At Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, fresh off Samsung’s reveal of its 2027 Odyssey OLED lineup, I sat down with two of the people shaping the company’s monitor and TV strategy: Jeremy Demont, Product Management Director for TV, Sound and Monitor at Samsung UK & Ireland, and Pepe Distra, Head of Monitor for Samsung’s European visual…
If you’re in the market for one of the best soundbars, then there’s a feature you might have come across already called HDMI passthrough, available in some soundbars that connect over HDMI ARC and HDMI eARC. HDMI passthrough allows you to plug a source device, such as a games console or streaming stick, directly into…
This week, Nokia launched new retro phones, and we got an extended look at GTA 6. To catch up on all of this and plenty more, scroll down for our recap of the week’s biggest tech news stories. And if you want to test your memory of last week’s news, try our quiz and see…
As the UK enters one of its busiest periods for travel, some holiday makers will be questioning how hackers managed to get their hands on their personal data. The Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns and oversees Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has revealed that hackers managed to steal data belonging to 8.7…
Felicia Anthonio first encountered the impact of internet shutdowns in 2017. While working as an intern tracking press freedom violations, she was prevented from verifying information on the ground or contacting people in the area when disruptions were imposed across Anglophone Cameroon. Certain stories struck her particularly hard. “Most of the young technologists who were…
Fancy getting into vinyl, or upgrading your existing setup? This year has delivered some especially interesting new turntables, ranging from the classy to the tacky, and from the practical to the surely-just-for-show. I’ve rounded up some of our favorites below. Oxblood is clearly in vogue, because we have not one but two decks in the…
The new reMarkable Paper Pure is an impressive handwriting tablet, but it’s facing stiff competition in the e-ink slate market. If you’re thinking of buying one, it’s worth taking a look at the alternatives to make sure there’s not an option that’d be a better fit for you. We’ve tested several excellent e-ink tablets; I’ve…
This torpedo could glide through the air before quietly entering the ocean Silent Anvil must enter the water at angles between 45 and 90 degrees Its glide phase could extend submarine hunting far beyond torpedo range The US Navy is weighing two paths toward a new class of Silent Anvil Air-Launched Torpedo (SAA-LT) meant to…
Tech companies always love to make big claims. Like the one Google made about the Pixel Watch 5: promised health, wellness and Wear OS improvements aside, there was one feature that my ears pricked up for. Google stated that the Pixel Watch 5 included its most accurate GPS route tracking for exercise. More interestingly, Google…
Intel shows three agentic AI architectures at Hot Chips 2026: the 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon, the Crescent Island inference GPU, and the already-shipping Wildcat Lake client SoC Diamond Rapids matches AMD’s EPYC Venice on cores and bandwidth but arrives in 2027 with half the threads, while Wildcat Lake’s 17 TOPS NPU falls short of Copilot+’s…