Sony NAC-SV10i Review

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ Check outour overview of the Sony HomeShare systemfor more information, and links to reviews of other HomeShare components.The NAC-SV10i is designed as a stand-aloneiPod dockand music server. Think of it as the hub of your wireless music operation....

August 13, 2025 · 4 min · 666 words · Robert Stanley

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 1 release date, time, channel, and plot

Paramount+ is the USS Enterprise for Trekkies, as the streaming service continues to produce entertaining and well-receivedStar Trekprograms. There are multipleStar TrekTV shows to choose from that span a variety of genres.Star Trek: Lower Decksis an animated comedy for adults,Star Trek: Prodigyis geared toward families, andStar Trek: DiscoveryandStar Trek: Picardare dramas.Star Trek: Strange New Worldsfalls into the drama category, but it’s a throwback to the originalStar Trekand a treat for all fans....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 493 words · David Nelson

Starfield is coming, but Bethesda still hasn’t given many reasons to care

After years of speculation and mounting hype,Starfieldfinally got its grand reveal duringMicrosoft and Bethesda’s E3 2021 show. Well, sort of. Todd Howard took the stage at the top of the show to introduce a newtwo-minute trailer for the game. The clip shows an astronaut walking around a spaceship as a voice-over teases some of the universe’s lore. After some long interior shots (including one close-up of a very detailed sandwich), the pilot reaches the cockpit of the ship and looks out at a planet’s sprawling surface as a mech trots by....

August 13, 2025 · 4 min · 686 words · Rachel Perkins

Terrifying new Chinese app Zao lets anyone make a deepfake

Deepfakes have finally gone mainstream with the Chinese app Zao, which spiked on the iOS App Store over the weekend. The app uses facial recognition to replace celebrities’ faces with yours in video clips, but it’s raising concerns about how your face is being used and who has access to deepfake technology. The app works like this: by uploading one of your selfies to the app, it can place your face on top of celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, making it seem like you starred in theTitanic....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 631 words · Michael Abbott

The best new podcasts for the week of August 21, 2025: The Queen and more

The best thing about podcasts is that you can listen to them while you’re doing other things: Dishes, going for a run, coloring, and especially, driving. But there areso many podcaststhese days that it’s simply impossible to keep up. There are new ones debuting all the time, and it’s hard to know whether they deserve a spot in your feed. Every week, we highlight new and returning podcasts we couldn’t get enough of....

August 13, 2025 · 4 min · 793 words · Donald Anderson

The best web browsers for 2024

All web browsers have the same basic function, and yet, the choice between them has always been one of the most contentious in tech history. You have more options these days than ever before, whether you’re looking for the best web browser for privacy, the best for speed, or perhaps something a bit more adventurous. To help you decide on the best web browser, we grabbed the latest browsers and put them through their paces....

August 13, 2025 · 18 min · 3696 words · Kimberly Roth

The Onyx Boox Go is one of the coolest tablets I’ve ever used

I recently came across a research paper published in theFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience journal. It mentioned the benefits of writing on paper compared to digital screens, like tablets, and how it can help you better remember critical information. In simpler terms, writing on paper is associated with higher brain order functions as it creates a more intimate memory that can also be easily recalled. “The unique, complex, spatial and tactile information associated with writing by hand on physical paper is likely what leads to improved memory,” the researchers explained....

August 13, 2025 · 8 min · 1591 words · Ashley Powers

The ultimate Frozen gifts for your kids ahead of the movie’s sequel

Frozen 2officially premieres in theaters on November 22, which means ifFrozenfeverhasn’t hit your house for the second time yet, consider yourself warned: Winter is coming. Elsa’s Enchanted Ice Vanity— $59 Elsa fans will love stepping into the princess’s world with Elsa’s Enchanted Ice Vanity. The vanity shows moments from Elsa’s journey inFrozen 2and plays two of the iconic songs from the film. Even better, the vanity comes with a number of hairpieces and a brush and comb for dressing up for playtime and has a built-in drawer to keep all those accessories together....

August 13, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Michael Jones

These Beats wireless earbuds with noise-canceling are 41% off for a limited time

Beats is one of the most popular brands in the audio industry, and listening to your favorite tracks with the Beats Studio Buds+ will show you why. The wireless earbuds are a very tempting purchase right now following a 41% discount from Amazon, which brings their price down from $170 to only $100.Beats headphone dealsare almost always only available for a limited time, and this offer isn’t an exception, so you need to hurry with your transaction if you want to get these wireless earbuds at $70 off....

August 13, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Kim Sanchez

This fps-doubling app is now even better than DLSS 3

Lossless Scaling is a $7 Steam app that’s flipped the idea of frame generation on its head this year. Similar to tools likeNvidia’s DLSS 3andAMD’s FSR 3, Lossless Scaling offers frame generation. However, it works with any game, and with any graphics card, andit can tripleorquadruple your frame ratewith this frame generation. And now, the app is going further with a feature that even DLSS 3 and FSR 3 don’t have....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Traci Walker

This tiny robot vacuum can do more than some full-sized competitors

SwitchBot might be best known for gadgets like theSwitchBot Curtain 3and quirkySwitchBot Bot, but the company is quickly making a name for itself in the world of robot vacuums. Its catalog is growing a bit more enticing today, as the brand has officially revealed theSwitchBot Mini Robot Vacuum K10+ Pro— an upgraded version of the existingMini Robot Vacuum K10+. With enhanced suction and some cool new features, it packs in more functionality than many of its full-sized rivals....

August 13, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Robert Nunez

Trust me, a Samsung user: You want the iPhone 13 Pro’s 120Hz display

As an Android user, I’ll be the first to say it: TheApple iPhone 13 Pro’s120Hz refresh rate finally makes it a compelling, competitive option with Samsung’s Galaxy S21 line. While Samsung and other Android manufacturers have long supported higher refresh rates on their devices, Apple has been relatively late to the party. with the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros being the first to incorporate ProMotion in 2017. Four years later, the technology still hadn’t come to any of the iPhone 12 models, not even the Pro versions....

August 13, 2025 · 5 min · 865 words · Kelly Ryan

Twitch CEO claims “thousands” of small streamers are viewbotting

Twitch CEO claims “thousands” of small streamers are viewbotting Twitch CEO Dan Clancy responded to concerns about viewbotters on the platform, stating that mostly small streamers are behind the inflated viewership. Viewbotting refers to the act of artificially raising a streamer’s total viewers through the use of automated programs, commonly referred to as “bots.” Certain creators, such as Trainwreck, have claimed that some clout-chasing streamers are paying as much as$20,000 a weekfor advanced bots and that Twitch has the“number one” viewbotted streamerin the world....

August 13, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Jennifer Green