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In a world overflowing with soundbars from brands like Samsung, LG, Bose, and Sonos, finding the right one can feel overwhelming. Each brand boasts its own set of features and promises exceptional audio quality, but how do you know which one truly delivers? This Black Friday, there’s a great offer that you simply cannot overlook: … Read more

Dyson doesn’t stick to chronological order when naming its stick vacuum models. Sometimes it skips numbers, and sometimes it’ll introduce a lower number as a later model than a higher number. For example, Dyson introduced the V15 immediately after the V11, and then the V12 after the V15. In the broadest sense, the numbers seem … Read more

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: stuffing your face to the point of comatosis. Well, that and entertaining all the unsavory relatives you manage to keep at bay the rest of the year. … Read more

Threads is readying a feature inspired by Bluesky’s Starter Packs, according to reporting by TechCrunch and others. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag, posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. He also says you can see an early version of the tool yourself by pasting “installedbarcelona://recommended_follow_lists” into Safari on iOS if … Read more

The first time I saw the movie Unaccompanied Minors, I was struck by the scene where a rich teenager sneaks into a glamorous airport lounge. This scene’s lived rent-free in my head ever since. It felt like a luxury I’d never be able to afford.  It’s funny how wrong I was. When I left my … Read more

Imagine relaxing in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, floating in its steaming celeste waters with a mud mask rejuvenating your face. Now imagine being told to evacuate the resort and spa immediately. Why? Well, a wave of lava is slowly rolling towards the popular tourist destination. On the evening of November 20, the Icelandic Meteorological Office registered … Read more

There are so many wonderful TVs now available, there’s a good chance even those that didn’t make our top picks could be a fantastic option for you. Here are some of our favorites that just missed the cut. TCL Q6 (2024): This affordable model from TCL has some of the most impressive highlights I’ve seen … Read more

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the name implies, uses Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model, allowing players to customize their own chess pieces using text prompts. … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face has just released SmolVLM, a compact vision-language AI model that could change how businesses use artificial intelligence across their operations. The new model processes both images and text with remarkable efficiency while requiring just … Read more

Sony that PlayStation Plus members can claim in December, to help keep them busy throughout the long winter. This is a pretty good drop, and one pick is a bona-fide GOTY-winner. First up, the co-op delight It Takes Two. We , even if we found the story to be a bit on the cheesy side. … Read more