Sony’s best soundbars are reborn as the Bravia Theater Bar 8, Bar 9, and Quad

The 2024 Sony Bravia Theater Bar 9 shown with supplied spacers that let it sit on top of a Bravia TV’s stand feet.Simon Cohen / Digital Trends Sony is clearly on a mission to simplify its product brands and names. Today, the company has announced the merger of its flagship TVs and soundbars under the Sony Bravia brand.New 2024 Bravia TVsinclude the Bravia 9, Bravia 8, Bravia 7, and Bravia 3....

August 25, 2025 · 8 min · 1696 words · Carl Davis

Sony’s newest Xperia X member is a phablet with a 16-megapixel selfie camera

At Mobile World Congress 2016, Sonyunveiled three new devicesin a new Xperia X lineup. None of those phones are available yet, but Sony’s added a fourth to the series — the Xperia XA Ultra. Design-wise, the Xperia XA Ultra is a larger version of the lower-tier Xperia XA. It has ridiculously small bezels, and the same button placement as the rest of the Xperia X series — the power button is on the bottom-right edge, and the volume rocker is on the center-right edge....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 636 words · Tanner Booth

Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock Cast Guide & Where Are They Now?

Summary 40 years afterStar Trek III: The Search for Spockand the movie’s cast have made an indelible impact not just on theStar Trekfranchise, but on wider culture. The third of six movies to continue the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of theoriginal starship Enterprisepicks up whereStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khanleft off. With Spock (Leonard Nimoy) physically dead, Kirk and the crew risk their lives and careers to resurrect their old friend....

August 25, 2025 · 8 min · 1702 words · Benjamin Rowe

Stardew Valley Player Discovers Essential Feature After 3,000 Hours Of Gameplay

Summary Long timeStardew Valleyplayers are just nowdiscovering a useful feature for their farms. One of the game’s major aspectsis farm customization, and it is something many players put a lot of thought into. Each player has their own thoughts about how a farm should be set up, andfirst-timeStardew Valleyplayersoften go back and forth between whether they should focus on planting crops, managing animals, or the production of other goods, like wine and jelly....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Melissa Stevens

Stephen King's The Institute: Cast, Story & Everything We Know

Another Stephen King novel is being adapted for the small screen with the announcement of MGM+’s miniseries based on King’sThe Institute. Released in 2019, the underrated horror book concerns a gifted 12-year-old boy named Luke who is mysteriously kidnapped and finds himself in an institute surrounded by children just like him. It wouldn’t be a King novel with a strange twist, and Luke’s gifts stretch far beyond the intellectual and include telekinesis....

August 25, 2025 · 4 min · 838 words · Samantha Elliott

The White Lotus Season 4 & Beyond Plan Addressed By HBO Boss

Summary Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content Casey Bloys has addressed the possibility ofThe White Lotusseason 4 and beyond, explaining what he sees for the future of the anthology series. The series focuses on different stories set within White Lotus locations, a fictional chain of international resorts where new groups of characters have wild experiences in every new season.The White Lotusseason 3is currently in production, setting its story in Thailand with a release window of 2025....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 553 words · Michael Brown

This is the gaming PC you should buy under $1,000

“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.“ I’d given up on the idea that you could pick up a gaming PC under $1,000. Between the rising cost of components and the demands of modern PC games, I thought the era of a unicorn gaming PC under $1,000 was behind us....

August 25, 2025 · 10 min · 2095 words · Robin Silva

This Lenovo ThinkPad is a staggering 72% off today

If you’re looking for a dependable laptop to help you out at work or school, Lenovo has one of the betterlaptop dealsright now. Currently, you can buy the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 AMD for $629 instead of $2,289. That’s a huge 72% off — a $1,660 discount. In reality, this is a Lenovo deal, which means its estimated value system can be a little optimistic when it comes to defining the original price....

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Brandon Smith

This New Tom Hanks Movie Looks So Weird, I Have To See It

Summary When I think of Tom Hanks, I picture him in contemporary classics of cinema, likeCatch Me If You CanorSaving Private Ryan, but this new Tom Hanks movie,Here, looks so weird — and I must see it. CalledHere, the drama is directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth (Dune). An adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel of the same name,Herechronicles the lives of Richard and Margaret, who are played by Hanks and Robin Wright....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 563 words · Nicole Turner

This Xiaomi phone concept is an engineering marvel — but do we want it?

Xiaomi has avision for the future of smartphones, and it involves a whole lot of screen. The company is showing off its latest concept device, and it’s a phone with a portless design and a display that curves around all four of the edges of the device. The concept, called the Xiaomi Quad-Curved Waterfall Display Concept, involves the use ofwhat Xiaomi saysis a “revolutionary hyper quad-curved 88-degree surface,” and it was apparently not so easy to make....

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Kelly Conrad

Tim Walz’s Dreamcast obsession has been immortalized in a Crazy Taxi mod

Since vice presidential candidate Tim Walz revealed himself to be a gamer, it was only a matter of time before somebody decided to run with it inside a video game. That’s why when we spottedCrazy Taxi: Tim Walz Edition, a Dreamcast mod on itch.io this week, we knew we had to write about it. In case you don’t get the joke here, it started with an anecdote by Walz,published in the New York Times, about how he was a big fan of the Sega Dreamcast, but his wife, Gwen Walz, had “seized” it because he was using it too much....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 452 words · Kathryn Rhodes

Typing into the void: The joy of one-sided conversations with K-pop idols

“I watched your Jeju island video! It looked like a very relaxing time. Thank you for your vlogs, they’re so much fun!” I recently sent this message to someone who probably won’t ever see it, and absolutely will never reply directly to it. Yet it made me smile, it brought me happiness, and I do it most days. Before you ask, no, I’m not stalking anyone. It’s through an app that offers Direct Message-style conversation with K-pop idols, and it’s just one example of a growing number of apps that are connecting us to others, many of whom would normally be inaccessible, in very different ways....

August 25, 2025 · 10 min · 2048 words · Kayla Phillips

ULA’s Delta IV Heavy rocket is about to take its final flight

United Launch Alliance will send its Delta IV Heavy rocket on its final flight on Tuesday, April 9. The rocket was supposed to launch last month, but the liftoff was scrubbed with minutes to go due to a technical issue on the ground. The mission will get underway from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and launch an intelligence satellite into a geostationary orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)....

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Katherine Leonard