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As someone who reviews smartphones for a living, upgrading every year isn’t optional. It’s part of the job, and as an iPhone user, it’s an easy call. This year, I expected to move from my baseline iPhone 17 to Apple’s next baseline model, the iPhone 18. Except Apple might not even launch it this September. Pegatron, one of Apple’s suppliers, indicated on an August 12 earnings call that the standard iPhone 18 isn’t coming next month (via Deccan Chronicle). Only the Pro, Pro Max, and the rumored foldable “Ultra” are expected, with the base model pushed to early 2027. That…
This weekend’s D23, Disney’s biennial fan convention where it announces a slate of upcoming film, TV, and video game projects, hosted a substantial update on Kingdom Hearts IV. We now know the game, first announced in 2022, is coming next year. Square Enix also announced Pixar’s Coco as the game’s first world.A new trailer shows Sora making his way to Coco’s Land of the Dead, where he meets the film’s protagonist, Miguel, and trickster/musician, Héctor. Like previous Disney-inspired worlds in other Kingdom Hearts titles, players will seemingly relive the events of the acclaimed 2017 film with a twist (it’s unclear…
Birdwatching is finding an unlikely new audience on TikTok, where Gen Z users are turning bird identification, wildlife photography, and even traditional bird ringing into social media content. Well, that is what The Guardian’s report about TikTok says. The Guardian states that TikTok has found that posts using #birdwatching and #birdtok have risen by a third over the past three months, while #birding posts have increased 40% in the UK. Globally, posts carrying one of the three hashtags have now reached 1 million. One video featuring a seagull being fed raw salmon has attracted more than 52 million views. The…
Hayden Panettiere, the actor known for TV series such as Nashville and Heroes, and the former voice performer for Kairi in the Kingdom Hearts series, has passed away. She was 36.Panettiere’s extensive credits include roles in films such as Remember the Titans, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Scream 4, and, most recently, Sleepwalker. She portrayed Juliette Barnes in the CMT series Nashville and Claire Bennet in Heroes and Heroes Reborn.Video game fans will recognize Panettiere as the original English voice of Kairi in multiple Kingdom Hearts games. She played Kairi in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth…
If you’ve been putting off that macOS update sitting in your notifications, this is the week to stop and install it. Apple quietly patched a serious screen sharing flaw in macOS earlier this month. While that usually means the issue is resolved, new evidence shows hackers already broke into unpatched Macs, hijacked them, and used them for cryptocurrency mining before the fix shipped. So what exactly went wrong with screen sharing? The flaw lets bad actors access macOS screen sharing without the system’s valid login credentials. Once in, they could view a victim’s desktop and take control of the mouse…
Star Wars Zero Company is out next week, and if you couldn’t tell from our preview impressions, we’re pretty excited about it. But speaking as a person who didn’t get to play that preview build, I’m clinging to every new piece of footage I get, and today’s trailer is no different. Labeled as the “final trailer,” it shows how the game’s main cast of characters comes together to face off against Fathom, Zero Company’s main antagonist. You can watch for yourself below. Fathom is the leader of a cult called the Infinite Coil, which the party is tasked with taking down.…
Marvel Cosmic Invasion is getting a new story expansion centered on Fantastic Four nemesis and Avengers: Doomsday poster boy, Doctor Doom. The Siege of Castle Doom arrives in the retro-inspired cooperative beat ‘em up this fall.The Siege of Castle Doom is a paid DLC described as a new game mode that places Doctor Doom front and center, but with no trailer or screenshots, there’s no word on what he’s up to. We do know that the DLC will introduce two new playable characters. The last characters to be added to Marvel Cosmic Invasion were Cyclops and The Thing (who, funny enough,…
Watch Duty became one of the apps millions of Americans suddenly wanted on their phones when wildfires tore through Los Angeles in early 2025. The nonprofit now wants to continue this vision by making it useful for other natural disasters. CEO and cofounder John Mills told Fast Company that Watch Duty’s expansion into flood monitoring is part of a plan that has been brewing for years. Nationwide flood coverage actually went live on June 8, giving anyone in the US access to flood data and mapping alongside the wildfire information already inside the app. Flood warnings are now on Watch…
Fortnite’s newest season, Override, begins on August 20, and yesterday’s trailer confirmed the new map and battle pass will be centered on a wide range of video game crossovers. The most notable inclusion is Sonic the Hedgehog; he’ll be playable as a skin (stretched to fit Fortnite’s standard proportions), and elements of Green Hill Zone will appear on the map. The new footage shows Jonesy running fast enough to go upside-down on one of the series’ staple gravity-defying loops.However, Sonic is just the tip of the iceberg in Chapter 7, Season 4 of Fortnite. In addition to other characters from…
Cracking your foldable’s screen has always been an expensive mistake, but Samsung just put an actual price on it this year, and believe me, it’s more expensive than I initially thought it would be. The company confirmed official repair pricing for the entire Galaxy Z Fold 8 lineup, and fixing the inner display alone can cost more than some budget phones do new. Given that more people are buying into the category, making these revised repair costs all the more important to know before you take the plunge. So how much does it actually cost to fix the screens? If…