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Whether you’re preparing for the final boss or preparing financials for your boss, the best keyboard will help you get things done quicker on your laptop. And if you’re in the market for one, this is the list you need. From streamlined spellers to competition keys, you’ll find the best keyboard for every use and budget below. We’ve even included a few customisable boards in our round-up, to help you nail your desktop aesthetic. Don’t know your QWERTY from your RGB? We’ve also covered some key lingo to help you decipher which specs actually matter when choosing a keyboard. The…
When you’re starting a new sports league, or really a new anything, you’re always praying for your first viral moment.For TGL, a new golf league hoping to reinvent the game for a new era and a new audience, that moment came before the first season ever started. In 2024, Tiger Woods, the golf world’s biggest name and both a player and co-founder in the upstart league, showed up to a not-quite-finished SoFi Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, where all TGL matches would soon be held. He stood near the center of the stadium, on a football field-sized slab of…
Disc rot. It’s a thing. A thing I’d relegated to the dusty corners of my memory until a recent, stark reminder. And also the thing that’s convinced me I need to digitise old media – while I still can. Years ago, I stopped buying CDs when an album I wanted didn’t get a physical release. The habit broken, I went all-in on digital – and then streaming. But streaming’s ephemeral nature began to gnaw at me. That and my towering stacks of unloved albums made me decide I should start buying CDs again. Naturally, I needed something to play them on, and was…
Samsung’s flagship soundbar, the HW-Q990D, is being rendered useless for some owners after a faulty firmware update that the company rolled out this week. The sheer number of reports on Samsung’s community forums, Reddit, and AVSForum confirm that something has gone very wrong with the premium Dolby Atmos system in recent days. The issue isn’t limited to any specific region, with customers in the United States, Austria, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other countries all sharing in the frustration.Customers say the soundbar has gone unresponsive and that none of the usual factory reset methods are working; affected units are also inaccessible…
The Trump administration is embarking on a massive university speech crackdown, starting with Columbia University, where it’s demanding external control of entire departments and punishment for student activists. Its first test case, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student with a green card, offers a hint of what’s to come: a state of intentional chaos that undermines free speech and due process rights. Thus far, Columbia appears to be complying with the administration’s demands, even as its students gear up to fight back.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents raided Columbia University’s campus on Thursday night, looking for students in two residential buildings,…
Google is rolling out a Find My Device app feature update that shows a map of your friends and the family members who share their location with you, 9to5Google reports. The new feature was announced in the Android March feature update last week and is now available for more users.There’s already a way for friends and family to see each other’s shared locations in Google Maps. Now, the Android Find My Device app does double duty, making it easier to find both things and people in one place. The map also shows the locations of friends who share from Google…
Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesn’t plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. “I hope Claude reaches as many people as possible,” Krieger told me onstage at the HumanX AI conference earlier this week. “But I think, [for] our ambitions, the critical path isn’t through mass-market consumer adoption right now.”Instead, Krieger says Anthropic is focused on two things: building the best models; and what he…
It is hard to describe how utterly joyless and devoid of imaginative ideas The Electric State is. Netflix’s latest feature codirected by Joe and Anthony Russo takes many visual cues from Simon Stålenhag’s much-lauded 2018 illustrated novel, but the film’s leaden performances and meandering story make it feel like a project borne out by a streamer that sees its subscribers as easily impressed dolts who hunger for slop. While you can kind of see where some of the money went, it’s exceedingly hard to understand why Netflix reportedly spent upward of $300 million to produce what often reads like an…
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material. Both companies outlined their stances in proposals published this week, with OpenAI arguing that applying fair use protections to AI “is a matter of national security.”The proposals come in response to a request from the White House, which asked governments, industry groups, private sector organizations, and others for input on President Donald Trump’s “AI Action Plan.” The initiative is supposed to “enhance America’s position as an AI powerhouse,” while preventing “burdensome requirements” from impacting innovation.In its comment, Open claims that allowing AI…
The new M4-powered MacBook Air only hit stores on March 12, but it’s already on sale. You can pick up the 13-inch entry-level configuration with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $949 ($50 off) at Amazon (at checkout) and Best Buy if you’re a My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total member. The 15-inch base model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is also on sale for $1,049 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy for My Best Buy Plus or Total members.Even at full price, Apple’s new entry-level laptop offers a lot of…
Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut down products with quarterly “spring cleanings,” but now, it just does so whenever it’s time for another product to be put out to pasture.Follow along here for all our coverage of everything Google sends to the graveyard. Read the full article here
The past year hasn’t exactly been… great for Sonos. Now, the brand has allegedly hit the pause button on its much-rumoured video streaming ambitions. Sonos just shelved plans for a streaming box that was shaping up to be an Apple TV rival. According to a report from The Verge, the device, internally known as Pinewood, has been unceremoniously canned “for now,” following an announcement made during a company-wide all-hands call. This news comes after more than a year of speculation that Sonos was preparing to release a video streamer party to sit alongside popular options from Apple, Amazon, Google, and…