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Warning! Contains spoilers for A Quiet Place: Day One. Summary AlthoughA Quiet Place: Day Oneoffers many gripping alien-kill sequences and poignant moments, I cannot help but only think about its central cat character because of how it portrays him. Serving as the third installment in theA Quiet Placemovie franchise,A Quiet Place: Day Onerewinds to the inception of the apocalypse, walking viewers through the chaos and destruction that ensued after the sound-sensitive aliens first attacked Earth....

If you’ve ever used the lastAmazon Echo Show 8, you mostly have a pretty good idea of what you’re going to get with this updated model: a decent screen with which to see things, a surprisingly good speaker. And that’s still true going into this new iteration, one ofseveral new Echo devicesannounced today. Even in our crowded, noisy demo area afterAmazon’s fall devices eventat its new HQ2 building in Arlington, Virginia, you could hear music (the sort your kids love) just fine....

The upcoming AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Zen 3+ APU has been spotted in a leaked benchmark, giving us the first look at the expected performance of the chip. The benchmark results are interesting. Ryzen 9 6900HX easily defeats its predecessor, but it falls short when it comes to competing againstIntel Alder Lake. However, it still has the upper hand in terms of power requirements. AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX was found in aleaked Geekbench 5 testas part of a Lenovo 82RG laptop equipped with 32GB of memory and running Windows 11 Pro....

Autonomous-driving operations at Cruise look certain to end after its main backer, General Motors (GM), said it will stop funding the initiative. GM, which has owned about 90% of Cruise since 2016, announced the decision ina statementshared on Tuesday. It follows a challenging period for Cruise after one of its autonomous cars ran over a woman after she was knocked into its path by a human-driven car in San Francisco in October 2023....

Summary Jurassic World 4gets a new story update that teases a return to the franchise’sJurassic Parkroots. After two sequels to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster classic, the hit dinosaur franchise got a soft reboot in 2015, introducing audiences to new characters and a widened premise.Jurassic World 4is now moving forward, with Scarlett Johansson set to star opposite Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Jonathan Bailey, among others, with Gareth Edwards directing what has been described as something of another soft reboot for the franchise....

Next month,Madden NFL 25is about to get some competition. Maximum Entertainment will releaseMaximum Football, a free-to-play simulation sports game. It might not have the official NFL branding, butMaximum Footballemphasizes a physics-based approach to gameplay that should make everything from hits to throws feel more realistic than Madden, which often relies on more pre-baked animations. Speaking to Digital Trends ahead ofMaximum Football’searly access release, game director Micha Brown stressed that the game will stand out by emphasizing honing in on physics-based gameplay and emergent moments that feel more true-to-life for a football simulator....

Microsoft, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),took a major step in dismantling one of the most prolific cybercrime toolscurrently in circulation. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) collaborated with the DOJ, Europol, and several global cybersecurity firms to disrupt the Lumma Stealer malware network — a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform implicated in hundreds of thousands of digital breaches worldwide. According to Microsoft, Lumma Stealer infected over 394,000 Windows machines between March and mid-May 2025....

The evil Count Olaf ofLemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Eventshascome to the screen before, but he’ll get a new spin with Neil Patrick Harris portraying him in the latest adaptation. Netflix has released a new teaser for the upcoming series, and the minute-long preview centers on the diabolical character. The series, which is based on Daniel Handler’sbeloved books, centers on three young orphans — Violet, Kalus, and Sunny — who are left in the care of the cruel count....

Netflix has released a new trailer for the long-awaited fifth season ofArrested Development, which reveals that it will premiere May 29 on Netflix. The announcement comes as a surprise and relief to fans who have been eagerly waiting for news on the new season ever since season 4 aired in 2013. While the trailer leans heavily on references and nostalgia, a lot has changed since the most recent season. The trailer is a mere 1 minute and 44 seconds long, but there’s so much to unpack here....

Nosferatu fans can sleep in their own coffin, if they can stomach the price Fans of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu now have the ultimate holiday gift opportunity, thanks to the fine folks at Focus Features. Eggers’ Nosferatu is anincrediblerebirth for the influential, century-old vampire tale. Heading to theaters onDecember 25, it’s set to be an immersive story thanks to gorgeous visuals and stunning production design surrounding his decrepit castle to the stunningly detailed, horrific sarcophagus....

Nvidia is reportedly set to add three new variations to its GeForce RTX 30 series of GPUs, with theflagship RTX 3090 Tiapparently due for a release next month. According to an embargoed documentuncovered by VideoCardz, the highly anticipated RTX 3090 Ti GPU will be released on July 21, 2025. Also expected to be released on that same date is the GeForce RTX 3050 8GB graphics card. With CES 2022 around the corner, expect Nvidia to formally introduce these video cards at the event....

One 2025 movie is guaranteed to make $2 billion In 2025, the king of the box office world returns:Avatar 3is coming, and just like its predecessors, it’ll prove the ‘skxawngs’ wrong and make billions of dollars. 2024’s box officechart has been defined by sequels: Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine are the only two movies to cross the billion-dollar mark, and you need to go all the way to 15th place (It Ends with Us: $350m) to find a movie that isn’t some sort of follow-up (Wicked is effectively a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, so it doesn’t get away with it)....

“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.“ Earlier this year during CES 2020, I got a sneak peek at Oral-B’s new smart toothbrush: The iO Series 9. I only had the chance to get in a single brushing session, but I came away from the experience intrigued....