Apple’s tablet family comes in many sizes, storage tiers, and feature sets, which can make choosing between the standard iPad, the iPad Air, the iPad mini, and the iPad Pro confusing. And Apple just refreshed the top-tier iPad Pro with its new M5 chip, which is ostensibly designed to handle professional-grade tasks and apps, making…
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, Sony has jumped early on the deals bandwagon. According to Comicbook.com, the company is offering three major PS5 games for just $7 each on the PlayStation Store. Reportedly, this is a hefty 90 per cent discount on their usual $70 price tag, saving players $63…
The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now. Source link
Pushy and shouty parents are the “biggest problem in sports performance”, sports psychologists have said, amid growing concern that pressure and abuse is hampering competitive sport in the UK. This week parents were banned from attending sports events at a number of south London primary schools due to “concerning behaviours”, including abuse towards officials and…
Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held women back. Source link
With iOS 26, Apple introduced a new app on iPhone and iPad: Preview. This app has been on the Mac for a long time, and as the name suggests, it serves as a system-wide file preview of sorts, that way you don’t need an app to view every file. While this app may be intuitive…
Hendranyoman/Shutterstock If you have an old laptop sitting around collecting dust, then it’s time to do your best Dr. Frankenstein impression and give it a new life. Even if your device doesn’t perform the way it used to, it likely has enough juice left that something useful…
However, my mom was another story. I remember her playing Dr. Mario a lot, and we played Donkey Kong Country together when I was young—standard millennial childhood family gaming stuff. But the games I most associate with her from my childhood are adventure games. She liked King’s Quest, of course—but I also remember her being…
A screen showing the activity of a rudimentary computing substrate based on biological neurons. Credit: FinalSpark This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of wild animals. Physicists have proven that a central law of thermodynamics does not apply to atomic-scale objects that are linked…
Workers in Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble teams have voted to unionise with the Communications Workers of America. Over 100 software engineers, designers, artists, quality assurance testers, and producers voted to join the CWA Local 9510 in Irvine, California, joining 1900+ other Activision Blizzard employees who have similarly chosen to unionise. Parent company Microsoft has…
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe. Source link
Background: Regular exercise during childhood impacts not only physical development but also emotional stability, social adaptation, and behavioral control. … Source link
After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people. Source link
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short, has turned 40. Launching in the United States at a time when the industry was still dealing with the consequences of the huge Video Game Crash of 1983, the first Nintendo home system to launch in the West not only revitalized a dying market but propelled it…
The battery spontaneously combusted while stored in a luggage in the overhead bin. The airline said there were no injuries. Source link
If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can rival the 2025 Motorola Razr Ultra, which is currently on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with 16GB of RAM and 512GB starting at $999.99 ($300 off), its lowest price to date. If you can’t tell from the image…
President Nicolás Maduro this week called on civilians to help the country defend itself, while his defense minister warned citizens to “prepare for the worst.” Source link
In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to “TiVo” the new episode of Battlestar Galactica or game 4 of the Red Sox vs. Cardinals, not “record” it. While it didn’t invent the DVR, TiVo popularized it and many of the features…
A parade of scandals tarnished the prince’s reputation, long before he gave up using his title as Duke of York on Friday. Source link
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life The NES — specifically the Nintendo Entertainment System, not the Famicom — turns 40 today. The console’s staggered rollout across the US makes its launch a bittier affair than the orchestrated, worldwide drops we’re used to these days. But four decades ago, the first units were purchased in the…