I’ve been testing these cheap open earbuds for weeks, and they have me wondering why you’d spend more on expensive rivals from Shokz and Bose

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Baseus Bowie MC2: Two-minute review I’ve tested a fair few of the more expensive options we recommend in our best open earbuds roundup, such as the Cleer Arc 5 and, more recently, the Shokz OpenDots Air. But a new release has me wondering why you’d spend much more money on a form factor which, honestly, … Read more

Think Flock is bad? This new tech is coming to link license plates with your phone — and it could be another death knell for privacy

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Flock is continuing to face public ire over the ways that its national network of license plate readers can be used and abused in the US, but there’s bad news for anyone worried about their personal privacy and widespread surveillance: technology that’s even more concerning is on the way. That tech is SignalTrace from security … Read more

I’ve finally found a true crime documentary that doesn’t make murder investigations feel like entertainment — and you can stream it for free on BBC iPlayer

We live in a culture that devours true crime documentaries with a hunger that never goes away — but if you ask me, we’re doing it all wrong. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that we consume true crime irresponsibly. In part thanks to how streaming services such as Netflix have chosen … Read more

I watched two returning horror franchises and played a creepy indie game in August — and I was surprised by which one let me down the most

Scream or Skip Scream or Skip, that is the question. With so much horror out there to watch and play, our senior entertainment writer, Lucy Buglass, is here to help you decide what’s worth your time (or worth a Scream) and what’s not (and so worth a Skip). Her goal is to help you beat … Read more

‘We were five years ahead’: the Nokia 9000 Communicator launched 30 years ago today — and squandering its smartphone lead will forever haunt Nokia’s former CEO

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What was the first ever smartphone? Ask most people and they’ll understandably say the original Apple iPhone, which launched in 2007. But if the definition is a practical device that can send emails and browse the web as well as make calls and send text messages, then there’s a strong case for the Nokia 9000 … Read more