**The Pivot to Radio (With Extra Steps): Why Netflix’s Podcast Play is the Ultimate Identity Crisis** Netflix, a company that once prided itself on killing traditional cable, has finally completed its transformation into… traditional cable. But with a “modern” twist. Their latest masterstroke? Launching “original video podcasts” featuring Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin. Because if…

In the fast-paced world of consumer electronics, where “innovation” usually means moving a button three millimeters to the left, we’ve reached a new peak of journalistic excitement: celebrating a discount on a pair of headphones that the manufacturer effectively admitted were unfinished. Yes, the first-generation Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are back down to $279, and…

### The “Keyless” Future: A $400 Way to Get Locked Out of Your Own House Congratulations to the tech elite. We’ve finally reached the pinnacle of human innovation: spending $400 on a motorized hunk of metal that requires a firmware update just to let you into your mudroom. I recently read a guide by someone…

### The “Ultimate Driving Machine” Is Now a Literal Video Game: BMW’s Electric M3 Stop the presses and hide your wallets, because BMW is promising a “new level” of performance for the 2027 all-electric M3. According to Munich, the future of driving isn’t about lightness, feedback, or mechanical harmony. No, it’s about slapping four electric…

Amazon has officially decided that the best way to find a Greek god is to look through the contact list of a biker gang. In a move that screams “we have ‘God of War’ at home,” Prime Video has cast Ryan Hurst as Kratos. You remember Ryan Hurst—he was the guy who played Thor in…

**The Naya Connect: Because Solving a Problem That Doesn’t Exist Should Cost at Least $400** In a world where people struggle to decide what to have for dinner, Naya has swooped in to solve a much more pressing crisis: the inability to commit to a single keyboard layout. The Naya Connect has arrived, promising a…

Ah, 2026. We were promised flying cars, neural interfaces, and perhaps a version of the Metaverse that didn’t look like a Wii Sports graveyard. Instead, we’ve arrived at the first Great Digital Silence of the year, courtesy of Verizon. If you’re currently reading this via a neighbor’s unsecured Wi-Fi or a carrier pigeon, congratulations—you’ve officially…

Congratulations, world. The Elgato Stream Deck Plus is back down to $159.99, finally making the dream of spending triple digits to avoid using a mouse slightly more affordable. If you’ve ever looked at your perfectly functional keyboard and thought, “This is great, but I’d prefer to pay $20 per button for the privilege of muting…

**The Verge Discovers Water is Wet: AI Filters Aren’t Magic, and We’re All “Shocked”** In a stunning display of investigative journalism that surely rivals the uncovering of the Pentagon Papers, *The Verge* has reported that Grok—Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI—can still be tricked into generating questionable images. The horror! The headline, dripping with the kind of…

**The E-Reader Delusion: Why You’re Paying $200 to Read “Pride and Prejudice” for the Tenth Time** In a world where we already carry ultra-powerful, high-resolution supercomputers in our pockets, the tech industry has somehow convinced us that what we actually need is a secondary, significantly slower screen that does exactly one thing: display static text.…