Twitch banned in Spain after football league attempts to stop online piracy

Twitch banned in Spain after football league attempts to stop online piracy Twitch, along with dozens of other private websites, are being blocked en masse by ISPs in Spain due to piracy concerns from the LaLiga football league. Twitchis one of the most popular live streaming websites in the world — but while numerous influencers have made their careers broadcasting original content on the platform, some use it to skirt around copyright restrictions,pirating TV showsor movies so others can watch for free....

June 26, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · Curtis Harrison

Twitch is going to space as NASA locks in out-of-this-world stream

Twitch is going to space as NASA locks in out-of-this-world stream NASA is set to go live from outer space as a unique Twitch stream hosted from the International Space Station has been announced, giving viewers a chance to interact with astronauts from all the way back down on Earth. While we’ve all sorts of innovative streams on Twitch over the years, be it Twitch Plays Pokemon or the rise of marathon broadcasts, NASA is set to take a giant leap for the streaming industry....

June 26, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Paul Jones

Use NZXT’s system to make sure your gaming PC rocks your favorite games

Building a new gaming PCcan be a real pain, something that is getting even more difficult as AMD ramps up its CPUs and GPUs with Ryzen and Vega to more strongly compete with Intel’s Core CPUs and Nvidia’s GPUs. Simply put, knowing exactly which combination of components will optimize the performance of your favorite game is a challenge. PC maker NZXT understands this, which is why it has put together a way to build a custom gaming rig....

June 26, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Tina Jones

Watch the skies — China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’ space station will crash tonight

The out-of-control Chinese “Heavenly Palace” will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere tonight and meet a fiery end — or at least most of it will. Space agencies around the globe have been tracking the school-bus-sized space station as its orbit decays, and the most recent forecast from the Aerospace Corporation predicts it will begin to break up at 8:10 pm Eastern Time (0010 GMT Monday, April 2), plus or minus a couple hours....

June 26, 2025 · 3 min · 618 words · Elizabeth Thomas

Who is “Baby Jinx”? New Arcane Season 2 character Isha explained

Who is “Baby Jinx”? New Arcane Season 2 character Isha explained You might have noticed “Baby Jinx” making her debut in Arcane Season 2, but who exactly is the new character Isha and is she in the League of Legends games? It’s a fair enough question to ask, given not all of theArcane charactersare LoL champions. And this is one of the reasons theNetflixseries is so well-loved. Riot Games’Christian Linke and Alex Yeehave drawn from the source material while establishing a story that appeals to both fans and newcomers....

June 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1182 words · James Brown

Wi-Fi vulnerability could allow attackers to steal your data on unencrypted sites

Computer scientists at theUniversity of California, Riverside, have discovered a security flaw that affects all Wi-Fi routers. Hackers could exploit the weakness in the transmission control protocol (TCP) and perform a web cache poisoning attack to steal passwords, login information, and other private data. Unfortunately, a fix isn’t possible, as the vulnerability stems from a 20-year-old design based on TCP and Wi-Fi. To prevent hackers from using the exploit, researchers recommend that manufacturers build routers that operate on different frequencies for transmitting and receiving data....

June 26, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Steven Lopez

You Asked: Can YouTube actually fix OLED burn-in?

On today’s episode of You Asked: Can certain videos on YouTube actually help fix burn-in on your OLED TV, or will they make things worse? We’ll also revisit the best TVs for watching sports, and talk about how to record and watch sports if you’ve got a dumb TV in a spare room. And we’ve got a quick run-through on the best picture settings for your new TV. Is it burn-in?...

June 26, 2025 · 7 min · 1342 words · Robert Hudson

3D-printed wearable monitors gastrointestinal activity, if you can stomach it

If we are what we eat, as the old adage goes, then the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the organ system that brings us into being. Almost everything that passes into our mouth gets broken down in our stomach and absorbed in our bowels, before making its ignoble exit. Our overall health and wellbeing is thus largely dependent on a properly functioning GI tract. From acid reflux and chronic fatigue to anxiety and depression, the GI tract is the nexus for a slew of health disorders....

June 25, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Daniel Ward

After Star Trek III, Spock’s Mind Was Saved By…His Mirror Universe Counterpart?

Summary Spock returned to life in the thirdStar Trekfeature film thanks to the effects of the Genesis Device, but his mind was restored by his Mirror Universe counterpart. Although Spock returned to life at the end ofThe Search for Spock, his mind was still in disarray, but as revealed in 1985’sStar Trek#12,his goateed Mirror Universe variant played a vital role in bringing Spock back to form. Star Trek#12, first published by DC Comics, was written by Mike Barr and drawn by Tom Sutton and Ricardo Villagran....

June 25, 2025 · 3 min · 463 words · Mary Merritt

AirPop’s Active+ Smart Mask tracks your breathing like Fitbit tracks your steps

With the Active+ Smart Mask,AirPopbrings Fitbit-style health tracking to your face, but instead of being all about steps and calories, it’s about your breathing and air quality.Face maskshave become part of everyday life over the last year, and even when the coronavirus pandemic passes, many may consider wearing a mask more often, and AirPop has given you a reason to choose a more high-tech version. A sensor, which AirPop calls the Halo, is the smart part of the mask, and measures your breathing rates and monitors the filter installed in the mask....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 405 words · Brooke Harper

Amazon looks to expand its cashier-free Go tech to supermarkets, pop-up stores

Supermarket cashiers would be a thing of the past at Amazon Go’s new supermarkets and pop-up stores slated to open next year. Bloomberg reportsthat Amazon is expanding from its Go convenience stores to enter the supermarket realm, and is looking to license out its technology to expand to even more retailers. The basis of Amazon Go’s stores is that customers can walk in, grab what they need, and go. An Amazon Go Supermarket would be larger than its convenience stores and offer more products, but have the same concept....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Tara Wilson

Ambulances spotted at Terrifier 3 screenings as viewers “pass out” in theaters

Ambulances spotted at Terrifier 3 screenings as viewers “pass out” in theaters If you need medical attention during Terrifier 3, don’t worry: some theaters have ambulances on standby amid reports of viewers fainting and vomiting at the new movie. Evidently,Terrifier3 doesn’t mess around. If you’ve watched the first two movies in the franchise, that shouldn’t surprise you. After all, we’ve already seen women cut in half from crotch to skull and teenage girls literally ripped limb from limb in their bedrooms, so how bad can it be?...

June 25, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Sean Harvey

Android 16 might give its own spin to iPhone’s Dynamic Island alerts

Over the past few weeks, we’ve come across some interesting details about the next major build of Android. Currently in developmentunder the apparent codename of Baklava, Android 16 will reportedly bring a cool new feature calledPriority modes for notifications. If that sounds familiar, that’s because Apple already offers a bunch of focus modes toward the same goal and bolsters the system withAI-assisted priority notifications in iOS 18. It seems Google doesn’t want to be left behind, and in doing so, could very well lift from a popular iPhone trick....

June 25, 2025 · 3 min · 465 words · Mark Ibarra