Sony Linkbuds S review: Super sounding

Sony has, for many years, been one of the top choices for headphones. With flagship product lines like the 1000X grabbing awards and headlines, there’s no shortage of quality, if you’re happy to spend big bucks. With the emergence of a new brand early in 2022 - LinkBuds - we thought this name would be reserved for thoseunique open-ear headphones, but not so. It’s also applied to the LinkBuds S, which land as a sort of sub-flagship model, replicating much of what theWF-1000Xoffer, but in a more affordable package....

August 9, 2025 · 8 min · 1562 words · Monica Beltran

Sprint taking $100 off iPhone 5c and 5s models for new customers

Withboth new iPhonescoming to Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile this week, expect to see providers put in a little extra effort to lure in new customers. After all, this is the first time ever that Apple’s popular handset will launch on all 4 major US carriers. Sprint, for example, announced today that it will be offering a $100 instant credit to folks porting in their number to their network from another carrier....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 316 words · Elizabeth Johnson

Survive Raccoon City with our ‘Resident Evil 2’ tips and tricks

Capcom’sResident Evil 2remake might look similar to its action-focusedResident Evil 4orResident Evil 5at first glance, but the game is still very much rooted in survival-horror. Fornewcomers to the genre, it can be difficult to surviveRaccoon City’smany zombies and monsters, not to mention the puzzles found around nearly every corner. Tips and tricks to surviving in Resident Evil 2 Staying alive during the zombie apocalypse in Resident Evil 2 isn’t easy. Zombies are harder to take down, resources are scarce, and you’ll be doing a lot of moving around through areas where your safety will be compromised....

August 9, 2025 · 7 min · 1302 words · Nancy Dunn

Tesla's Full Self-Driving tech is now on Cybertrucks

Teslais finally delivering a promised version of itsFull Self-Drivingfeature forCybertruckowners,Electrekreports. The automaker has squeaked through a September launch window, delivering 12.5.5 v12 software to drivers in its early access program. Based on Tesla’s track record, it’s likely that other Cybertruck owners won’t have access to FSD until late October – if not November or later. The company could hypothetically postpone a wide rollout if unexpected glitches surface. The best electric cars for US roads These are the best EVs you can buy right now....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Lawrence Sutton

The 10 Best Movies About Music Culture

Music is a universal language. Listeners rejoice when the airwaves play their favorite song on the radio. The disc jockey holds a catalog of one-hit wonders, party anthems, and slow jams to choose from. From earworms to ear candy, music is the sometimes speechless sound of the soul. Music breaks down barriers and brings people from different backgrounds together. The right song can speak volumes and enter the collective consciousness. Music has the power to identify and demystify the culture anyone belongs to....

August 9, 2025 · 5 min · 892 words · Dennis Wilson

The Pagani Huayra Codalunga Is The Retro-Inspired Supercar You'll Never Be Able To Buy

The Pagani Huayra Codalunga Is The Retro-Inspired Supercar You’ll Never Be Able To Buy Pagani is one of those auto companies that practically all car people love, but most will never get the chance to experience in person. This isn’t only due to the hefty price tags of these art house performance cars, but rather due to the extremely limited production of each of Pagani’s offerings, as the company is famous for exclusivity (viaSupercars)....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Stephen Johnson

Tom Swift Gets Canceled at The CW After One Season

The CW continues to shed its weight with more series cancelations, this time putting an end to theNancy Drewspinoff seriesTom Swift. From CBS Studios,Tom Swifthad debuted on The CW in May to kick off its eight-episode freshman season. That first season will turn out to be the only season for the series, asTom Swifthas officially been canceled, perThe Hollywood Reporter. The remaining episodes in the season will continue to air on The CW but no new seasons will be developed....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 472 words · Tina Sanders

Trigraphy photography app picks up new effects, gains albums and document support

Trigraphyby Nixes, a beautiful app for turning your photographs into low-poly artwork, was refreshed in the App Store earlier this week with a few new tricks. Bumped to version 2.1.2, the software gained two new effects alongside an effects bundle and other perks. For starters, it’s now possible to open images in Trigraphy from other apps because the app has gained its own Document Provider extension. The built-in gallery now supports albums and users can change how images are saved and how 4K assets are handled, which should fix problems related to 4K download....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 356 words · Patrick Rivera

What can Gemini Live do? 10 unique things to try

Besides a more enhanced conversation, Gemini Live is designed to be more agentive, which means the AI can actually do things for you, like build a playlist or draft an email. Users can interrupt the AI, pause a conversation to resume later, or look up the transcript from their chat. Gemini Live began rolling out in English to Android devices on Aug. 13, and it requires a subscription to Gemini Advanced, which is part of the $20 monthly Google AI Premium option....

August 9, 2025 · 6 min · 1260 words · Jesse Fox

Where to farm Spicy Peppers in Zelda TotK (Tears of the Kingdom)

In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Link must again take up arms to save Zelda and Hyrule from the coming evil. Link’s journey will send him across Hyrule, uncoveringshrinesand other secrets. Link’s culinary skills are just as important in this new adventure, as you’ll need to cook food to provide Link with different buffs. Spicy Peppers are used to give cold resistance and are hugely important, we’ve found. Here is where to farm Spicy Peppers in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 290 words · Kenneth Clark

Windows 95 at 25: Here's why it changed the PC world

Windows 95 was released to the public 25 years ago today. Back then, you needed to go and buy it on a disc - CD-ROM was was the format of choice, but it also came on 13 floppies if you wanted that. Windows 95 introduced many firsts for PCs including long file names, accessibility features and is a notable entry in the Windows canon for three key reasons: Everyday people could get online It seems totally nuts now, but in the mid-1990s home PCs couldn’t get online....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 581 words · Shari Carter

WSJ: Hulu is working on a cable-like digital pay-TV service

Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journalreportsthis morning that Hulu has been busy putting together a cable-like subscription offering that’d include content from partners like Disney and Fox while providing such advanced features as a cloud-based digital video recording (DVR) capability, live TV and more. The service sounds a lot like a rumored skinny TV bundle that Apple’s been unsuccessfully trying to create. Analysts have estimated that Hulu may charge consumers about $40 per month for the yet-to-be-announced service, which won’t launch before 2017....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 273 words · Aaron Winters

‘PatternUnlock’ brings Android inspired security to iOS

PatternUnlockisn’t the first jailbreak tweak to hit Cydia that features an Android-like pattern unlock pattern, but it is, perhaps, the best. Other jailbreak tweaks like AndroidLockXT can lay claim to being the first, and some may prefer the vast amount of options offered with that tweak. I prefer PatternUnlock, however, because of its ease of use, design, and impeccable documentation. It’s a tweak that plays nice with stock iOS, and compliments the standard experience instead of making it feel obtuse and disjointed....

August 9, 2025 · 4 min · 678 words · Destiny Williams