Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

The Meta Quest 3S costs $200 less than the Quest 3, but what does it compromise to get there? I've tested both extensively and am here to compare the two VR headsets to help you decide which is the ...

As social animals, we humans are hard-wired to learn, thrive, and grow through our relationships — our engagement with and observations of others. Early in life, we rely on teachers and role models ...

If you have an older TV and aren't necessarily looking to upgrade to something smarter, you might be in the market for a Fire TV stick to round out your streaming setup. Since its inception, Amazon’s ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

Apple unveiled the iPhone 17 lineup at its annual September event, including its first new phone model in years—the ultrathin iPhone Air. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images You probably already heard ...

Heading into the 2025-26 college basketball season, Darryn Peterson is one of the most sought after players in the country as he prepares for his freshman season at Kansas. The five-star recruit was ...

An interdisciplinary study co-authored by researchers from the statistics and history departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduces a novel statistical framework for comparing ...

Daniel H. Magilow received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (although DOGE cancelled the grant in April 2025). He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...