Disney Dreamlight Valley Centennial Star Path – All Rewards and How to unlock them

With the Festival of Friendship update comes a whole new Star Path as well, filled with a bunch of exciting new rewards to claim. This Star Path is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Disney magic. Everything is themed in a stunning platinum and art deco style, with silvers, purples, and holographic colors. Join in on the celebration and claim your exciting rewards before they are gone. All Rewards in the Centennial Star Path in Disney Dreamlight Valley Like all Star Paths, there are seven rewards on each page....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Monica Williams

Don’t fall for this devious new Microsoft Office scam

With packaging looking legitimate enough at first glance, scammers are sending out fake Microsoft Office USB sticks — loaded withransomware— to individuals. Asreported by Tom’s HardwareandPCMag, the USBs are sent out to randomly selected addresses in the hopes of convincing targets that they inadvertently received a $439 Office Professional Plus package. Alongside the bogus USB stick, a product key is also included. However, plugging the USB stick into a system directs the user toward calling a fake customer support line as opposed to an actual launch installation window for Office....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Preston Black

Dune Awakening Pricing, Pre-Order Bonus and Release Date Revealed

Funcom has finally revealed the official release date of Dune: Awakening, the open-world multiplayer survival game set on the desert planet of Arrakis. Funcom has promised a vastsandboxwhere players willdukeit out and survive by learning the ways of the Fremen. The title will be available to pre-purchase on Steam soon, and here is everything you need to know about its pre-order details, pricing, and additional bonus content you can earn in Dune: Awakening before you start your adventure in May 2025....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 398 words · Dustin Hernandez

FancyNC thins out your notification banners and widgets

A new freejailbreak tweakdubbedFancyNCby iOS developerDemy Kromhofmakes your iPhone’s banner notifications and widgets thinner, decreasing their visual footprint and pleasing the average minimalist. Among the things it does to achieve the end result is remove both the bulky headers and the unsightly separator lines that appear on elements on both theLock screenand in Notification Center. In the end, you’re left with notifications and widgets that take up less space, which allows you to see more of them at a glance without as much scrolling effort on your part....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Kendra Bright

From Software Has Been A Key Player In The Evolution of Gaming Difficulty

There was a time when gaming knew nothing of difficulty settings. Games came with but one: relentless. Defeating tough levels had but a single reward: the promise that your next one would be even worse. Early Atari and Nintendo titles such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong gave no quarter; in fact they took many (quarters, that is). As arcade machines they were designed this way to minimize the time each player spent on a game, thus making sure kids kept pumping paper route money into the slots in an addictive quest to get their initials at the top of the screen....

August 8, 2025 · 10 min · 1918 words · Ian Case

Gears 5 review: Switching up to a new gear

The Gears of War series has proved to be one of Microsoft’s hottest properties over the years. Alongside the Halo and Forza franchises, it has served as a console driver for both theXbox Oneand 360. But, that’s not to say it’s been as consistent as its illustrious stablemates. In comparison, the Gears suite has occasionally lacked layers and/or depth, favouring simplistic plot lines and blood and bluster over involving narratives and gameplay variety....

August 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1159 words · Kelli Sharp

Get six content packs for Sid Meier’s Civilization VI for iOS free

Aspyr announced today a not-to-be-missed holiday giveaway forSid Meier’s Civilization VI for iOS, its premium turn-based strategy video game thatreleased on iPad two years ago. Downloadable content packs for Civilization VI are sold via the In-App Purchase mechanism, and boy are they pricey. As an example, the new Gathering Storm content pack that dropped a month ago is a $40 download. All of the other content packs are priced at $5 a pop, but there are nearly a dozen of them so it adds up pretty quickly....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Dr. Jacob Ramirez

Giant Centipede Robots Are Being Built For Farms: Here's The Reason

Giant Centipede Robots Are Being Built For Farms: Here’s The Reason The world’s biggest centipede, at potentially over 12 inches long, certainly earns the “giant” in Amazonian giant centipede. This particular species of minibeast has 42 legs, and while all centipede species are different in that regard, one thing they seemingly share in common is that they don’t necessarily have the most practical design for a robot to be based on....

August 8, 2025 · 4 min · 787 words · James Cox

Google ARCore: Android's augmented reality tech explained

ARCore is Android’s version ofApple ARKit. It’s a baked-in augmented reality platform that developers can leverage. It’s different from the now-discontinued Tango, another AR effort by Google that relies on custom hardware requirements. ARCore is less powerful than Tango, but that’s okay. It’s meant to be more accessible. Google said it will work with 100 million existing and upcoming devices. What is augmented reality? While virtual reality immerses you into a space, replacing everything you see in a physical world, Augmented reality (AR) takes the world around you and adds virtual objects over it....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 492 words · Andrea Henson

Here's What Makes The Hennessey Venom F5 Engine So Incredible

Here’s What Makes The Hennessey Venom F5 Engine So Incredible The Hennessey Venom F5 never fails to mesmerize since debuting in 2017. It’s the first fully-bespoke production car of Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) after spending decades making other vehicles go faster or giving trucksmore powerandsix wheels. Hennessey sold out theVenom F5in 2021, an impressive feat given the supercar’s $2.1 million price tag. Only 24 Venom F5s exist today, but HPE has theVenom F5 Roadsterand the track-readyVenom F5 Revolutionfor buyers who didn’t make the first cut....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Nicole Munoz

Horizon Forbidden West: 1.21 Patch Notes Listed

The long-awaited update and DLC for Horizon Forbidden West is upon us and in preparation for that, we’ve gotten a patch note update that will help pave the way. Here is a list of all Horizon Forbidden West: 1.21 Patch Notes. Horizon Forbidden West: 1.21 Patch Notes Listed This set of patch notes is only going out for the PlayStation 5, and it’s here to make sure things are stable for the DLC being released later today....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Kevin Chandler

How Agatha All Along fits into the MCU

In 2021, Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) began with Wandavision, the first Marvel Studios series that premiered on Disney+. Wandavision bridged the way into thefuture of the MCUfollowing the end of the Infinity Saga and directly addressed the repercussions that happened in Avengers: Endgame. It began theMultiverse Sagaportion of the MCU, which are Phases 4, 5, and 6. We’re currently in Phase 5 and are sprinting towards Phase 6, which will cap off withAvengers: Doomsdayand Avengers: Secret Wars....

August 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1176 words · Danielle Garner

How Long Do Diesel Engine Turbos Tend To Last? (And Can You Extend Their Lifespan?)

How Long Do Diesel Engine Turbos Tend To Last? (And Can You Extend Their Lifespan?) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I first fell for turbo-diesels many years ago. A sporty-looking Rover model arrived in the family garage in a dreadful state — the owner had replaced the head gasket and then promptly fired it up without adding any engine oil. The result was a car that was beyond economical repair but suited my need for a new project perfectly....

August 8, 2025 · 4 min · 774 words · Lisa Baker