HMD Global’s Nokia 7.1 smartphone is only $250 from Best Buy right now

Nokia wants to make its much-loved7.1smartphone a little more affordable. The company has announced that the device is being discounted to a very affordable $250 at Best Buy from now until August 3 — that’s a discount of $100. Not only that, but if you buy the phone and switch to Verizon, you’ll get back $250 — which essentially makes the device free for those customers. The cash-back deal works throughVerizon’s Bring Your Own Device program, in which new customers get $250 back when they bring in their old phone and keep their old phone number....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Darrell Hernandez

Home security system scorecard: Which will keep your home the safest?

Picking a home security system can be a headache. Which one is best for your needs? What are the features? And, most importantly, how much is it going to cost? It can all feel overwhelming. To help, we’ve taken several popular security systems and analyzed them to better help you choose the best protection for your home. We break down some of the most popular security cameras into two other scorecards, just in case you need more information on what cameras are best for you....

August 3, 2025 · 7 min · 1297 words · Katherine Dennis

How to revive teammates instantly in Fortnite with simple bug exploit

How to revive teammates instantly in Fortnite with simple bug exploit A reboot exploit was discovered during a Fortnite match for the Avatar Airbending mythic that lets you instantly revive your teammates. Fortnite glitches and bugs have often been prevalent across each season. They can either be troublesome to players or easily exploited to get a competitive advantage in Battle Royale matches. This has been no different in Chapter 5 Season 2, which has already seen awealth of different bugsdespite being just over halfway through....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Shawn Byrd

Huawei says P30 Pro camera will have unique, revolutionary zoom tech

Huawei says the P30 Pro smartphone will feature “revolutionary camera technology that no company has ever used before,” and promises it will have a similar impact to the introduction of its monochrome lens on the P10, which improved overall picture quality, particularly in low light. This is quite a promise from Huawei, given the amount of highly capable smartphones with innovative cameras out at the moment, but as it showed at MWC 2019 with theMate X, the firm is currently riding the crest of a very high wave, so we’re inclined to accept its bold claim....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 516 words · Timothy Young

Hubble solves the mystery of the bizarre disappearing exoplanet

One of the interesting things about science is that knowledge is constantly being updated. This week, for example, images from the Hubble Space Telescope have led astronomers to question the nature of what was thought to be one of the first exoplanets ever imaged, Fomalhaut b. First announced in2008, Fomalhaut b was assumed to be an exoplanet because it was seen to be moving in Hubble images taken between 2004 and 2006....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Dustin Shannon

Jeep Wrangler EcoDiesel First Drive: By popular demand

“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.“ Wrangler fans will mark 2019 as the year Jeep fulfilled their two most frequent requests: a new Jeep pickup truck and a diesel engine. TheJeep Gladiator pickupdebuted in April, the first Jeep truck since 1992....

August 3, 2025 · 8 min · 1668 words · Jason Hart

Lenovo dives into ultrafast screens with its new 360Hz Legion gaming monitor

When it comes togaming monitors, anything from 144Hz and up is generally considered fast. But what if you’re in the very competitive gaming space and need even higher frame rates so that you can respond faster? For those folks, 360Hz displays may be the answer, and as of today, there’s a new kid on the block with such an option: Lenovo. The company is coming out with the Legion Y25g-30, a 24....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · David Avila

Marvel Rivals expert reveals best team comp that will increase your win rate

Marvel Rivals expert reveals best team comp that will increase your win rate Success inMarvel Rivalsis all about skill,the right characters, and a team composition that dominates the enemy, and your standard layout might not be cutting it. Whether you’re playing asPeni Parker, or theS-tier Wolverine, you’re often only as good as the team around you. After all, if you have three tanks, three DPS, and no support, then you can’t exactly expect to stay alive....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Cody Juarez

More than 750,000 U.S. birth certificate applications exposed online

Here’s another story of apparently sloppy practices by a company charged with looking after our personal data online. According toTechCrunch, more than 750,000 U.S. birth certificate applications have been found exposed online in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket, which is essentially a cloud-based storage solution. The exposed data — held by a company that helps people obtain a copy of their birth certificates — reportedly has no password protection, and the web address where the applications are held is “easy to guess....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 399 words · Steven Jenkins

NASA offers important update on health of James Webb Space Telescope

NASA has delivered good news on the health of the James Webb Space Telescopefollowing a recent incidentthat could have caused a serious delay to its launch schedule. The most powerful space telescope ever built suffered a scare earlier this month when a clamp band — used to secure Webb to the launch vehicle adapter — suddenly released as the spacecraft was being attached to the upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket at the launch site in French Guiana....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 464 words · Bonnie Dixon

Netflix makes it easier to rate shows and movies on mobile

Netflix is making it easier for users on mobile to rate a show or movie. you’re able to now rate the content while you’re watching it simply by tapping the display and selecting a double thumbs-up, single thumbs-up, or thumbs-down from the top center of the screen. Before, you could only leave a rating by visiting the details page for the show or movie. While that option remains, bringing the thumbs to the watch screen makes it easier than ever to leave a rating....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · James Schmidt

Netflix rejuvenates The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, sets new record on Steam

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunthas set a new record on Steam for concurrent players, largely due to renewed interest in the game after the release ofThe Witcherseries on Netflix starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer, and Freya Allan as Ciri. Netflix rolled out all eight episodes of the first season ofThe Witcheron December 20, but a month before it premiered, Netflix had alreadyrenewedthe series for a second season....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Tracy Byrd

New this week: Studio 666, The Godfather, The Desperate Hour

After a barren January that saw only a handful of noteworthy new releases in movie theaters,February promises to delivera wide variety of films. This weekend offers three diverse movies to suit anyone’s mood: A horror-comedy starring one of modern rock’s most popular bands, a restored masterpiece, and a thriller from the director ofDead Calm. It can be hard to figure out what you should spend your hard-earned dollars on, so Digital Trends will round up movie reviews from leading print and online publications to give you a comprehensive critical consensus of the films that are opening each weekend....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 528 words · Derek Bailey