Watching your baby via your 21st century baby monitor seems like the responsible parent move, but as one South Carolina mother found out, you may not be the only one keeping an eye on your household. As first reported by NPR, Jamie Summitt discovered that that her baby monitor wasbeing used for nefarious purposes. Rather than helping her to watch over her child, the monitor was watching her. The FREDI baby monitor in question is available for purchase on Amazon and boasts a 1080P HD camera with two-way talking, infrared night vision, and motion detection....

OtterBox has confirmed that a percentage of original OtterSpot wireless chargers may experience battery swelling. The company reassured customers that while some issues have been reported, there’s no danger in the swelling charging stations thanks to “internal safeguards” that prevent major malfunctions, meaning that devices presumably won’t explode or catch fire. The problem is only reportedly present in OtterSpots sold during a small window of 2019 when the stackablecharging deviceswere first released....

OtterBox is entering the mobile gaming arena with a suite of accessories designed withXbox Game Passin mind. The new line of products signals what could be a breakout year for cloud gaming. OtterBox’s gaming gear offers a thorough setup for mobile players. The products are primarily built around Xbox controllers, starting with an Easy Grip Controller Shell. The add-on features rubberized, antimicrobial grips that snap onto both theSeries X and Elite Series controllers....

PicoBrewhas been popular in the home brewing market for years for its flagship Zymatic beer-brewing appliances, but the nearly decade-old startup upped its game considerably at CES 2019 with a line of professional-grade, scalable brewing appliances that could be a gold mine for restaurants, bars, brewpubs and craft breweries, not to mention amateurs who really do party hard. More CES 2019 coverage We’ve seen the new brewing appliance before, with a tease of the PicoBrew Z Series appearingright here at Digital Trendsback in March of last year....

The Twisted Childhood Universe is set to expand with the announcement of a brand-new public domain terror from Jagged Edge Productions calledPinocchio: Unstrung. The beloved marionette who dreams of being a real boy debuted back in 1883 in Carlo Collodi’s novel, but the latest interpretation of the character recasts him as a horrifying villain. The basic premise of Jagged Edge Production’s Twisted Childhood Universe is rather simple, and it takes popular children’s characters from the public domain and morphs them into nightmarish horror mascots that hack and slash their way through unsuspecting victims....

Pokemon Go Fuzzy Buddy Research Day event guide Might and Mastery‘s season’s first Research Day has been announced inPokemon Go, and it will feature several bear lookalike creatures along with other adorable fuzzy friends. Niantichas finally revealed details of the last missing event for this month in Pokemon Go, and it is a Research Day focused on creatures that look like adorable teddy bears, like Cubchoo, Stufful, Pancham, and more....

Saving $100 on any laptop is a nice surprise, but it’s even more so when that represents a near 20 percent price drop. That’s the case with the Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 with an Intel Core M3 processor. It’s available at a discounted price of $494 and $499 depending on where you shop — $100 less than it was priced just a few days ago, in some cases. The Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 is a mid-tier Chromebook that we found reasonably competent whenwe tested it at the start of 2018....

Warning: this article contains major spoilers forScream 6(2023). Scream 6sticks toits franchise’s bloody formulawith the same joyful glee asthe series’ past installments. Set in New York City, the film followsScream 5survivors Sam (Melissa Barrera), Tara (Jenna Ortega), Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown), and Chad (Mason Gooding) as they find their lives turned upside down yet again by the emergence of a new Ghostface killer (or killers?), who is dead set on taking their happy ending away from them....

A Korean YouTuber has finished a somewhat bizarre feat that involved opening and closing Samsung’srecently released Galaxy Z Fold 7200,000 times over the course of several days. Livestreamed on the Tech-it channel, the stunt was framed as an extreme real-world durability test and also as a public challenge to Samsung’s claims about the toughness of the phone’s hinge and folding display. In order to avoid keeling over mid-stream — and possibly to reduce the chance of suffering a hairline wrist fracture — the YouTuber took regular breaks for sleep and meals, and was also careful to perform occasional stretches during the marathon folding sessions....

Picking thebest solid-state drive (SSD)for your needs seems easy on the surface. Even when you dig a little deeper, it’s still not as hard aschoosing the right motherboardor graphics card. However, it’s also very easy to make a mistake and waste money on a drive that’s faster than your system can use. Or you could end up wishing you’d spent a few dollars more for vastly better performance. How to make sense ofPCIe versus SATA?...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Acolyte episode 5. Summary The Sith Lord ofThe Acolytedecimated the Jedi in episode 5, but they may have damaged themselves more than the Stranger did.The Acolyteepisode 5 saw the Stranger, also known as Qimir, wipe outseven of the eight Jedi sent to Khofar, leaving only Master Sol alive. It was thebiggest Jedi massacre sinceStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, but it still may not have been the thing that damaged the Jedi most that night....

Netflix’s documentaries may not get the same attention as the streamer’s original movies, but this is a category that Netflix supports with a high number of films each year. There are almost always a lot of new documentaries coming to Netflix that cover a lot of interesting topics. But it’s not too surprising that true crime has dominated the genre for years. Even this month’s top pick,Untold: The Murder of Air McNair, fits into true crime....

2025 is here, and you may have drawn up some New Year’s Resolutions to improve yourself. Living a healthier lifestyle is usually at the top of the list, while saving money is second. Money management is the best New Year’s Resolution to have on your list, especially with how the economy, while it’s grown strong paper, hasn’t boded well for anyone over the last few years because wages haven’t kept pace with inflation....