New Africa/Shutterstock In 2025, music streaming service Deezer partnered with market research company Ipsos to conduct a study on people’s ability to identify AI-generated music. The result was disconcerting: only 3% of listeners could tell the difference between AI music and human-made music. This statistic…
New Africa/Shutterstock Not everyone has the luxury of choosing between several rooms for their PC installation. If you only have one room you can fit your computer in and it has a window, you’ll likely encounter an age-old monitor problem: glare. Glare can wash out…
Marcin_Morawiec/Shutterstock By now, most people have heard of or understand the 80-20 rule for rechargeable batteries, specifically lithium batteries. The idea is not to completely discharge or recharge the battery but rather to keep it charged between 20% and 80%. This reduces the number of…
Google has revealed a new AI audio model that it says offers improved speech recognition and transcription. The company says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is more adept at text-to-speech than previous models, with greater accuracy and the ability to automatically detect more than 85 languages. It says the model can adapt a user’s unstructured speech into…
Ring addresses some of its privacy issues by overhauling how it handles encryption by default. The Amazon-owned company just launched something called TAKE, which stands for Throw Away the Key Encryption which it says will improve privacy while enabling smart home features. The newly introduced platform protects Ring videos with “unique, rotating encryption keys.” A…
The new monitors all feature 24.5-inch high refresh rate OLED panels. ASUS is rolling out a new lineup of gaming monitors at Gamescom 2026, designed specifically for esports gamers. The company’s three new Ace Collection monitors, which also include an ergonomic mouse, aim to offer high refresh rate OLEDs with improved color performance and “crisp…
The problem with the AI restructuring is that the AI wasn’t good enough. Meta / YouTube Sometimes an AI-driven restructuring is accompanied by an AI-assisted legal filing. Reuters reports that Meta spent much of this year testing a plan in which AI would take over many of the staff’s daily tasks….
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Getting the most out of your audio system is all about making small adjustments. Increasing speaker size and distance is one way to change the performance of your AV receiver. Choosing better quality speaker wires and HDMI cables can…
Fizkes/Getty Images Samsung officially discontinued its Samsung Messages text messaging app in July 2026 for people using Android 12 or later in the United States, leaving users unable to send text messages through an app they knew and loved. As part of this change, Samsung…
Lazy_bear/Getty Images If you’re building a home theater or want to get the most out of your current theater, a subwoofer is essential. It might even be worth investing in a few, but it all depends on a few other features of the room they’re…