Report: iOS 18 will give you more freedom when arranging your home screen

iOS 14 introduced home screen widgets and the App Library, the biggest improvement since iOS 7 switched to a flat visual style or maybe since iOS 4 added folders. Now another change is coming – Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the upcoming iOS 18 will make the home screen “more customizable”. There will be several […]

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Best Buy will give you $20 for free if you buy these already-great games or gadgets

What’s better than a discount? Getting stuff for free. Best Buy will give you a $20 promotional certificate for free if you spend $100 or more on eligible gaming products. To take advantage of the promotion you need to have a My Best Buy Plus or My Best Buy Total membership. That is admittedly a […]

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Sony Xperia 1 VI might give up on the 4K display and tall aspect ratio

Say what you want about Sony’s design language for its smartphones, but you can’t say it hasn’t been a consistent design language throughout the past few years. And apparently it will remain so overall – the Xperia 1 VI is now rumored to keep the same design but change two rather significant things ahead of […]

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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life

A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on the seabed around the Bahamas might be the solution to the widespread destruction of coral reefs. It could even save the world from coastal erosion. Industrial designer Tom Dixon and technologist Suhair Khan, founder of AI incubator […]

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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life

A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on the seabed around the Bahamas might be the solution to the widespread destruction of coral reefs. It could even save the world from coastal erosion. Industrial designer Tom Dixon and technologist Suhair Khan, founder of AI incubator […]

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Epic Games scraps the plan to give away three Fallout games for free

On 15 February 2024, Epic Games revealed that it would give away three games from the Fallout series — Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel — for PC on the Epic Games Store for free from 22 February 2024 to 29 February 2024. However, the company has made a sudden change in […]

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Epic Games scraps the plan to give away three Fallout games for free

On 15 February 2024, Epic Games revealed that it would give away three games from the Fallout series — Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel — for PC on the Epic Games Store for free from 22 February 2024 to 29 February 2024. However, the company has made a sudden change in […]

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Epic Games scraps the plan to give away three Fallout games for free

On 15 February 2024, Epic Games revealed that it would give away three games from the Fallout series — Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel — for PC on the Epic Games Store for free from 22 February 2024 to 29 February 2024. However, the company has made a sudden change in […]

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Samsung doesn’t want to give investors $500 million in dividends

Activist investors who own about 1.46% of Samsung C&T, the de facto holding company of Samsung Electronics, are calling on the company to increase shareholder returns by announcing a higher dividend and initiating share buybacks. They’ve proposed a plan that amounts of 1.2 trillion won or $900 million for both actions. Samsung C&T has submitted […]

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Oppo and vivo to give up on foldables while Huawei works on a 10-inch tri-folding device

According to a very sketchy sounding rumor, Oppo and vivo are ready to call it quits on foldables. This presumably includes OnePlus as well, since the OnePlus Open is basically the international version of Oppo’s Find N3. The reason for this decision by these brands is allegedly that their foldable market share fell “significantly” last […]

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Give your Valentine one of these silly cards, then woo them with a game for two

Ah, love is in the air, and it’s that wonderful time of year when you tell that special someone how much you care. But, while there are several Valentine’s cards out there to choose from, few feature your favorite video game characters. Even fewer offer the corny, eye-rolling phrases we all want to see. No […]

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Teardowns give us a look inside the Apple Vision Pro

It was about time for the Apple Vision Pro disassemblies to arrive. The two videos below are from JerryRigEverything and iFixit and end up at the same goal – opening up the Vision Pro and disassembling it in individual parts – but the way to getting there is contrasting. It should come as no surprise […]

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Provisional EU law to give customers extra 12 months warranty after repair

The European Council and Parliament have agreed on a provisional version of the right-to-repair directive. It puts forward a few key aspects – manufacturers will need to provide an extra 12 months of warranty to users after a repair, they’ll be required to offer spare parts at a reasonable price, and they will be required […]

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Edge extension support on Android will give you a genuine reason to switch from Chrome, as long as Microsoft doesn’t mess it up

What you need to know Microsoft is working on extension support for Microsoft Edge on Android. You can already test a small set of extensions within Microsoft Edge Canary. Extensions are popular on desktop browsers but only a handful of popular mobile browsers support them, including Firefox and Samsung Internet. Notably, Google Chrome for Android […]

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XREAL’s HoloLens-like Air 2 Ultra AR glasses give Apple’s Vision Pro a run for its money even before it launches

What you need to know XREAL just unveiled its Air 2 Ultra AR glasses, which are expected to start shipping in March, but you can pre-order them for $699. They are designed to compete against the Meta Quest 3, Microsoft’s HoloLens, and Apple’s Vision Pro. The AR glasses ship with a 120Hz refresh rate and […]

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“If you use incorrect data to train an AI model, then the AI model will give you wrong results, but it will also pretend as if it’s really confident about those wrong results.” Andrew Ngai, World Champion of Excel, states AI still has a long way to go

What you need to know The Microsoft Excel World Championship took place in Las Vegas and was live streamed and televised. Andrew Ngai was able to pull a 3-peat and is on his way to becoming the Michael Jordan of Excel. For Andrew’s accomplishment he was awarded 3000 USD and a championship belt. The Microsoft […]

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Give the gift of storage to the digital creators in your life this holiday

Whether the creative in your life is a photographer, a digital illustrator, or a videographer, there’s a likelihood that they are frequently required to juggle multiple media files. As technology improves and allows for higher resolutions in digital works, those media files balloon up in size, requiring more and more storage. This holiday season, high-capacity […]

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Threads could potentially give X (Twitter) a run for its money, having recently launched in the European Union

What you need to know Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta’s Threads app is now available in the European Union. The EU’s Digital Markets Act forced the company to postpone the launch of the app in the region due to regulatory uncertainty revolving around how the app would use personal data. Users can also delete […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 director shares GOTY acceptance speech he wanted to give at The Game Awards, but couldn’t: “Whereto and how we journey are what matter and what we remember”

What you need to know Baldur’s Gate 3, the critically acclaimed D&D-style RPG from Larian Studios, took home Game of the Year and five other awards during The Game Awards last week. However, like other winners at the show, director Swen Vincke’s acceptance speech was cut off by a restrictive 30-second time limit. A week […]

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Give the ultimate gaming gift this holidays with an RTX 4050 laptop for a crazy low price

The holiday season is in full swing, but there’s still time to buy that perfect gift for the gamer in your life. Or even for yourself, after all, you deserve it! You might have thought a good gaming laptop was a little out of reach, but if you’re quick, this Acer Nitro 5 is $300 […]

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