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Sony has announced pricing and availability for many of the new audio and home theater productsit first revealed at this year’s CES conference in Las Vegas, with the vast majority of its new products available this month, and one straggler hitting shelves in mid-May. Probably the most exciting for the vast majority of consumers will be its new HT-S350soundbar(pictured above), a 2.1 channel model that comes with a wireless subwoofer, and can output a seat-rattling 350 watts of sound....

Summary Star Trekis boldly submitting for consideration for a total of 71 Emmy Awards.Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks,andStar Trek: Strange New Worldsare all hoping for Emmy Awards in the biggest categories, including Best Drama Series, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting, Best Writing, Best Directing, Best Animated Program, and Best Character Voice-Over Performance.Star Trek: PicardandStrange New Worldsrecently won multiple Saturn Awards, and theStar Trekfranchise won a Peabody Institutional Award....

The Bearseason 3 sees the return of every member of its award-winning ensemble (and more.)Jeremy Allen White, who won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy Seriesearlier this year, returns as Carmy Berzatto. Ayo Edebiri also returns as Sydney after taking home the2024 Emmy for Supporting Actressin a Comedy Series. However, the series is more than just its lead actors.The Bearseason 3 takes a deep dive into the show’s most interesting supporting characters, including Sugar and Tina....

CES 2022 is rapidly drawing to a close, and in the midst of it all were a few new smart lights that caught our eye. Let’s see what’s new from the show and what you might want to include in your next smart lighting upgrade. GE’s lighting brand Cync unloaded 11 new smart bulbs, covering all the form factors you could ask for, including filaments, candelabras, and globes. It pledged to support Matter in the future, too, which is good news for playing along with your other smart home devices....

The Penguin Season 2 will happen on one condition Don’t expect to seeThe PenguinSeason 2 any time soon. Oz will next appear inThe Batman 2, and it’s unclear what the future holds for this version of Gotham. However, itcouldstill happen. Did anyone expect The Penguin to be one of thebest superhero TV showsof all time? Between the DCEU and the MCU’s flip-flopping lineup ofDisney+spinoffs, we had cause to be cautious; some stories are simply meant to be movies (or a small part of a larger film)....

Samsung makes incredible TVs, soundbars, and other home theater gear, and we here at Digital Trends are always on the lookout for the best Samsung deals. Persistence equals luck, and it was only a matter of time before a sale this good would rear its head: For a limited time, when you purchase the Samsung 55-inch QN90D 4K QLED at retailers like Amazon, Samsung, and Crutchfield, you’ll only pay $1,200 (plus any applicable sales tax)....

Apple has been trying to sell the idea of using an iPad — the Pro model, specifically — as a legitimate computing machine for a while. It started with putting a Mac-borrowed M-series silicon inside the tablet, followed bybringing Stage Manager to the tablet. Then came desktop-grade productivity apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Da Vinci Resolve, preceded by Microsoft 365 and Adobe’s editing tools. The ability to plug in an external monitor is also neat for a tablet, but that restricts you to a table....

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a dramatic collision of three different galaxies. The trio, located in the Boötes constellation, are in the process of merging and will eventually form one single large galaxy. “This colliding trio – known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 – is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50,000 light-years of one another,” Hubble scientistswrite. “While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbors....

TikToker Shawn J’s cause of death revealed TikToker Shawn J, a motivational speaker and truth-seeker, was confirmed dead by his partner. On Sunday, July 25, 2025,TikToker Shawn J, also known to his fans as ‘shawnjtheking2,’ died due to health complications from an enlarged thyroid. “Hello everyone, I’m ShawnJ’s kids’ mother,” his partner said onTikTok.“I’m so heartbroken. This pain is unbearable and my stomach hurts as I prepare to walk through this journey alone, because my best friend and the love of my life left me, our kids, our family and friends and all of you yesterday morning....

Microsoft isbringing a new video encoding APIto DirectX 12 in Windows 11. The new API aims to help app developers tap into the raw power of GPUs so that video editing tasks can be more efficient, and speedy. Now availablein previewto third-party apps, the API is native to Windows 11 and should allow video engines to better perform with the modern standards of DirectX 12. Both the N264 and HEVC codecs will be supported, which are two of the most popular inmany video editorssuch as Filmora or Adobe Premiere....

Summary Married At First Sightstar Mitch Silverstein has returned to being a regular guy away from his reality TV fame. Mitch made his reality TV debut in 2022 as one of the fivemen onMarried At First Sightseason 15, hoping to find their future wives on the show. However, unlike most of his co-stars who signed up for the show and knew a little bit of what to expect, Mitch didn’t know aboutMarried At First Sightuntil he was approached to star in the show....

The newM2 MacBook Airisn’t yet available to purchase, but you’ve probably already heard the chorus of opinions aboutwhy the older M1 MacBook Air is a better purchase. “It’s fast enough for most people,” they will say. “Why would you need anything more?” And as fair as those statements are, the reality of just how good this new M2 MacBook Air appears to be has been drowned out. There is certainly a demographic for the older model, but people are getting hung up on the branding more than the laptop itself....

Summary Cosplay has been a creative and thrilling way for people to interact with their favoriteMarvel Cinematic Universeproperties. After some of theMCU source material improved on the costumesthat appeared in the comics, their uniforms became iconic. Cosplay has proved a fresh way for fans to engage with the heroes and costumes they love most inthe MCU timeline, leading to some impeccable results. While costumes of all cost and scale are made, there are many incredible, professional-grade recreations that tend to stand out perhaps even more than their movie counterparts....