3D Touch app switching gesture to return soon to iOS 11, says Apple

With iOS 11,Apple has inexplicably removedthe popular app-switching gesture that was available on iPhones with 3D Touch. Fortunately, it’s just temporary because Apple’s reportedly confirmed bringing that tremendously useful feature back with a future iOS 11.x update. Apple previously acknowledged that the app-switching gesture was intentionally removed from iOS 11, but now software head Craig Federighi,replyingto an email from MacRumors reader Adam Zahn, has said they’ll be bringing it back in an upcoming iOS 11....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · Leslie Gordon DDS

5 Of The Best Free Text To Speech Apps For Android And iPhone

5 Of The Best Free Text To Speech Apps For Android And iPhone It’s no secret how reading on screen for long periods can eventually lead to eye problems. If you’re someone who typically reads documents and books on your phone and computer, chances are you occasionally suffer from eyestrain and headaches. Fortunately, you now have the option to listen to your digital notes rather than read them, thanks to the rise of text-to-speech (TTS) apps....

August 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1362 words · Allison Carter

AAXA P1 Pico-Projector With 1GB Storage & Mediaplayer

AAXA P1 Pico-Projector With 1GB Storage & Mediaplayer There’sanother pico-projectoron the scene, this time the AAXA P1, and unlike many other examples we’ve seen it doesn’t use a Texas Instruments chip. Instead, the P1 uses AAXA’s own proprietary LCOS chip, capable of projecting a 60-inch image at 640 x 480 with 12 lumens brightness. As well as connecting to your iPod, PSP or any manner of external sources, it also has 1GB of internal storage, a microSD slot and an onboard media player....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 422 words · Anthony Bennett

Adobe CC update with content-aware crop in Photoshop and more now available

Photoshop maker Adobe todayannouncedavailability of a major update to its Creative Cloud suite of applications, which brings out the previouslypreviewed content-aware crop in Photoshop, performance enhancements across Creative Cloud, new features in Adobe Stock, and various updates to other apps in the suite. Adobe Stock sports deeper integration within other CC apps and now provides access to a new Premium collection of high-quality stock content. With one-click workflows, Adobe Stock users can put a stock image on their canvas with a click....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 247 words · Stephen Ball

All compatible and incompatible devices for Star Wars Hunters

Are you wondering if your iOS or Android device can run Star Wars Hunters? We have you covered, as this guide lists all compatible and incompatible devices for Star Wars Hunters. Star Wars Hunters: All compatible devices At the time of writing,Star Wars Huntersis available for theNintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. That said, not all iOS and Android devices can play the game. Below you will find a full list of all compatible and incompatible devices for Star Wars Hunters....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Charlene Martin

All Damage Types in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and what they mean, explained

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands continues the Borderlands tradition of giving you more guns and loot that you can carry. Many of these weapons will also have unique effects and damage types. Here are all the damage types in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, including the new Dark Magic. Fire damage does125% damage to flesh, red health bars,and can cause targets toIgnite. Ignited enemies take high damage over a five-second duration. Ice damage does115% damage to bone, grey health bars,and canslow enemies eventually freezing them....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 214 words · Linda Allen

All Mutations in Rainbow Six Extraction and what they do

In Rainbow Six Extraction, players will tackle objectives in teams of three, facing off against the new alien threat with fellow Operators. Mutations are an in-game mechanic that makes the game more difficult for players during their operations. Knowing the mutations and how to best combat them is essential, especially when playing on higher difficulties. Spontaneous Sludge Archaeans killed when the Spontaneous Sludge mutation is active eave behind Sludge that damages players heavily if they walk on it....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Ms. Danielle Barton DDS

All Signal Tower Locations in Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon Forbidden West’s massive open-world provides players with plenty of activities to do aside from the main story. One of the most rewarding aspects of the game is the many collectibles that players can find scattered around the world.Signal Towersare the first collectible type that players will encounter in Horizon Forbidden West. Signal Tower Locations There are six Signal Towers in total and all of them can be found relatively close to each other....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 361 words · Oscar Valenzuela

Amazon announces a new sphere-shaped Echo, Luna game streaming service, and a Ring drone that flies around your house

If you ever thought about having a security drone that can fly around inside your house,Amazonis here to give you what you want. Today, Amazonhosted a hardware eventto reveal a whole bunch of new products. As is par for the course, the company unveiled quite a bit, including products under the Echo brand, the Ring banner, and a brand new cloud gaming service. So let’s just dig right into the good stuff....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1004 words · Michael Brooks

Apple AirPods Pro 3: What we know so far

A lot of people seem to treatAirPodsas the de facto option when they get an iPhone or iPad, even though there are plenty ofthird-party earbudsout there, some of them arguably better. We get it, though – AirPods are right there at the Apple Store, and they’re tightly integrated with the company’s platforms, even more so than Beats products like theBeats Fit Pro. you may switch from sharing music on your iPhone to watching movies on an Apple TV in a matter of moments....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 745 words · Richard Sampson

Apple engineers explain how the M1 silicon came to exist

Apple’s most senior engineers and its marketing chief sat down with The Independent to discuss the company’s new M1 laptop chip that’s replacing Intel silicon in Macs. Apple’s marketing boss Greg Joswiak, software engineering chief Craig Federighi and hardware engineering head John Ternus spoke withThe Independentshortly after Tuesday’s “One More Thing” Apple Silicon Macs event has finished. Federighi explains they couldn’t believe how quite a step up in terms of speed the M1 really is:...

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 795 words · Todd Espinoza

Apple yanks China app carrying books critical of the government

Apple has again moved to prevent anger from China. The Cupertino firm has pulled one bookstore app from the China iTunes store which hosted several titles by authors critical of the government. Among the ten titles affected by the bookstore app’s removal were three by a banned Chinese author and political activist. The books focus on the long-running dispute over China’s occupation of Tibet, as well as the author’s detention by the country’s state security....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Gabrielle York

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review

The fires of Rubicon will continue to be stoked, if not by the Coral that we so desperately wish to contain, then by the visible waves of heat emitting from my forehead as I get this much closer to slamming my controller into a desk because of BALTEUS. As someone familiar enough with the FromSoftware library to know that their games are normally not my bread and butter, I decided to challenge myself when asked to review this particular title in the long-running and much beloved Armored Core series....

August 6, 2025 · 10 min · 2088 words · Sydney Schwartz