JBL’s new party speaker comes with a karaoke mic that helps you hit those high notes
JBL’s new party speaker comes with a karaoke mic that helps you hit those high notes

Karaoke is more fun for everyone when the person holding the mic sounds as good as a song’s original performer. So the latest addition to JBL’s PartyBox Bluetooth speaker line, the On-the-Go 2 Plus, comes with one of the company’s new EasySing wireless microphones, which use an algorithm to silence a song’s vocals while also […]

Some of the best horror games ever made are included in Humble’s latest $15 bundle
Some of the best horror games ever made are included in Humble’s latest $15 bundle

Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia titles (The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, The Bunker, and Rebirth), and Soma, which I consider to be its opus in terms of visual […]

How to ditch Ring’s surveillance network
How to ditch Ring’s surveillance network

Recently, Ring ran a Super Bowl ad for its Search Party feature showing how it uses AI to scan footage from Ring cameras and video doorbells to help find lost dogs. It sounds neighborly — until you consider that the same system could theoretically search footage for anything or anyone.  Combined with longstanding concerns around […]

You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet
You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet

The first Lego Smart Brick sets, based on Star Wars, aren’t quite what my kids and I hoped, and I suspect much of that’s down to programming. But the Smart Bricks may also have some technical limitations out of the gate. The first sets don’t ship with a number of their sensors enabled, including the […]

Godzilla Minus One, a very good movie, is $15 on 4K Blu-ray
Godzilla Minus One, a very good movie, is $15 on 4K Blu-ray

I love Godzilla Minus One. Granted, it’s only the second Godzilla movie that I’ve watched, the other being 1998’s terrible Godzilla featuring Matthew Broderick (the soundtrack has bangers, though). While I may not exactly be an expert, this is a good movie, whether you’re a first-time Godzilla viewer or a longtime kaiju fan. If you’ve […]

Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard
Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard

Tembo looks like a toy, but one of those bougie wooden toys you get on Crate & Kids, not some cheap plastic garbage. Despite its appearance, it is a fully functional drum machine and sampler. Rather than a bunch of buttons and a screen, you build beats on Tembo by placing what are essentially wooden […]

Former Apple engineer raises $5M for a note-taking pendant that only records your voice

Taya is trying to address privacy concerns around note-taking wearables with its device that can be worn as a pendant and records only the user’s voice.

Framework raises RAM and storage prices again
Framework raises RAM and storage prices again

For the fourth month in a row, Framework is increasing prices on RAM and storage for its modular PCs due to ongoing shortages from suppliers. An update to Framework’s blog on Tuesday states that DDR5 RAM will now cost $13 to $18 per GB, up from February’s rate of $12 to $16 per GB. This […]

Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: This again
Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: This again

While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a few major hardware upgrades over recent years, the Galaxy S flagships have often felt like a long, unbroken line of minor spec refreshes. The S26 and S26 Plus do nothing to change that trend. The Galaxy S26 Ultra at least benefits from the company’s new […]

Oppo’s new foldable isn’t quite creaseless, but it’s pretty damn close
Oppo’s new foldable isn’t quite creaseless, but it’s pretty damn close

The first thing most people seem to do when they try out a foldable phone I’m reviewing is look for the crease in the screen. In the case of Oppo’s Find N6, it might take them a while. Oppo claims that the Find N6, launching in full next week on March 17th, has the world’s […]