After over a year of full-time use, the Garmin HRM 600 has quietly become the most important piece of kit in my testing setup. It's not flashy, but it's the one device I never have to think about.

A website called TheAustin.org spent months looking like a legitimate Austin newsroom, complete with a byline photo, a downtown address, and headlines about petty crime and road closures. It wasn't.

What is the opposite of Future-Fi? In an integrated amplifier, it means no streamer, no DAC and possibly no phono stage. Get lost in the purity spiral, and it even means no remote control. Now add ...

Netflix's My Brilliant Career delivers a fresh take on the classic novel, led by an utterly fearless performance from Philippa Northeast.

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An AI system has written scientific papers that passed peer review, out-performing more than half of human submissions. This ...

The humble booklet is more than just a last redoubt against cheating. Staring down its empty pages, students discover what ...

A University of Oregon literary magazine that first published in 1957 and went out of print in 2011 was relaunched in June as a digital publication. The Northwest Review features fiction, nonfiction, ...

There are a lot of reasons why I previously haven’t enjoyed the earring-style earphones that have been surging in popularity recently. They often have all the downsides of other open-ear headphones, ...

A new technique has let the company probe deeper than ever into the weird workings of an LLM. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s ...

A paper was retracted by one journal in 2024, and a revised version was submitted to another journal late last year. The paper is about synthesizing γ-graphyne, a material with enticing commercial ...

The reMarkable Paper Pure strips away distractions in favor of a focused writing experience. With lightweight hardware, a 10.3-inch display, excellent stylus input, and streamlined software, it lands ...