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Here’s a dirty little secret: Consumer electronics can be boring sometimes. Hardware scaling is hard and people love the familiar, both things that have a tendency to disincentive adventurous product design. So it’s worth acknowledging when big companies try something a bit different. From a purely design perspective, there’s a lot to love about the HT-AX7. Sony’s new modular wireless speaker system is clean but warm, symmetrical and generally pleasing to the eyes. The fabric-covered minimalism wouldn’t look out of…

Andy Boxall/Digital Trends The Asus Zenfone 10’s camera is attached to a gimbal, and with it comes the promise of shooting steady, shake-free video even when you’re moving around. Does this mean it can take on the mighty GoPro, and perhaps mean you only need to carry around one device instead of two? To find out, we put the Zenfone 10 against the latest GoPro camera and two of its smartphone peers. Understanding the Zenfone 10’s gimbal The gimbal can be seen working in the viewfinder Andy Boxall/Digital Trends Before…

The Pixel Tablet is like an emotionally unstable partner. On good days, it’s reliable and helpful, always ready to listen and support me. Every now and then, though, I feel gaslit and annoyed by its inconsistencies and mixed messages. This might be because Google’s latest tablet/smart-display hybrid straddles two product categories: one at which it excels and the other where it’s just adequate. As a smart display, the Pixel Tablet mostly shines. It has a useful dashboard, an easy-to-read interface and impressive audio…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsMows wellSmart, useful featuresGuide cable with three starting pointsConsWi-Fi kit costs extraNo obstacle detectionProfessional boundary wire installation recommendedOur VerdictThe Husqvarna Automower 310 Mark II is a really capable robot lawnmower. It requires an initial investment in its set up and it lacks frills but its core functions are excellent. Recommended. Best Prices Today: Automower 310 Mark II…

Christina Darby/ZDNETI'll be candid. When JBL launched its Tour Pro 2 earbuds with a touchscreen case back in January, my immediate reaction was one of cynicism. "Just what I need, another screen to look at," I thought to myself. Also: These $169 Apple-owned earbuds were made with Android users in mindWhile the screen was undoubtedly innovative, and patents suggest that the idea of it is on Apple's mind too, what I -- and most audiophiles -- ultimately value is sound quality, especially with the Tour Pro 2's $250…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press Pixar’s “Elemental” conjures a diverse metropolis where the elements — fire, water, earth and air — live like ethnicities mostly ghettoized from one other. For fire and water, especially, mingling can be combustible. A bad splash could consume fire; a strong flame could evaporate water. This is the rare kids’ movie where subway rides are actually more fraught with danger than in the real world. “Elemental” is the 27th Pixar feature and the second from longtime studio veteran Peter Sohn…

Last updated: May 26th, 2023 at 13:38 UTC+02:00 Samsung started rolling out a new Bixby update to enhance two primary features and smarten the voice assistant. The new Bixby update, version 3.3.15.18, weighs a little under 63MB. The company says that you can now do more with Bixby. Thanks to this new update, when talking to Bixby, the voice assistant can recommend useful settings related to a wider range of commands. In addition to making the assistant more responsive, Samsung also tweaked some options for child…

A JUICE instrument for scanning the subsurface structure of Jupiter’s icy moons has finally been extended to its full length after stubbornly refusing to do so since launching last month.NASA Delays Return to Earth's Evil Twin, VenusJUpiter ICy moons Explorer, or JUICE for short, is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will explore Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—three Gallilean moons suspected of harboring subsurface oceans and potentially habitable conditions. This is the European Space Agency’s first mission…

With all the viruses, phishing scams and other malware lurking on the internet, using a web browser can be risky business these days. But one firm thinks it could make your web surfing much safer without adding any hassle. A company named SquareX has just raised $6 million to develop an extension that would create virtual sandboxes within your web browser. Any time you’re tempted to open a file or click a link that comes from an unknown sender or could potentially pose a threat, SquareX’s extension would step in and…

Sequence-breaking video games is a long and veritable tradition that dates back to the early days of the hobby, but Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has an unusual way of dealing with it. As shown by several players on social media, if you manage to skip significant portions of the game, an error message will pop up and ask you to reload a save. As shown in this post, the prompt cites an "unexpected error" and reads as follows: "You seem to have bypassed certain story elements. Continuing to play from this point…