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I tested a living room full of cheap Ikea speakers against Sonos and Bose

  • Technology
  • John.Higgins
  • Apr 1, 2026

Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, other...

Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Apr 1, 2026

It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Rea...

The Trump administration’s antitrust honeymoon is over

  • Technology
  • Lauren Feiner
  • Apr 1, 2026

"It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business." That quote was first delivered by mob boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather, but last Monday, it became the title of a speech by the Justice Depart...

SpaceX announces IPO but it’s keeping the numbers secret (for now)

  • Technology
  • Thomas Ricker
  • Apr 1, 2026

What's expected to be the biggest IPO in human history is officially underway. SpaceX has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report from B...

These Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • Apr 1, 2026

As of today, the price of the 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by $100, a price bump that's almost as much as the original $120 price tag. Driven by the ongoing RAM shortage, Raspberry P...

April Fools’ Day 2026: the best and cringiest pranks

  • Technology
  • Richard Lawler
  • Apr 1, 2026

Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social me...

The best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals you can still get

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Apr 1, 2026

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is technically over, but not all of the deals are gone. In fact, dozens of deals are still here and selling at the same prices, while other discounts aren’t quite as low as be...

The Korg Handytraxx Play finally got me learning to scratch

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Apr 1, 2026

About 20 years ago, I bought a turntable with the idea that it would be a staple of my music-making setup. I dreamed of learning to scratch and digging through dollar bin vinyl for samples. Instead, i...

A YouTuber channeled his distaste for the PS5’s design into slick console covers

  • Technology
  • Cameron Faulkner
  • Apr 1, 2026

The PlayStation 5's curvy design is divisive. The Verge's Andrew Webster called it a "robotic clam" in his 2020 review, which is actually kind of endearing. Personally, I kind of got over hating it so...

Nintendo is weathering the storm

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Apr 1, 2026

Things aren't going so well in the video game industry. Consoles are getting more expensive, games are shutting down, layoffs are prevalent, the live-service space is a mess, major platforms are enter...

Today is the final day to save up to $150 on a PS5 before the price goes up

  • Technology
  • Cameron Faulkner
  • Apr 1, 2026

The cost of the PlayStation Portal and every PlayStation 5 console is going up tomorrow, April 2nd, by as much as $150 in some cases. That means time is running out if you want to save yourself the mo...

AI can push your Stream Deck buttons for you

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • Apr 1, 2026

If you're tired of controlling Stream Deck devices by manually pushing buttons, then good news: Elgato will now let you delegate that task to a chatbot instead. The Stream Deck 7.4 software update rel...