Report: Apple video service will mix free original content with subscription channels

Cupertino plans on introducing a new digital video service beginning next year. The cost to Apple device owners will be zero, according toCNBC. In what’s being described as part of a new digital TV strategy, Apple has decided to marry original content and subscription services from so-called legacy media companies. In doing so, owners of the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV will find the new content available for free, according to “people familiar with the matter....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Robert Smith

Review: Turtle Beach Recon Controller

Turtle Beach is well known for their gaming headsets but recently announced they were going to take a stab at the controller market. Their first available controller is the Recon controller, designed for use with Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Personal speculation on how this controller came to be is some Xbox One controllers require a special adapter to have a 3.5mm input for headphones, so one way to circumvent that limitation is to create an Xbox controller that has a headphone jack....

July 11, 2025 · 5 min · 859 words · William Clark

Rogue Demon: How to get Sun Breathing

Rogue Demonis aDemon Slayer Robloxanime game that allows you to use Sun Breathing. While Demons use Blood Demon Art, Demon Slayers use different Breathing Styles to defeat their foes. If you want to be a master of Sun Breathing, you’ve come to the right place. Note:Regardless of your Blood Demon Art or Breathing Style, you’ll want to learnhow to execute inRogue Demon. How to get Sun Breathing inRogue Demon The best part aboutRogue Demonis that all available Blood Demon Arts and Breathing Styles are available to everyone from the very beginning....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 487 words · Colleen Williams

Save $100 on the 5th-Gen iPad Air

Apple iPad Air (5th Gen.) With a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display and the powerful M1 chip, you’re able to multitask through your work day with the Apple iPad Air (5th Gen). Right now, you can snag it for $500, saving you $100. If you’re heading back to school and want something more portable than a laptop,tabletsare a great option. With various productivity and note-taking apps, they make for great digital notebooks, and a keyboard case can even protect and convert your tablet into a more comprehensive laptop....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Kaylee Dunlap

Sony ditches the telephoto lens on the Xperia 5 V, playing a cunning zoom trick instead

Sony Mobile has announced the Xperia 5 V. Despite the somewhat baffling name, it follows the pattern of previous Sony launches, with a September announcement for the compact powerhouse. That’s right, this is a flagship-grade phone, packed with power and performance, but in a more pocketable package. But while Sony’s design has been consistently similar over the past few years, the Xperia 5 V has made a change around the back....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 600 words · Kimberly Smith

Sphero Specdrums combine music, coding and finger-tapping fun

Sphero is known best for making coding robots, like the Boltand BB-8, but now it’s turning its attention to music creation. Called Specdrums, it comprises an app-enabled ring that users can tap against a brightly colourful mat or other coloured surfaces to make music on an attached iOSor Android device. The fabric mat is just that, there’s no tech incorporated, it’s the ring that works the magic. It includes an accelerometer, light sensor, LEDs and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 601 words · Sarah Elliott DDS

The High-Stakes Lawsuit Against The Internet Archive (And Why It Matters For You)

The High-Stakes Lawsuit Against The Internet Archive (And Why It Matters For You) Exactly whatThe Internet Archiverepresents to you probably depends on when you discovered it and subsequently, how you’ve used it. The massive non-profit digital library is probably best known for The Wayback Machine, it’s cache of massive swaths of web pages going back decades. At a time when all sorts of websites and/or their article archives have been deleted, covering outlets ranging from CNET to Gawker to The Messenger to MTV News among others, it makes sense, but it’s far from the entirety of the Archive....

July 11, 2025 · 10 min · 1984 words · Paul Bond

The Hunger Game prequel: Release date, trailer, more

Despite it only having been out for three years, it felt like we’ve had to wait for an absolute age forThe Hunger Gamesprequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to finally land as a movie. It officially lands in theatres and cinemas around the world on 17 November, meaning by the time you’ve read this guide it may already be out and available to watch. Hunger Games prequel: Official title The Hunger Games prequel movie is called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes....

July 11, 2025 · 4 min · 693 words · Kimberly Combs

The World's Biggest SUV Is A Beast

The World’s Biggest SUV Is A Beast The United Arab Emirates is a nation not known for automotive understatement. In a country boasting some of the rarest rides and most rabid car collectors in the world, it’s tough to do something new. Every fresh acquisition has to contend with mad motor spectacles, ones ranging from Zarooq’s 518-horsepower Sandracer luxury dune buggy topolice cars that appear to be from the futureand what may be the first road-legal solar-powered car (viaKhaleej Times)....

July 11, 2025 · 4 min · 758 words · Christopher Rogers

U.S. agency offers code-of-conduct for apps collecting user data

Are you concerned about the personal data collected by various mobile apps? A U.S. government agency feels your pain, sort of. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has issued a draft of a voluntary code of conduct it hopes will improve user privacy. Although the NTIA is an arm of the same government rifling through your emails and other Internet activities, the agency head modestly called the voluntary guidelines a“seminal milestone”in protecting mobile privacy…...

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 351 words · Carlos Hart

Uber’s next self-driving car, a hat-wearing Volvo, will start testing in 2020

Sweden-based Volvo and California-based ride-hailing giant Uber have unveiled what they brazenly call a production vehicle ready for autonomous driving. Developed jointly by the two companies, the SUV opens the next chapter in their three-year old collaboration. Don’t expect to see one at your nearest Volvo dealer anytime soon, however. Like earlier prototypes, the model is based on Volvo’s second-generation XC90. It looks almost like a regular-production SUV, but the hardware attached to the roof rails confirms it’s anything but stock....

July 11, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Ryan Rose

What are Tera Shards for in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet?

Fans of the long-running Pokémon franchise know that in every installment comes a new wave of abilities and functions for players to take advantage of. In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, this comes as a new feature called Terastallization which gives Pokémon the ability to transform into crystallized versions of themselves with more powerful moves. These moves are determined by Tera Type, which can be any of the 18 types you may encounter throughout the game....

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Anthony Gordon

What Faction In Fallout Is Strongest?

Whether you’re talking about the world we live in or the fictitious hellscape that isFallout’spost-apocalyptic America, there’s one thing you can bet will always be present in both, and that’s power struggles. It’s a tale as old as time, and the reason for it all is presented best by Maximus in the recentFalloutTV adaption. Everyone wants to save the world; they just disagree on how. Fallout 4: 10 Tips And Tricks We Wish We Knew Sooner The Beginner’s Guide to the Commonwealth!...

July 11, 2025 · 11 min · 2325 words · Marilyn Patel