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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.“ Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Furyis positively brimming with joy. From its bright colors to its adorable cats, it’s the perfect game to close out Mario’s big 35th-anniversary bash. Originally released on theWii Uin 2013,Super Mario 3D Worldwas a sort of return to form for the series after more experimental mainline Mario outings likeSuper Mario SunshineandSuper Mario Galaxy....

Are you looking for a top-tier Dolby Atmos surround sound system that gets as close as possible to a full-on receiver and speakers? I have two favorites. Let’s pit them against each other. First, on the Sonos side, there is theArc Ultrawith its enhanced bass performance, the newSonos Sub 4, and two Dolby Atmos-capableEra 300speakers. On the Sony side it’s theBravia Theater Quadsystem matched up to Sony’s best subwoofer, the SW5....

“Fitness” can mean a lot of things. For some people, it’s being able to run far or fast. For others, it’s being able to lift heavy things and lower them back down again. Others may simply want to keep trim or eat healthily. It may even mean getting a great night’s sleep, or making sure your mental wellness is at its best. Whatever fitness means for you, we have a list of apps that cover all the possible bases....

Social media isn’t for the faint of heart, nor is it for the clueless or the inattentive. Today, social media is a vast, public platform that’s used by billions of people all across the globe. They’re tweeting, posting to Facebook, pinning, and Instagramming to their heart’s content. Amidst this social media activity, you’re bound to find a slew of catastrophic fails that are not easy to ever live down – especially if you’re a celebrity who’s constantly under the microscope....

Names and email addresses of as many as 21 millionTimehopusers may have been compromised as a result of a data breach that occurred on July 4. Timehop, a service thataggregatesold photos and posts from various social media accounts — including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google Photos, and Dropbox — discovered the attack on its service as it was unfolding, but it took several hours for the company to contain the breach....

Robot vacuums are designed to stay quiet and out of sight as much as possible. They don’t work as well if they’re constantly getting underfoot — or if they start making loud, unexpected noises, which can be disruptive and time-consuming. If your Roomba orother robot vacsstarts throwing a fit, these are the fixes we’ve found that can make them quiet again, depending on where the problem’s origin. A few minuteswith your Roombaand you should be able to put things right....

The drone delivery service operated by Google-owned Wing has been dropping off ordered items to residents of Christiansburg in Virginiafor the past 12 months. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of one of the few residential drone delivery services currently operating in the U.S., Wing has posted a video featuring some of the folks that have made use of the service. It also includes lots of footage showing the flying machine in action as it lowers items into people’s yards using a tether....

It’s been known for some time thatAMD’s RX 7900 XTXgraphics cards are prone to overheating, and previous reporting has highlighted that the problem is bad enough to cause someserious throttling. Now, we might know exactly what is causing the problem — and it’s bad news for AMD users. That’s because noted tech expert Igor Wallossek of Igor’s Lab haspublished an investigationoffering up his own analysis. After reaching out to various industry sources, Wallossek believes the problem lies with the 7900 XTX’s vapor chamber....

While physical media will almost certainly be around for several years to come, the video game industry has made significant strides toward an all-digital future. But beyond that, the concept of subscription services — particularly in the world of video games — has been brought to the forefront in recent years. While services likeXbox Game Passand, to a lesser extent,PlayStation Noware leading the charge, there are other options you might be less familiar with....

This won’t come as any surprise to those of you who put tape over your laptop’s cameras, but Alexa might not be 100 percent secure. This week at the Def Con Hacking Conference in Las Vegas, researchers from the Chinese conglomerate Tencent Holdings disclosed that they were able to use a modified Amazon Echo tohackinto another Echo running on the same network. The researchers were not only able to take full control over the secondary device but also silently record and transmit audio to a third party, essentially turning the smart speaker into great big bugging devices, asreported by Wired....

Apple has finally taken the wraps off of the next generation of iPhones, called theiPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, ushering in a new generation of iPhone and immediately outdating older devices, including the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and other previous models. But not everyone needs the latest and greatest model. Not everyone is a power-user, and not everyone needs all of the new features on offer in new devices....

Am I surprised that theApple HomePod Miniis hiding a stowaway inside of it? Not really. After a report surfaced recently about how Apple’s latest smart speaker has a sensor tucked away inside of it to measure temperature and humidity, it’s natural to speculate on the reason why it’s there in the first place — and more importantly, why it’s not active. This comes as no shock to me, mainly because the HomePod Mini isn’t the first (and won’t be the last) smart home gadget to hide away inactive sensors....

“Easy to use” Warzone AR is new meta after surprise buff One of the community’s leading analysts has praised an assault rifle that received a surprise buff as now being one of the best ARs in Warzone thanks to its incredible ease of use. Ever since theSeason 2 update, the Call of Duty developers have been busy implementing smaller weapon changes to keep the meta feeling fresh. From theTAQ Evolvere’s reworkto theMCW’s sizable buffs,Warzone’s metahas been shifting fast....