The best tablets for 2025

Tablets have become the all-purpose gap-fillers of the gadgets world. If you’re on a plane and you want something portable but slightly bigger than your phone for reading comics or watching movies, ...

When Sober Curious Moves Beyond Dry January

At the beginning of 2025, the former US Surgeon General issued an advisory on the link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk. While this is a sobering call to action, there is no denying that ...

Spotify’s Music Pro plan could support AI-powered audio remixes

Spotify is rumored to developing a new subscription tier dubbed Music Pro. While unannounced, reports indicate that the new plan could incorporate an AI mixing tool for audio. It's claimed that by ...

Severance’s Views on Grief Are Raw, Real, and Dystopian All at Once

Grief was a key theme in Severance season one, but it was mostly confined to the outtie storyline. In season two, we’ve seen loss become a prominent ...

South Korea pauses downloads of DeepSeek AI over privacy concerns

DeepSeek, the massively popular Chinese AI assistant, has been temporarily unavailable from app stores in South Korea since February 15. A press release from the country’s data protection authority, ...

Nubia’s Z70 Ultra review: a photography powerhouse

Summary The Nubia Z70 Ultra offers compelling performance and features at a lower price than competitors like Samsung and Google's Pixel. The unique design includes features like a 35mm ...

Trump Administration Wants to Help Get Professional Misogynist Andrew Tate out of Romania

Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down ...

X blocks users from sharing links to Signal

Elon Musk is taking aim at federal workers and organizations, through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Now, Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) is blocking Signal.me links, a URL used by ...

4 reasons why I prefer CarPlay over Android Auto

Summary CarPlay tends to be more reliable, and it's present on a longer list of vehicles. It also integrates better with iOS (and other Apple platforms) than Android Auto does with the Google ...

The Mask of Fear is the Star Wars Book for the Political Moment

Alexander Freed has written some of the most compelling books of Star Wars‘ modern era, but I don’t think that makes him psychic. It would be easy to ...