A year ago, BMW showed off what it called theworld’s first color-changing carat CES. The exterior of the iX Flow concept had e-ink panels that could shift between shades of black and gray. Now, only a year later, BWM’s latest concept can change the exterior to a rainbow of 32 different colors. 🎉 The BMW i Vision Dee is aReview Geek Best of CES 2023award winner! Make sure to check out our full list of winners to learn about exciting products coming in 2023....

Summary A home theater sound system can be complicated so the Bose’sSmart Ultra Soundbarwith Dolby Atmos is an attempt to combat that. It offers great cinematic audio without needing to plug in more than a single cable—and power. Even though it comes in on the higher price spectrum for soundbars, it still delivers simplicity and room-filling sound. Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar with Dolby Atmos® and Bose TrueSpace technology separates instruments, dialogue, and effects, and places them in different parts of a room for a truly immersive spatial audio experience like you’ve never heard it before....

Quick Links Summary Every year, fans and Apple enthusiasts eagerly await the new iPhones. This year, it will be the iPhone 17 that breaks cover, likely in September. But what if you need a new iPhone right now, in the middle of the company’s product cycle? Let’s find out which iPhone model suits you best. Best Specifications: iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max Since their release in September 2024, theiPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Maxremain the best, most feature-loaded iPhones that money can buy....

Summary Technically, everything with a battery in it is a potential fire hazard—so when a specific set of batteries starts catching on fire, it’s a cause of worry. Now, a bunch of Casely batteries are catching on fire, so the company is issuing a recall on almost half a million units. Casely has officially issued a recall of a number of its wireless power banks. The units in question are 5,000 mAh wireless units that you could pop to the back of your phone using MagSafe, providing at least one full charge....

Summary Electric cars are new, exciting, and most are quick off the line with a ton of torque, but they’re also expensive. Do you really need all that speed? If you’reshopping for your first EVand are trying to decide between a single-motor or dual-motor, or one with all-wheel drive, here’s what you need to know and why you shouldn’t pay more than you need to. Don’t get me wrong—not all electric cars and trucks are fast....

Dune: Awakening, the open-world survival MMORPG set in the iconicDuneuniverse and developed by Funcom, is doing numbers for the studio. Since its release on June 10, it’s welcomed over one million players to Arrakis, and already ranks as Funcom’s fastest-selling game ever. While the response has been largely positive, it isn’t without flaws. One such issue, at least for PvE-minded players, is the game’s endgame. InDune: Awakening, endgame content revolves around the Deep Desert, a high-stakes, high-reward region described by the developers as “an endlessly renewing location that resets every week and creates an activity loop for great rewards....

Factory resetting your Pixel 6-series smartphone may leave it bricked. Google acknowledges that this is a “known issue” and is currently working to find a solution. Reports of this factory reset error began about two weeks ago. Since then, Pixel 6 owners have flocked toRedditand theGoogle Supportforum to voice their complaints. These users say that their Pixel 6, 6a, or 6 Pro smartphone is “bricked” after performing a factory reset—more specifically, their phones are stuck on the Android Recovery screen with a “data may be corrupt” warning....

We’re only a month away from Nintendo’s big Switch 2 event, yet gamers are still desperate for early information. Now, through a mandatory FCC filing, Nintendo has revealed the Switch 2’s model number and confirmed some of the console’s functionality. New Wi-Fi 6 Speeds As a handheld console, the Switch 2 needs to offer fast and reliable Wi-Fi connectivity. A traditional Wi-Fi 5 implementation might be fine today, but it’ll grow less and less acceptable as we careen into the end of the decade—if the Switch 2 follows the same seven-year lifecycle as its predecessor, it’ll remain the flagship Nintendo console through 2032....

Summary When it first came out, the Gemini app for Android was pretty bare bones. Since then, however, Google has added a bunch of neat features that make it a uniquely powerful assistant. You Can Have Actual Conversations With Gemini you’re able to talk to theGoogle Assistant, in a way, if you count sending voice messages back and forth astalking. If you ask it for the weather or a movie review, it’ll give you the information....

Summary While GNOME and KDE Plasma stand as Linux’s most popular desktop environments (DEs), they couldn’t be more different. Let’s compare the desktop experience, customizability, and performance to give you a better idea of what each has to offer. Approach to the Desktop The biggest point of difference betweenGNOMEandKDE Plasmais how they approach the desktop. While KDE Plasma provides a more traditional experience by default with tons of features under the hood, GNOME takes a different route, aiming to reinvent the desktop with a focus on minimalism....

Quick Links Once upon a time, I relied on Apple Podcasts to listen to episodes almost every day. But after trying a third-party podcast player, I’m embarrassed to say I held on longer than I should have. I’m just loyal, I guess. Here’s why I finally gave it up and why you might want to do the same thing. There’s Too Much Focus on What IMightLike The second tab in Apple Podcasts is a “Browse” tab that, yet again, directs me to popular podcasts and newsworthy episodes that don’t necessarily relate to what I typically listen to....

Do the things you do throughout the day on your iPhone bring you happiness? Or do they negatively affect your ability to focus and your mood, or flat-out waste your time? Walk with me on this one. Why Limit App Use on Your iPhone? Take a second to consider how you use your iPhone. What prompts to to pick it up? Do you feel like much of the time you spend on your phone throughout the day is well-spent?...

As someone who sits in front of a screen all day in my living room, I am constantly looking for new music to listen to while I work. While I have a few genres that I find are particularly conducive to getting work done—ambient, dungeon-synth, and background video game music to name a few—variety is perhaps the best hack of all. Unfortunately, it’s easy to hit the extent of what streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify can offer you....