KEF R Meta 5.1. A matched surround set with serious ambitions
Building a home cinema out of a single speaker family is the audiophile equivalent of buying a matched luggage set…
Darren Almond Fullmoon. When 15 minutes of moonlight turns midnight into dawn
Shooting a landscape by moonlight sounds like a recipe for a black rectangle. British conceptual artist Darren Almond has spent…
First Amendment Auditors. When filming in public becomes a business model
In the United States, filming in a public space is legal. It's a First Amendment right that photographers — especially…
FFXIV Evercold. Meet Bastion, the greatshield tank that hits back
Square Enix pulled the wraps off a brand-new tank job for Final Fantasy XIV at Berlin Fan Fest 2026, and…
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery hit the brakes on a $110 billion deal
The entertainment industry's biggest merger in years just slammed into a legal wall. Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have…
Pastebot 3. The Mac clipboard manager reborn after a decade
Nearly ten years after Pastebot 2 landed, Tapbots has finally shipped a full-blown successor. Pastebot 3 arrived on July 23,…
Samsung T7 and T9. Why expandable storage suddenly makes sense again
Remember when adding storage to your phone meant popping open a plastic tray and sliding in a fingernail-sized card? For…
What Surrounds Us. The indie puzzle-adventure that thinks in circles
Every so often a game arrives with a premise so committed to its own logic that you can't look away.…
Beat Gems. The visual history of drum machines gets its own coffee-table tome
If you've ever wondered how a beige box full of transistors ended up defining decades of popular music, there's now…
AMD Kria AI SOM. The chipmaker sets its sights on robotics with unified memory
AMD is done playing spectator in the robotics arena. At the Advancing AI 2026 conference on July 23, the company…