“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.“ There isn’t a one-size-fits-all way to make your home smarter. Instead, lots of companies are bringing their gadgets to market one at a time, which allows you to invest in features that matter to you....

“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.“ A Microsoft laptop. Suggesting it a decade ago would lead only to raised eyebrows and brief chuckles. But these days, the Surface brand has become a mainstay in the PC world. We currently have our choice between theMicrosoft’s Surface Pro,Surface Book 2,Surface Studio, and even Surface Go, each proving the company can build hardware that pushes the PC forward in their own way....

Museums and art galleries have long encouraged an air of monastic silence so that visitors can enjoy the artworks and other offerings without being disturbed. But the curators running these places probably didn’t want total silence at the cost of any and all visitors coming through their doors. That’s one of the many scenarios unfolding as a result of the current coronavirus pandemic, however. To keep in line with mandated social distancing, museums, and art galleries throughout the world are either finding themselves shuttered by law or, in the rare cases they remain open, with drastically reduced footfall....

One leak could be a fluke, but two leaks? MSImightbe cooking. As per (now) two leaked images, MSI might have an exciting new GPU in the works, and it’d be one that could rival some of thebest graphics cards. The GPU in question is another version of theRTX 5080, but this time, it’s said to come with 24GB memory — a major upgrade over the base version. This could finally push it past theRTX 4090, but will it really happen?...

Quick Links Morty Smith from the popular sci-fi showRick and Mortycomes toMultiversusas a playable character with many moves and perks to defeat opponents, but also many costume cosmetics you can unlock. This space and dimensional traveling teenager comes equipped with many strange tools that can enhance his strength. Some devices provided by his grandfather can also be unpredictable, confusing enemies with unorthodox attacks. Morty was released as one of themany characters inMultiVersusadded to the open beta for the game before its official release....

Following the death of former NBA player Kobe Bryant on Sunday, theNBA 2K20basketball video game featured a tribute to the late athlete. The retired NBA star and eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant, were killed in ahelicopter crash. The tribute is visible in the game upon startup, and shows a picture of Bryant alongside his years of birth and death. This is the first thing that you see when you launch NBA 2K20....

New app lets magical anime girls call to say goodnight & “I love you” A new service will soon let fans call anime magical girls to give them wake-up, goodnight, as well as “I love you” calls, among many other options. Magical girls is one of the most well-known genres in theanimecommunity, as it often features strong, iconic, and likeable main characters and interesting conflicts. A lot of anime fans may be familiar with titles such as Sailor Moon andCardcaptor Sakura, but the Pretty Cure franchise is also one that’s still relevant to this day....

An electrical engineer in Richland, Washington’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has designed a system that can help keep schools safe fromgunviolence. Jim Skorpik, who has previously developed sensors meant to detect a missile’s readiness for combat, has now applied his expertise tokeeping children safe. His sensor technology has now been licensed by EAGL Technology out of Albuquerque, which has installed and tested the new sensors at Hermosa Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico....

True wireless earbudscan be awesome, but they currently come with serious limitations. Even recently released models, likeSoul Electronics’ Emotion, only offer up to six hours of playback time per charge, and that’s better than a lot of the competition. That may be set to change, however. The Sonabuds 2 Pro, which are currently surging past their goal on Indiegogo, promise up to15 hoursof playback on a single charge, which is triple what you’ll get from Apple’s AirPods and way beyond anything else we’ve seen so far....

Sennheiser PXC 550-IIImage used with permission by copyright holder With many of us working from home, being able to filter out all that background noise is a priority. That’s why we’ve spent a lot of time these past few weeks searching for greatheadphone dealswith excellent noise-canceling capabilities. Here’s one deal we know audio lovers will jump at: The latest Sennheiser PXC 550-II (not to be confused with the run-of-the-millSennheiser PXC 550) are on sale right now for only $280 down a massive $70 from the usual $350....

OpenAI has announced its AI agent tool,called Operator, as a research preview as of Thursday, but the launch isn’t without its minor hiccups. The artificial intelligence brand showcased features of the new tool in an online demo, explaining that Operator is a Computer Using Agent (CUA) based on the GPT-4o model, which enables multi-modal functions, such as the ability to search the web and being able to understand the reasoning of the search results....

Players in Japan can finally check outPalworldonPlayStation 5after around a week and a half after it became available elsewhere. The officialPalworldX (formerly Twitter) accountannounced Fridaythat the open-world survival game is now available on the console in Japan. This is despite the fact that developer Pocketpair has beensued by Nintendoin a Tokyo court for patent infringement. The account apologized for the delay, but didn’t provide an explanation. It then went on to reiterate that it’ll continue to bring big updates to the PS5 version in the future....

Samsung’s lineup of computer accessoriesis completewith both portable and internal SSDs, microSD cards, flash drives, and more. But, for CES 2020, Samsung is announcing an impressive-looking new T7 touch portable solid-state-drive (SSD) that is smaller than the size of a business card. The T7 Touch Portable SSD is also the first from Samsung to feature a built-in fingerprint scanner. This means that it is more secure than your typical portable hard drive from other manufacturers....