When I’m asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron’s budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don’t grab headlines the way Teenage Engineering’s gear or the Telepathic Instruments Orchid do, and even compared to the company’s higher-end and more niche musical offerings like the Digitakt, Octatrack, […]

Should you replace your Apple Watch’s battery or upgrade to a new model? Leopatrizi/Getty Images When you spend a lot of money on one of the best Apple Watch models, you want it to last as long as possible. But inevitably, as with any device that uses lithium-ion batteries, the battery will slowly degrade

I told myself I wouldn’t buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I’d tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. After I weighed in on the $40 Snap Grip 5 last year, I wound up sticking with my $25 Syncwire instead. But OhSnap’s $50 Snap Grip Stand finally got me. To

Waymo has announced that it’s received permission from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to expand its robotaxi service across more counties in California. The company says the decision will allow it to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego for the first time, and expand service in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los

If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier than they used to be and others wildly more expensive. The good news?

That makes it the cheapest EV in Kia’s lineup. Kia Kia has announced the US pricing for the EV3, the more compact version of its EV9 SUV. The car will start at $29,450 plus a $1,495 destination charge. Even at $30,945, that’s well under the $35,000 the company was targeting when it announced

Clip earbuds are an exercise in compromise. It’s an inherent aspect of their design — and physics. They can be more comfortable for people that don’t like something jammed in their ear, but sound response suffers. Ambient awareness is great because you can easily hear the sound around you, which means to hear your own

Meanwhile, the court has ordered Google to make installing third-party app stores easier. Ymgerman/Getty Images Apple has asked the court to allow it to collect a fee of up to 15 percent for purchases made outside of its App Store payment system in the United States. This is still part of the long-running legal

Robot lawnmowers are finally good enough to take a lot of work out of maintaining a yard, but they’re still not set-it-and-forget-it machines. If you don’t want these autonomous cutting machines to tear up your lawn or go roaming in your neighbors’ yard, you’re still going to need to keep an eye on them. But

The CEOsaid service could begin returning as soon as 3PM ET. Bangla press/Shutterstock If you noticed websites suddenly being unavailable today, the issue could have been an outage at hosting provider Namecheap. According to a notice from the company, Namecheap experienced an outage today following what it calls “a failure of cooling systems”