Month: September 2024

The Best Audiophile Gear (2024): Headphones, Speakers, Amps, DACs

Ready to get the best sound quality of your life? From speakers and headphones to streaming amps, here are our favorite tools for gold-plated listening. Source

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Shogun Showdown makes you feel like a genius by showing you the future

Shogun Showdown sometimes breaks my brain. The new deckbuilding roguelike is all about tactics, and a key part of the game is that you can always see what the enemies plan to do next. Every once in a while, that gets me in a quandary where I know I’ll lose.…

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Why the AirPods Pro’s new hearing aid features are a bigger deal than you think

Apple’s high-end earbuds will be able to be used a full-on hearing aids. Apple Could Apple really be teeing up a change that could save my elderly mother more than $1,500? That’s the promise of the company’s newly announced initiative to add true hearing aid functionality to the AirPods Pro…

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Thunderbolt 5 docking stations went mainstream at IFA but where are the laptops that support them? Promises of 80 Gbps of bandwidth and 8K resolutions are not enough to convince notebook makers

Thunderbolt 5 (TB5), Intel‘s latest leap in high-speed connectivity, is set to improve how we handle data transfer, display output, and device charging. With up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth – and a boost option up to 120 Gbps – it effectively doubles the speed of Thunderbolt 4. This extra…

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Best Natural Sleep Aids (2024), Tested and Reviewed

I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from CBD capsules to mushroom chocolate to bath bombs, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia. Source

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Unofficial render may show how the Galaxy S25 Ultra compares to the Galaxy S24 Ultra

When it comes to the best Samsung phones, our Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review will tell you that it’s one of the models up near the very top of the list – and newly leaked, unofficial renders give us a better idea of the changes coming with the 2025 model.…

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