HBO Max is stealing TikTok’s best trick to help you find something to watch

HBO Max’s new Shorts feature brings a TikTok-style scrollable feed of clips and trailers to its app, powered by AI, alongside a natural-language search tool.

TCL built a 22-speaker soundbar for turning living rooms into movie theaters, but it’s skipping the US

TCL’s new Q95K soundbar packs 22 speakers, 1420W of power, and Bang & Olufsen tuning into an 11.1.4 channel system, though it’s China-only for now.

Lenovo brings Bose-tuned Yoga headphones to the US and they don’t cost a fortune

The Headphone Yoga PC Edition is now available in the US with Bose-tuned audio, ANC, and a lightweight folding design.

Stop joining group projects with a blurry laptop webcam and buy one of these instead

From affordable 2K cameras to AI-powered 4K models, these five webcams can sharpen online classes, group projects, presentations, interviews, and dorm-room streams

I desperately want a new classic Walkman, but Sony probably can’t give me one

Old-school gadgets are finding a new audience, but bringing back Sony’s classic Walkman would require rebuilding decades of lost parts, tooling, and manufacturing expertise.

Proton reveals how smart TVs track you and the escape situation is pretty grim 

Proton warns that smart TVs use automatic content recognition to track everything you watch, sending data to manufacturers and advertisers by default, even when smart features go unused.

LG is cracking down on smart TV apps that quietly turn your TV into a secret proxy

LG says it will suspend webOS apps that secretly turn smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, after research found over 42 percent of its apps hid this feature.

The LG C6 OLED is great out of the box. These settings make it even better.

The LG C6 OLED delivers an excellent experience straight out of the box, but a few simple adjustments can make it even better. After a month of testing, these are the picture, motion and sound settings I keep coming back to, along with the tweaks that …

Samsung’s Freestyle+ AI Smart Projector turns any wall into your next movie screen

Priced at $1,200, Samsung’s new portable projector automatically corrects distortion, focuses in real time, and avoids obstacles blocking the picture.

Apple Music just got pricier

Apple has just raised the entry fee for its music streaming service, and it now starts at $11.99 in the US.