KTC H27P3 5K monitor review: easy to spot the faults, not the pixels

Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they look great, and they’re usually expensive. The Apple Studio Display is the most popular model, and it costs $1,599. But I’ve been testing one that’s similar in some important ways and costs just $355 (!?) at its cheapest-ever price. Unsurprisingly, at a fraction of […]

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Grok is spreading inaccurate info again, this time about the Bondi Beach shooting

In the same month that Grok opted for a second Holocaust over vaporizing Elon Musk’s brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again. Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a festival to mark the start of Hanukkah, Grok is responding to user requests with inaccurate or completely unrelated info, as first spotted

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I’m finally beginning to trust Microsoft’s handheld Xbox Allys

I still wouldn’t buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don’t think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two months after I panned the cheaper $600 white Xbox Ally and wasn’t quite sold on the $1,000 black one, one

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Half-Life 3 is rumored to be a Steam Machine launch title and could arrive in spring 2026

Half-Life fans are nothing if not patient. For the diehard fans out there, the latest test of patience comes from Insider Gaming Weekly‘s podcast, which claimed that the third installment in the Half-Life franchise is set to release with the launch of the Steam Machine sometime in spring 2026. “The window I was specifically told

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Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio

Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instruments’ Maschine (yes, it’s the name of the hardware and the software) and Ableton’s Push are pretty much the gold standard for integration between music-making software and hardware. Serato

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