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Adam Birney / Android Authority Roku’s best streaming hardware is on sale today, and while it might be Prime-adjacent, you don’t need a subscription to the Amazon service to capitalize on these offers. There’s over 30% off many of the top Roku streaming devices on Amazon right now, dropping many of the products to their best price ever. The Roku …

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has told the Scottish government its proposals to decriminalise drugs for personal use would do “untold damage to our neighbourhoods”. Scottish drugs minister Elena Whitham announced the plans on Friday – which would require the backing of the UK government – along with a framework for the creation of safe consumption rooms and the consideration of …

Microsoft scored a partial victory in its bid to acquire Activision Blizzard this week, with a US district court judge in the US paving the way for the deal to go through. However, the $68.7 billion merger is not signed and completed yet, and some key hurdles remain, including the status of the buyout in the UK. Following Microsoft’s partial …

Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd have made their son, Shai, their star since welcoming him in February 2017. The Dancing With the Stars couple’s first child was born six months before the twosome tied the knot in New York in July 2017. “My Prince Shai….you gave me the title of Mother, and you have given me my proudest moments in …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta now lets avatars be used to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger and adds ways to share animated avatar stickers  —  Meta announced today that users can now use their avatars to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger.  The company says the new functionality …

Share Taking a stroll in the City of Love! Stanley Tucci stepped out for a walk at night in Paris with his wife, Felicity Blunt, on Tuesday, July 10.  Scroll below to see photos of Stanley and Felicity during their Paris trip.    Share

The wait might finally be over? maybe? Following the confirmation in December 2022 that Nicalis would be bringing The Binding of Isaac: Repentance to iOS with controller support, we hadn’t heard much about the release until a Tweet last month. Today in the official Nicalis newsletter, the publisher confirmed that The Binding of Isaac: Repentance update for iOS has been …

Some people expose their parents’ cruelty in memoirs, on blogs, in a therapist’s office. 17-year-old Milania Giudice is doing it on her own mother’s podcast. Yes, ahead of Teresa Giudice returning for RHONJ Season 14, she is still running her podcast. There, her daughter revealed that Tre’s comments prompted her to drop a dramatic amount of weight in a very …

A hundred bucks doesn’t go as far as it used to, but for the two days of Amazon’s major Prime Day shopping event, it will at least go much farther. For two days—July 11 and 12—Amazon extends thousands of discounts to Prime subscribers only. (Try a free 30-day trial, and remember to cancel before it automatically renews.) Other major retailers …

All six people aboard a tourist helicopter in Nepal were killed when it crashed soon after takeoff. The helicopter lost contact eight minutes after taking off on Tuesday morning. The two helicopters deployed for search and rescue could  not land at the crash site because of the weather, but teams on the ground brought the bodies to the helicopters which …