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WiiM's first soundbar has a touchscreen display and Dolby Atmos

WiiM's first soundbar has a touchscreen display and Dolby Atmos The $479 WiiM Bar arrives next month. There are a lot of options for Dolby Atmos soundbars these days, but WiiM is hoping one particular element of its 3.0.2-channel, eight driver soundbar will woo the masses.

5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri

There are three big players when it comes to finding the best smart speaker: Amazon, Google, and Apple's voice assistant-powered devices. But each system has its own benefits and limitations, and finding the right smart speaker for you requires considering several factors. You likely already have a favorite ecosystem.

OpenAI reportedly has a major ChatGPT overhaul in store

OpenAI reportedly has a major ChatGPT overhaul in store The revamped AI tool will roll out in the coming weeks, according to The Financial Times. OpenAI's so-called "super app" may finally be rolling out, as first reported by The Financial Times. According to the report, a redesigned ChatGPT would encourage users beyond just chatting and towards using "coding tools, image generation and applications built by partners such as Canva and Booking.com."

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

I took part in a hackathon in Vilnius the other weekend (courtesy of Basedcollective) during the pink soup festival. I brought along an old rotary phone and our two-man team spent the next 48 hours sticking our fingers in it. We wired a Raspberry Pi into the phone which interfaced with all of its IO and communicated with our server via a single websocket connection which controlled everything from two-way audio, the bell ringer (with custom frequency and audio patterns) and the hangup switch.

How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on growing extremism in the Democratic Party. Frum compares this to the paranoia and conspiratorial thinking that cost the Republican Party dearly in the 2010s and cautions the Democrats against making the same mistakes. Then David is joined by Kate Shaw, a co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny and a professor of law at University of Pennsylvania Carey...

The Old Campaign Playbook Is Dead

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you build a winning campaign for the era of AI? In the aftermath of the 2024 race, Democrats have been struggling to adapt to the new logic of the attention economy.

History Repeats in Cuba

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsSometimes when President Trump talks about Cuba, he throws in compliments. “They have a nice landscape. You know it’s a beautiful island,” he said during a signing event at the Oval Office in March. “I do believe I’ll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor.” Sometimes he toys with the idea of conquest a little more menacingly, such as when he said at the same event: “Whether I free it, take it—I think...

Here's what you should and shouldn't plug into a TV USB port

Here's what you should and shouldn't plug into a TV USB port These ports are often forgotten, but can still be useful. Modern smart TVs tend to have some USB ports that are easy to forget about, especially with those HDMIs gobbling up all of the oxygen. Most new sets feature at least one of these ports, typically located on the side or the back.

Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers

Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI

KETTLE El Reg's systems editor Tobias Mann has been in Taipei for the past week getting the skinny on the hottest new chips, and what he's heard has been less about actual hardware announcements and more about how chipmakers are rushing to meet the demands of AI, other customers be damned. Tobias joins host Brandon Vigliarolo to discuss what he noticed at Computex 2026, how AI has taken over yet another industry event, and whether the world is going to have to adjust to new, more expensive...