TECH

Focal unveils yet another floor-standing speaker Sonus faber reveals a series of speakers, including a floor-stander… …and several more-affordable options While country-versus-country derbies are playing out on pitches across North America, a certain France vs Italy rivalry is taking center stage… or should that be soundstage? Sonus faber, of Italy, and Focal, of France, have…

2026-07-02T02:21:52.060Z Max it out with Apple: part 2 (Image credit: Future) If you’ve had your eye on Apple’s latest release of its over-ear headphones, then this 20% price cut is for you — and it’s officially not even Prime Day yet. This is one deal I wasn’t expecting just yet, but hey, I’m not complaining….

Not that long ago, I stumbled across my old AudioQuest DragonFly Red USB DAC when rearranging a work cupboard. Its paintwork might have seen better days, but its simple form factor took me back to a really exciting time in hi-fi — when more people were starting to care what their music sounded like again,…

Long before today’s wafer-thin OLED TVs became commonplace on our living room walls, televisions were big, bulky boxes built around cathode ray tubes, known as CRTs. They were heavy, deep and, for decades, they were everywhere. But then back in the 2010s, manufacturers stopped making them, and now most people would consider CRT TVs to…

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is a uniquely capable GPU – the company’s highest-end consumer-grade GPU to date features a whopping 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory in its cut-down GB202 configuration. It also happens to be one of the most expensive GPUs retail consumers can buy in 2026, going for as much as two…

Minix ER939-AI Pro dual 10GbE networking hints at workloads beyond ordinary desktop computing The Radeon 8060S removes the need for separate graphics hardware entirely Four simultaneous 8K displays push this machine beyond typical mini PCs Minix has released the ER939-AI, a mini PC running AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with 16 cores, 32 threads,…

There’s no understating the influence of Jony Ive – the man responsible for designing so many iconic Apple products – in changing the way that manufacturers approached consumer and business electronics. “There is a beauty in simplicity, in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter…

San Marcos councilors have approved new zoning laws that ban data centers The same zoning laws could be used by 352 cities across Texas But there are a few hurdles to jump through before anyone can celebrate San Marcos may have just answered the main question surrounding data center construction in US cities – how…

Qualcomm introduces High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) memory architecture It leverages a hybrid design stacking LPDDR memory in a 3D space, leveraging multiple layers to essentially replace what the current generation of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM4) does The move, which makes use of Qualcomm’s extensive experience with LPDDR, is not only power-efficient but also offers massive…

UBTech just introduced its most-human-yet robot The silicon skin is realistic and creepy It launches in China this year but there are also plans to customize the to look however you wish Ubtech, last seen deploying humanoid robots to patrol the China-Vietnam border, is back with its creepiest creation yet, the UWorld U1, its first…