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How long will it take to give more credit to the actor that is Jake Gyllenhaal? The actor always steps up when it is required and even more so, uplifts everything he touches. The same goes for his new movie Road House, which stars him as Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter who gets hired to clean up the mess at a drinking joint. (Also read: Motherboard review: Portrait of single parent's decades-long journey with her son is an absolute gem) Jake Gyllenhaal in a still from Road House, now streaming in Prime Video.…

The fourth page in Dead by Daylight‘s Tome 18: Revision was unlocked this week, allowing players to complete the final set of challenges and see the last journals and cutscenes of story hidden within it, and they can’t get enough of one individual’s lore. One of the scenes this Tome holds is the backstory of a young Caleb Quinn, also known as The Deathslinger. It shows his days in Hellshire Prison as a young man, where he revealed his penchant for skewering people before being given more tools to refine his methods. The…

Digital Trends The iPhone 15 lineup has been a huge success for Apple, with the refresh to its product line tempting many people to update to a newer model or to switch over from an Android. Apple has also be re-jigging the available iPhone options, and if you’re after a large-sized iPhone then your luck is in as you now have more options than ever. In older generations, there was just one choice for a larger sized iPhone, which was the iPhone Pro Max. But since the iPhone 14 generation, Apple introduced a iPhone 14…

Aescape/ZDNETIt's not every day that you're lying on a massage table while two robot arms knead the stress out of your body. But there I was, dressed in form-fitting slate gray exercise wear, face sunk into the donut-shaped headrest as an AI-powered robot gave me a 30-minute massage. It left me feeling a little funny, but also, curiously, relaxed. That relaxation came from Aescape's robot at its New York office. Aescape is betting big on its AI massage robots and is launching ten robot massage tables, like the one I…

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysFor $129, the Opal Tadpole, a tiny external webcam (supposedly the smallest ever built) designed to clip onto your laptop screen and blast your built-in webcam's capabilities out of the water. It comes with 4K video resolution, a mirrorless Sony 48-megapixel  IMX582 Exmor RS sensor, and a directional microphone that only picks up sound from the camera's field of vision. The result is professional-level video quality that looks like it's coming from a "real" camera but in a…

Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment announced that Overwatch 2’s next crossover is with Cowboy Bebop, and a snazzy trailer recreates the anime’s iconic opening with the collaboration’s character skins. The collaboration begins on March 12, when Legendary skins, emotes, and other items based on Cowboy Bebop will appear in the game’s store. So far, a Cassidy skin based on Spike Spiegel, an Ashe skin that turns her into Faye Valentine, a Jet Black skin for Mauga, an Ed skin for Sombra, and an Ein Wrecking Ball…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe 2024 Moto G Play for a couple of weeks, and, to my surprise, this $150 phone has been able to provide an enjoyable experience for communication, entertainment, social media, and more.View at Motorola The 6.5-inch LCD has a 1600 x 720 pixels resolution with a 90Hz refresh rate and it has been great for watching video content. I've also found the 5,000mAh battery to provide long enough battery life when combined with Qualcomm's power-sipping Snapdragon 680 processor. I…

A study from the University of Oxford reveals that a significant number of COVID-19 infections persist for over a month, potentially contributing to the emergence of new variants and Long COVID symptoms. Analysis of over 90,000 participants found that up to 0.5% of infections could last 60 days or more, with some infections showing high mutation rates.Recent research conducted by the University of Oxford has found that a high proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the general population lead to persistent infections…

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.Scientists have now found a simple and effective means of removing them from water.A team from Guangzhou Medical University and Jinan University in China ran tests on both soft water and hard tap water (which is richer in minerals), adding in nanoplastics and microplastics (NMPs) before boiling the liquid and then filtering out any precipitates.In some cases, up to 90 percent of…

Snowflakes Swirl According to Surprisingly Simple MathEvery snowflake is different, but new technology reveals they all swirl the sameBy Ellyn Lapointe Credit: Cepreй Бypбoha/Getty ImagesFor all snowflakes' infinite structural variation, their journeys to Earth are remarkably similar—even predictable. Researchers tracking more than half a million falling flakes have uncovered a broad mathematical pattern that describes precisely how they swirl through the air.University of Utah atmospheric…