Spotify announces free mobile streaming, Led Zeppelin deal, 20 new countries

Having just wrapped up its news conference in Manhattan, the popular Swedish startupSpotifyannounced that its namesake five-year-old music-streaming service is now providing a limited amount of music free on tablets and smartphones (with a few caveats), just asThe Wall Street Journalpredicted. Previously, only desktop and web streaming was free as mobile devices required a paid Spotify Premium tier. Also, Spotify is now available in an additional twenty new markets and has landed an exclusive content distribution agreement with Led Zeppelin, an English rock band formed in London in 1968....

June 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1005 words · Julie Duncan

Starfield(Be)

Beryllium (Be) is an Uncommon Tier 1 Resource in Starfield. It can be used in crafting various things in the game; from Weapons, Armor, and Consumables to Reaserch, Mods, and Structures. It has a Mass of 0.5 and Value of 12. This makes it a low value per weight item. Beryllium Item Code Players can spawn this item with the following console command: All Planets With Beryllium (Be) Beryllium (Be) can be harvested or extracted from the 181 Planets or Moons listed below....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Rick Duarte

Tesla Cybertruck Explosion At Trump Hotel Was No Ordinary EV Accident

Tesla Cybertruck Explosion At Trump Hotel Was No Ordinary EV Accident Shortly before 9 am on August 13, 2025, a blast rocked the Trump Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Footage soon appeared showinga Tesla Cybertruckexploding in a shower of sparks, and subsequently bursting into flames. While EV fires aren’t unheard of, there seems to be more to this particular blast than meets the eye. Speculation on social media was soon rife, with some observers noting that the explosion looked like fireworks....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 594 words · Tyrone Williams

The Best And Worst Years For The Chevy 350 V8 Engine

The Best And Worst Years For The Chevy 350 V8 Engine Internal combustion engines have fascinated gearheads and techies since their rise to popularity in the early 20th century. But not all engines receive the same love and admiration. Many enthusiasts adamantly proclaim that engines produced by their preferred automaker are the best — e.g., Ford fans may hold theFord Coyote V8above all other motors, while Mopar diesel fanatics claim the Cummins engine is the best ever....

June 6, 2025 · 4 min · 823 words · Michael Thornton

The fantastic Fantastical update hits the iPhone, we go hands-on

I’m a long time fan of Fantastical, a tremendously useful and well-designed calendar and to-do software for the Mac from Flexibits. Therefore, it goes without saying that I was tingling with expectation after the team had teased an iPhone experiencein early-November 2012. And now, less than three months since itsiPhone debut, developers Thursday pushed the first major update. It’s a must-have as it addresses a few omissions while expanding on core functionality with some nice enhancements that will admittedly boost your productivity....

June 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1049 words · Kyle Williams

The First Descendant Codes and Blueprints: How to get and use Amorphous Material Patterns

Amorphous Material Patterns are enigmatic items that have the potential to turn into any other item if Reconstructed in The First Descendant, giving you Codes and Blueprints. Let’s go over how it all works. Table of contents How to open Amorphous Material Patterns in The First Descendant To get Codes and Blueprints in The First Descendant, you need to firstopen Reconstruct Amorphous Material Patterns, which you may only do at certain Reconstruction Devices....

June 6, 2025 · 5 min · 963 words · Darin Mitchell

The Sandman Posters Spotlight Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, Jenna Coleman as Constantine & More

Dream the world anew with the latest posters from the upcomingNetflixfantasy adaptation,The Sandman. Released courtesy ofNetflix Geeked, the posters offer another look at Tom Sturridge as lead character Morpheus and put the spotlight on both Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian and Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine. The Sandmanwill bring seminal author Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel to the screen for the first time. The tale of dreams, nightmares, reality and fantasy is packed to the brim with captivating characters, and The Corinthian is by far one of the most terrifying in the bunch....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 511 words · Janet Bryant

The Story Of Toyota's First Sports Car And Its Lasting Legacy

The Story Of Toyota’s First Sports Car And Its Lasting Legacy Toyota started selling cars in 1958 with the Toyopet Crown sedan and, believe it or not, the Land Cruiser. During that first year of production, just 288 automobiles were sold: 287 Toyopets and one single Land Cruiser. In the early ’60s, just as Japan’s economy was flourishing post World War II, with the gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 10% a year, its automakers began experimenting with the new rage of “sports cars....

June 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1064 words · Rachel Wolf

Two Popular iPhone Games Get The Real Life Treatment

Angry Birds and The Incident are two fantastic games for the iOS platform. We talk aboutAngry Birdsa lot here at iDB, and The Incident is also one of our favorites. Both games have had great success in the App Store, and both titles have created brands that people love. In fact, people love them enough to create amazing real life reenactments of the actual gameplay… Video games have been parodied and reenacted for a long time, but few iPhone games have gotten their own real life parody....

June 6, 2025 · 2 min · 241 words · Ashley Holt

Where Is The Largest Toyota Factory In The World And How Big Is It?

Where Is The Largest Toyota Factory In The World And How Big Is It? In the decades since Toyota released its very first car in 1936 —the Model AA sedan– it has become one of the true titans of the modern auto landscape. One can only imagine that the company has grown beyond anything the designers of the Model AA might’ve foreseen when that car hit the streets of Japan. — even the most optimistic of business projections conjured by company bosses in the 1930s couldn’t have anticipated just how popular the Toyota brand would become in America....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Bobby Wagner

Who Wins the Race Between Superman and Flash? DC Officially Answers It

Follow us on Google News Get the latest updates directly in your Google News feed The debate on who’d win a race betweenFlashand Superman has been going on ever since the characters have existed. DC’s latest issue has answered who is the fastest superhero in its universe. Though the question has always sparked our excitement, the following article contains SPOILERS for Superman: Up in the Sky #4. It’s not the first time that the two prime heroes have been bid against each other....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Wesley Carter

Why This WW2 German Fighter Jet Was Destined To Fail

Why This WW2 German Fighter Jet Was Destined To Fail People don’t intentionally set themselves up for failure, and things aren’t deliberately built to malfunction. But when desperate times call for desperate measures, mechanical solutions that follow can be an abject disaster. Such is the case with the Germany military’s Heinkel He 162 Volksjager (or the “People’s Fighter”), the world’s first operational single-engine jet fighter. Colloquially, it was known as the Salamander in hopes of exuding the creature’s fabled ability to withstand fire....

June 6, 2025 · 4 min · 754 words · Anthony Haas

Will Counter-Strike 2 Be on Consoles? – Answered

Previously in gaming history, cross-platform has just been a wild imagination, but as time progressed, a great bunch of multiplayer games have become cross-platform, which means you may duke it out with and against people from PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Unfortunately enough, CS:GO didn’t quite celebrate itself on consoles, but some players still hope that there might be a chance that Counter-Strike 2 lands on modern-age PlayStation and Xbox iterations. Will this be the case, however?...

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 608 words · Holly Ochoa