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  • List of all games coming in July to Xbox Game Pass | Esports News

    List of all games coming in July to Xbox Game Pass | Esports News

    Xbox Game Pass is keeping the momentum going in July 2025 with a fresh lineup of exciting games across PC, console, and cloud. Whether you’re into story-driven puzzles, high-action RPGs, or co-op adventures, this month brings something for just about everyone. From brand-new titles launching day one to returning fan favorites, Game Pass continues to show why it’s a go-to for gamers. On top of the confirmed July games, a few big releases are also lined up for August. Here’s a quick look at what’s available now—and what’s just around the corner.

    Xbox Game Pass July 2025 games and what’s coming soon

    15 NEW Xbox & Game Pass Games to Play in July 2025!

    Now playing in July

    • Journey to the savage planet: Employee of the Month Edition – July 3
      A quirky, colorful sci-fi exploration game full of humor and weird creatures.
    • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 – July 9
      A fun fighting game with popular characters like SpongeBob and Aang.
    • Cricket 24 – July 11
      A detailed cricket simulation perfect for sports fans.
    • The Case of the Golden Idol – July 16 (PC)
      A clever mystery puzzle game where you solve crimes in a dark, hand-drawn world.
    • Dungeons of Hinterberg – July 18 (Day One)
      A stylish mix of dungeon-crawling and small-town life in a stunning alpine setting.
    • Flock – July 23 (Day One)
      A relaxing co-op game where you fly around collecting magical flying creatures.
    • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess – July 24 (Day One)
      Capcom’s unique action-strategy game features spiritual battles and a beautiful art style.
    • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – July 24 (Day One)
      A dark Souls-like action RPG set in ancient China, full of lore and brutal combat.
    • Magical Delicacy – July 26 (Day One)
      A cozy platformer where cooking and exploration come together in a charming pixel world.
    • Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis:The Answer – July 31
      A major story DLC expansion for fans of the RPG classic.

    Coming soon

    • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl – August 5
      A gritty, atmospheric survival shooter set in the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl.
    • Ereban: Shadow Legacy – August 13
      A sleek stealth platformer with sci-fi vibes and fast-paced movement.
    • Age of Mythology: Retold – August 27
      A remake of the legendary real-time strategy game, with updated visuals and mechanics.

    July is packed with variety on Xbox Game Pass, and with heavy-hitters like Wuchang and Kunitsu-Gami arriving day one, it’s a great month to dive in. The fun doesn’t stop there; big August releases like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Age of Mythology: Retold are just around the corner. Whether you’re into action, puzzles, or something cozy and creative, there’s plenty to explore and enjoy right now.


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  • Anker’s new charger battles desktop clutter with retractable USB cables

    Anker’s new charger battles desktop clutter with retractable USB cables

    The current trend in USB chargers isn’t adding more power or ports, it’s integrating charging cables that disappear when not in use. Anker was one of the first companies to release a charger with a built-in retractable USB-C cable last October, but its latest charger brings the same convenience to the desktop alongside three AC outlets you won’t need to climb under your desk to access.

    Nearly a year ago Anker released a desktop charger with a dial on the side that could be used to adjust the power output of its six USB ports, but at $169.99 it was expensive and required you to supply all your own cables. Anker’s new 7-in-1 Nano Charging Station can only charge four devices over USB, but at $89.99 it’s cheaper and potentially more versatile as you can add additional USB ports by plugging other power adapters into the back of it.

    The Nano Charging Station’s biggest selling point is its pair of 2.3-foot long USB-C cables that retract with a quick pull and keep their connectors securely stored using magnets. They’re joined by an additional USB-C and USB-A port on one side.

    Another reason this charging station is almost half the price of Anker’s $169.99 option is that it offers less power output. The more expensive option can deliver up to 140W of power to a device, but the Nano maxes out at just 100W when nothing else is plugged in. If you’re charging two devices, the maximum power output drops to between 50W and 88W, depending on which ports are in use.

    With devices connected to all four USB ports, the maximum power output is just 30W, which isn’t enough for a laptop. To help ensure you don’t find out the hard way your laptop isn’t adequately charging when it suddenly dies, the charging station includes a 1.3-inch LCD display that shows how much power is being delivered to each connected device.

    Although the promises of a completely wireless world through technologies like Wi-Fi and Qi haven’t quite materialized yet, the recent proliferation of chargers and power banks with retractable cables is a suitable consolation prize while we wait for our truly cordless future to arrive.

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  • How Does Systemic Sclerosis Affect Pregnancy?

    How Does Systemic Sclerosis Affect Pregnancy?

    TOPLINE: 

    Women with systemic sclerosis faced higher risks for adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia and preterm birth in a Swedish cohort study. 

    METHODOLOGY:

    • A population-based cohort study based on data from Swedish national health registers from 1987 to 2021 assessed pregnancy outcomes in women with and without systemic sclerosis (SSc).
    • Pregnancies were classified as those occurring before or after SSc diagnosis, with further classification as those occurring 0-3 years before diagnosis or more than 3 years before diagnosis.
    • A total of 972 pregnancies in women with SSc (94 occurring after and 878 before diagnosis) were identified and matched with 1440 and 10,118 comparator pregnancies in women without SSc from the general population.
    • Outcome measures included adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, preterm birth, and cesarean delivery.

    TAKEAWAY:

    • Postdiagnosis pregnancies showed increased risks for preeclampsia (adjusted relative risk [aRR], 3.8; 95% CI, 1.8-7.8), preterm birth (aRR, 3.3; 95% CI, 1.8-6.1), and cesarean delivery (aRR, 2.5; 95% CI, 1.8-3.5).
    • Primiparous women with SSc had a 7.5-fold increased risk for preeclampsia and a 5.1-fold increased risk for preterm birth.
    • Pregnancies within 0-3 years before SSc diagnosis showed increased odds of preterm birth (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.6; 95% CI, 1.2-10.6) and small-for-gestational-age births (10th percentile; aOR, 4.1; 95% CI, 1.7-10.1).
    • Pregnancies that occurred more than 3 years before SSc diagnosis showed increased odds of preeclampsia (aOR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.1-3.1) and preterm birth (aOR, 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4).

    IN PRACTICE:

    “Our observations highlight the need for multidisciplinary maternal care and pre-pregnancy counseling also for today’s women with SSc, with a special focus on primiparous women for [whom] the risks are the highest,” the authors wrote.

    SOURCE:

    The study was led by Weng lan Che, PhD, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. It was published online on July 8, 2025, in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

    LIMITATIONS: 

    This register-based study lacked information on disease activity, specific serologic patterns, and treatment. 

    DISCLOSURES:

    This study was supported by the Dr Margaretha Nilsson Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish Cancer Foundation. One author declared being a member of the medical advisory board of the Myositis Association, and another declared part-time employment at the Swedish Medical Products Agency.

    This article was created using several editorial tools, including AI, as part of the process. Human editors reviewed this content before publication.

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  • The Prince and Princess of Wales share message for Queen Camilla

    The Prince and Princess of Wales share message for Queen Camilla

    Queen Camilla received a special birthday shoutout from the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince William and Catherine sent Her Majesty a birthday wish on Thursday. “Happy Birthday to Her Majesty! 🎂,” the Waleses’ X account wrote alongside the Queen’s 78th birthday portrait.  

    The photo, showing Camilla smiling, while resting her arms on a fence at her private home, Ray Mill House, was released on the eve of her birthday. King Charles‘ wife turned 78 on July 17. An additional of the Queen sitting in a chair with a book was shared on Thursday, with a message that read: “Thank you for the wonderful well wishes on Her Majesty’s 78th birthday today! 🎈.”

    The bells of Westminster Abbey rang out to celebrate the Queen’s birthday on July 17. The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery also fired a 41 gun salute in Green Park with the Band of the Scots Guards, while the HAC Regiment fired a 62 gun salute at Tower Wharf.

    Camilla, who has two children—Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes—from her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, became Prince William and Prince Harry‘s stepmother in 2005. According to the BBC, Harry once said that Camilla is “not the wicked stepmother,” but instead called her “a wonderful woman and she’s made our father very, very happy, which is the most important thing.” Harry also shared, “William and I love her to bits.”

    Following Charles’ ascension to the throne in 2022, the King said he could “count on the loving help” of his “darling wife, Camilla,” adding, “In recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage 17 years ago, she becomes my Queen Consort. I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.”

    Tom has expressed his pride in his mother. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2024, Her Majesty’s son gushed, “I’m incredibly proud of her. She’s at an age when most people think of retiring, but she never complains; she just gets on with it.”

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  • This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

    This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

    Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He feeds the words into an artificial intelligence model developed by his startup, Decart, which manipulates live video in real time.

    “I have no idea what’s going to happen,” Leitersdorf says with a laugh, shortly before transforming into a bizarre, gold-tinged, subaquatic version of Julius Caesar in a poncho.

    Leitersdorf already looks a bit wild—long hair tumbling down his back, a pen doing acrobatics in his fingers. As we talk, his onscreen image oscillates in surreal ways as the model tries to predict what each new frame should look like. Leitersdorf puts his hands over his face and is transformed with more feminine features. His pen jumps between different colors and shapes. He adds more prompts that take us to new psychedelic realms.

    Decart’s video-to-video model, Mirage, is both an impressive feat of engineering and a sign of how AI might soon shake up the livestreaming industry. Tools like OpenAI’s Sora can conjure increasingly realistic video footage with a text prompt. Mirage now makes it possible to manipulate video in real time.

    On Thursday, Decart is launching a website and app that will allow users to create their own videos and modify YouTube clips. The website offers several default themes including “anime,” “Dubai skyline,” “cyberpunk,” and “Versailles Palace.” During our interview, Leitersdorf uploads a clip of someone playing Fortnite and the scene transforms from the familiar Battle Royale world into a version set underwater.

    Decart’s technology has big potential for gaming. In November 2024, the company demoed a game called Oasis that used a similar approach to Mirage to generate a playable Minecraft-like world on the fly. Users could move close to a texture and then zoom out again to produce new playable scenes inside the game.

    Manipulating live scenes in real time is even more computationally taxing. Decart wrote low-level code to squeeze high-speed calculations out of Nvidia chips to achieve the feat. Mirage generates 20 frames per second at 768 × 432 resolution and a latency of 100 milliseconds per frame—good enough for a decent-quality TikTok clip.

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  • Mission to power ferries and boats with hydrogen power

    Mission to power ferries and boats with hydrogen power

    “This is the moment to try and kick-start the industry to demonstrate technologies that we can embrace for like inter-island ferries but also short sea shipping and longer-term, deep-sea shipping,” he said.

    “My goal is to get this technology into real vessels and ships as quickly as possible in order to reduce the detrimental effect we are seeing from the maritime sector.”

    OceanLab uses hydrogen fuel cells and solar panels.

    He said the company was currently trying to commercialise the technology in order to have a “greater environmental impact” and has recently moved into a production centre to start creating and assembling the technology to use.

    Mr Sharp also said the company has been visiting schools to teach them about clean energy on the island.

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  • Gym Shorts Are the Surprising Breakout Piece of Summer

    Gym Shorts Are the Surprising Breakout Piece of Summer

    This summer in New York City, the breakout item that all the downtown cool kids are wearing is not some designer shoe or rare vintage bag but the humble gym short. Yes, really! Just the other day, I spotted several striped Adidas gym shorts over in Dimes Square, some of them paired with dressy button-up shirts or snazzy socks and loafers. The new look of summer 2025? It’s all about dressing like a gym rat, whether or not you’ve ever stepped foot inside an overpriced Equinox. Needless to say, I am totally captivated by this sporty new styling approach.

    Celebrities have been very much on board with the saucy little gym short. Just earlier today, Zoë Kravitz paired tiny black gym shorts with a Black History Month tee and heeled mules while stepping out of the Bowery Hotel in New York. Hailey Bieber has worn an itty-bitty blue style, pairing it with a leather bomber jacket (her signature piece), and Harry Styles has color-blocked his red shorts with a mustard yellow sneaker.

    Photo: Backgrid

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    Photo: Backgrid

    During the spring 2026 menswear shows, a number of street style stars were also spotted giving the athletic bottoms a more formal spin—a move we saw on the catwalks, too, like when Willy Chavarria showed his elongated silky gym shorts (an Adidas collaboration) with a matching track jacket. Gym shorts on the runway? Very protein chic.

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    Willy Chavarria fall 2025

    Photo: Daniele Oberrauch / Gorunway.com

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  • A Deal Worth Watching Out For: The Apple Watch SE Aluminum Case Is 32% Off – PCMag

    1. A Deal Worth Watching Out For: The Apple Watch SE Aluminum Case Is 32% Off  PCMag
    2. Apple Watch SE Available for $169 Record Low Price on Amazon  MacRumors
    3. Walmart Deals of the Day: $120 Discount Drops the Apple Watch Series 10 to a New Low  AOL.com
    4. The Apple Watch Series 10 Is Hands-Down My Favorite Smartwatch, and It’s 24% Off Right Now  CNET
    5. Top Tech Deals: Apple Watch Series 10, Sonos, Anker Charger, and More!  How-To Geek

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  • New chemical tool may improve development of key drug components

    New chemical tool may improve development of key drug components

    Chemists have developed a novel way to generate a variety of highly useful chemical building blocks by harnessing metal carbenes, suggests new research.  

    Typically used in chemical reactions essential for drug synthesis and materials development, carbenes are short-lived, highly reactive carbon atoms. In the lab, this can make carbenes especially tricky to create, as methods to form them are limited and often hazardous. 

    Now, for the first time, an approach discovered by researchers at The Ohio State University has made producing these metal carbenes much easier, said David Nagib, co-author of the study, a distinguished professor in arts and sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University,

    “Our goal all along was to determine if we could come up with new methods of accessing carbenes that others hadn’t found before,” he said. “Because if you could harness them in a milder catalytic way, you could reach new reactivity, which is essentially what we did.”

    Researchers came upon this carbene-crafting method by using iron as a metal catalyst and then combining it with chlorine-based molecules that easily generate free radicals. Together, these ingredients worked to form the carbene of their choice, including many that had never been made before. Then, to create a chemical reaction, these carbenes quickly attach to another molecule in a strained bond to form a cyclopropane, which is shaped like a triangle.  

    These three-sided molecular fragments are vital to the synthesis of medicines and agrichemicals, in part due to their small size and unusual energy. But while there are many ways to synthesize this shape, which is one of the most common found in medicines, this team’s work was inspired by looking for the best ways to create them.  

    “Our lab is obsessed with trying to get the best methods for making cyclopropanes out there as soon as possible,” said Nagib. “We have the eye on the prize of inventing better tools to make better medicines, and along the way, we’ve solved a huge problem in the carbene world.”

    The study was recently published in Science.

    In decoding one of chemistry’s greatest challenges, the team also found that their method works well in water, suggesting that metal carbenes might one day even be reliably created inside a living cell to discover new drug targets. According to Nagib, this new approach is about 100 times better than previous chemical tools that his lab has produced over the last decade. 

    “Our lab is very much a tool development lab,” he said. “And to me, the way you gauge if it’s valuable or interesting is if others use your tool.”

    The team expects their discovery to become extremely impactful because for scientists, accessing a new way of creating and classifying carbenes means that the current wasteful, multistep process of producing them can be made both simpler and safer. For consumers, this method suggests that future drugs developed by this technology may be cheaper, more potent, faster-acting, and longer-lasting. 

    The work could prevent shortages of important medicines like antibiotics and antidepressants, as well as drugs that treat heart disease, COVID and HIV infections, Nagib said. 

    Additionally, because this team’s work is so groundbreaking, they’d like to ensure this transformational organic chemistry tool is accessible to both big and small research labs and drug manufacturers around the world. One of the most effective ways to guarantee this and establish the future of their strategy is to keep improving the current technique, said Nagib. 

    “Our team at Ohio State came together in the coolest, most collaborative way to develop this tool,” he said. “So we’re going to continue racing to show how many different types of catalysts it could work on and make all kinds of challenging and valuable molecules.”

    Other Ohio State co-authors include Khue Nguyen, Xueling Mo, Bethany DeMuynck, Mohamed Elsayed, Jacob Garwood, Duong Ngo and Ilias Khan Rana. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Brown Institute for Basic Science.

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  • Pakistan, El Salvador sign ‘letter of intent’ on Bitcoin cooperation

    Pakistan, El Salvador sign ‘letter of intent’ on Bitcoin cooperation

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    Pakistan and El Salvador have agreed to establish formal cooperation on Bitcoin and blockchain initiatives, following a high-level meeting between Minister of State for Crypto and Blockchain Bilal Bin Saqib and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador.

    The engagement, described as the first official meeting between the Miinster of State and the Salvadoran head of state, culminated in the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) between the Bitcoin Office of El Salvador and the Pakistan Crypto Council.

    The agreement aims to facilitate technical cooperation and knowledge exchange in key areas such as public sector applications of Bitcoin, blockchain-based financial inclusion, sovereign digital asset reserves, and regulatory innovation in emerging economies.

    According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Finance, the meeting centred exclusively on digital asset collaboration and was seen as a landmark in what officials termed “Biplomacy” — a blend of Bitcoin and diplomacy reflecting the growing role of decentralized technologies in international engagement.

    “El Salvador’s bold Bitcoin experiment has inspired governments around the world,” said Bilal Bin Saqib, who also heads the Pakistan Crypto Council. “This visit marks the beginning of a strategic relationship rooted in innovation, inclusion, and shared learning.”

    President Bukele welcomed Pakistan’s outreach, commending its forward-looking approach to digital assets and reaffirming El Salvador’s support for emerging economies exploring Bitcoin as a tool for financial sovereignty.

    El Salvador, which made headlines in 2021 as the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, has become a focal point for nations assessing digital currencies to expand financial access and reduce reliance on traditional monetary systems.

    Pakistan is similarly working to establish a structured digital asset economy. Earlier this year, the government created the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) via presidential ordinance to regulate the crypto sector, curb illicit finance, and promote responsible innovation.

    The State Bank of Pakistan also announced plans to complete a pilot project for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) within the current fiscal year.

    Officials believe the Pakistan–El Salvador agreement will help advance policy dialogue on sovereign digital asset frameworks, encourage public-private collaboration, and position Pakistan as a serious participant in global crypto governance.

    Financial analysts estimate that ongoing reforms, including the integration of virtual assets into the formal economy, could bring up to $25 billion into the country’s tax net.


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