FIFA 20 review: Volta brings flair to the familiar

“Why you’re able to 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.“ Electronic Arts has a tradition of releasing annual sports games, usually with incremental changes that don’t massively upend the formula from year-to-year. This is certainly the case withFIFA 19, a game that offered improvements that longtime fans appreciated, but without enough new content to entice newcomers....

July 7, 2025 · 10 min · 2000 words · Bobby Mills

Ford Bronco breaks down in Baja, and SCG Boot nabs a class win first time out

The Baja 1000 is one of the toughest races on the planet, and the 2019 edition had the added drama of a rematch between old rivals. TheFord Bronco Rand Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG)Baja Bootare reincarnations of off-road racers that faced off 50 years ago in the Mexican race. The Bronco won that bout, but this time it didn’t even make it to the finish line. The Baja Boot scored a class win, and was in good enough shape to drive back to the race’s starting point....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Diana Estrada

Fortnite Festival Season 2 patch notes: Lady Gaga, bug fixes, more

Fortnite Festival Season 2 patch notes: Lady Gaga, bug fixes, more Fortnite Festival Season 2 has been revealed, with Lady Gaga headlining the upcoming season. Here are the full patch notes for Season 2 and a look at what’s to come. After launching alongsideChapter 5 Season 1,Fortnite Festivalintroduced a new musical mode to the titular Battle Royale mode, paying homage to Rockband and Guitar Hero. After having The Weeknd headline its debut season, Festival is ready for its second season of content....

July 7, 2025 · 5 min · 1011 words · Rebekah Peters

FragPunk players want feature “ruining” ranked matches removed

FragPunk players want feature “ruining” ranked matches removed FragPunkhas gotten off to a strong start thanks to its unique blend of Lancers and game-changingShard Cards. While the free-to-play shooter recently broke its launch day player count on Steam, players want the devs to remove one feature that is “ruining” ranked matches. Just likeValorantandCS: GO, FragPunk features a ranked mode where players can put their FPS skills to the test. While using FragPunk’sbest weaponsandLancerscan help to give you an edge on the battlefield, there are times when a loss is simply out of your hands....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Kyle Schroeder

Fujifilm says it will ‘never’ launch a full-frame mirrorless camera

Nikon finallydove in. Andso did Canon. But it appears that launching a full-frame mirrorless camera is not for Fujifilm. The Japanese camera maker has enjoyed huge success with its line of mirrorless cameras, though none of them are full-frame devices. Indeed, Fujifilm has said in the past that it doesn’t plan on launching such a camera, and will focus its efforts instead on its X-Series (APS-C crop sensor) and GFX (medium format) systems....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Alex Green

Get Alexa in your car for just $20 with this dual-port Anker USB car charger

Amazon has teasedits Echo Auto devicefor a year now, but it remains invite-only. But there are other issues with the Echo Auto, most namely it only adds Alexa to your car and nothing else. That’s why we like Anker’s Roav Viva, a dual USB port, Alexa-enabled car charger much better. Currently,the Roav Viva is on sale for just $20after a $6 coupon and a limited-time promotion, a savings of $16. The device pairs with your phone’s Alexa app and plays back over your car’s speakers via Bluetooth....

July 7, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Jo Rice

Google I/O 2020 is now completely canceled, including any online events

Google I/O is officially canceled. Like, really canceled. Google has announced that not only will it not host an in-person conference, but that it will also not be holding an event “in any capacity” due to the “shelter-in-place” orders currently imposed throughout California. “Right now, the most important thing all of us can do is focus our attention on helping people with the new challenges we all face. We’ll all continue to do everything we can to help our communities stay safe, informed, and connected,”Google said in a tweetfrom its Google Developers account....

July 7, 2025 · 2 min · 357 words · Amanda Morgan

Google Vids goes free, and its new AI tools deserve all your attention

Imagine Google, AI, and video. The first name that pops into the mind isVeo. Google’s text-to-video tool has been making waves ever since it landed on the market, but you will be forgiven for not knowing about another AI-powered video tool called Google Vids. It was announced last year and has remained exclusive to the paying Workspace customers. Now, it is getting jazzed up with a bunch of new AI-powered tools....

July 7, 2025 · 5 min · 897 words · Lisa Murillo

How a lesson learned from lotus flowers could give us self-cleaning solar panels

Whatever engineering problem you’re facing, no matter how high-tech, it’s quite possible that evolution solved it millions of years ago. That’s the foundational idea of biomimicry, the design philosophy of solving human challenges by emulating the designs and concepts already found in nature. Biomimicry has previously given us everything fromwind turbines modeled after humpback whalestogecko-inspired robotsfor cleaning up space junk. Now an international team of researchers thinks they’ve found another problem that nature’s trial-and-error can be used to help solve: The tricky issue of how best to remove dust from solar panels in order to maintain their efficiency and light-absorbing abilities....

July 7, 2025 · 4 min · 838 words · John Melendez

How to get REV-8 in Starfield ahead of Shattered Space

How to get REV-8 in Starfield ahead of Shattered Space The REV-8 vehicle will be crucial to exploring the brand-new Va’ruun’kai planet that arrives with theStarfield Shattered Space DLC, so here’s everything you need to know about how to get it. Starfieldplayers were desperate for land vehicles when the game arrived, feeling that exploring the huge planets on foot was too time-consuming.Todd Howard explained whythe team decided against it, but they eventually changed their minds and brought the REV-8 with theAugust 20 update....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 500 words · Holly Lester

How to master the Final Fantasy XIV Ocean Fishing minigame

Final Fantasy XIVis chock-full of interesting little mini-games designed to whisk us away from the status quo of constant battle and complicated raids, but they often become quickly outdated and borderline irrelevant in a matter of weeks. Ocean Fishing is the outlier here. It might not be as popular as the day it launched, when everyone rushed for its unique mount rewards, but it’s still by far the most efficient way toquickly level grind to level 80fishing....

July 7, 2025 · 12 min · 2528 words · Valerie Martinez

How to watch the 2024 US Open: dates, times, live stream

For the next two weeks, the tennis capital of the world will be in New York City for the 2024 US Open. The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam of the tennis season. Defending champions Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff will attempt to become the first players to win back-to-back US Open titles since Serena Williams (2012-2014). Djokovic drew the No. 2 seed and will play Radu Albot in the first round....

July 7, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Melanie Jennings

I Hope Theresa Nist Is In A New Relationship Following Split From The Golden Bachelor's Gerry Turner

Summary The Golden BachelorstarTheresa Nist was recently seen out with a mystery man in an Instagram post, and I really hope that she’s in a new relationship following her divorce from Gerry Turner. DuringThe Golden Bachelorseason finale, Theresa, a 70-year-old financial services professional from Shrewsbury, New Jersey, accepted a proposal from Gerry, a 72-year-old retired restaurateur from Hudson, Indiana. They got married shortly afterward on August 21, 2025, in a live, televised event called the Golden Wedding....

July 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1451 words · Dana Harrison