New Google app turns Live Photos into animated GIFs and movies with cinematic backgrounds

Google todayannouncedit’s launching a brand new iPhone application aimed at those who wish to turn their Live Photos into animated GIFs. Aptly named Motion Stills, the app turns Live Photos into Motion Stills with Google’s stabilization technology and cinematic backgrounds. These Motion Stills can then be shared as looping GIFs on social media.Motion Stills is available free in the App Store. Virtual cameraman for your Live Photos A Google Research project, the new Motion Stills app acts as a virtual cameraman for your Live Photos....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 535 words · Gabriel Robinson

New teaser shows checkra1n jailbreak running Cydia and Zebra

With a resource as powerful as @axi0mX’scheckm8bootrom exploit floating around in the wild, it’s should come as no surprise to anyone that prominent members of the jailbreak community are actively working on tools that take advantage of it. One of the most significant of those ischeckra1n, a project that is currently being spearheaded by renowned hacker and Yalu jailbreak lead developer Luca Todesco. It’s been a little over a week since welast heard anything new about checkra1n, but based on what we saw at the time, it would seem things are falling into place quite nicely....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Daniel Cole

Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors Exists Early Access Next Month

Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors, a promising roguelite bullet hell developed by BKOM Studios, is launching early next month. The devs announced earlier today that the game will finally leave Steam Early Access and will launch officially on April 4. Just in case the name didn’t already give it away, Gallowspire Survivors takes place in the highly-acclaimed Pathfinder universe. If you’re already familiar with titles like Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you should already have some idea of what to expect from this setting....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 231 words · Bradley Mcintosh

Persona 5 Tactica: Final Kingdom Quest Walkthrough

Quick Links Having moved up fromthe School Kingdom,players who’ve reached the final kingdom inPersona 5 Tacticawill be relieved to see that the finish line is finally in sight. Before they can cross it though, they’ll need to clear just a few more quests. These represent the culmination of everything one should have learned over the course of the game, so they can certainly present a challenge to those who’ve just been muddling their way through so far....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Deborah Davis

Pokémon Unite review: A new string to Pokémon's bow

The Pokémon Company spent a long time being mighty conservative with its central IP, but those days look like they could be over - Pokémon is stepping into whole new genres now, and Unite brings it into the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) spotlight for the first time. It’s a crowded genre, but Unite drops onto Switch (alongside mobile) to offer a bit more of a niche choice. With simple controls and fan-favourite designs to call on, it could spell a major win for its creators, though....

August 8, 2025 · 5 min · 1043 words · Logan Arnold

Red Hood Just Proved Why He Shouldn't Use Guns (& There's No Going Back)

Summary WARNING: Potential Spoilers ForThe Boy Wonder#2!At this point,Red Hoodand guns are nearly synonymous. However, Jason Todd’s latest and perhaps greatest blunder has proven why he should NEVER have used guns in the first place. Unfortunately, it’s Damian Wayne’s Robin who had to suffer for Red Hood to learn this lesson the hard way. The worst part, though, is that this is the second time Damian has been the victim of this specific Jason Todd mistake....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 576 words · Shane Adams

Rockstar confirms huge GTA 6 leak was real

Rockstar has taken to Twitter to address a major leak ofGrand Theft Auto 6assets and code, which hit the internet over the weekend. It has posted a statement confirming that the leak was due to a “network intrusion” and included “early development footage” of the next GTA. It also expressed how disappointed the studio is that the hugely anticipated game was first shown in this form. “We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorised third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto,” it said....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 321 words · Marcus Coleman

Russia launches X-ray observatory capable of locating thousands of black holes

Russia’s Proton-M rocket launches the Spektr-RG observatory on Saturday, July 13.Roscosmos Russia has finally launched its powerful X-ray observatory, Spektr-RG, after a month’s delay caused by faulty batteries on board the spacecraft. The launch took place at 5:30 a.m. PT on Saturday, July 13, taking off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Spektr-RG is a satellite created in cooperation between the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) as well as universities in Russia and Germany....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Cynthia Dodson

Sharp's new RoBoHon robot is tiny and cute and we want it

When you think about toy robots,Sony’s Aiboprobably springs to mind. ButSharphas its own, too, called RoBoHon. And it’s getting an upgrade. RoBoHon is a smartphone disguised as a robot. The little robot works as a phone, with a screen for a belly, but it does more. The original model could move and talk for call alerts and more. It even had a projector in its face, so it could lean forward and project larger images on surfaces....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Rachel Bell

Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact review: If small is your all

The Sony smartphone approach over the past few years has been rather non-committal. There have been plenty of Xperia devices launched, sure, but each has changed so little between generations - and often within just six months of each other - pushing the dated OmniBalance design language. Indeed, we thought that Xperia’s time was hanging in the balance. Our quick take As small phones go, the Sony XZ2 Compact in a league of its own....

August 8, 2025 · 10 min · 1989 words · Patrick Pena

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Voice Actors Talk About Family Ahead of Season 2 Premiere

The studio behind the acclaimed animated series,Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is serving up another season ofStar Wars: The Bad Batchsoon. The “bad batch” refers to a group of defective clones with various mutations, who later refused their orders to turn on the Jedi. After the events ofStar Wars: Episode III,they become mercenaries for hire while avoiding the Empire. Legendary voice actorDee Bradley Bakerreprises his role - or roles, rather - as the clones Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo, and Tech, whileMichelle Angreturns as Omega, a young girl who is the only female clone of their progenitor, Jango Fett....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 507 words · Kimberly Caldwell

Starfield: Should You Side With the Emissary, Hunter, or Neither? – Answered

We have reached the grand finale of the main storyline of Starfield. A tough choice is before you, with some benefits and drawbacks. You have three options; side with the seemingly righteous and lawful Emissary, the chaotic Hunter, or accept neither of their proposals. If you are wondering if you should side with the Emissary or with the Hunter, or even better, with neither, continue reading. Is It Better to Side With the Emissary, Hunter, or Neither of Them in Starfield?...

August 8, 2025 · 5 min · 940 words · Cole Ibarra

The Best Dungeons in Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Golden’sdungeons are more than just places to grind EXPor fuse Personas. They are emotional reflections of the characters who live in Inaba – each one a stylized manifestation of the internal struggles that the cast must confront in the Midnight Channel. 10 Best JRPGs on Nintendo Switch The Nintendo Switch is home to some of the best JRPGs ever made, from timeless classics to modern masterpieces that push the genre forward....

August 8, 2025 · 5 min · 1057 words · Emily Graves