Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are the choice — if you have a Galaxy phone
The Galaxy Buds Pro 4 are a nice improvement over the Buds 3, but still require a Galaxy device to use all their features. Samsung promised...
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The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a...
Read moreA practical guide to the 6 categories of AI cloud infrastructure in 2026
Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200 architectures has flooded the market with...
Read moreLive-service games are a mess
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow...
Read moreAn engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude
The Honda Prelude was never simply a car. It was an engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: compact, disciplined, and unapologetically technical. At its best, it...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility...
Read moreRelays Run This Balanced Ternary Adder
If you’re at all familiar with digital computing, you’ll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and zero. Except that’s not technically the...
Read moreThe $100,000 fee for H-1Bs is causing all sorts of problems
Last fall, President Donald Trump’s executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 – like many of his immigration policies – led to near-immediate...
Read moreBrompton Electric T-Line Folding Electric Bicycle Review: Pocket-Sized Pedal Power
Brompton’s latest folding electric bicycle is beautiful, genuinely portable, and doesn’t quite go fast enough.
Read moreThis At-Home Hair Growth System Just Dropped in Price
Our favorite red light therapy device for hair growth just dropped in price. Grab it while it lasts.
Read moreHangs & Performance Regression On Large Systems Fixed For Linux 7.0-rc4
This week’s “sched/urgent” pull request was sent out today of scheduler updates for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. Notable this week are fixing some hangs as...
Read moreKDE Linux Adds Apple APFS File-System Support, Workaround For Frustrating AMDGPU Issue
In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading reference platform for showcasing the KDE Plasma desktop…
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