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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will ship with the Lasombra and Toreador clans available in the base game, publishers Paradox Interactive and White Wolf, and developer The Chinese Room announced. Both were previously planned as day one paid downloadable content. The companies also announced plans for two additional Story Packs, “Loose Cannon” and “The Flower & the Flame,” which …

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It,  I’ve been with my girlfriend for five months, and she does something during sex that I think warrants an evaluation by a medical professional. Every time she has an orgasm, she comes close to blacking out. The …

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. …

Episodic games, much like baggy jeans and curtain haircuts, may be about to make a comeback, and once again it’s Telltale staff – former Telltale staff – who are leading the charge. AdHoc Studios, a team founded by Telltale developers in 2018, when Telltale collapsed, will launch debut game Dispatch – a superhero workplace comedy – episodically in October. Episodes …

Telltale Games obviously found a lot of success with its take on The Walking Dead, alongside several other series, but that whole episodic release thing never quite caught on. Even still, some former Telltale Games devs are clearly keen on trying it out again anyway. These devs are called AdHoc Studio, and their game is Dispatch, a comedy adventure …

We all love our personal tech devices, but when it comes to keeping them juiced at home, sometimes it’s tough to find the ideal real estate. If your outlets, floors and nightstands are flooded with power strips and loose cables, this might be the perfect way to tidy it all up. This seven-in-one charging tower offers fast charging with three …

Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Even if you consider this New York Fashion Week the “most boring” in recent memory, it still went on, as scheduled, without a hitch. Sequined corsets, tufted cropped coats, billowing capes and beaded heels all paraded down runways for the eyes and iPhones of primped guests, despite the fact that, all around us, the state of …

Meta Connect 2025 — the company’s biggest conference of the year where it unveils smart glasses and VR headsets — kicks off on Wednesday night. We’re expecting the star of Meta Connect 2025 to be the company’s new AI-powered smart glasses with Ray-Ban and Oakley, but the company may have some other surprises in store regarding the Metaverse, Quest headsets, …

Sure, the iPhone 17 lineup hasn’t even shipped yet, but that doesn’t stop the news cycle rolling on. A new report details the chipset we can expect to find inside the iPhone Fold and the iPhone 18 Pro models. This will of course include the A20 chip, the first to be made using a 2-nanometer process, but the report suggests …

Samsung One UI update mess deepens with daily download limit  Sammy Fans You won’t like Samsung’s One UI 8 release timeline and schedule  SamMobile Samsung’s current One UI 8 update schedule is super-ambitious, but can it be pulled off?  PhoneArena Samsung confirms list of Galaxy devices getting Android 16 update, mostly in October  9to5Google Samsung Galaxy Users Hit With Strange ‘Daily Download Limit’ Error …