After almost 20 years of the MCU’s dominance—where characters like Gamora and Groot have miraculously become household names and command the careers of A-list actors—we’ve suddenly found ourselves in a period of nostalgia for Marvel’s ramshackle 1990s era. This was first felt with the warm reception that found Disney+’s hugely charming X-Men ’97 series, a show…
Here's Everything We Know So Far About Phasmophobia's Terrifying New Map, Nell's Diner
August 6, 2025
Phasmophobia developer Kinetic has finally lifted the veil on its next small map — and it’s a diner. Nell’s Diner is described as a run-down, retro restaurant complete with a “classic diner counter, comfy booths, and a kitchen preparing some…
Microsoft has announced Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass August 2025 lineup, which includes Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Citizen Sleeper 2, and more.
As revealed in a post on Xbox Wire, out today, August 5, is Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) across…
Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. And as a student, the new cost of $100 per year for a Microsoft 365 Personal account is pretty expensive—but fortunately, you may not have to pay to use the software.
Depending on where you go to school, you may qualify for a free or heavily discounted Microsoft 365 subscription.
Want ad-free streaming without paying through the nose for Netflix or HBO Max? Roku’s new budget streamer serves up a tempting selection of movies and TV shows for a lot less, provided you can deal with some caveats.
Slated to launch today, Howdy costs just $3 a month for…
Interest in Sonos’s smallest portable speaker is heating up—literally—following word that at least one of the units came close to catching fire.
A Sonos user on Reddit posted images of the “singed” and “bulging” USB port on the back of his Roam, a portable…
OpenAI is getting back to its roots as an open source AI company with today’s announcement and release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.
The former is a 120-billion parameter model as the name would suggest, capable of running on a single Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit (GPU) and the latter is only 20 billion, small enough to run…
Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive…
Spot crypto trading is accelerating toward full federal regulation as the CFTC invites public input, setting the stage for transformative access on official U.S. futures exchanges.
Push for Regulated Spot Crypto Heats up With CFTC Now Soliciting Feedback
The Commodity…
‘Suboptimal Capital Leakage’ in GCC Due to Lack of Crypto ETPs, Warns Defi Tech President
August 6, 2025
In the Gulf Cooperation Council region, there is a significant gap in the availability of regulated digital asset exchange-traded products. According to Andrew Forson, this leads to capital being exported to other jurisdictions—a situation that not only results in financial losses but also hampers the development of local infrastructure and liquidity.
GCC Lags Behind Europe in Digital Asset…
