A United Nations report indirectly accuses smart assistant providers like Apple, Google and Microsoft of reinforcing gender bias by using female assistant voices by default. Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Google’s Assistant on Home speakers and Amazon’s Alexa are by far the most popular digital assistants out there. In the vast majority of cases, all of these assistants default to a female voice. Some assistant use female voices exclusively, like Alexa, and others allow the user to change voice gender in Settings, like Siri....

Apple on Mondayunveiled its AirPods Pro earphoneswith active noise cancellation. According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball who yesterday published his first impressions of the new earbuds, Apple will sell the AirPods Pro replacement tips at four bucks a piece. AirPods Pro ship with three pairs of flexible silicone ear tips that Apple claims were designed to conform to the contours of each individual ear. Their primary purpose is creating a seal to block out outside noises, which helps with active noise cancellation....

Free kicksare great opportunities to score easy goals and take the lead in EA Sports FC 24. In EA FC 24, there is a lot of scope for the players to show their creativity on the field, including the free kicks they can take during their games. While some of the players can score goals from free kicks using their brains and skills, most of them follow a specific technique to approach the much-important kick....

Hogwarts Legacy has finally allowed the Deluxe Edition users to start playing the game, and players need to know the best PC performance settings. The game is up and running for PC and console users worldwide. The joy of finding yourself in the wizarding world feels amazing but at the same time, the right settings to keep playing the game without any lags are equally important. Here are the best PC performance settings forHogwarts Legacy....

It’s taken some time, but a trio of big franchises have finally hit the Switch thanks to 2K. Bioshock, Borderlands, and XCOM all make their debuts with massive collections in both physical and digital formats. Each collection is available either in a piecemeal form digitally, or you can get the games physically and get a mix of some game data on the card, but the vast majority needing to be downloaded via an eShop download code....

There’s only one thing better than playing games and that’s collecting every piece of merchandise tied to them. There was nothing like flipping through your favorite gaming magazine and seeing a profile of a limited edition collectible or discovering a piece of memorabilia from a beloved game in an overlooked corner of a shop and it’s a feeling we strive to replicate every month as we look through our own collector’s cabinet and dig out items new and old to show the world....

The developer studio Bungie confirmed that Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, and Destiny 2: The Witch Queen are the campaigns that will be available to users who already own the base version of the game. Destiny 2 users have time to catch up with the latest expansions of the game before the arrival of Destiny 2: The Final Shape, the new downloadable content that will be available starting from June 4th....

During the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour yesterday, Appleannouncedthat its new dramatic mystery series titled “Home Before Dark” will be launching exclusively on the Apple TV+ video service on Friday, April 3. “Home Before Dark” will debut its first three inaugural episodes on April 3, with subsequent episodes confirmed to arrive weekly thereafter every Friday. The show, inspired by the reporting of young investigative journalist Hilde Lysiak, has already been renewed for a second season....

In this Elden Ring Sword of St. Trina Build Guide, I’m showcasing mySlumbering Swordstressbuild. This New Game Plus build leverages theSword of St. Trinato induce the Sleep status effect on enemies. Many players have requested a sleep-based build, and I’ve reserved this for New Game Plus. The reason is that this build requires twoSword of St. Trinaswords, which can only be obtained by progressing to New Game Plus or by having someone drop an extra sword for you in your initial playthrough....

All iOS devices come standard with a finely-polishedWeatherapp and a Weather-centricNotification Center/Today widget, but wouldn’t it be nice if that same weather information appeared in places that actually mattered? Asteroidis a new freejailbreak tweakdeveloped byMidnightChipsandThe Caslethat brings live weather information to various interfaces found throughoutiOS, such as theHome screen, the Lock screen, and the Weather app icon itself. If the concept sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it draws a lot of its inspiration from aging jailbreak tweaks like Forecast andMeteorfrom previous jailbreaks....

End Of An Era: E3 Is Officially Dead In a move that will undoubtedly disappoint gaming enthusiasts worldwide, E3, the landmark annual expo for the video game industry, has beencanceled, this time around, for good. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the event’s organizer, confirmed the development via Twitter on August 22, 2025. For those unaware, ESA has regularly hosted the event for well over 20 years, with the first-ever E3 expo dating back to 1995....

Once the main story is done and dusted, FFXIV presents players with the Allied Tribes quests, where they can easily level up their Crafters and Gatherers while helping out multiple tribes in various endeavors. And there’s also a final quest that wraps up all of these stories in a single tale. Where to Start Endwalker’s Tribal Alliance Quest Before starting the Endwalker Tribal Alliance quest,players must first complete all of Endwalker’s previous Tribal Quests until they reach the Bloodsworn reputation level....

Following Apple’s confirmationthis morning that it will begin accepting online orders for the iPad Pro this coming Wednesday, developer FiftyThree has now updated itsPaper drawing appwith support for Apple’s upcoming device and full compatibility with the Apple Pencil. In addition, today’s Paper update brings out pressure-sensitive inks on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus smartphones via 3D Touch and the ability to reorder Spaces from the Space Settings dialog....