Author: Zach_Wilson
I review 4K Blu-rays for a living — these 5 new discs are so good, they’ve entered my TV testing rotation
When I test TVs, soundbars and projectors, my go-to source is 4K Blu-ray. That’s because, while 4K streaming can deliver good picture and audio quality, 4K Blu-ray has even better quality due to its higher bitrate (128Mbps to streaming’s 20Mbps average) and uncompressed soundtracks. During my time at TechRadar testing…
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The Apple Watch Series 11 just got a big $100 discount ahead of the holidays
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats…
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Paramount just trumped Netflix’s Warner Bros deal, but I don’t see how this will be good news for any of us
If you’ve ever sat at an auction and heard the staccato voice of the auctioneer, you might have a fair understanding of what it’s like right now in the wild bidding for Warner Bros. Warner Bros, home of Superman and Batman, might seem somewhat esoteric to you, but its ownership…
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Anthropic is bringing Claude Code to Slack
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview. When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and,…
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Lenovo’s next gaming laptop may have a rollable OLED screen that stretches ultrawide
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate…
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It’s ugly, it’s beautiful, it’s how you know a game might be a classic
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic…
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