New Study Traces Cancer Causes Back To DNA

New Study Traces Cancer Causes Back To DNA Significant advances ingenome sequencingprocesses have given scientists in the U.K. an even closer look at how likelycertain cancersare to develop, based on a mixture of who your ancestors are and which behaviors you’ve personally engaged in. Based on data provided by the100,000 Genomes Project, which sequenced and analyzed over 85,000 NHS participants in December 2018, Cambridge University Professor Serena Nik-Zainalreported new findingson June 13, 2025, which suggest the discovery of 58 new “mutational signatures” that can theoretically help clinicians better determine the cause of cancer in specific circumstances....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Melody Wolfe

Philips Hue Lightstrip Starter Kit gets Black Friday saving

You like smart lights, we like smart lights, and anybody trying to hunt down the best smart light deals thisBlack Fridayis in luck - a superb Philips Hue Lightstrip Starter Kit discount doing the rounds. Philips Hue has plenty of different bits of smart lighting to explore around the sales event, but its Lightstrip line is usually among the most popular buys on Black Friday because it’s ideal to build a setup around....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 354 words · Jessica Stout

Review: Atomicrops

Just earlier today, I saw a tweet concerning ’90s game journalism and how it wasn’t as great as some of us seem to regard it compared to current times. I agree that things weren’t perfect back then (especially as someone who enjoys classic gaming magazines as a hobby), but I do recall one thing that was better. Namely, the fact that critics could say that a game was too difficult and have it be considered a legitimate complaint....

June 11, 2025 · 10 min · 1983 words · Cynthia Castillo

Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy Met With Rave Reviews, Lands Promising Rotten Tomatoes Score

Action movie outingThe Fall Guyhas landed on its feet following the movie’s premiere at SXSW, with the Ryan Gosling-led project debuting at 90% on the review aggregator siteRotten Tomatoes. Directed by David Leitch and starringRyan Goslingand Emily Blunt, The Fall Guy is due to land in theaters in May, and it sounds like the action rom-com we’ve all been waiting for. That’s certainly how Perri Nemiroff ofColliderfelt while watching The Fall Guy, calling the action flick “well-crafted” and heaping praise on the charm shown by the movie itself and its stars....

June 11, 2025 · 3 min · 603 words · Nancy Elliott

Spider-Man 2 players holding out hope for a decreasing chance of DLC

This week, PlayStation held its most recent State of Play. In the 40-minute showcase, we were given glimpses at the upcoming DLC forAstro Bot,Alan Wake 2: The Lake House expansion, and Ghost of Yotei. Once glaring omission from the State of Play was a presence from Insomniac Games. Players have long speculated that while continuing development on Marvel’s Wolverine, Insomniac might be cooking up some supplemental content forMarvel’s Spider-Man 2....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 850 words · Mrs. Lisa Sanford MD

Stallone Trashes Escape Plan 2 as the Most Horribly Produced Movie of His Career

Sylvester Stallone is throwingEscape Plan 2: Hadesunder the bus. The first installment in the series was widely praised and included Arnold Schwarzenegger and a pretty awesome premise. The studio enjoyed the success and quickly green lit two more sequels, but the second one didn’t do as well as initially hoped, despite getting a few decent reviews at the time of its release. On the eve ofEscape Plan 3’s release, Stallone is letting his true feelings aboutEscape Plan 2out on social media....

June 11, 2025 · 3 min · 540 words · Linda Davis

SwitcherControls merges the App Switcher and Control Center interfaces into one

If you want a more powerful App Switcher, then perhaps a good place to start is with a newjailbreak tweakcalledSwitcherControlsby iOS developerDGh0st. Immediately reminiscent of the multi-center feature from a prior jailbreak tweak release known asAuxo 3, SwitcherControls combines both theApp SwitcherandControl Centerinterfaces into one, yielding what you see above. The interface is laden with shortcuts; by default, the top gets you to your flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera, while the bottom consists of your toggles for Airplane Mode,Wi-Fi,Bluetooth,Do Not Disturb, and Rotation Lock....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Victor Romero

The best Amazon Prime Day Smart TV deals

Admittedly, there is never a perfect time tobuy a new smart TV. The technology tends to be quickly replaced and there is so much competition among manufacturers that new and innovative features are regularly being put forward. Still, there are a few times during the year when there may be value to be had if you’re in the market for asmart TV, and that includes Amazon Prime Day, which, despite the name, is two days and tends to happen at least a couple of times during the year....

June 11, 2025 · 5 min · 928 words · Daniel Stevenson

The best free weather apps for Apple Watch

What easier way is there to check the weather than with a quick glance at your wrist? If you own an Apple Watch, a handy weather app is a must-have. While there’s nothing wrong with the default Weather app, sometimes you want a bit more. These free Apple Watch weather apps give you more options to get the most out of your current conditions and weather forecasts. Criteria and Features Here are a few of the things we looked for when creating this list of Apple Watch weather apps....

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · Donald Hunter

The iPad mini means ‘very tough’ holiday for Windows 8 sales

Yes, theiPad miniis indeed going to be competitors’worst nightmare. But Apple’s new 7.9-inch tablet won’t be terrorizing Android tablets as much as the last vestiges of PCs – many now with Microsoft’s new Windows 8. On the eve of sales of Apple smaller tablet, the Sterne Agee analyst said Apple has its bulls-eye on PCs and Windows. Clarifying his earlier“nightmare”comment, Wu said observers who believe the new device is chiefly aimed atAndroid tabletssuch as Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD or Google’s Nexus 7“miss the point”…...

June 11, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Harold Green

The Rokstand: a quality stand with attitude [giveaway and review]

iPhone stands are a dime a dozen. Like iPhone cases, there are millions of iPhone stands, small and large, powered and passive, plastic and metal, cheap and expensive. However, when pulling theRokformRokstand out of the package, I knew this stand was unlike any other stand I had ever seen or felt, for that matter. Quite simply, it is a machine, and a very elegant one at that. It owns your desktop....

June 11, 2025 · 3 min · 567 words · Abigail Ryan

Tim Cook Just Teased Apple's Next Big Device

Tim Cook Just Teased Apple’s Next Big Device Shortly after Apple’s WWDC 2022 event, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down for an interview withChina Dailythat shed a little more light on the company’s plans for the future. We’re talking “blink and you’ll miss it” levels of additional information. But it still provides what could be interpreted as a silver lining. Rumors have suggested for months that Apple has been working on an Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality (AR / MR) combo headset....

June 11, 2025 · 5 min · 927 words · Melissa Lopez

Was The Red October A Real Soviet Submarine?

Was The Red October A Real Soviet Submarine? “The Hunt For Red October” is a Tom Clancy novel adapted into a 1990 movie starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery. It’s about a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine that could run silently through the use of its “caterpillar drive” propulsion system, making it significantly difficult to track. As fun as the film and novel were, and as intriguing as the Red October was with its innovative propulsion system, it was mostly the result of Clancy’s imagination....

June 11, 2025 · 4 min · 748 words · Scott Jennings