Anime fans “looking forward to” VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral TV show

Anime fans “looking forward to” VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral TV show VTuber fans and anime fans can often go hand in hand, and now a new adaptation series is set to truly combine the two. VTubing has become a rather large phenomenon. The format, in which YouTubers, be they gamers, vloggers, or anything, take on the form of a virtual Avatar. There is a real person working behind them, but you likely never see them....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Tina Shaw

Apple patents advanced Liquidmetal processing techniques as new gadgets loom

We’ve been waiting and waiting (and waiting) for aLiquidmetal Apple gadgetever since that 2010 deal saw Apple acquire worldwide exclusive rights to use the amorphous alloy (also known as metallic glass) in consumer electronics applications. 2012 went and gone without aLiquidmetal iPhone, or iPad or MacBook for that matter. At the end of 2012Apple extended the dealwith Liquidmetal Technologies (a Caltech spinoff) or another two years, through 2014. Still, the iPhone maker has yet to use the alloy in gadgets, even though it’s owned the rights to it since 2010....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · 726 words · Lisa Green

Apple researching headphones with head gestures that track fitness and health data

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday published a newApple patent No. 8,655,004for a“sports monitoring system for headphones, earbuds and/or headsets”. The system could also employ head gestures to control various features and could be a nice companion for an Apple wearable device project. The invention encloses integrated activity monitors in a set of headphones to pick up such health and fitness related metrics as temperature, perspiration, heart rate data and more…...

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Erica Barron

Apple services price hike: TV jumps to $7, Apple Music to $11 and more

Apple is hiking the prices of services like TV+ and Music. The Apple One bundle is going up, too, but iCloud storage pricing hasn’t changed. Apple TV+ and Apple Music boost subscription prices The monthly price for the individual Apple Music subscription went from $10 to $11. The yearly plan was boosted by $10, from $99 to $109. The monthly TV+ subscription climbed to $7 from $5 before, with the annual option now priced at $69 instead of $49....

August 20, 2025 · 3 min · 587 words · Randy Larson

Best Carrack .300 Loadout in Warzone 2 DMZ

Sniper Rifles have had a rough time inWarzone 2andDMZ. For the longest time, it seemed like the developers were happy to neglect the weapon class. This issue was remedied by adding a few One Shot Sniper Rifles, and you cancheck out our build guideif you want to try those. So what if I told you the new Carrack .300 couldn’t kill in One Shot? It’s useless, right? Well, not exactly, and I’ll explain why....

August 20, 2025 · 3 min · 574 words · Brooke Davis

Best Fantasy Movies on Tubi to Watch Right Now

If you’re looking for some truly dazzling, cinematic magic to lose yourself in,Tubihas you covered with its enormous library that offers something for every mood. The streaming service houses thousands of titles acrossgenres like action, romance, sci-fi, and Westerns. It’s also the perfect place to go to when you’re in the mood to escape into fantastical worlds. Buried within Tubi’s sparkling crevices is a treasure trove offantasymovies that either make you nostalgic or leave you in complete awe....

August 20, 2025 · 9 min · 1709 words · Jonathan Scott

Best Genshin Impact cosplays of all time

Since the release of Genshin Impact, we have seen hundreds of cosplays. But which one is the best among all of them? The anime aesthetic that Genshin Impact provides, makes it one of the top choices for cosplayers from all over the world. Till now, we have seen a lot of cosplays of our favorite Genshin Impact characters and also have been mesmerized a lot of times. But certainly, there are few cosplays that make themselves stand out from the others due to the extraordinary effort that the artists put behind them....

August 20, 2025 · 6 min · 1214 words · Mark Schneider

Camera+ On Its Way Back After Volume Button Shutter Debacle

Theentire situationthat went down withCamera+probably ranks near the top as one of the weirdest events of 2010 for iPhone owners. This rings especially true if you happened to own or were considering purchasing Camera+ at the time of its banishment. Essentially the story went like this,tap tap tap— the app’s developer —snuck in a hidden methodto enable the volume buttons to function as physical shutter buttons for the iPhone’s camera. Apple didn’t like this, and as expected, removed all traces of Camera + from theApp Store…What’s odd is that tap tap tap was completely mum over what happened, not so much as a peep....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Brandon Davis

Chrome Hands-On: Teething Pains & Terms Of Service Privacy Concerns

Chrome Hands-On: Teething Pains & Terms Of Service Privacy Concerns After several hours runningChromeand exploring its functionality, hands-on reports are coming in from all over the web. As you might expect for the first release of beta software – even software Google claim has been in development for two years and tested thoroughly at the Googleplex – there are various bug sightings and issues. Multiple SlashGear readers are finding that vertical scrolling, particularly on notebook touchpads, ispresenting some problems, with the most common complaint being an inability to scroll back up the page....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · 773 words · Alexander Murray PhD

Cricket 22 review: Bowled over or bowled out?

In the pantheon of global sports translated into videogame form, cricket has long been a poor relation. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Codemasters' Brian Lara Cricket franchise achieved a high level of popularity, but in recent years only Australian developer Big Ant Studios has kept the cricket-game flame burning. Happily for cricket fans, Big Ant’s 2021 effort, Cricket 22, is now available – just in time for the start of the sport’s most epic Test competition, the Ashes....

August 20, 2025 · 7 min · 1415 words · Crystal Smith

Do Water Powered Engines Really Exist?

Do Water Powered Engines Really Exist? With more and more countries investing in green energy, people are constantly looking for new sources of power to heat their homes and run their electronic devices. Water makes up 71% of the Earth’s surface, and it’s renewable, so it makes sense that some might start looking to power engines with it. A traditional internal combustion engine generates power using combustible oil products like gasoline to activate a spark plug that moves the pistons in the engine to power the device hooked up to it, like a car or an electric generator....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · 699 words · Sandra Chandler

Does Last Epoch have seasons? Cycles, explained

If you’re used to video games like Diablo 4 and its seasons, you’re probably wondering how it works for the Last Epoch, which has its own thing called Cycles. So what are Cycles, and do they work the same way as seasons do? We’ll explain everything about this unique system that Last Epoch has. Last Epoch: Do Cycles work like seasons? As soon as you jump into Last Epoch, you’re greeted with quick character customization and a choice of either a Standard or Cycle character....

August 20, 2025 · 3 min · 461 words · Jamie Arnold

Dune Awakening Coriolis Storm Weekly Server Wipe and Landsraad Cycle Explained

In this guide, we shall go over the Coriolis Storm, its consequential weekly server wipe, and the Landsraad Cycle in Dune Awakening. Dune Awakening has tons of content for you to explore. You’ll spend hours going through every nook and cranny, and just when you think you’ve seen everything the game has to offer, Dune Awakening brings you the Deep Desert. The Deep Desert is an endgame PvP area in Dune Awakening that also exists in an entirely different game mode from the main world....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Lindsey Mccoy