Lego partners with Apple to add augmented component to physical playsets

Legoalready gives creative builders the chance to physically make something only limited by their own imagination, but now your playsets are going to look a whole lot cooler with the addition of Apple’s ARKit 2.0 technology. Lego has created a new augmented reality experience that supplements your physical Lego kits with virtual buildings, people, foliage, and vehicles. During Apple’sWWDC 2018presentation, Martin Sanders, Lego’s director of innovation, took the stage to show off how ARKit 2....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Cheryl Stafford

Lenovo’s leaked ThinkBook Flip is a wild take on dual screen laptops

At CES 2025, Lenovo showed off alaptop with a rollable extending screen. It seems there is more weird laptop innovation still left in the bank at Lenovo. Evan Blass hassharedwhat appear to be product renders of a folding dual-display laptop. Imagine a book-style foldable phone, and add a keyboard to it. Or maybe, one of those Asus or HP laptops with a flexible folding screen, with a real keyboard deck attached at the bottom....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · Alexis Hunter

Lutron buys Ketra to increase its presence in smart home lighting

Lutron Electronics, a leader in the smart lighting sector, will soon acquire Ketra, a company that creates indoor lighting solutions emulating natural light conditions. Ketra’s lighting control solutions offer customizable light for both residential and commercial settings. Ketra’s lighting solutions can also generate a wide variety of colors, including white, pastel, and saturated colors. This function allows users to customize an interior space and make the lighting precisely meet their needs....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Debbie Moon

Manhwa Is Surpassing Manga in Japan, and the Country's Highest-Earning App Proves It

Summary Webtoon’s Japanese sister platform,Line Manga, has just become the highest-grossing platform of the month in Japan, and its success may be a sign that manhwa is indeed surpassing manga. While Piccoma has been dominating the international market for quite some time, Line Manga has been steadily gaining traction in Japan, and its latest milestone proves exactly whichmanhwa are gaining popularity over mangain Japan. According to data posted on X by MangaMoguraRE,Line Manga has taken the top spot as the highest-grossing app in Japan for the month of Mayfor the first time in four years....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Melissa Oconnell

Marvel Rivals has a game-breaking bug that punishes high FPS

Marvel Rivals has a game-breaking bug that punishes high FPS Marvel Rivals’ devs promised to fix an issue that negatively affected players at low FPS, and many aspects of that bug have been fixed with the Season 1 patch. However, a new bug was discovered that has the opposite effect. Having high FPS in a competitive game like Marvel Rivals is absolutely essential, so much so thatSeason 1 addeda new setting to lower graphics even more for people with lower end specs....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 675 words · Levi Murray

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Beginner tips and tricks

Square Enix’s second attempt at a Marvel-themed action/RPG quelled the anxious nerves of Marvel fans hoping for anything better than 2020’sAvengersgame.Guardians of the Galaxysimplified combat, giving fans an entertaining cast of characters to command. The Guardians remain true to their film and comic book personalities with quirky dialogue and combat skills to match. Here are the best beginner tips and tricks forGuardians of the Galaxy. Use these settings Before you embark on your first Guardians adventure, you’ll need to double-check a few combat settings that’ll make Star-Lord’s life easier....

June 11, 2025 · 8 min · 1643 words · Margaret Martinez

Move over, PowerBeats Pro. JLab’s $149 Epic Air Sport have 70 hours of playtime

We’ve known for a while that 2019 was the year that truly wireless earbuds wouldstart to show off significantly improved battery life, but we are still mightily impressed by JLab Audio’s claim for its Epic Air Sport: ThesePowerBeats Procompetitors, which launched June 11, reportedly get 10 hours of playtime on a single charge, and the included charging case ramps that number up to a shockingly robust 70 hours. At only $149, they cost significantly less than the PowerBeats Pro too....

June 11, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · Maria Lynch

New music service promises better lossless audio than Apple, Amazon, and Tidal

These days, with the ongoing exception of Spotify, most of thebest music streaming serviceslet you stream inlossless audio, which can deliver the equivalent of CD quality (or better) music to your phone, tablet, or wireless speakers. However, a new entrant in the streaming landscape called Pure Audio Streaming, thinks it can attract an audience of audiophiles by taking lossless further, with 5.1 surround sound, and multichannel 3D sound at up to 192kHz....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 678 words · Megan Thomas

Ninja Theory’s Project: Mara is its latest game to tackle mental terror

Ninja Theory’sHellblade: Senua’s Sacrificeapproached mental illness and tragedy in a way we hadn’t seen before from a video game. The studio, now owned by Microsoft, is moving ahead on a sequel, but it also has another project cooking that will tackle mental terror in an entirely different way.Project:Mara is a new title that aims to deliver a grounded experience rooted in reality, and Ninja Theory will let you join the development team on the development process....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Melissa Holloway

Nvidia RTX 40-series graphics cards: everything you need to know

Nvidia’s current generation of graphics cards is here, and the range includes desktop and laptop models. Also referred to as Nvidia Ada Lovelace, the RTX 40-series debuted in 2022 and is set to continue being updated with new cards throughout 2023 and 2024 — led by theRTX 4090. Below, we’ll tell you all you need to know about each of Nvidia’sbest graphics cards, all set to rival AMD’sRX 7000 GPUs....

June 11, 2025 · 10 min · 2016 words · Abigail Brown

Only 1 Of The MCU's Hulk Movie Cast Had No Future, Despite Its Failure

Summary Every major character inThe Incredible Hulkhas returned in recentMCUprojects, which makes one standout absence all the more puzzling. In the MCU’s early days,The Incredible Hulkstruggled to make the same impact asIron Man, but it did help launch Phase 1 successfully.DespiteBruce Banner’s MCU recastingand the fact that Hulk never received a solo sequel afterward,various MCU movies and shows have referencedThe Incredible Hulk, confirming that its plot is still canon within the franchise....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · Joseph Rivera

Photo FOMO: Apple teaches photo editing, Sony’s submersible and bendable SD

Afraid of missing out on the latest photo industry news while you’re out, well, actually taking pictures? Photo FOMO is all the news you might have missed this week, published on the weekends. Alongside the biggest stories of the week, likea Bluetooth-enabled instant film camera,Nikon’s new beginner DSLR, andPhase One’s 150-megapixel behemoth, find briefs on the latest in accessories and photo industry news from this week with Photo FOMO. Go ahead, drop, bend or submerge Sony’s newest SD cards SD cards can sometimes take a beating (or go through the washing machine and dryer inside a pocket) — but with Sony’s latest options, that’s OK....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · Scott Martinez

Pimax 8K X hands-on review: Long-awaited 8K VR headset is here, and it’s awesome

VR enthusiasts sat up and took notice whenPimax opened a Kickstarter for its 8K headsetin October of 2017. The reason is exactly what you’d suspect. With 8K resolution, Pimax’s promised headset offered a new standard for VR clarity. Nearly six thousand backers pledged over 4.2 million dollars and awaited its January 2018 delivery. And waited. And waited. And waited. The initial goodwill earned by the company’s pie-in-the-sky aspirations faded as backers had to wait longer and longer for headsets to deliver....

June 11, 2025 · 3 min · 586 words · Joan Schmidt