The new Sonos Play has become my go-to desk and kitchen speaker

The new Sonos Play can act as a portable speaker inside and outside your home.

Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scare

The Computer History Museum recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves. This ‘astonishing’ haul was rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.

Tested: 2026 Toyota bZ EV Comes With An Upside Surprise

I tested the Toyota bZ Woodland, an off-road-capable EV that impressed me with its speed above everything else.

Apple Intelligence 2.0: What the New AI Features Actually Mean

Apple Intelligence 2.0 is Apple’s attempt to make AI feel native to the iPhone, with Siri as the visible test, Gemini as the quiet twist, and app plumbing underneath.

The impossible dream of the universal remote
The impossible dream of the universal remote

You don’t really ever have to explain why a universal remote is a good idea. You have a bunch of stuff that needs controlling; this thing controls them all. Many companies have set out to build a product worthy of this idea, and one product came much closer than most. It was called the Harmony, […]

Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers

A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that ‘old’ smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.

Grab this MSI Codex Z2 16-thread gaming Ryzen PC with a 2TB SSD at a $400 discount — system packs a Ryzen 8700F, 16GB DDR5, and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for $1,499

MSI’s prebuilt gaming desktop pairs a Zen 4 processor with Nvidia’s latest RTX 5060 Ti graphics card and comes housed in an airflow-focused chassis with ARGB lighting.

New 3D printer tech uses elliptical laser beams to stir molten metal and create ‘alloys-on-demand’ — existing machinery can implement technique in software meaning for more convenient, stronger alloy printing

NIST has demonstrated a metal 3D printing method that stirs molten metal during the print by sending the laser along looping elliptical paths instead of straight lines.