You might have already made up your mind about lining up outside a GameStop to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 when it launches on June 5. Or maybe, if you’re like me, you’re wondering whether it’s smart to shell out $450 for Nintendo’s console when prices are jumping everywhere. Whatever …
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Kyle Brett had a feeling Sinners, the new supernatural horror from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, would have a big opening weekend—but he was also hyper aware of the consequences of failure. “It’s already extremely hard to have a successful original horror movie or just any original movie,” Brett, a …
Read More »Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is
We all want to know if and how we can come back to form after injury, illness, or a long hiatus. Muscles adapt in response to the environment: They grow when we put in the work and shrink when we stop. But what if we could help them remember how …
Read More »5 Best Smart Locks (2025), Tested and Reviewed
The best smart locks can help anyone who constantly misplaces keys or who frequently wonders whether they locked the front door. I am in the latter camp. After years in apartments, I recently moved to a large enough house that checking whether the door is locked can feel like a …
Read More »Is Tesla on the Outs in China?
Zoë Schiffer: Can you talk to me about that relationship? And also, what is Tesla’s standing like in China? Is it viewed as a popular, cool car still? Zeyi Yang: It’s still sort of, because for the longest time, Chinese auto brands have been seen as inferior to foreign brands. …
Read More »Star Wars’ ‘Andor’ Season 2 Depicts the Banality of American Fascism
In the first three episodes of Andor Season 2, which started streaming on Disney+ on April 22, one of the show’s many interlocking plotlines takes us to Mina-Rau, an agricultural planet on the outer rim of the Star Wars galaxy, where a group of rebel soldiers are posing as freelance …
Read More »AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
So, there’s the training data. Then, there’s the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across countries, but then the bias mitigation techniques may only look at English. In particular, it tends to be North American– and US-centric. While you might reduce bias …
Read More »The Tariffs Are Coming for Baby Products
Being a parent is an expensive experience. A stroller alone can easily cost over a thousand dollars, not to mention the constant new clothing as children grow, formula and food for them to eat, and the rising costs (and challenge to find) of childcare. Unfortunately, there’s no reprieve in sight, …
Read More »WobKey Rainy 75 Review: A Great Budget Mechanical Keyboard
The Rainy 75 is a common sight on the r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit, a community that nerds out about the thock of a keyboard and, naturally, fun keycaps. It seems like every week or so, someone posts about their new purchase from WobKey, and every time, the consensus revolves around how good …
Read More »Morel Biggie Bluetooth Speaker Review
Internally, there’s a 60-watt Class D (45-W woofer + 15-W tweeter) amplifier with a frequency response of 40 Hz to 20 kHz. Morel uses a customized DSP with dynamic EQ, but there’s no smartphone app, no Wi-Fi streaming, no room calibration, no Dolby Atmos, no voice control, no EQ tweaking. …
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