If you want to bring your music everywhere, the humble Bluetooth speaker is your best bet. You’ll lose some audio quality compared to bookshelf speakers, but these days, Bluetooth speakers sound pretty great, and let you blast the tunes wherever you go—the backyard, the beach, and beyond. Since they first appeared on the audio scene

Published September 10, 2026 7:00am ET PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT), the Utah governor who rose to national prominence with his calls for civility in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, used a stage in Philadelphia to argue that his message is just as salient one year later. Cox sat down with Gov. Josh

Published September 10, 2026 7:00am ET A pair of new polls in Senate battleground states highlights the basic tension at the heart of the midterm elections. Both states show a high percentage of voters who say they want to register a protest against President Donald Trump by voting in their Senate races, but both races

Published September 10, 2026 7:00am ET CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Gov. Gavin Newsom believes it’s time for fellow Democrats to get out of their comfort zone. The California governor has made a point of doing just that — but critics question whether he is breaking out of the party’s echo chamber or building a new

When the life-simulation game Paralives was released in early access, Danielle Udogaranya’s hand ached at the thought of making new Black hairstyles for it. It wasn’t because she didn’t want to create for the game. Udogaranya, better known as Ebonix, has spent over a decade creating custom content for life-simming games with the goal of

You’ll want to read our extensive guide on How to Choose the Right Laptop, but for the basics, decide what category of laptop you need. Most people should buy a 13-inch or 14-inch laptop, and spending around $750 to $1,000 is a good place to start. At this price, you should expect good battery life

Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011, five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the public. Despite the head start, Apple’s voice AI has been comprehensively overtaken in recent years, and made to look rather primitive compared to the many generative AI rivals it’s now

True diligence is following the improbable path. I read the sentence in a detective novel in childhood, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then the phrase stayed with me forever after. For a long time I wrote True Diligence in stylized curly letters on the inside page of every notebook, or sometimes

In my job as a product reviewer, I have learned to fear large boxes. Each one that arrives, whether an office chair or a pellet smoker, might mean anywhere from 20 minutes to multiple hours scratching my head at arcane diagrams, while bent upside down trying to find the right place to put a screw

Published September 10, 2026 6:00am ET Vice President JD Vance will take center stage on the final night of the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, giving him another opportunity to cement his standing as the early favorite to inherit President Donald Trump’s political movement in 2028. But before Vance delivers the keynote address in Dallas