Raunak Saha

I’ve been running an RTX 5090 on my desk for a while now, and when DLSS 4.5 dropped, I wanted to actually sit down and test it properly instead of just going by NVIDIA’s slides. So I fired up five very different games, ran back-to-back comparisons on my curved MSI monitor, and paid close attention to both the numbers and what my eyes were actually telling me. Here’s what I found.

The 2026-27 UEFA Champions League league phase draw wrapped up Thursday, Aug. Arsenal, last season’s beaten finalists, landed Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Borussia Dortmund. Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain will host Barcelona at the Parc des Princes and travel to Manchester City and Aston Villa. Eight months after the Lisbon final, Europe’s elite now know the first chapter of their road to Budapest.

A beam of laser light just carried data hundreds of meters through turbulent South African air — and arrived almost perfectly intact. Researchers from Wits University and the University of Bordeaux reportedly achieved a 98% fidelity rate, dropping only to 86% under the worst weather conditions in their test.