How to make money on Instagram (even if you don’t have a bajillion followers)

Elementary kids in the 1990s didn’t hold up glittered poster-board signs on career day that said “professional Instagrammer.” But as social media platforms grow, so do the number of people actually using them to make a living. In 2018, “professional Instagrammer” is a legitimate career. Instagram influencers have one thing in common: reach. With enough reach, brands will pay influencers to post about a product in order to reach those followers....

July 30, 2025 · 7 min · 1280 words · Ronald Mccarty

How to set up your Google Home device

Google Homeis one of the best smart home platforms available. Along with giving you access to voice commands, it can sync with thousands of other devices — providing you a simple way to create complex, automated tasks. Setting up a Google Home device like the Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max involves little more than unboxing the gadget and plopping it on your countertop. But if you want to get the most out of your new accessory, you should spend a few extra minutes customizing and optimizing its performance....

July 30, 2025 · 9 min · 1743 words · Kimberly Cortez

HTC still makes smartphones, but still isn’t great at marketing them

It’s easy to forget HTC still makes smartphones, as it sold most of its phone division to Google, hasn’t competed in the flagship race for a while, and concentrates on selling theHTC Vive VR headset. The phones are still there, though, and HTC has announced a pair of new ones: TheHTC U19e, and the Desire 19+. What hasn’t changed at HTC is its haphazard approach to marketing, which for a brief time extended into advertising Apple’s products too....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Kathryn Mccullough

Intel’s Alder Lake Core i5 could be the new go-to budget gaming CPU

We’ve gotten our first look at how some of the budget options from Intel’s upcomingAlder Lake rangewill perform. A leaker posted benchmarks for the Core i5-12400, which is rumored to come with six cores and 12 threads, but will lack the most unique feature of Alder Lake chips — the hybrid architecture. The benchmarks were shared on theBilbili forumbefore being spotted by Twitter leaker @9550pro. It shows benchmarks in AIDA64, Cinebench R20, and CPU-Z, each of which squarely measure processor performance....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 474 words · Jennifer Hunt

Killing This Classic Elden Ring Enemy In The DLC Is A Huge Mistake

Summary Attacking a recurring enemy inElden Ring’sShadow of the ErdtreeDLC could be the biggest mistake a player ever makes. From Software is famous for its resourceful reuse of character models. Usually, this just means that players will fight multiple variants of the same enemy throughout one game, but at least one ofElden Ring’s enemies comes directly fromDark Souls. The DLC does introduce a host ofnew and weird enemies to theElden Ringmenagerie, but it’s not immune to reusing monsters, either....

July 30, 2025 · 5 min · 965 words · Linda Anderson

Monster Hunter Now armor list: Every armor set so far

Monster Hunter Now armor list: Every armor set so far Armor is a vital aspect of Monster Hunter Now. It’ll help you survive some of the toughest encounters in the game and is often a matter of success or failure – but there are quite a few to choose from. So, here’s a rundown of all the armor sets in Monster Hunter Now. Monster Hunter Nowis the latest mobile title from Niantic, the team behindPokemon Go, where players can take on monsters in the real world....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 571 words · Jessica Delgado

My Lady Jane Season 1 Ending Explained: What Happens To Jane Grey & Guildford Dudley

Warning: This article contains major SPOILERS for My Lady Jane episodes 1-8. Summary My Lady Janedebuted with eight episodes on Prime Video, andthe Amazon series takes viewers on a tense and magical adventure before reaching its thrilling ending. Based on Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows' novel of the same name,My Lady Janereimagines the story of the real-life Jane Grey, England’s first queen. The real Jane’s reign was a short-lived part of the Tudor era, butMy Lady Janecrafts a new narrative and fate for its heroine....

July 30, 2025 · 8 min · 1621 words · Heather Brooks

Netflix’s OceanGate documentary to reveal ‘horrifying’ truth behind Titan disaster

Netflix’s OceanGate documentary to reveal ‘horrifying’ truth behind Titan disaster Netflixjust dropped the trailer for its upcomingdocumentaryTitan: The OceanGate Disaster, which is set to shed new light on the doomed deep-sea expedition and the founder of the company, Stockton Rush. In the early morning of Sunday, August 11, 2025, theTitan submersiblebegan its descent into the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean in a bid to explore the Titanic wreck. Less than two hours later, it lost communication with its mothership – and it never resurfaced....

July 30, 2025 · 4 min · 706 words · Michael Sanchez

New Batman TV series reveals massive Harley Quinn changes

New Batman TV series reveals massive Harley Quinn changes Bruce Timm’s new animated Batman TV series has revealed its release date and other details, and there are some major changes afoot for Harley Quinn. Titled Batman: Caped Crusader, the new Prime VideoTV serieshas unveiled one of DC’smost loved supervillainsin a whole new light, using 1940s film noir as a huge visual reference. Quinn has previously been heavily characterized by her connection to The Joker, but first previews of the new series paint her as a standalone character, portraying her as Asian American in more traditional 1940s “clown” attire....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 461 words · Jeffery Young

No, That Isn't Plo Koon In The Acolyte Episode 4

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Acolyte episode 4. Summary The newest episode of the latestStar WarsTV show,Star Wars: The Acolyte, features a Kel Dor Jedi, the same species as the fan-favorite Jedi Master Plo Koon. First appearing inStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Plo Koon became beloved by fans following his spotlight in the animatedStar Wars: The Clone Warsseries, especially as the mentor who first found and cared for Ahsoka Tano....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 592 words · Sean Douglas

Not interested in football? Tivo lets you watch the ads and skip the Super Bowl

For football fans, it doesn’t get any bigger than the Super Bowl. But for everyone else, it’s theSuper Bowl adsthat offer some of the year’s most engaging TV content — a fact that hasn’t escaped the attention ofTivo. For the second year in a row, the DVR company is flipping the script on its traditional ad-skip feature, letting viewers skip the game portions of the Super Bowl in favor of the ads....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Denise Alexander

OpenAI sued for wrongful death by parents of 16-year-old who died by suicide

OpenAI sued for wrongful death by parents of 16-year-old who died by suicide Parents Matt and Maria Raine have filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT creators OpenAI after the software allegedly encouraged their son, Adam, to take his own life. 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide in April, 2025. AsThe New York Times reported, he hanged himself in his bedroom closet and didn’t leave a note. Adam’s father, Matt, turned to his son’s iPhone for answers, only to discover months of conversations with an AI chatbot....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 609 words · Craig Washington

Ozobot’s new robots come in Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man designs

You might say that Ozobots are educational superheroes — the tiny, adorable motorized robots help teach kids how to code with an intuitive line-based programming language. But starting Thursday, they will don real superhero masks in new packs and skins inspired by Disney’s Marvel universe. It’s an expansion ofOzobots’ Marvel Action line, which let players unlock features, voices, and behaviors that reflect the Marvel characters’ personalities and play missions in a companion Stark Academy app....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 425 words · David Mcdonald