Seagate Acquires EVault for $185 Million

The largest manufacturer of hard drives on the planet,Seagate, has agreed toacquire online storage provider EVaultfor some $185 million in cash — subject to various standard closing conditions, including applicable regulatory approvals, of course. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of Seagate’s fiscal year 2007. EVaultis a privately-held company in Emeryville, California, which offers automatic backup and data recovery services for small and medium sized businesses. It was founded in 1997 and has about 8,500 customers worldwide and a staff of about 250 people....

June 10, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · James Ford

Slack outage: The latest updates on the major disruption

If you had trouble connecting toSlacktoday, you’re not alone. The popular online and chat-based collaboration platform suffered from another major outage at this time, resulting in issues with login failures for some users. Slack’s connectivity problems were confirmed on the company’s ownsystem status page,where it noted that there are “incidents” with connections at this time. At the time ofits last updateat 2:30 p.m. PT, Slack stated that “less than 1% of users may be experiencing trouble connecting to Slack....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Kyle Brown

Song of Bandits Season 2: Everything we know

Song of Bandits Season 2: Everything we know Acting veteran Kim Nam-gil leads the action-packed periodK-dramaSong of Bandits set during Japanese occupation and leaves an open-ended cliffhanger that had fans wondering if Season 2 is in the works. Lee Yoon (Kim) was a skilled soldier in the Japanese army. Amid the turmoil and death during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he’s reached his limit. He turns his back on his master/friend and the army....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 472 words · Katherine Garza

T-Mobile FamilyMode lets parents control kids’ screen time on any device

T-Mobile’snew FamilyModesystem provides parents with the ability to control their children’s internet access on their smartphones and tablets wherever they are. With the addition of its “Home Base” device, parents can also expand the range of electronics they have control over. To power FamilyMode using the complete ecosystem, parents need two things: access to the app and a small, cube-like “Home Base.” Once you open up the FamilyMode app (available for iOS and Android) on your phone, you can connect the base station to the app via an ethernet cable or pair it over your Wi-Fi network....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 633 words · Garrett Cohen

TCL SOCL500TWS wireless earbuds hands-on: You get what you pay for

“Why you may 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.“ When it comes to America’s budding relationship with TCL, it’s all about the company’s value-packed 4K televisions, which offer incredible picture quality for their very low price points. But TCL is more than just a pretty screen....

June 10, 2025 · 5 min · 944 words · Cheryl Baker

The Bachelor’s Joey Graziadei & Kelsey Anderson Reveal Their Odd Living Situation

Summary The Bachelorseason 28’s winning couple reveled more about their living situation, explainingwhy the unconventional works for them right now, but may not be the best option overall. After appearing onThe Bacheloretteseason 20, Joey had the opportunity to find a love story of his own after being namedThe Bachelorin the upcoming season. His journey wasn’t easy, as the cast ofThe Bachelorseason 28was full of strong women, but he ultimately chose to propose to Kelsey Anderson....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 509 words · Derek Lawson

The best characters in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, ranked

After a long and winding journey, Marvel Studios has finally released James Gunn’sGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. This highly-anticipated film follows the Guardians as they face off against the Rocket’s creator,the High Evolutionary, in their darkest but most beautiful adventure yet. Since this seems to be the last time we’ll see the Guardians together, now’s a good time to rank all the characters who rocked cinemas in their final tour....

June 10, 2025 · 7 min · 1426 words · Stephen Rich

The best Meta Quest apps you need to try

The world of VR has almost no limits. The power of theMeta Questmakes it easy to see how the future of both work and play will be revolutionized once the technology becomes the standard. Most people are drawn to thebest Meta Quest games, but we’ve found so many more uses for this headset in our daily lives. Ignoring all the apps available on your headset is like having a smartphone without thebest iPhone apps....

June 10, 2025 · 7 min · 1447 words · Robert Howard

The Last Friend is a tower defense game about dogs with turrets

These bad dudes wanted to hurt my dogs. What other motivation could I possibly need to beat the snot out of them? Fortunately, I was armed with some slick punching combinations, and had a wall of turrets … manned by chihuahuas. The Last Friend, by El Salvador-based developer Stonebot Studios, is hilariously odd, with a premise anyone can get behind. I went hands-on with it atPAX West 2021, and found a game that was a little bit tower defense, a little bit beat-’em-up, and a whole lot of fun....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 537 words · Christopher Mullins

The Last of Us season 2 cast adds six, including Sopranos star

The Last of Usseason 2announced the additions of six actors to its supporting cast. PerVariety, one of those actors is Joe Pantoliano, the Emmy Award winner best known for portraying Ralphie Cifaretto onThe Sopranos. Pantoliano, aka Joey Pants, will play Eugene, a minor character from the video game. Players never meet Eugene, but they see his picture when Ellie and Dina come to his cannabis lab. In an interview with Variety,The Last of Usco-creator and executive producer Neil Druckmann explained that he gets excited by opportunities to expand on the minor characters’ stories....

June 10, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Brandon Williams

The upcoming BMW M8 is dripping with new performance-focused tech

Children of the ’90s rejoiced when BMWbrought back the 8 Series, its flagship coupe from the Bill Clinton years. But BMW isn’t stopping there. Alongside the standard 8 Series, BMW is developing an M8 performance model. Camouflaged prototypes have been running around in public since late 2017, and BMW already hasa race carbased on the M8. The car won’t go on sale for at least a few more months, though. BMW is expected to launch two-door coupe and convertible versions first, followed by afour-door Gran Coupemodel....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Amber Giles

The Wyze Watch exposes the one major problem I have with smartwatches

If there’s one company that caught my attention this year far more than any other, it has to be Wyze. The Seattle-based company has been justrelentless of late when it comes to new products, with its most ambitious announcement to date being theWyze Watch— a $20 smartwatch of sorts that’s planned for release next year and looks eerily similar to the Apple Watch. There have been many companies that have tried to replicate the Apple Watch, but none have remotely been successful....

June 10, 2025 · 3 min · 552 words · Jamie George

This 37% off Dell Inspiron 15 is the laptop upgrade you’ve been waiting for

Laptops offer a number of traps for everyday consumers like you and me. It’s easy to feel stuck using the same crappy work machine for years, since you can’t easily upgrade the one you own, and it feels like a new device that actually works well is hundreds or thousands of dollars away. Luckily, for apost-Prime Day sale, Best Buy is offering a great deal on theDell Inspiron 15 Touch Screen laptop, which is the perfect mid-range option for your next work machine....

June 10, 2025 · 2 min · 365 words · Wendy Morales