5 car features I think are still more hype than help

When it comes to car tech, there’s nothing more annoying than something that never works like it was promised to or should. Whenever something inside my car freezes up or simply glitches out, I get wickedly annoyed. Sometimes, even the biggest and brightest minds among us can drop the ball on a piece of tech that never pans out quite the way it should, and that’s about as common in the automotive space as any other....

August 11, 2025 · 7 min · 1300 words · Crystal Smith

Animate or add conditional effects to notification banners with Yokumiru

Although the iPhone’s nativenotificationsystem is faily stout in its present form, that’s not to say that it couldn’t benefit from a tiny bit of imagination. Perhaps that’s one reason why we see so many different jailbreak tweaks that change the aesthetics of iOS’ notification banners. One of the latest of such releases is a newjailbreak tweakdubbedYokumiruby iOS developerPlat_Ykor, which can augment incoming notification banners with slick animations, apply specialized badges to those that contain a user-designated keyword, or conceal the contents of those notification entirely until you’re ready to view them....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Brian Gonzales

Apple Might Build An iPhone SE 4, But You Won't Be Able To Buy One

Apple Might Build An iPhone SE 4, But You Won’t Be Able To Buy One It looks likethe next-gen iPhone SEwon’t hit the shelves until 2025, but if it comes as any consolation, it will most likely come equipped with an in-house 5G modem. TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who maintains a solid track record of Apple supply chain prediction, says the company is currently eyeing an engineering prototype of the next iPhone SE with its own 5G baseband chip....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 450 words · Christopher Miller

Apple shows interest in the technology behind charging stations for electric vehicles

In yet another indication that Apple’s secretive electric vehicle effort, dubbedProject Titan, isn’t just a pipe dream, Reuterssaidin a report this morning that recent hirings have revealed Apple’s interest in exploring the technology behind charging stations for electric vehicles while hinting that it could consider engineering a similar technology. Apple is talking to charging station firms The Cupertino firm is currently talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to Reuter’s sources and profiles of these engineers on LinkedIn....

August 11, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Joseph Thornton

AppleCare One is the device protection plan I’ve always wished for

So, what’s the benefit? Well, instead of paying separately forApple Care+ plansfor each device, users can now club their gadgets together and pay a flat monthly fee. The companypromisesyou can save up to $11 per month incoverage feeswith the new service. The strategy mirrors the company’s software-only product called Apple One, which also combines access to Apple Music, Arcade, iCloud+, and TV+ in a unified package. The service, which is clearly aimed at Apple loyalists, will hopefully save a few extra dollars in coverage price when customers pay for each device separately....

August 11, 2025 · 4 min · 812 words · Emily Crane

Baldur's Gate 3 to Include One of The Most Requested Features In Patch 7

Baldur’s Gate 3anticipates one of the most interesting features of Patch 7, which among the new functions comes to improve local multiplayer. This will mark the end for the game developed byLarian Studiosin September 2024. Baldur’s Gate 3 to Include One of The Most Requested Features In Patch 7 Every journey has an end and the namedBest Game of the Year 2023, will conclude after the summer, shortly after celebrating its first anniversary....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 553 words · Donna Berry

Best Smoke Spots on Dust 2 in CS2

Dust 2 is an iconic map and was even around in the days of OG Counterstrike. Decent players always roughly know where you are, but you can use smoke grenades to change that. Here are the best Smoke Spots on Dust 2 in CS2. Why you should use Smoke Grenades in Counterstrike 2 Before we dive into the Smoke Spots, let me quickly sell you on their value if you don’t use them often....

August 11, 2025 · 4 min · 735 words · Trevor Hall

Best zombie games of E3 2018-lint

If you’re a fan of the undead, boy are you in for a treat. There are plenty of games coming that feature them, as we discovered duringE3 2018. Whether they be Clickers, Crawlers, The Infected or just plain, old zombies, they are shambling towards us in the next few months and into 2019. Here then are the zombie games that stood out during the show. And there’s one thing they all have in common; they all want to eat your BRAAAAIIINNNSS!...

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 629 words · Cynthia Gonzalez

Disney+ Releases She-Hulk Genre Bucket, Confirms MCU’s First Superhero Comedy

Follow us on Google News Get the latest updates directly in your Google News feed The wonderful ladies of the MCU will be the focus of Summer 2022. Ms. Marvel is all set to conquer fans’ hearts this June, Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster will triumphantly come back in Thor: Love and Thunder, and Jennifer Walters will premiere with her own streaming show, She-Hulk, towards the end of the summer. She-Hulk has been touted as a Marvel world courtroom comedy starring Tatiana Maslany as lawyer Jennifer Walters as she navigates her legal job and recently discovered abilities....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 544 words · Jeremy Higgins

EA removes Apex Legends from Steam Deck due to Linux cheating

Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it’ll be removingSteam Deckand Linux players’ access to its battle royaleApex Legendsin an effort to combat cheating, effective immediately. In apost on theApex Legendsforums(spotted byThe Verge) an EA spokesperson said it made this decision as part of its anti-cheat efforts. Basically, EA found that many of the exploits and cheats it’s trying to combat came throughLinux distros. So it decided to block access for Linux users....

August 11, 2025 · 2 min · 274 words · Samuel Chang

Final Toy Story 4 Poster & New TV Spot Shine a Spotlight on Bo Peep

Toy Story 4is on the way and Disney•Pixar have released a new poster and TV spot to celebrate the upcoming release. The highly anticipated sequel doesn’t hit theaters until June, but Disney has been out promoting the movie quite a bit lately while announcing the franchise will have a presence on the Disney+ streaming platform. Newcomer Forky, voiced by Tony Hale and Bo Beep, voiced by Annie Potts will receive new shorts on the upcoming streaming platform, which launches in November....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 469 words · Randy Dixon

Forgot your Apple ID password? How to quickly reset it

Those of you with an Apple ID know how crucial it is when you also own an Apple device or want to use an Apple service such as the App Store,iCloud,iMessage,FaceTime, andApple Music. Heck, an Apple ID is required when you set up any new Apple device. But sometimes your Apple ID’spasswordcan be compromised or maybe you forgot it. Either way, you should change it now just to be sure and secure....

August 11, 2025 · 2 min · 325 words · Carmen Andersen PhD

Hades 2 Warsong Update Now Available, Adds Final Confrontation to the Surface Route, More

Developer Supergiant Games has released the second major update toHades 2. Titled “The Warsong Update,” it’ll add the Final Confrontation to the surface route of the story among other additions to the popular roguelike that’s currently available on PC through Steam Early Access. Expanding on Early Access Hades 2 was released on Steam back on June 09, 2025, but instead of being complete from the start, the developers released an early access edition for it....

August 11, 2025 · 3 min · 614 words · Andrew Murray