Bowers & Wilkins 801 D5. Inside Abbey Road with the studio’s speaker partner
There are studios, and then there is Abbey Road. As the official loudspeaker partner of the London institution, Bowers &…
Sonos Ace Ultra. Ten mics, a Wi-Fi handshake and a battery you can swap
Sonos took its second swing at wireless headphones on September 1, 2026, and the Ace Ultra lands with the thing…
Sonoma County Drones. ACLU Settlement Ends Warrantless Photos of Homes
A county drone program that started as a hunt for illegal cannabis grows ended up photographing Californians' backyards, decks and…
The Falling Soldier. New evidence points the lens at Gerda Taro
The most argued-over frame in photojournalism has a new question hanging over it, and it is not the usual one.…
The Art of Gravity Falls. Alex Hirsch finally opens the Mystery Shack
The Gravity Falls subreddit has 1.4 million members and still posts fan art and theories a few times an hour…
Realme 16 Pro Harry Potter Edition. Master Gold gets sorted into Hogwarts
Realme has gone back to the Warner Bros. well. After the Realme 15 Pro Game of Thrones Limited Edition, the…
iQOO 16 and iQOO Pad Ultra. A launch teased and pre-orders already open
iQOO has stopped pretending the next flagship is a secret. In a Weibo post published on September 8, 2026, the…
Kobuk the Destroyer. How NASA’s hungry astronauts rewrote food safety
No astronaut has ever gotten food poisoning in space. That is not luck. It is the legacy of a problem…
Meta. Hundreds of AI child abuse ads walked straight past the ad review
Meta's new AI ad screening was supposed to stop exactly this. Instead, researchers at the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project (TTP)…
Sony WH-1000XM4C. A discontinued classic returns with a swappable battery
Discontinued headphones almost never come back. Sony's WH-1000XM4C, announced on September 7, 2026, is the rare exception — a revised…