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LG launches 40-inch 5K2K monitor with Thunderbolt 5 connectivityDesigned for finance and IT, it supports advanced multitasking featuresHigh refresh rate and color accuracy support complex visual workflowsLG Electronics is expanding its B2B display offerings with the launch of the UltraFine 40WT95UF, a new 40-inch curved business monitor targeting enterprise customers in finance, IT, and other data-focused sectors.The monitor features a 5K2K resolution (5120x2160) with a 21:9 aspect ratio and is the first display of its kind to support Thunderbolt 5.The screen uses an IPS Black panel with a 2000:1 contrast ratio, supports up to 450 nits brightness, and offers DisplayHDR 600 certification. It delivers 95.0% to 99.0% coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a 5ms response time.Two Thunderbolt 5 portsA 120Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium should help keep visual output smooth, making the monitor useful for both data analysis and visual content tasks.The UltraFine 40WT95UF offers professionals an expanded digital workspace suited for working with large datasets or multiple applications. Picture-in-Picture and Picture-by-Picture functions allow multiple inputs to be viewed simultaneously, without the need for a second screen.LG says financial analysts can view dashboards and charts together, while IT professionals can manage code, timelines, or development environments more easily.Connectivity options include two Thunderbolt 5 ports, one DisplayPort, two HDMI ports, one USB-C upstream, four USB-C 3.2 downstream, two USB-A 3.2 downstream, an RJ45 port, and a headphone out.Thunderbolt 5 supports up to 80Gbps data transfer and 96W power delivery. Support for daisy-chaining allows for simpler setups and fewer cables.“LG is committed to developing advanced displays and integrated IT solutions that meet the evolving needs of enterprise customers,” said YS Lee, head of IT Business at the LG Media Entertainment Solution Company.“We will continue to offer industry-leading monitors tailored to each sector’s unique requirements, as well as a diverse range of IT products designed to help boost productivity across industries.”Via Videocardz(Image credit: LG)You might also likeThese are the best 5K and 8K monitors that you can buy right nowAnd these are the best monitors for photo editing on any budgetThis Lenovo monitor has more ports than an Apple MacBook Pro laptop

If you're stumped on what to get your dad for Father's Day, consider a digital gift like a Nintendo Switch Online membership or a subscription to MasterClass. The latter has appeared in many of our gift guides in the past, including our favorite gifts for teachers, but it's a great gift option at the moment because you can save up to 50 percent on annual subscriptions.

Currently, you can gift dad a one-year membership for up to half off. Take the MasterClass Plus subscription, which is down to $96 from $180 annually. It offers unlimited classes and access on two devices. Opt for a Premium membership for $120 for the year and dad can watch on up to six devices. Both of those tiers allow for offline viewing as well.

Then there's the Premium tier, which allows unlimited access across six devices. The sale brings this option down to $120 from $240 for the year. The cheapest option is the Standard subscription, which is also discounted, and it offers one class every three months on one device.

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Lenovo ThinkSmart One Pro combines PC power, AI, and conferencing gear into one surprisingly compact wall unitAI framing and video fencing promise a clearer call, but they’re hardly industry firstsEight microphones with DSP aim to eliminate echo, background noise, and meeting confusionIn an age of hybrid work and increasingly remote collaboration, Lenovo has unveiled what it claims is a groundbreaking all-in-one meeting solution.The ThinkSmart One Pro is a compact device merging compute, audio, and intelligent video into a single wall-mounted bar.Technically, the ThinkSmart One Pro is a full-fledged PC, but Lenovo is positioning it as a mini PC for modern conferencing, as it features a Full HD, high-definition camera with AI-powered functions like dynamic framing, intelligent zoom, and video fencing.AI-enhanced collaboration in a compact formThese tools enhance visual clarity, but they are not unique. Many of the best webcams on the market already offer AI framing and noise filtering.At the heart of the ThinkSmart One Pro is an embedded Intel Core i5 processor with Intel vPro, running Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, but its value may lie more in its integration than in introducing radically new capabilities.The 10.1-inch touchscreen controller, available in two models, provides intuitive access to video calls via leading video conferencing platforms like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, or Google Meet.The display supports anti-glare and anti-smudge features, and with support for HDMI and PoE, it addresses common concerns about lag and connectivity.The device's primary selling point is its audio capabilities, which include eight integrated microphones with 180-degree coverage and advanced DSP functions for echo and noise cancellation.It also has stereo speakers capable of producing 15 watts.This raises the question of whether such an audio array is truly necessary for the small spaces for which it is intended.Lenovo has also included Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) compatibility, allowing users to connect their laptops and benefit from the ThinkSmart One Pro’s antivirus capabilities.“Knowledge workers everywhere highly value well-equipped spaces enabling the latest AI-powered features and applications for meeting and collaborating,” said Marcus Kennedy, General Manager of Commercial Solutions at Lenovo.Lenovo also includes deployment support and a ThinkSmart Premium license for the first year.Pricing starts at $2,999 for the USB controller bundle, rising to $3,499 for the IP version.This device is not cheap, and it appears Lenovo is targeting organizations that prioritize seamless, enterprise-grade collaboration tools.Still, at these price points, potential buyers may want to consider whether bundling these features into one unit truly adds value over using separate high-quality components already available.You might also likeThese are the best mobile workstations you can buy right nowWe've also listed the best portable monitors for every budget and resolutionNvidia expands AI infrastructure reach in major push across Europe

Images of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 have leakedThey show off a thin frame and thick camera bumpA launch is expected sometime in JulyIt looks increasingly likely that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 are going to get their grand unveiling next month, and a couple of new image leaks have given us a better look at how the former handset is going to look.First up we have an image of a Galaxy Z Fold 7 case posted to Reddit (via 9to5Google) which shows how thin the phone is going to be – even when folded – and the significant protrusion the camera module bump is going to add around the back.Samsung has already confirmed that the foldable is going to be the thinnest one yet in the series, while other rumors have pointed to the possibility of a significant camera upgrade as well, which would explain the camera bump.Another leaked image, also posted to Reddit (also via 9to5Google) again shows off the thinness of the Galaxy Z Fold 7. This picture seems to be of a stand made for an event – possibly the Unpacked launch event rumored for July.A lot to look forward togalaxyfold from r/GalaxyFold/comments/1laduur/fold_7_camera_bump_is_hugeWhen it comes to the successor to the 2024 model, which you can read about in our full Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review, we've already heard plenty in the way of leaks and rumors over the past few months.Yesterday we heard that the foldable could get an improved version of Samsung's ProVisual Engine AI image-processing tech, which will bring with it improvements to photo quality, digital zoom quality, and video stability.Other rumors have been a little more vague: a well-placed source has said the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is going to bring with it 'industry-first' features, without being specific about what they are. Substantial screen, camera, or battery upgrades could be involved.Samsung itself has been teasing an "Ultra" foldable that's coming soon, which may mean this phone gets rebranded, or has a lot in common with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It would seem there's a lot to look forward to with the Galaxy Z Fold 7.You might also likeHere's why the Galaxy Z Fold 6 is my favorite phone yetThese are the best foldables you can buy right nowSamsung needs to improve the cameras on its foldables

Gen V season 2: key information- Releasing in mid-September - Launching with a three-episode premiere- First trailer arrived in June- Most of season 1's main cast set to return- Two characters from season 1 won't be back- Characters from The Boys could cameo- Story synopsis revealed- Will pick up after Gen V season 1 and The Boys season 4- Yet to be officially renewed for a third seasonGen V season 2's release date (it's September 17, for those wondering) is fast approaching – and, if you're a fan of The Boys and/or its college-based spin-off, your attendance this semester is compulsory.Gen V's next installment will pick up where its first chapter and The Boys season 4 left off. So, you'll want to be in class on time to immerse yourself in Amazon's live-action reimagining of The Boys.For now, you'll have to make do with revising everything we know so far about Gen V's sophomore season. From its trailer and confirmed cast to its plot and the future of The Boys franchise, there's a lot to learn about in this guide.Full spoilers follow for The Boys 4 and Gen V season 1.Gen V season 2 release dateA post shared by Gen V (@genv)A photo posted by on Gen V season 2 will be released worldwide on Prime Video on Wednesday, September 17.The reveal was made on June 2 at Mexico Comic-Con (CCXP) 2025, while an Amazon press release confirmed it'll launch with a three-episode premiere. New episodes will air weekly until the season finale drops on October 22.Gen V season 2 trailerThe first trailer for Gen V season 2 was also unveiled at CCXP 2025, which revealed how the series' next installment will tie into events depicted in its predecessor's final episode and The Boys' fourth season.I'll speculate on what this season's first round of footage tells us in this guide's plot section, so scroll on to learn more.Gen V season 2 confirmed castWelcome back?? pic.twitter.com/Kho4rwD5cTJune 1, 2025Full spoilers follow for Gen V season 1.Here are the actors (and their respective characters) who'll appear in Gen V season 2:Jaz Sinclair as Marie MoreauLizzie Broadway as Emma MeyerLondon Thor and Derek Luh as Jordan LiMaddie Philips as Cate DunlapAsa Germann as Sam RiordanSean Patrick Thomas as PolarityHamish Linklater as Dean CipherThe first six actors – or, rather, seven, because the gender-swapping Supe student known as Jordan is played by two people – all featured in season 1.Meanwhile, Linklater will portray Godolkin University's new Dean following the death of Indira Shetty in season 1 episode 7. Some of Jaz, Jordan, Emma, Cate, and Sam's fellow students are also expected to return, but Amazon hasn't announced which ones will yet.Given this show's ties to the wider universe of The Boys, there'll be plenty of cameos from characters who populate the main series, aka one of best Prime Video shows. Season 2's first trailer already confirmed Valerie Curry's Firecracker will make an appearance, but it's unclear which other Supes or members of the titular Supe-fighting team may show up.pic.twitter.com/vgFxUvmI6lMarch 30, 2024One actor who definitely won't appear is Chance Perdomo, who played Andre Anderson in season 1.Perdomo died in a motorcycle accident last March, but Gen V's creative team released a statement (see above) 24 hours later to confirm Andre wouldn't be recast. Instead, this season's narrative has been altered to reflect Perdomo's passing and, by proxy, Andre's in-universe death, which will occur off-camera between seasons 1 and 2.Gen V season 2 story synopsis and speculationMarie will be integral to the story woven through this season's eight-episode arc (Image credit: Amazon MGM Studios)Full spoilers immediately follow for Gen V season 1 and The Boys season 4.Here's the official plot brief for Gen V season 2: "School is back in session. As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander's iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever. Cate and Sam are celebrated heroes, while Marie, Jordan and Emma reluctantly return to college, burdened by months of trauma and loss."But, parties and classes are hard to care about with war brewing between Humans and Supes, both on and off campus. The gang learns of a secret program that goes back to the founding of Godolkin that may have larger implications than they realize. And, somehow, Marie is a part of it."That's quite a spoiler-filled synopsis, but it doesn't explain the events leading up to this season. For more on those, read my Gen V season 1 ending explained and The Boys season 4 ending explained articles.Cipher (center) is charged with turning its students into Supe soldiers for Homelander (Image credit: Amazon MGM Studios)As season 2's blurb confirms, Cipher has been hired as Godolkin's Dean for one reason only – creating a new army of Supes for Homelander. The latter is, as of The Boys 4's finale, the shadow leader of the so-called Free World. Steve Calhoun may be the outward-facing US President, but he swore his allegiance to Homelander in episode 8 of the main series' fourth season. So, Calhoun is just a puppet ruler whose strings are being pulled by Anthony Starr's homicidal Supe.Now effectively the commander-in-chief of the western world's greatest superpower, Homelander wants to use Godolkin's students as superpowered enforcers to maintain the autocracy of the United States. To that end, Godolkin's pupils will have to train and hone their superhuman abilities by battling one another. We catch a glimpse of this in season 2's first teaser, with Marie preparing to duel a fellow student in an audience-filled arena.Homelander became the shadow president of the United States in The Boys season 4 episode 8 (Image credit: Prime Video)Gen V season 2's plot synopsis also teases a "secret program" that Marie and company will unearth. Predictably, there's no word on what this clandestine (and likely experimental) initiative is, so we'll have to wait for the season to launch before this particular mystery is unraveled.It's not the only one that'll need solving. We'll also learn more about what happened to Andre Anderson between seasons 1 and 2, and the events that led to his off-camera death. I suspect we'll also see how Andre's death will lead his father, Polarity, to side with Marie, Emma, Jordan, and any other allies they may accumulate this season, to lead a rebellion against Cipher and, by proxy, Homelander.Lastly, it's plausible that Gen V's sophomore season will set up storylines for The Boys' fifth and final installment. Again, I'm unsure how this will be achieved, but I'd be shocked if one or more of Hughie, Starlight, Butcher, Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and Kimiko don't cross paths with Marie's renegade faction. If they do, that would set up a thrilling finale for the main series.Has Gen V season 3 been announced yet?In my view, Gen V's future will be determined by The Boys' final episode, which should wrap up Butcher's (pictured) story (Image credit: Prime Video)Not yet. Truth be told, Gen V's future largely hinges on three things: how well its second season is received, whether people tune in to watch season 2, and how The Boys' story ends.Where the last of those is concerned, The Boys season 5 will be the mainline show's last hurrah and is likely to bring Homelander, Butcher, Hughie, Starlight, and many other characters' stories to a close. If season 5 wraps up every major plot thread, including any outliers from Gen V's second outing, Amazon could decide to call it quits with its reimagining of The Boys there and then.That said, The Boys is one of the biggest and most-watched Amazon TV Originals of all time, so I'd be equally surprised if Prime Video executives don't want it to continue in some form. Should that prove to be the case, Gen V might be renewed for a third season.Of course, The Boys' universe has plenty more stories to tell. Other spin-off projects, such as a rumored Mexico-based one that'll reportedly star Andor's Diego Luna, could be developed alongside, or instead of, Gen V season 3, then. Until The Boys' final season debuts on Prime Video, though, we don't know what'll happen next.For more Prime Video-related coverage, read our guides on The Rings of Power season 3, Invincible season 4, Fallout season 2, and Mr and Mrs Smith season 2.

We're officially halfway through Playdate Season Two, and so far there have been no flops. Last week brought us a balanced serving of doom, gloom and delight, but this week is all about keeping things light and silly. That's not to say the latest two games are a walk in the park, though. The third drop of Season Two features Long Puppy and Otto's Galactic Groove!!, and as playful as they are, you're still in for a challenge. But when you need a break, there's always more Blippo+.

Long Puppy

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I'm convinced that Playdate developers are a different breed. This console has led me to some of the oddest games I've played in a while, and Long Puppy is yet another ridiculous but charming entry to the canon. It is essentially a game of fetch. You play as a dachshund on an outing with your owner, and all you have to do is retrieve the ball they've thrown. Simple enough, right? Normal, even? Of course not.

Each level is a complex obstacle course — platforms, underground chambers, rooms with doors that can only be opened from one side, etc. And you're working against the clock. After a certain amount of time passes, you'll no longer be chasing the ball alone. A ghost dog with razer-sharp chompers will show up to steal the ball from you and try to bite your head off. But none of that's the weird stuff. The weird stuff is in how you move and how you're scored.

The dachshund you play as isn't any regular dachshund. Its head can rotate a full 360 degrees, and whichever way you point it (using the crank) determines which direction you'll travel in. It doesn't just walk, either, but rather stretches forward and contracts like some sort of extreme Slinky-worm. There's food scattered throughout each level, and eating will make the dog's body grow longer and longer so it can cross greater gaps. The result is what looks like an alien wearing a dachshund suit and trying really hard to behave inconspicuously but failing. As you explore and collect food, you may also find some interesting pee to sniff. Yep, pee, and there's a pee journal that serves as a record of all the different types of urine you've encountered. Clown pee? Check! Loafing Cat pee? Check!

It's all incredibly silly. At the end of each level, once you've successfully brought the ball back to your owner, you'll have to make the dog take a massive poop using the crank, and the height of this dump (in feet) will tell you whether you finished with 100 percent completeness or not. Absurdity aside, the mechanics of this game are really interesting and make for a unique playing experience. It all seems at first like it's going to be a chill puzzle platformer of sorts, and then the ghost dog shows up to unleash chaos on everything. It's pretty fun. I am, as they say, a big fan of whatever the hell this is.

Otto's Galactic Groove!!

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Otto's Galactic Groove!! has been both a great and terrible thing for me. It's great in that it is a really cool take on the rhythm game formula, with a cute story and some fun tunes to jam out to. It's terrible in that it triggers my perfectionism in the exact way games like Guitar Hero used to, trapping me in a loop of replaying each song until I've hit every note to achieve a perfect final score. There's a lot of screaming involved. I may not be a strict completionist in some games, but rhythm games just do something to me, and I cannot rest until I see that 100 percent at the end of it all.

In Otto's Galactic Groove!!, a space version of those adorable "sea bunny" sea slugs named Otto has been sent on a mission to explore the galaxy and find inspiration for the alien music producer Tomie. Otto stops at several different planets to chat with eccentric characters and hear their songs, and you play along with them.

Now, there are three difficulty settings for this game, but if I'm being honest, none of them are particularly easy. Casual is the lowest and it's said to be a "gentle introduction," but it didn't feel so gentle in my first two or three attempts to keep up with even the tutorial song. I cannot even fathom what playing on Extreme would be like. This rhythm game doesn't just entail hitting a button at the exact right time as the note crosses a designated threshold — the threshold here is a moving, oval-shaped slider that you control using the crank. So you need to get the oval into the right place and hit the note at the precise time when it makes contact. Finding the sweet spot was tricky, too. I first assumed the notes would need to be in the dead center of the oval, but the target is actually somewhere right before that. A patch that's since been released seems to fix this, though, making the timing more intuitive.

The songs made for this game are fun and span different genres, so you won't feel like you're just listening to the same thing over and over again (unless you are, in fact, playing the same songs over and over again, like me in my futile quest for perfection). Early on, you'll encounter a fish with a case of the blues (his "girl-fish" broke up with him), and I quite liked his heartbreak anthems. Under the Jukebox tab in the menu, you can also find songs from other Playdate games like Resonant Tale and Bloom, which is a really nice touch.

This is another Playdate game in which the central story is told through a comic that you scroll using the crank, and I remain a fan of that approach. While it might not look like it from an outsider's perspective (my partner checked in on me multiple times RE: all the screaming to make sure everything was okay, especially after the game crashed and I lost all of my initial progress) I'm enjoying Otto's Galactic Groove!! a lot… just in a way that feels kind of masochistic.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-long-puppy-and-ottos-galactic-groove-130025012.html?src=rss