Apple's AI battery management has me on the edge of my seat for iOS 26

Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference is right around the corner – tune in June 9, by the way – and hype is mounting, as you’d expect. Rumors have swirled around a switch to year-based OS names, as well as a global visual overhaul, marking Apple’s biggest makeover since iOS 7. Expect your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to look a lot more like theVision Pro, with translucent frosted windows everywhere. It should be interesting, even if I was just fine with iOS 18....

July 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1119 words · Elizabeth Riley

Best Zenless Zone Zero Characters

Hoyoverse’s free-to-play RPG Zenless Zone Zero offers a large and diverse cast from humans and oni to even anthropomorphic animals. There is a character for everyone to enjoy and their respective faction to match your vibe. With new characters constantly dropping, each with their own types and abilities, you’ll be able to customize and build many strong teams from your collection. Is Zenless Zone Zero Gacha Based? Zenless Zone Zero going gacha would be frustrating for some RPG fans....

July 23, 2025 · 7 min · 1453 words · Peter Ross

Biomorph Soulslike Metroidvania Reveals Action-Packed Combat Style

Biomorph is a 2D Soulslike Metroidvania blended with base-building elements. This is one of the titles presented in Gamescom 2022’s indie showcase. Here, you play as an enigmatic ninja feline (or what appears to be one) named Harlo in search of the truth behind your origin as well as a crumbling civilization. Biomorph is developed and published by Lucid Dreams Studio, the same creator of the 2D Action-Adventure title known as Legends of Ethernal....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 777 words · Dustin Dunn

Black Shark 3: The big boss of gaming?

We’re now up to the third-generation Black Shark phone. The brand was among the first to emerge as a ‘gamer phone’ maker, offering really powerful internals and hardware that’s designed to give you the best mobile gaming experience. What we’ve found in the past, however, is that such devices are just really good value high-performance phones. You don’t have to be a so-called gamer to enjoy the speed, battery and media capabilities - and the same holds true for the Black Shark 3....

July 23, 2025 · 11 min · 2186 words · Ronald Stuart

Bullet Train Maintains Top Spot at Box Office With Second Weekend

All in all, it was a fairly quiet weekend at the box office, thoughBullet Trainwill take the win by earning the No. 1 spot upon its second weekend in theaters. Directed by David Leitch, the film features A-lister Brad Pitt in the lead as part of a strong ensemble that also includes Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Sandra Bullock. It wasn’t cheap to make with a budget of around $90 million....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 433 words · Joshua Perez

Can you evolve Stantler into Wyrdeer in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet? Answered

Stantler is a deer-like Pokémon that was introduced in the second generation of Pokémon and returns again in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. In Pokémon: Legends Arceus, Stantler was given a new evolution that you could ride around the region of Hisui named Wyrdeer. You were able to evolve Stantler into Wyrdeer by using the movePsyshield Bash20 times while in agile mode. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in the latest title. In fact, even though you are able to catch Stantler in theSouth Province (Area Five)andSouth Province (Area Three), youaren’t able to evolve them into Wyrdeerat all....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Leslie Lindsey DDS

CD Projekt Red Confirms Multiplayer for Cyberpunk 2077

Developer of upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has revealed that multiplayer will be available after launch. CD Projekt Red Confirms Multiplayer for Cyberpunk 2077 CD Projekt Redup until today hasnot concretely confirmed plans for multiplayerbut have said it was at the R&D stage. However, in a post on theirTwitteraccount today, they announced the confirmation for multiplayer. They also have shared that DLCs will also be released following the release of the title in April, that will include free single player content....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 279 words · Deborah Wolfe

Chusma notifies users when they’re being tracked via Apple’s ‘Find My’ service

Chances are you probably wouldn’t like it if someone you knew secretively began tracking your every move via Apple’sFind Myservice, but would you actually ever know if someone was? Apple unfortunately doesn’t provide any sort of straightforward notification to let you know when your handset is being tracked, but the jailbreak community now offers a solution for that. Say hello to a newly released and freejailbreak tweakdubbedChusmaby iOS developerItaybre. Once installed, this tweak provides its users with real-time push notifications whenever anyone begins tracking your iPhone or iPad with Apple’s first party Find My service....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Daniel Fields

Comcast's Xfinity Stream Outage Had Terrible Timing For NFL Fans

Comcast’s Xfinity Stream Outage Had Terrible Timing For NFL Fans Comcast has confirmed that a widespread service outage impacting its Xfinity Stream app, making it unavailable for football fans who were relying on the platform as their NFL Sunday kickoff destination, has been fixed. The outage had started at around 1 p.m. Eastern time, seemingly affecting a sizeable percentage of users across the service and even the Xfinity Stream website, which displayed an error message when accessed....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Jennifer Hogan

Destiny 2 Salvation’s Edge Raid walkthrough: All bosses, encounters, and rewards

The Salvation’s EdgeRaid finally brings Guardians face to face with the Witness for the final showdown in Destiny 2, but getting to the Witness requires completing a series ofencountersthroughout the Raid first. Salvation’s Edge is one of the coolest Destiny 2 Raids Bungie has ever created, but the mechanics take some getting used to for new players. Thankfully, Salvation’s Edge is a fairly straightforward raid once you get the hang of things, and there are a lot of repeated mechanics fromThe Final Shape campaignso you should be at least somewhat prepared before going in....

July 23, 2025 · 13 min · 2764 words · Tammie Kelley

Double-dock iPad prototype pops up on eBay

MacRumorspoints us to aneBay listingshowing an interesting prototype of the first-generation iPad that features two dock connectors, one for portrait and the other for landscape mode. An Apple patent applicationfrom September 2010 first indicated Apple had at early stages considered giving the iPad a second dock connector for landscape docking. This also confirms an old rumor that Apple originally planned on launching a dual-dock iPad, but changed its mind in the last minute....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Kimberly Turner

Everything you need to know about Forspoken

When the PlayStation 5 was first unveiled in mid-2020, we got a glimpse of multiple big games coming down the pike for the new console, and one of the most intriguing was Project Athia. Now, a good while later the game is finally out, with a different name - Forspoken. We’ve got all the key details for you, right here. Forspoken trailer and release date As we said, the first glimpse of Project Athia came in mid-2020, but Square Enix showed off a little more, and confirmed that the game was called Forspoken, in March 2021 as part of a livestream....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 659 words · Brian Moreno

Google Pixel 8 Pro Features And Design Revealed In Leaked Video

Google Pixel 8 Pro Features And Design Revealed In Leaked Video Google as a company has many strengths, but keeping secrets isn’t one of them. Several months in advance of its official unveiling, the latest leak of the Pixel 8 Pro has proven no exception. Earlier today, a short video was published by91Mobilesand Kuba Wojciechowski showing what appeared to be an internal demonstration of the upcoming phone’s ability to read a person’s body temperature....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Lisa Harris