Microsoft’s Xbox Series X Mini-Fridge is coming this holiday season

Microsoft is following through on a promise to release a fridge based on the design of its Xbox Series X video game console. The computer giant made the announcement at the end of itsE3 2021 showcaseon Sunday, June 13. Xbox fans will be delighted. And possibly fridge fans, too. The announcement was accompanied by a 60-second promotional video (top) featuring the fridge. In the ad, Microsoft touts the upcoming product as “a new system that leaves others cold....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Charles Moody

Moana 2 Risks Repeating A Criticism From Disney’s 3-Year-Old Movie With 93% On Rotten Tomatoes

Summary Moana 2’s storyline could repeat one aspect of a three-year-old Disney movie that garnered criticism despite its 93% Rotten Tomatoes score. The film’s latest trailer highlighted the largely updated visuals and music, showcasing how Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho) has grown over the three-year time gap. The trailer also hinted at the new threat Moana must face, which threatens the island and beyond. However,Moana 2risks issues with the movie’s formatas its revealed premise could hinder the film’s worldbuilding....

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Katherine Cabrera

Motorola’s 5G neckband can power lightweight XR glasses

Motorola has introduced a new5Gneckband designed to make your extended reality (XR) glasses and other headsets feel light as a feather. In apress releaseposted on its blog on Monday, Motorola said it collaborated with Verizon to design the neckband and engineer it to power lightweight XR headsets, such as theThinkReality A3 smart glassesfrom Lenovo. It takes on the appearance of a necklace holding a compact remote control-like pendant equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, a 5,000mAh battery, a touchpad, a SIM card slot, speakers, and multifarious sensors like the gyroscope and barometer (viaEngadget)....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 325 words · Megan Gray

New Denzel Washington Movie Can Redeem Spike Lee 11 Years After 39% Disappointment

Summary Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting forHigh and Low, and the new movie can redeem the director over a decade after a big disappointment. Denzel and Spike have a long history of working together and making successful movies. The highs ofMalcolm XandInside Manalways create excitement when they collaborate on another project. That is why the announcement that Denzel Washington would star inSpike Lee’sHigh and Lowremakeimmediately made the film a highly anticipated project....

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 585 words · Charles Short

New Dune trailer establishes the stakes and explores the planet Arrakis

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen new footage fromDune, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel series. And unlike other Hollywood science fiction epics, the mythology ofDuneisn’t well-known outside of readers, or viewers who saw the previous theatrical film starringTwin Peaks‘ Kyle MacLaughlin and Virginia Madsen in 1984 and SYFY’s TV miniseries two decades ago. That’s why the newly-released trailer serves as a primer for newcomers toDune....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 356 words · Jessica Allen

No, blue light from your cell phone won’t make you blind

Forget cancer: That devilishly useful smartphone in your pocket is likely to blind youbefore killing you– at least, if the latest round of breathless hype is to be believed. Relax. Neither is true, despite what you might read in the headlines. A new study from the University of Toledo reveals the process by whichblue light impacts the photoreceptors in our eyesand leads toage-related macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease that can cause a loss of central vision....

July 9, 2025 · 4 min · 735 words · Michael Johnson

Panthers vs Packers Live Stream: How to watch the NFL game for free

Christmas Eve is here. That means family, but it also means football. If you’re a fan of the Panthers or the Packers, that means you’re looking forward to the match coming up in an hour at 1:00 p.m. EST. And whether you’ll be opening presents today or not, this is a good chance to get a gift if you can manager to find a Panthers vs Packers live stream. If you don’t have your live stream plans figured out, however, there is still time....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 414 words · Kayla Holder

Performance issues render some Xbox 360 games ‘nearly unplayable’ on the Xbox One

In November of last year, the Xbox One added backward compatibility, bringing a treasure trove ofgreat Xbox 360 gamesto the newer console. While effectively emulating the older 360 is a technical achievement to be sure, some games have been found to suffer from massive performance issues. With more than 100 older games now playable on the Xbox One,Eurogamer’s Digital Foundrytook on the task of testing every major 360 game that can be played on the console....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 335 words · Caitlin Collins

Reacher Season 2 release schedule: Dates & episodes

Reacher Season 2 release schedule: Dates & episodes Season 2 of Reacher has proven to be a massive hit on Prime Video, with Alan Ritchson reprising his role as the formidable Jack Reacher. As the thrilling conclusion approaches, here’s a summary of the show’s release schedule. Alan Ritchsonis back and bigger than ever in Reacher Season 2. The actor immediately won fans over by perfectly embodying Lee Child’s book character (unlike his big-screen predecessor, Tom Cruise), making Season 2’s renewal a no-brainer....

July 9, 2025 · 3 min · 544 words · Lee Patel

Samsung may already be working on a second Galaxy Home smart speaker

Samsung unveiled its Bixby-poweredGalaxy Home smart speakerin August, though it still hasn’t gotten around to furnishing us with details of a release date or price. But that hasn’t stopped new talk of a second Galaxy Home device, one that will reportedly be more competitively priced than Samsung’s already-announced speaker. Sources claiming to have knowledge of the product toldSamMobilethe device will be available in black, just like the main speaker, but, beyond that and a model number (SM-V310), could offer few other details at this stage....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Jessica Williams

Samsung’s HMD Odyssey Plus gives you a clearer view into the virtual world

Samsung is giving its OdysseyWindows Mixed Realityheadset a nice refresh. With the HMD Odyssey+, Samsung is focusing on a better and more comfortable visual experience. Though Samsung’s refreshed efforts didn’t result in awireless mixed reality headsetthat has been rumored in recent months, the biggest improvement that the Odyssey+ delivers is a new exclusive anti-screen door effect, or anti-SDE, in the display. The headset ships with dual 3.5-inch AMOLED displays, delivering a combined resolution of 2,880 x 1,660 pixels, and the new anti-SDE feature should give wearers a cleaner and crisper view into mixed and virtual reality experiences....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Angela Christensen

Selling Sunset: Bre Tiesi claims she hooked up with Michael B. Jordan before Nick Cannon

Selling Sunset: Bre Tiesi claims she hooked up with Michael B. Jordan before Nick Cannon Bre Tiesi claims that she once hooked up with Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan. This hookup supposedly went down before she was involved with Nick Cannon. The love lives of the women working at the Oppenheim Group on Selling Sunset are usually hot topics of conversation among real estate agents and their friends. Bre Tiesi’s relationship status, in particular, has been a major talking point so far....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 382 words · Daniel Davidson

Sub-zero supercooling technique can help transplant organs survive for longer

Due to the brief period of time a human organ can be kept alive outside the body, organ transplants are a race against the clock. All kinds of different transportation methods have been explored to get organs to the patients who need them, most notably including a world-first, life-saving kidneydelivered by drone earlier this year. At Harvard Medical School, researchers have come up with a different approach. Instead of finding faster ways to race organs to patients, they’ve found a way to extend the length of time organs can be kept outside the human body....

July 9, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Morgan Oliver