There’s a simple reason Squid Game Season 2 is so short

There’s a simple reason Squid Game Season 2 is so short Squid GameSeason 2 is only seven episodes long. Understandably, after binging it so quickly, some viewers have been left frustrated, but there’s a good reason it’s so short. The new series follows Gi-hun as he returns to the games, determined to find the Front Man and stop the competition for good. Meanwhile, Hwang Jun-ho sails the high seas in search of the island and his mask-wearing brother....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 454 words · Robin Buck

Tron: Catalyst offers up a fascinating look at life on the Grid

Tron: Catalyst offers up a fascinating look at life on the Grid Tron: Catalyst looks to deepen our understanding of the Grid and its programmatic inhabitants by offering up an expansive, entirely original tale inside the computer. If the opening act is anything to go by, it’s sure to be an electric dream indeed. Although it’s been quite some time since the Tron franchise was truly in the spotlight, 2025 is finally giving Users a reason to have hope....

June 5, 2025 · 5 min · 916 words · Robert Boyer

Turns out DirectStorage isn’t killing frame rates in Forspoken after all

Yesterday, we published thatDirectStoragemight be killing your frame rate inForspoken. This claim was based on some early testing from thePC Games Hardware YouTube channel, which claimed upwards of a 10% drop in frame rate when using DirectStorage. As some new testing has proven, that’s has turned out to not be true. It’s a classic case of assuming on my part, and you know what they say about that. Although generally a reliable German source for PC hardware coverage, the YouTube channel didn’t take into account loading screens when running its benchmarks....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 514 words · Jamie Grant

U.S. airports safer after software upgrades aimed at preventing taxiway landings

Accidental taxiway landings by aircraft at busy airports are rare, but they nevertheless present a serious threat to passenger safety. At the current time, these so called “wrong-surface landings” are among the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) top five five safety hazards in the national airspace system. With planes using taxiways prior to takeoff, the consequences of such an erroneous landing are potentially catastrophic. And a number of near-misses have indeed occurred in the U....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 409 words · Tanya Ramirez

UFC star Kamaru Usman explains why Logan Paul should fight Tyron Woodley in MMA

UFC star Kamaru Usman explains why Logan Paul should fight Tyron Woodley in MMA Former UFC Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman has explained why he believes an MMA fight between Logan Paul and Tyron Woodley would actually be competitive, despite Woodley’s experience in the cage. Influencer crossover events have become increasingly common over the last few years, and it’s got a large part to do with the early work that both Jake and Logan Paul did early on....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Sara Hebert

Urbanista London review: Like AirPods Pros, with compromises

“Why you may 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.“ This review was updated on July 04, 2025, by Simon Cohen after he received a new set of Urbanista London earbuds to check for concerns over poor sound quality. In terms of sheer popularity, it’s hard to beatApple’s AirPodswhen it comes totrue wireless earbuds, which is why Amazon is littered with cheap AirPods wannabes....

June 5, 2025 · 8 min · 1697 words · Glenn Humphrey

Weapons star Amy Madigan speaks out after rumors of Aunt Gladys prequel

Weapons star Amy Madigan speaks out after rumors of Aunt Gladys prequel Amy Madigan delivered one of the scariest performances of the year as Aunt Gladys inWeapons, and amid rumors of a prequel exploring her origins, she’s addressed whether she’d return. Spoilers to follow… Warner Bros’ marketing for Weapons was intentionally guarded. If you watched the trailers, you knew it was ahorrormovie that revolved around a classroom of kids disappearing in the middle of the night, but they didn’t give away anything about why it happened or who was responsible....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 531 words · Melinda Glover

You can thank ROM hackers for Backyard Baseball’s comeback

At first glance,Backyard Baseball ’97might seem like a nondescript rerelease. It’s a straightforward, no-frills Steam version of Humongous Entertainment’s kids’ game that kicked off the entire Backyard Sports franchise. Outside of Steam achievements, it’s as if the original game, first released in 1997, is running on your modern PC. That might seem simple, but after speaking to the developers behindBackyard Baseball ’97, it turns out that bringing back this classic required a lot more effort than might initially meet the eye....

June 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1120 words · Ronald Berry

‘LarvalBot’ underwater drone will reseed coral reefs damaged by climate change

Since August 2018, the Great Barrier Reef in the ocean off Australia has hada special protector— an autonomous underwater drone called RangerBot that has monitored the status of the reef and protected the corals from the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish. But now researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia have announced that the RangerBot has a new mission: it is to be rechristened “LarvalBot” and will be repurposed tospread coral babies....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Carol Mullins

$239 Million Movie's Netflix Success Makes Me More Hopeful For A Sequel After 6-Year Wait

Summary The success ofCrazy Rich Asianson Netflix, six years after the movie’s initial release, shows the film is a prime candidate for a sequel. Released in 2018,Crazy Rich Asiansearned $239 million, an impressive amount compared to its $30 million budget. Its success established it as the fourth highest-grossing romance movie in 2018. The film is based on Kevin Kwan’s novel of the same name from 2013. Theall-Asian cast ofCrazy Rich Asianswas headlined by Constance Wu, who played Rachel Chu, a professor who travels to Singapore for a wedding and meets her boyfriend Nick’s (Henry Golding) wealthy and pretentious family....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 548 words · Kurt Wilkinson

$700 off an OLED TV AND free HBO Max? Don’t miss this LG TV deal

Looking for a brand new smart TV to add to your home? This is the perfect time to get a 4K TV with a subscription to HBO’s awesome original and syndicated programs. Watch the hottest movies and TV series, new releases, original programs, and more from HBO on a big-screen LG OLED 4K TV from Best Buy. Right now, you can get the LG 55 inch OLED 4K Smart TV for $1200, saving you $400 off the regular price of $1,600; or you can get the LG 65 inch OLED 4K Smart TV for $1,800, marked down from $2,500 for a huge savings of $700....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Dustin Mitchell

10 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Amazon's Spaceballs 2 Must Spoof

Summary Mel Brooks is working onSpaceballs 2at Amazon, and fromAvatartoInterstellartoEverything Everywhere All at Once, there are plenty of recent sci-fi movies that the sequel could spoof. Brooks’ classic originalSpaceballsmovie from 1987 was primarily a parody of the originalStar Warstrilogy. But it also took a few opportunities to poke fun at the other sci-fi behemoth,Star Trek, and there’s a great nod toAlien’s iconic chestburster scene (featuring John Hurt himself, no less) at the end of the movie....

June 4, 2025 · 8 min · 1704 words · Caitlin Jenkins

2018 Nissan Maxima first drive review

“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.“ Look closely at the taillights of the 2018 Nissan Maxima and you’ll spot the alphanumeric combination “4DSC.” It’s short for “4-Door Sports Car,”a nickname coined in the 1980s, when the Maxima was widely considered to be the poor man’s BMW....

June 4, 2025 · 6 min · 1124 words · Jordan Carter