently scheduled to launch in November 2024....

Earlier this week, alongside launching thePixel 4a,Google teased a pair of upcoming phones: The Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 it plans to launch later in the fall. Now, a series of leaks have revealed just about every detail you need to know about these devices. A report by Steve Hemmestoffer (@OnLeaks), who has a reliable track record, offers the best look (in collaboration with Indian outlets,91MobilesandPricebaba) at the Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 through a bunch of high-resolution renders....

It might not be Apple’s newiPhone, but Nokia wants people to know its been in the mobile Internet game for a long while now, and it actually has products availablenow,as opposed to maybe coming down the line in six months. Nokia’s newN800 Internet tablet, being shown off this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, is an update to its earlier N770 mobile surfing device. The idea behind the Internet Tablet is to let users keep up with their news, email, instant messaging, and Web services while also serving as a personal entertainment device with music and video....

Capcom has been firing on all cylinders for the past couple of years. They’ve given us some of thebest PS5 gamesalready, plus it hasResident Evil 9andMonster Hunter Wildsasupcoming video gamesto which we’re looking forward. But there was one beloved series we never thought would make a comeback:Okami.This PlayStation 2 classic was a beautiful action-adventure game made by the now-defunct Clover Studio, whose former members went on to form PlatinumGames. However, not only has that studio been reborn as Clovers, but its first project isOkami 2,a direct sequel to the cult classic....

Overwatch 2 finally nerfs Sojourn but she’s still absolutely broken Blizzard finally nerfed Sojourn in the Overwatch 2 March 25 update, but while the changes are a step in the right direction, players aren’t convinced they’ll end her dominance. Ever since the start of Season 15, which also introducedPerksfor the first time,Sojourn has emerged as the best DPS heroin the entire game. This is partly due to her insane mobility, but also her high damage output, which makes her a force to be reckoned with....

Scientists are turning to the beautiful and famousWhirlpool Galaxyto look for areas where stars could eventually be born. By mapping out the presence of particular chemicals, they hope to learn about the conditions that are required to give birth to new stars. Researchers have mapped out regions of cold gas within the Whirlpool Galaxy, as it is these pockets of gas that gradually condense to form the knots that are the seeds of new stars....

Screamboat serves first look at scary Mickey Mouse, and horror fans are calling it “garbage” A horror movie on animated classic Steamboat Willy is hitting screens this Spring, but based on a first look at the Mickey Mouse-esque killer in Screamboat, horror fans are not impressed. We’ve had horror Winnie the Pooh thanks to theBlood and Honey films, whilehorror Peter Panand Popeye are out soon, all thanks to beloved children’s characters entering the public domain....

The Mars Express orbiter has captured a series of images showing a stunning view of impact craters in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. The European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter took the images of the craters which sit in the huge Utopia basin which has a diameter of over 2,000 miles. The plain in this basin, called Utopia Planitia, is of particular interest as it has abundant ice both on its surface and just below its surface....