Panasonic DMP-B15 Portable Blu-Ray Player Lands June

Panasonic DMP-B15 Portable Blu-Ray Player Lands June Panasonichave announced pricing and availability for their portable Blu-ray player, the DMP-B15. Complete with an 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD, HDMI output and BD Live support, the DMP-B15 also features Panasonic’s VIERA CAST internet access via an ethernet port; that means, as on the company’s standalone Blu-ray decks, you’re able to access Amazon Video-on-Demand, YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg and other online information. Since the onboard screen isn’t really much use for Full HD content, the DMP-B15’s HDMI port can be used to output 1080p to a nearby display or projector....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 755 words · Jonathan Peterson

Review: NBA 2K24

2K and Visual Concepts are entering their fourth release on the current generation of consoles with NBA 2K24. Much like the first release, 2K has included Kobe Bryant as its cover athlete, and there’s a bit of a running theme between these two titles. While the series has continued to progress since appearing on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, NBA 2K24 hits a road block with the progression of the game....

June 7, 2025 · 10 min · 2026 words · Rhonda Hall

Review: Taiko No Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival

Over the last few years the Taiko No Tatsujin franchise has seen a huge boom in releases in the west after being dormant for quite some time outside of arcade machines. Now we’ve gotten the third Taiko title exclusively for Switch in the form of Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival which felt like it has been truly aiming to be a big fill for Taiko fans and newcomers alike. Of course the staying power of any good Taiko title comes down to its iconic gameplay and available soundtrack in addition to new minigames added to the mix in order to really spice things up....

June 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1433 words · Edward Smith

Review: Twelve South’s AirSnap fully encloses & protects your AirPods case

My AirPods have served me great thus far and I don’t think I ever left home once without them in the past year or so of owning a pair of these. AirPods have proved especially valuable for making phone calls, using Siri and enjoying my music just about anywhere, hands-free. My only quibble is the slippery charging case prone to accidental drops. Because it’s so tiny, the charging case can be lost quite easily—I misplaced mine several times in a glove compartment of my car and even forgot it on a local bar stool and a restaurant table recently....

June 7, 2025 · 5 min · 911 words · Steve Moran

Samsung's amazing 5G smartphones are at their best on AT&T

5G is the next generation of mobile tech and it has become more standard with more 5G devices rolling out to give a lot of options to experience its speeds. Samsung has been perhaps the best of the big phone makers when it comes to equipping its flagships with 5G1, and that means that its family of phones is simply perfect for AT&T’s fast, reliable, secure 5G network. Read on to learn how to get aSamsung Galaxy 5G smartphone for $5/month....

June 7, 2025 · 3 min · 498 words · Matthew Austin

Should You Explore Barren Planets in Starfield?

The crowd went wild when Todd Howard revealed that there are over 1,000 planets in Starfield. With every inch of every planet explorable, the idea of that scale promises countless hundreds or thousands of hours worth of exploration. But not every world will feature life—only approximately 10% do. So, what about the rest? There are plenty of good reasons to explore barren planets in Starfield. Is It Worth Exploring the Barren Planets in Starfield?...

June 7, 2025 · 3 min · 502 words · Bradley Kelley

The best Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan collaborations, ranked

Director and screenwriter Ryan Coogler has only made five feature films to date, and all five of them have featured Michael B. Jordan. Coogler and Jordan have proven to be a potent pairing, as evidenced bySinners’stronger-than-expected performance at the box office over the weekend. That film managed to unseat this year’s current box-office champion,A Minecraft Movie, in its third weekend. Now thatSinnersis well on its way to becoming a hit, it’s time to look back at all five of the Ryan Coogler and Michael B....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 845 words · Matthew Dalton

The Last Spell Review

Being very close to being a certified boomer, I naturally have an affinity towards retro games, retro-looking games, and new iterations of once-great franchises (let’s… not go into “remastered” territory this time around, please). The Last Spell caught my eye by ticking all boxes that could form a good game for me: Roguelite, RPG, Pixel Graphics, and Turn-Based Strategy. What’s the Deal with The Last Spell and What’s The Last Spell About?...

June 7, 2025 · 5 min · 1008 words · Charles Ford

The US Navy's Submarine Fleet Is Bigger Than You Think

The US Navy’s Submarine Fleet Is Bigger Than You Think Thanks to movies like “Crimson Tide,” when most people think of the United States Navy’s submarine force, they remember the Ohio-class submarines. While Ohio-class subs make up a portion of the submarine force, they’re hardly the most used subs in the service. There are currently four classes of submarines in the Navy, and they vary in function, from fast attack to various types of missile submarines....

June 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1199 words · Rebecca Rosales

This Emergency Rescue Robot Is A Real Parkour Master

This Emergency Rescue Robot Is A Real Parkour Master When it comes to emergency response, there are a ton of barriers that even trained professionals need to overcome, such as being able to quickly reach the patient in the shortest amount of time possible. While some people get lucky, wherein there are trained first aid professionals or EMTs within reach, others are not, which means they’ll need to wait until someone with medical knowledge or an emergency response background can assist them....

June 7, 2025 · 4 min · 736 words · Kristina Grant

Twitter app update with Instagram-like filters now available for download

As I reported yesterday, Twitter has updated its Android app with thepromisedInstagram-competing photo filters, a first for the micro-blogging service seeking to supplant Instagram as your favorite photo sharing service. That, my friends, is a pretty tall order given Instagram’s popularity, the Facebook backing and a growing number ofnew featuresInstagram’s gaining. Be that as it may, Twitter has waited until this morning to roll out filters to its iOS client....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Carolyn Smith

Unannounced iMac with 10-core Intel i9 chip and Radeon Pro 5300 GPU appears in Geekbench results

We know that there are stillIntel-based Macs coming down the pipe, as Apple confirmed as much that we’d see them arrive before the end of 2020. And now we have a first glimpse of what’s coming. Tom’s Hardwarewas first to report on the new, unannouncediMacbased on a tweet sent by Twitter user@rogame. TheGeekbench resultsshow a previously unannounced iMac model that’s outfitted with a 10-core Intel i9 processor under the hood. As noted in the original report, this appears to be an Apple-exclusive chip, custom-tailored for Apple and this particular Mac model....

June 7, 2025 · 3 min · 532 words · Gail Carroll

US regulators investigating case of replacement Note 7 going ablaze on a plane

Jordan Golson, reporting for The Verge, iswritingthat the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission is opening an investigation into yesterday’s incident when Southwest Airlines flight 994 from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated while still at the gate because of a smoking Note 7. A spokesperson for the airline told The Verge that all passengers and crew exited the plane through the main cabin door and no injuries were reported. “More worrisome is the fact that the phone in question was a replacement Galaxy Note 7, one that was deemed to be safe by Samsung,” reads the article....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 425 words · Kenneth Gibson