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Spotifast offers a speedier Spotify experience for Windows, macOS, and Linux

(Image credit: Spotifast) Spotifast is a native Spotify desktop app that doesn’t eat up all your RAM It stores all […]

Researchers can make headphones leak audio through a wall, but the 30-meter claim has a few caveats

(Image credit: Shutterstock) HKUST (Guangzhou) and HK PolyU researchers’ InjectEave beams a radio carrier at devices so their own circuits […]

These cheap Skullcandy earbuds have a worrying Bluetooth flaw that could let anyone connect to your device

(Image credit: stock.adobe.com © Patrick Daxenbichler) Researchers warn Skullcandy Dime 3 earbuds on older firmware accept Bluetooth pairing from unknown […]

IFA 2026 ‘Best in Show’ awards: our 25 favorite reveals at the Berlin tech expo, from somersaulting robots to modular solar batteries for renters

(Image credit: IFA) IFA, Berlin’s huge annual tech expo, is where some of the biggest tech firms unveil their latest […]

When AI dating goes wrong: as EVA AI hires the world’s first ‘AI Companionship Therapist’, its resident relationship expert talks chatbot dependency — and the 28-year-old CEO of a human-only meet-up app tells me why he thinks AI infatuation is over

(Image credit: EVA AI / MeetMeetNow) Content warning: This piece discusses suicide and difficult emotional experiences. Does the world really […]

‘How do you mix over 1,000 audio tracks from inside a ride vehicle?’ — how Disney Imagineering produced and mixed the soundtrack for Soarin’ Across America, and why it stands out

(Image credit: Disney Experiences) Walk deep into Walt Disney Imagineering’s sprawling, surprisingly unassuming Glendale campus, and you’ll eventually find Studio […]