Quick Links V-Moda’s Crossfade wireless headphones have been well-loved for years, showing that you don’t need noise cancellation to make for a great set of headphones. The company still hasn’t added noise canceling, but theV-Moda Crossfade 3 Wirelessaim to be the best iteration of these headphones yet. As with previous models, V-Moda isn’t shy about saying that the Crossfade 3 Wireless are aimed at DJs and fans of club music. This time around, the company has doubled the battery life over the previous model, improved its Bluetooth audio codecs, and made subtle improvements to the sound signature....

Summary What happens when you ask your smart speaker a question or give it a command? Depending on the circumstances, your speech might be processed locally by the speaker, sent to a cloud server, retained for future reference, or even reviewed by a human being. Are Smart Speakers Listening to You Constantly? The short answer to this is yes, but only in a limited way. A smart speaker has to be ready to respond to your questions and commands at any time, so that requires it to be listening all the time....

You can’t beat classic movies, but you can’t find them all that well either. Watching classics likeCasablancaandVertigohas become a trickier task in the age of streaming. So, what happened to the oldies? Here is why it’s hard to find classic movies and how to hunt them down. The Importance of Old Films We might not have today’s modern film if it weren’t for classic movies. Where would theScreamfranchise be if it didn’t have a history of slasher films to satirize?...

Summary With every streaming company desperate for original content, they’ve turned to adapting books more than ever before, but that means you can jump ahead of the adaptation and get the whole story early. Sounds like a bad idea, right? But I love “spoiling” a TV or movie by reading the books, and here’s why. When Peter Jackson’sThe Lord of the Ringsmovies were first announced, I was in the 6th grade (more or less) and at that point I had not yet read the books....

Summary One of Python’s best features is its interactive interpreter that lets you test your code quickly. What if there was something even better than Python’s own interpreter? There is, and it’s called IPython. What Is IPython? IPythonis an alternative interactive interpreter to the standard Python interpreter that ships with the language. The standard interpreter is useful for testing out small snippets of code and learning the language, but its functionality is basic....

Quick Links Summary If you want to purchase a new iPhone but don’t want to spend more on the latest models, the iPhone 15 could be a great option for you. Here’s how the phone stands its ground in 2025. The iPhone 15 Doesn’t Look Outdated Apple hasn’t changed the dimensions or materials of its regular iPhones in a while.Between the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15, the rear camera module helps differentiate between the phones....

You probably haven’t thought about it a lot, but Windows 10 is almost about to reach end-of-life. The OS' support period is set to end on October 4th, 2025, at which point it won’t get updates or security patches. What if you can’t use Windows 11 just yet, though? Microsoft will provide extended updates, for a price. Microsoft is officially opening up “Extended Security Updates,” or ESUs, for customers’Windows 10PCs. Individuals and businesses that aren’t prepared to transition to Windows 11 can buy themselves more time and continue receiving software support for Windows 10....

Quick Links Summary Want to stream games locally to your TV via Steam Remote Play, but your TV doesn’t support the Steam Link app? Don’t fret, there’s a plethora of alternate ways to use Steam Remote Play on your TV, and most of them have simple setup procedures. Here’s how to use Steam Remote Play almost anywhere. First Enable Steam Remote Play Before we start, note that you have to enable Steam Remote Play by launching Steam and navigating to Settings > Remote Play....

Summary If you have a fancy LG Smart TV we have some potentially bad news. Select owners of LG OLED TVs have started receiving notifications that the Google Assistant is about to be removed. Yes, one of the most helpful smart features will disappear from your smart TV. Many LG television sets connected to the internet can take full advantage of Google Assistant, or at least they could. A simple button press on the microphone or Assistant button on select remotes would fire up Google’s helpful tool, letting owners search for shows to watch, check the weather, pause/play, or even turn off the TV with voice controls....

Quick Links The only way to add more storage to the Nintendo Switch is with a microSD card. However,not all SD cards are created equal, and using some types of cards could slow down your games. Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles have 32 GB of internal storage, with the OLED model bumping that up to 64 GB, but the operating system eats up some space on all models. That might only leave you enough room for a handful of games, which is why the Switch also has a slot for microSD cards up to 2 TB in size....

Quick Links I’m sure you’ve heard that YouTube is no longer allowing content blockers on its platform. Developers of these content blockers and YouTube have been trying to one-up each other for years. This minor arms race is coming to a head now. How this Game of Cat and Mouse Started Ads on YouTube are worse than ever—in quantity and quality. I recently sat through two unskippable ads before a thirty-second clip....

Netflix has built a terrible reputation for canceling TV shows without giving them a chance to find their audience or tie up their loose ends. There are far too many canceled shows to list them all, but here are some of the most promising TV shows that Netflix canceled way too soon. Of course, you may be telling yourself that these shows wouldn’t have been canceled if they were better. Well, that may be true, but Netflixreportedly ranks TV shows based on how many people complete a seriesand—judging on the speed at which it cancels shows—Netflix seems to want people to finish them within a few weeks of release....

Quick Links The 2000s were an exciting time for cartoons as the new millennium began. With the advent of cable-exclusive cartoons in the previous decade, there was plenty of potential for the future. Cable gave more freedom in crafting cartoons than one would ever expect to air on network television. While Saturday morning network television was on its way out, the cartoons didn’t stop coming. They only got better with shows about aliens, samurai, and warriors of the elements....