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Audeze has announced ReSkin earcups, a suite of limited edition earcup designs for the Maxwell 2 headsetThe range launches with six designs, including a whole set from a Southern Californian artisanThe earcups are available from Audeze for $39.99 or $59.99 and are compatible with both PlayStation and Xbox variants of the Maxwell 2The Audeze Maxwell 2 is one of my absolute favorite gaming headsets of recent years. However, it is slightly guilty of a familiar sin shared by many more audiophile headsets in the market: its aesthetic is very plain.That was, up until now, however. Audeze has announced a new…

As noted earlier, Mozilla’s characterization of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as a game changer has been met with massive, vocal skepticism in many quarters. Critics initially scoffed when Mozilla didn’t obtain CVE designations for any of the 271 vulnerabilities. Like many developers, however, Mozilla doesn’t obtain CVE listings for internally discovered security bugs. Instead, they are bundled into a single patch. Normally, Bugzilla reports detailing these “rollups” are hidden for several months after being fixed to protect those who are slow to patch. Now that Mozilla has revealed a dozen of them, the same critics will surely claim they too were…

Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update from CEO Dan Clancy. “Today, we’re introducing a new enforcement type that we plan to roll out over the next few weeks,” Clancy shared in a post on X. “For channels identified as persistently viewbotting, we will apply a cap to the streamer’s CCV [concurrent views] for a fixed period of time, on all of the Twitch surfaces.”…

Smartwatches and fitness trackers often tout expansive health-monitoring capabilities, though some features can create more anxiety than reassurance without independent validation, as CNET senior editor Anna Gragert previously reported. On Thursday, Samsung released new third-party research detailing how its Galaxy Watches may help detect signs associated with fainting episodes.Samsung teamed up with the Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital of Korea to evaluate over 130 patients struggling with fainting problems. The study included wearing a Samsung Galaxy 6 smartwatch with its photoplethysmography sensor that measures to collect heart rate variability data. (A photoplethysmography sensor uses light to measure changes in blood flow beneath…

If you’ve never used a password manager before, it can be a seriously daunting task to try and pick the right one.There are so many features to consider and it can be very hard to decide which features matter the most to you.That’s why I have put together this guidance on the top five things to look out for when deciding on a password manager. You may like Latest Videos FromEncryptionThe type of encryption a password manager uses is one of the most important factors. It can have all the bells and whistles in the world, but will fall flat…

Three years after introducing its first security cameras, the BC500 and TC500, Synology today unveiled two new models, the BC510 and TC510, as part of the 510 Series. At a glance, like other Synology IP cameras, the 510 Series is designed to work right away with Synology’s Surveillance Station and the BeeCamera feature, newly added to the BeeStation Plus. And that can be quite exciting. Looking closer, though, the new models has a significant item removed from their feature set. It’s a unpleasant surprise reminiscent of the NAS vendor’s ill-thought-out HCL Policy initially imposed on its 2025 NAS servers. Let’s…

The timer_stop function also has the job of converting the timer into a human-readable format, and it’s probably messier than it needs to be. I’m no developer, though, so this is what Past Lee settled on after a few hours of searching through examples. Doing it in fish for folks like me That’s for bash when I’m ssh’d into one of my Linux hosts, but I run fish on MacOS. I have a separate fish function for getting the same results there, complete with gross hacks for turning the measurement into human-readable form. I made this code, and I am…

Nintendo Nintendo held a last-minute Star Fox Direct live stream on May 6 to reveal Star Fox, a remake of the N64 classic coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s due to come out on June 25, complete with new gameplay modes and online play. Star Fox features reimagined visuals and redesigned characters, and everything seems to have a touch of Fantastic Mr. Star Fox about it. Nintendo calls it “a cinematic take” in its press release, and to that end, the game features new cutscenes with full voice acting and…

The 2026 World Cup is approaching, and fans who can’t attend games in person will have multiple ways to watch at home. Peacock will stream Telemundo’s coverage of the entire tournament in Spanish, which will now include access to an interactive schedule and the key plays feature, the company announced on Wednesday. Viewers will be able to watch two games in Spanish for free, either on Peacock or the Telemundo app: Mexico vs. South Africa on June 11 and USA vs. Paraguay on June 12. These games will be available to all Peacock subscribers, including the $8-a-month Select tier. In a…

Modern phone cameras are seriously capable bits of kit. So much so, if you have one of the best camera phones, it can be more than enough to capture some excellent holiday snaps without having to lug any unwieldy bits of dedicated camera kit around with you. With a few, small accessories, you can make your phone even more capable and convenient for capturing stunning vacation photos and video.The accessory that inspired this whole collection is the new Insta360 Snap; a mini monitor that attaches magnetically to the back of your phone and provides a live feed of what the…