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I tested a living room full of cheap Ikea speakers against Sonos and Bose
Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, other than the ability to connect up to 100 of them together, but at that price, I don't really care. They're […]
Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs
It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Reals." In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap also includes a description of "Reals" as a place where "real people share […]
The Trump administration’s antitrust honeymoon is over
"It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business." That quote was first delivered by mob boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather, but last Monday, it became the title of a speech by the Justice Department's acting antitrust chief Omeed Assefi. At a George Washington University event co-hosted with the publication MLex, Assefi described an agency firing […]
SpaceX reportedly files for IPO but it’s keeping the numbers secret (for now)
What's expected to be the biggest IPO in human history is reportedly underway. SpaceX has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report from Bloomberg. But for now, the filing is confidential. Under SEC rules, SpaceX isn't required to make its S-1 prospectus public until 15 days […]
These Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke
As of today, the price of the 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by $100, a price bump that's almost as much as the original $120 price tag. Driven by the ongoing RAM shortage, Raspberry Pi is raising prices on over a dozen of its bare-bones computers, after previous increases in […]