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“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.“ Director Kenny Ortega’s 1993 filmHocus Pocuswasn’t a hit when it was first released, but history has been kind to it, and turned it into a Halloween tradition of sorts for children of a particular generation (and their children, in many cases)....

Microsoft has made some serious enhancements to the newMicrosoft Surface Duo 2, fixing most of the mistakes people found with last year’sSurface Duo. The folding dual-screen still shines, and it now comes with a 90Hz refresh rate on both panels. This is augmented by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor, triple camera array, and the addition of 5G. Thanks to these improvements, the Surface Duo 2 takes its place among thetop-tier folding phonesand commands a correspondingly high $1,500 starting price....

June 4 was a big day for me, as I got myNintendo Switch 2that morning. You think that I would have rushed to try outMario Kart WorldevenNintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tourfirst, but neither christened my device. Instead, the first thing I played wasLumines Remastered. The PSP puzzle game has become a go-to console testing game for me over the years, as it’s a great test for control precision and screen latency....

When you’re on the move and trying to keep up with the action, the last thing you want is a hefty camera weighing you down. The Insta360 GO 2 is the perfect solution to this problem. At only 27 grams, the camera weighs less than an ounce but still provides high-resolution, hands-free recording with anaction camera. The Insta360 GO 2 includes a 1/2.3-inch image sensor that yields 1440p videos, ensuring high-quality results no matter what you’re recording....

Update: Added problems related to Wi-Fi, CarPlay, notifications, email, and unresponsive apps. The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 10, has a lot going for it. The biggest additions changed how people use their iOS devices — transforming the way they write and send texts, interact with notifications, and use Siri within apps. The latest version of iOS was in beta for quite a while and was made available to the public, meaning thousands of people got to experience iOS 10 prior to its official release....

“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.“ Bluetooth speakersare often a predictable lot, where functionality and portability complement how well they sound. But different speakers are designed for different situations. When it comes to the crowd-pleasing type, JBL is all over it....

LG Electronicshas announceda successful short-range test for 6G terahertz (THz) data, bringing the eventual 6G future that much closer. LG worked in conjunction with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research laboratory in Germany to conduct the test, which saw the data transmitted wirelessly between the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and the Berlin Institute of Technology. It successfully traveled over 100 meters in an outdoor setting, which breaks records that were previously set under controlled laboratory conditions....

TheMacBook Airfeaturing Apple’s latest proprietary M2 processing chip is available for pre-order as of Friday. But as quickly as the new laptop has become available, it is already facing shipping delays. Customers can pre-order the M2 MacBook Air through the Apple website or the Apple Store app. However, these order options are already showing shipping estimates beyond its July 15 global retail launch date, with many configurations delayed for shipment until July 18 or later in the U....

Among the experiments and suppliesdelivered to the International Space Station (ISS) todaywas a new spectrometer instrument that could help show how small particles of dust can have a big impact on the Earth’s climate. The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will map the way different types of dust move across the planet’s surface and see how this affects temperatures. A big factor in how different types of dust affect temperatures is their color, as darker dust particles like those rich in iron adsorb heat and warm the air around them, while lighter particles like those rich in clay reflect heat....

Last July, Niantic hosted a Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago’s Grant Park. The sold-out event was intended as a massive celebration ofPokémon Go‘s success.It did not go very well. Poor Wi-Fi connections rendered the game almost entirely unplayable, and Niantic was forced to issue full refunds. This left many fans out hundreds of dollars in travel and hotel expenses. In response, a group of frustrated players organized a class-action lawsuit seeking reimbursement for the costs incurred during the the trip to Go Fest....

Nokia is hopping aboard the Verizon 5G train. The company launched the Nokia 8.3 5G earlier this year, and now it’s releasing a Verizon model of the phone that’s built specifically to take advantage ofVerizon’s mmWave 5G network. The phone, called the Nokia 8 V 5G UW, isn’t the most powerful out there, but it’s also not bad. Like the Nokia 8.3 that it’s based on, it offersa Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor, coupled with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage....

Nvidia launched the highly-rumoredRTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Tiduring its Computex 2021 keynote. The RTX 3080 Ti is set to launch on June 3 for $1,199, and the RTX 3070 Ti is scheduled to release on June 10 for $599. Both cards are based on the same Ampere architecture as the RTX 3080 and 3070, but they come with additional cores and video memory, among other improvements. The RTX 3080 Ti will dethrone the RTX 3080 as Nvidia’s flagship GPU....

“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.“ The unassumingOnePlus 8has been replaced by the OnePlus 8T. Wait, you don’t remember the OnePlus 8? That’s not surprising, as the phone was a safe, sensible choice that had absolutely no standout features, making it entirely forgettable....