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Max Buondonno/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Motorola Edge (2023), that makes it compelling enough to recommend, as long as you can live with a few of its quirks. The best part? When it comes time to recharge, you've got 68W fast wired charging along with 15W wireless charging. Unfortunately, you'll need to BYOC -- that's Bring Your Own Charger -- since there's no power brick in the box. Regardless, at least you have truly fast charging on this phone, which can't be said for most modern flagships.Max…

Sony unveiled December 2023’s new titles for PlayStation Plus Premium and the Extra Game Catalog, and it contains some heavy hitters. While the addition of the PlayStation 4 and PS5 versions of Grand Theft Auto V will probably be the biggest draw for most players, I want to shout out the addition of what might be the most underrated modern Final Fantasy game: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Square Enix Released in March 2022, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is technically a prequel to the…

The ASUS ZenFone 10 is an ideal smartphone for many people in so many ways, it’s a shame it’s so underrated. We’ve picked the ASUS ZenFone 10 as our ‘Most Underrated Smartphone’ of 2023, and gave it an award to recognize that. Well, our readers seem to agree with us, as they did the same. We’ve placed a poll on X (formerly known as Twitter), and allowed our readers to share their opinion. The ASUS ZenFone 10 won in that category, rather comfortably. It managed to grab 39.1% of all votes, and is followed by the OnePlus…

The ASUS ZenFone 10 is easily the most underrated smartphone of the year; it deserves way more recognition. ASUS has been releasing compact flagship-grade smartphones for years now. Both the ASUS ZenFone 8 and ZenFone 9 were very compelling devices, and this year, the company launched the ZenFone 10. Much like its predecessors, the ASUS ZenFone 10 did not get the recognition it deserves, which is why we wanted to highlight it as the most underrated smartphone of 2023 as part of our yearly awards. The ASUS ZenFone 10 is…

Perhaps the most underrated entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, is free on PC through December 6. Those interested in living out the life of an Assassin in London during the Industrial Revolution can do so at the Syndicate giveaway page. As long as you claim your free copy before December 6, you will be able to play even after the promotion ends. Unfortunately, it looks like the promotion is only available on PC via the Ubisoft Connect launcher. At the time Assassin’s Creed…

Coda is surprisingly useful. It’s more powerful than Google Docs and more flexible than Airtable or Notion. You can use Coda to manage projects, organize research, or make interactive, collaborative documents. And as of October it has the most robust AI features of any document tool. (More on the new AI features below. Coda is so useful that I’m surprised how few people I know talk about it. Read on for Coda’s best features, example docs, and caveats.Here are Coda’s 10 best features.1. Embed multimediaYou can display…

As the holidays near, it can be a challenge to buy gifts for the most voracious book readers in your life—but 2023 has seen a ton of excellent fantasy books hit shelves, to the point that it’s been hard to keep up with all the greatest new material. Here’s 20 of our favorite underrated choices that will make the fantasy fan in your life very happy this year.Introducing People to Horror Films/Books | Stephen Graham Jones InterviewLooking for more gift ideas? Check out all of Gizmodo’s 2023 gift guides.The Thing in the Snow…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreat actors need great roles: they are the stuff from which icons are forged.Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle. Daniel Day Lewis’s Daniel Plainview. James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano. Cinema is full of stars who have come to embody their best characters in the popular imagination.But what about all the stellar performances that manage to fall through the cracks?This piece is about those…

Over the past century or so of animation, we’ve been introduced to some truly remarkable and iconic characters that have brought joy and awe to our lives while also bringing us back to the theater time and time again for the next step in their respective journeys., Poppy from the Trolls franchise is one of those characters that doesn’t get brought up nearly enough, and could be considered one of the most underrated animated characters we’ve seen in some time.As part of our partnership with AMC Theatres, where you can now…

Jordan Peele has a solid track record thus far regarding horror, so if there's word he's circling a remake of a film made by one of the Masters Of Horror, people listen up. Not only that, but Peele is looking to do a remake of one of the most underrated Wes Craven horror films in his catalog, and I'm sold on the vision he may have for The People Under The Stairs. The news right now is that Doom Patrol writer Ezra Claytan Daniels has signed on to pen the remake of The People Under The Stairs. Deadline reported Monkey Paw…