Audio Video
Sky OS Redesign. A top navigation bar, a recordings hub and a chattier assistant
Sky is reworking the software that runs its Sky Glass TVs and…
The Beatles Rubber Soul Special Edition. Dolby Atmos meets the four-track tapes
Sixty-one years after it first appeared on 3rd December 1965, Rubber Soul has been taken apart and rebuilt. UMG and Apple Corps Ltd announced the…
PMC MB2 SE. A 58kg studio monitor that tamed the What Hi-Fi? test room
Few speakers wear their studio pedigree as openly as the PMC MB2 SE. PMC stands for Professional Monitoring Company, and its very first model, the…
Loewe Neo. A 50-watt aluminium Bluetooth speaker that lights up the party
Loewe has spent decades building a reputation on design-led televisions, and its new portable speaker plays by the same rulebook. The Loewe Neo was unveiled…
What Hi-Fi? Sound Advice. The live Q&A returns for round two on October 2
Stuck choosing between an OLED and a Mini LED TV, or between two pairs of speakers you like equally? What Hi-Fi? is running its Sound…
Mobile
WhatsApp Restricted Chat. Locking a conversation to your main phone
WhatsApp has started testing a stricter version of one of its privacy…
OnePlus 16. A 9,000mAh battery leads the spec sheet before the China launch
Rumors had been circling it for weeks, and now OnePlus has confirmed it: the OnePlus 16 will carry a 9,000mAh battery. Company executive Li Jie…
Redmi Note 17 5G. A 7,700mAh marathon runner with a patient charger
Some phone generations earn their number with a better camera or a faster chip. The Redmi Note 17 5G earns it with one thing: battery.…
Motorola Razr Flex. The wide foldable leaks in full ahead of a December debut
Motorola's answer to the wide-foldable trend has a name, at least internally. According to a leaked spec sheet first reported by Android Headlines and picked…
Apple iPad 12. Apple code puts A19 and 8GB of RAM in the budget tablet
The cheapest iPad in Apple's lineup has spent the past year and a half as the odd one out: the only current iPad that cannot…
Photo
National Portrait Gallery. Half a century of photographic portraits
In 1976, the year of the U.S. bicentennial, the Smithsonian's National Portrait…
ShiftCam ProRig. An iPhone camera system built with Apple in the room
Most iPhone accessory makers design around Apple. ShiftCam Gear says it designed with Apple. The company, known for its iPhone add-on lenses and grips, has…
Ghana Cuckooshrike on camera. A lost bird filmed for the first time ever
Some wildlife photos are about perfect light and patient hides. Others are about having a camera up a split second before your brain catches up.…
Ras Al Jinz Turtle Photos. Influencer Couple Face Legal Action in Oman
A vacation photo shoot at one of the Arabian Peninsula's best-known turtle nesting sites has turned into a legal case. Ukrainian content creator Vadym Oleynik…
Imagen Intelligent Studio. Cull, edit and sort in any order you like
For years, AI photo platforms have followed the same order: import, cull, edit, export. With Intelligent Studio, Imagen drops that fixed sequence. The new post-production…
Robots
OMRON LD-150 and LD-300. The new LD Series AMRs focus on software and fleets
For years, buying an autonomous mobile robot came down to payload, speed…
Maven Robotics mobile manipulator. Two arms, one task at a time
Plenty of robotics startups promise to automate everything at once. Santa Clara-based Maven Robotics is going the other way. It picks one industrial task, gets…
The Robot Report State of Robots in Manufacturing. Life Beyond the Car Plant
Picture a factory robot and you probably see a big orange arm welding car bodies behind a safety fence, repeating the same motion millions of…
Raise Robotics at RoboBusiness. Why field robots stall at 80 percent
A robot that works in the lab often grinds to a halt on a real jobsite. Kenrick Tjandra, Robotics Deployment Lead at Raise Robotics, is…
Asimov’s Three Laws. Why a 1942 rulebook can’t tame agentic AI
Isaac Asimov wrote his Three Laws of Robotics in 1942, and for more than eight decades they have been the go-to shorthand for "safe robots".…
Technology
Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98. A Wi-Fi 8 router that speeds up today’s Wi-Fi 7 gear
Wi-Fi 8 routers are arriving before any Wi-Fi 8 devices exist to…
Omdia TV cost data. Chips now rival the panel as the priciest part of cheap TVs
For as long as flat-screen TVs have existed, one rule has held: the panel is the most expensive thing inside the box. According to market…
White House AI Safety Accord. Self-policing where seat belts should be
In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. Carmakers did not answer that with a voluntary pledge. In the fall of 1966 Congress created…
Range Rover Sport Electric. Flagship hardware, smaller bill, sharper edge
Four weeks after the full-size Range Rover Electric finally arrived, JLR revealed its sportier sibling on September 29, 2026, with a lot less fuss. Don't…
US Air Force Unmanned Tanker. The next KC-135 successor may fly with no crew
The aircraft that will one day replace the US Air Force's KC-135 and KC-46 tankers might not have anyone in the cockpit. At the Air,…
Entertainment
Ace Combat 8 Wings of Theve. Great dogfights, painful price tags
Ace Combat has always been a single-player series first, so its new…
Valve Deadlock. City Never Sleeps pushes the hero shooter to a record peak
Valve's Deadlock has never looked less like a quiet test build. On September 29, 2026, the studio pushed out City Never Sleeps, the biggest content…
The Meg on HBO Max. Jason Statham and a 75-foot shark swim back to streaming
A 75-foot prehistoric shark, Jason Statham in a wetsuit and a director who knows exactly how silly all of this is — The Meg is…
Ubisoft Rainbow Six Tactics. How Mario + Rabbids taught Siege to play chess
Rainbow Six has always been a tactical series, just one you play through a gun barrel. With Rainbow Six Tactics, Ubisoft Paris is taking the…
Spider-Man Homecoming. Tom Holland’s MCU debut exits Netflix on October 1
Of all the doors into Spider-Man's film history, Spider-Man: Homecoming remains the easiest to walk through, and Netflix subscribers have a firm deadline for it.…
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ShiftCam ProRig. An iPhone camera system built with Apple in the room
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The Beatles Rubber Soul Special Edition. Dolby Atmos meets the four-track tapes
Sixty-one years after it first appeared on 3rd December 1965, Rubber Soul has been taken apart and rebuilt. UMG and…
OnePlus 16. A 9,000mAh battery leads the spec sheet before the China launch
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White House AI Safety Accord. Self-policing where seat belts should be
In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. Carmakers did not answer that with a voluntary pledge. In the…
Ghana Cuckooshrike on camera. A lost bird filmed for the first time ever
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Few speakers wear their studio pedigree as openly as the PMC MB2 SE. PMC stands for Professional Monitoring Company, and…
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Plenty of robotics startups promise to automate everything at once. Santa Clara-based Maven Robotics is going the other way. It…
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