Posts

The next Samsung Galaxy Watch model to launch will be the first to use the new Wear software platform developed by Samsung and Google — and it’s coming this summer. Samsung teased the smartwatch during its Mobile World Congress 2021 virtual event, and also provided some more information on the new software, but stopped short of telling us anything about the watch itself. Samsung gave us a hint about what the software will actually look like....

Shopify Rebellion head explains joining the LCS and partnering with Moist One of the heads of Shopify Rebellion spoke to Dexerto about purchasing TSM’s LCS slot, partnering with Moist Moguls in Valorant and the future of esports. Shopify Rebellion made back-to-back blockbuster announcements on September 20. The Canadian e-commerce company’s esports division revealed their purchase ofTSM’s former LCS slotand also showcased their partnership with influencer-lead Moist Esports in Valorant. The esports side of the public company has been competing in titles since 2021 and has a presence in Valorant, Rocket League, DOTA 2, Starcraft and Halo....

Starfield players “reassured” by massive March patch changelog The latest Starfield patch, currently in Steam Beta, has players optimistic for the future of Bethesda’s massive space RPG. Since its release last September,Starfieldhas garnered pretty mixed reviews. While some have spent hundreds of hours in the game and are stilldelighted to find more secretsin its massive universe, others fell off of it pretty quickly, citing aweak gameplay loopandunderwhelming story content. Not helping the matter was the fact that Bethesda was initially slow to release updates....

Social media use has recently been shown toincrease depression and anxiety, but a new survey of teenagers points out the ways that such sites can be beneficial too. ThePew Research Centerhas conducted a survey of U.S. teens asking them about their experiences with social media both positive and negative, and the findings show that youngsters are well aware of the benefits and problems of social media use. The survey was conducted earlier this year among 743 teens aged 13 to 17, so it’s a fairly small sample size....

The surge in popularity oftrue wireless earbuds, especially thosehockey sticks from Apple, has eyes on people’s ears these days. But beyond simply blocking the sound of traffic and letting you listen to the latestReply Allpodcast, today’s hearables can do stuff. Some can augment your hearing to help you overcome hearing loss, or simply let you focus in on the person across the table in a noisy restaurant. They’re also vastly cheaper than hearing aids and don’t require Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval....

Summary That ’90s Showhad a good start with its first season, but it looks like season 2 has everything needed to take the series to the next level. In the age of sequels and reboots, it’s getting harder and harder for spinoff series to hold up to their legacy predecessors. It takes the right balance of nostalgia and new content to set the new show up right, and this can be difficult to achieve....

Choosing a smart home platform is a big decision.Apple Home,Google Home, andAmazon Alexaall offer their own set of perks — and each one comes with a long list of supported products. In the past, you’d be relegated to only using devices that support that platform. Buy a hub for Google Home, and you could only connect other Google Home devices.Matterhas officially changed that. Today, as long as your product supports Matter, it can connect with other Matter devices across a wide range of smart home platforms....

For movie titles,There’s Something Wrong with the Childrenis literal and self-explanatory. Something is wrong with the children, but what? Why are the kids acting so strange? What starts as a weekend trip between friends eventually turns into a nightmare thanks to the children in the latest horror movie from Blumhouse. Directed by Roxanne Benjamin (Body at Brighton Rock), Alisha Wainwright (Raising Dion) and Zach Gilford (Midnight Mass) star as Margaret and Ben, a young couple who head to the woods for a weekend excursion....

The Office star refunds more than $100,000 as Uncle Stan spinoff stalls Leslie David Baker, who played Stanley Hudson in The Office, has refunded more than $100,000 in fan donations towards his Uncle Stan spinoff, with the project now delayed indefinitely. In 2005, Baker made his screen debut as Stanley, the forever-sudoku’ing, pretzel-loving grouch of The Office. He starred in all nine seasons of the NBC sitcom, with the show ending with him loving life as a retiree in Florida and carving wooden birds in his spare time – which is all of his time....

Summary The villain inThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerseason 2 will call back to a Frodo Baggins line fromThe Fellowship of the Ring. As one of the manyupcomingLord of the Ringsprojects,The Rings of Powerseason 2 is highly anticipated. In comparison to theorder ofLord of the Ringsmovies,The Rings of Powertakes place millennia before the events of Frodo Baggins' journey to destroy the One Ring. Despite the distance between the two,The Rings of Powerstill has several overt connections toThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy....

Adventure games in the style of Zelda used to be much more common, though for some reason have seemed to become less represented. Even Nintendo themselves aren’t doing many games that look and play like the more classic, 2D games did.Tunic,an already obvious reference to that inspirational series, is unafraid to be that new Zelda experience we all want in all but name. Starring a fox in a green tunic, this charming isometric game holds as many dangers as it does secrets....

Ubisoft argues putting microtransactions in single-player games makes them “more fun” In their latest quarterly report, Ubisoft spoke about their business strategy and how they attempt to engage players. In a section about the experience of their full-price premium titles, they claimed that putting paid XP boosters and cosmetics in games like Assassin’s Creed: Shadows makes them more fun to play. Ubisoft was one of the first devs to put microtransactions in their single-player games....

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) haseffectively banned number spoofingfrom robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into answering — it doesn’t mean that callers are required to send their caller ID. That means you’ll still encounter moments when your smartphone rings and you don’t know who is calling. When this happens, most phones will display either “Unknown Caller” or “No Caller ID” to indicate that this information isn’t available....