82 percent of U.S. teens use an iPhone — and that number is only growing

The iPhone is a popular device — and it’s only getting more popular, especially among teenagers in the U.S. According to a recent report, around 82 percent of teenagers in the U.S. now use an iPhone — a figure that’s up from 60 percent back in 2014. “Thousands” of teenagers across 40 states took part in the survey. Firstreported by Business Insider, the report comes from Piper Jaffray, which conducts the survey twice per year....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Amy Barron DDS

Adorable Star Wars Art Shows Just What Anakin Skywalker Would Really Be Like As A Dad

Summary Anakin Skywalkermight not have met his daughter before becoming the evil Darth Vader, but one sweet fan art imagines their lives together if he’d been there to raise her. After Anakin’s apparent “death,” Leia was raised on the planet Alderaan by Bail Organa and his wife. TheStar Warsmovies only portray Leia as an adult, but the limited seriesObi-Wan Kenobiexplores young Leia’schildhood personality.The precocious princess is seen as an adventurous and brave 10-year-old, full of energy and constantly seeking purpose....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · Jason Young

AMD plans ray tracing cards, looks to compete with Nvidia’s premium GPUs in 2019

Nvidia’s premium lineup of graphics card will be getting some serious competition from AMD once 2019 arrives. AMD will be relying on its 7nm GPU architecture to deliver the performance needed to take on Nvidia’s GeForce cards, and the company is also working on bringingray tracingto its cards. For 2019, AMD is working on itsNaviarchitecture, which is believed to be based on the 7nm FinFet manufacturing process and support GDDR6 and HBM2 memory....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Jeremy Murray

An unreleased Mortal Kombat game has popped up on eBay

The latest case of an ultra-rare unreleased vide ogame being sold on eBay has been sighted in the form of a prototype of the infamous Mortal Kombat spin-offMortal Kombat: Special Forces. This version of the game follows a different concept from the released 1999version starring series favorite Jax, and wasbeing sold on eBay with a starting bid of $950. However, the game was suddenly delisted for unknown reasons. Mortal Kombat: Special Forceswas supposed to be acontinuation of the Mortal Kombatplatformer groundwork laid byMortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zeroand is seen as a predecessor toMortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Laura Franco

Asus Vivobook S 15 review: new chip in a throwback laptop

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ Microsoft’sCopilot+ PCinitiative is focused first on support for AI with faster neural processing units (NPUs). Copilot+ was first introduced on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipsets running Windows on Arm, promising better efficiency than Intel with good performance....

June 23, 2025 · 8 min · 1613 words · Lauren Long

Best Executor build in Elden Ring Nightreign

Best Executor build in Elden Ring Nightreign Executor isElden Ring Nightreign’s masked duelist and your go-to for brutal, one-on-one takedowns. But fair warning: this one’s not for the faint of heart, so knowing how to best build them is essential. Their whole deal is high-risk, high-reward. They use a cursed sword that gets stronger the more they deflect attacks, and they’re absolutely cracked at applying status ailments like Bleed, Poison, and Madness thanks to their sky-high Arcane....

June 23, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Theresa Acosta

Coca-Cola Selfie Bottle lets you take a photo of yourself enjoying fizzy beverage

It takes a special kind of narcissist to deem even the most mundane of activities worthy of a selfie, and now,Coca-Colawants to encourage that kind of behavior by way of its new selfie bottle. Because the selfie stick wasn’t an egregious enough invention. Meet theCoca-Cola selfie bottle, which is, as you might’ve guessed, a bottle of Coke that takes your selfie. Welcome to the 21st century. Selfie-Taking Soda Bottles – This Coca-Cola Bottle Captures the Special Moment of Sipping Coke…https://t....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 320 words · Michael Barnett

Diablo 4 dev explains key lessons Season 4 learned from Season of Blood

Diablo 4 dev explains key lessons Season 4 learned from Season of Blood Diablo 4 Season 4 is right around the corner and after a middle-of-the-road Season 3, devs are hoping for a return to form. Executive Producer Rod Fergusson has revealed that means looking to the popular Season of Blood. Diablo 4 devs are hard at work implementingthe largely positive feedbackfromthe Season 4 PTR. As the May 14 launch draws closer,there’s still more to reveal....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Christopher Evans

Does 5G drain your battery?

No matter the size of your phone, or how you use it, you’llalwaysbe looking for just a little longer battery life. That leads us to do some pretty wacky things. We carry around portable batteries, use crazy power-saving modes, close apps (when it doesn’t actually do anything), and blame our cellular networks. That makes5G, the new high-powered network technology, an easy target for potential battery savings. And, well, the carriers aren’t doing themselves any favors here either....

June 23, 2025 · 7 min · 1334 words · John Hill

Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally surfaces after years of lying dormant

Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally surfaces after years of lying dormant Bethesda and EA officially revealed Dragon Age: The Veilguard during the2024 Xbox Games Showcase, showing off returning heroes from previous games and brand new characters, as well as hinting at the new protagonist. The fourth entry in the Dragon Age recently had its name changed. Fans believed the game would be called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf for a long time, but the developers recently revealed that it’snow called Dragon Age: The Veilguard, suggesting a huge shift in story direction....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Sarah Harris

Drunk man in flip-flops joins 8km race & wins a medal

Drunk man in flip-flops joins 8km race & wins a medal An 8-kilometer race in northern Brazil took an unexpected turn after a drunk man joined the event mid-run in flip-flops and still managed to win a medal. The incident happened on July 27 in the town of Garrafao do Norte, Para. As reported by Brazilian outletMais Goias, the man, identified as Isaque Pinho, had been drinking at a local bar before spontaneously deciding to enter the race....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · William Byrd

Everything new in Microsoft Teams announced at Build 2021

Microsoft Teamsis usually a big highlight atMicrosoft’s Build developer conference, and that was the case again this year. There were several key updates announced for Teams that should be rolling out through the rest of 2021, mainly for developers. Following the launch of Teams apps for meetings last year, Microsoft is following up to give developers more opportunities in this area. Developers are now able to build apps for the main stage in the meeting....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Jorge Smith

Eve’s latest products aren’t sexy, but they’ll make your house smarter

The smart home products that tend to make the biggest splash are high-tech devices and appliances with tons of bells and whistles. Those devices are great, but let’s be real — in your day-to-day life, those aren’t what you spend most of your time interacting with. Managing the devices in your home has more to do with flipping switches and plugging in cords than anything else, and that’s whyEve’s new lineupof products announced at IFA 2018 should be welcome into your home....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Lisa Sanchez