Soundcore today announced the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max at Anker Day in New York, and they’re the first two products built around Anker’s new co-developed THUS AI chip. The headline trick is on the Pro Max: a 1.78-inch AMOLED touchscreen baked into the charging case that records meetings directly to the […]
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Anker SOLIX just unveiled the S-Series, a new home-backup line built around a single, very specific promise: keep the fridge running longer than any other 2kWh power station, per Anker. The debut model, the Anker SOLIX S2000, packs 2,010Wh of LiFePO4 capacity, 1,500W of continuous AC output, and the first-ever TÜV SÜD A+ Runtime certification,
Anker’s New SOLIX S2000 Promises 35 Hours of Fridge Backup Read More
Meta has shelved its 2026 Quest 4 prototypes, pushing the true successor to 2027 at the earliest. Industry reporting from June 2025, leaked internal memos from December 2025, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth’s January 2026 Davos interview line up on the same picture: both planned tiers of the next flagship are off the table, and
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Spring 2026 brought two true flagship launches, Sony’s WF-1000XM6 in February and Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro in March, into a market where three strong 2025 holdovers (Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen), and EarFun’s Air Pro 4+) are still the picks to beat in their respective lanes. Whether you need
5 Noise-Canceling Earbuds Worth Buying After the Spring 2026 Refresh Read More
AP’s Royal Oak waitlists run years for anything worth owning, and the pre-owned 15500ST sits near $40,000. If you want the Gerald Genta look (octagonal bezel, exposed screws, integrated bracelet), you’ve got two options: wait, or buy a homage. Interest in the Royal Oak just spiked again. Swatch and AP’s “Royal Pop” is a bioceramic
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An early-May Telegram leak spilled most of Google’s 2026 Pixel playbook in one shot: Tensor G6 on a 2nm process, new Samsung OLED panels on the Pro tier, smaller batteries across the board, fresh camera sensors on the Pro models, and an ambient lighting feature called Pixel Glow. With Google’s August event still about three
Pixel 11 Leak Exposes Tensor G6 and Pixel Glow Read More
January’s CES floor was thick with home robots. Booths lined up humanoids, rolling AI projectors, and dual-armed butlers, and every press release headline read some variant of “available in 2026.” Six months later, almost none of them sit in actual living rooms. Three units clear the bar as of May 2026. 1X NEO is open
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Subscription fatigue has crept into every corner of the smart home, but your front door doesn’t have to be next. The 2026 crop of smart locks finally lets you skip recurring fees without giving up fingerprint entry, app control, or local video storage. Renters who don’t want to commit to a cloud plan and homeowners
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Graduation cards are stacked on the kitchen counter, the cap-and-gown photos are queued for the family group chat, and somewhere a parent is panic-shopping for a gift that won’t get lost inside a shared dorm closet by October. Most graduation tech roundups solve the wrong problem, pushing full-size appliances that violate dorm fire codes or
10 Dorm-Ready Tech Gifts Under $50 That Survive Freshman Year Read More
Most “travel tripods” don’t actually travel. Anything under 5 pounds qualifies in marketing copy, but the list that rides inside a carry-on is much shorter. The same trick applies to stability, a 60-inch max-height spec usually requires a center column cranked all the way up, which is where stability disappears. Heading into the 2026 summer
7 Compact Travel Tripods Under $200 That Actually Survive a Flight Read More