First unveiled earlier this month, Beam is the latest smart speaker and TV soundbar from wireless speaker maker Sonos. The compact TV soundbar promises hi-fi music playback and voice control through Alexa — all at an affordable price. Sonos Beam hits the market later next month, but we’ve been testing it for a few weeks ahead of its launch. For the purpose of this review, Apple’s new AirPlay 2 wireless streaming feature wasn’t ready for testing — stay tuned for our full impressions next month when Sonos adds the feature....

A new trailer for Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality brings the dimension-hopping grandfather-grandson duo to VR. Rick and Morty is making a big splash currently. On April 1st, Adult Swim shocked the world by dropping a new episode of Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s twisted and brilliant animated series. The show’s creators had been teasing the arrival of Season 3 for some time, while skillfully batting aside questions about why it was so delayed in the first place, so it was quite a nice surprise when a new episode just fell out of the blue on April Fool’s Day....

Rick And Morty catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” is also a neat little Google easter egg. Rick And Morty debuted on Adult Swim in 2013 and its stellar comic writing, imaginative sci-fi stories, and vocal performances saw it gain a huge fanbase. The show was co-created by Dan Harmon (Community) and Justin Roiland and follows genius scientist Rick and his grandson Morty as they hop between different worlds and dimensions. While that might sound like the basis for a fun, Saturday morning cartoon show, Rick And Morty revels in dark and gross-out humor, and is decidedly not a family show....

The CW releases the synopsis for the Riverdale season 1 finale episode. Since debuting in January, the series has done well to keep its central mystery intact. Now 10 episodes into its freshman season, we’re no closer to unmasking Jason Blossom’s killer than we were in the premiere, and there’s an array of suspects — and unanswered questions — still hanging in the balance. What are the Blossoms hiding? Was Jughead’s dad involved with Jason’s murder?...

Update 2: The SEC is now investigating (see bottom of piece) Update 1: You can now buy GME stock in the app. The Robinhood app controversy continues to grow, with the company finding itself under fire from almost every direction. As one Twitter user wryly observed: But the debate about the company’s motives may now have been resolved … Just imagine how badly you would have to **** up to get AOC, Don Jr....

There are now a ton of third-party Apple Watch bands on the market of varying quality, but at $69, this alternative to Apple’s pricey stainless steel link band from Hyper is worth a closer look. The bands are made out of the same 316L stainless steel that Apple uses, and nothing about them indicates why there would be an almost $400 gap between these and Apple’s. The HyperLink bands come in silver and space black colors, and include two different designs....

Today we’re taking a look at some of the best Bluetooth earbuds on the planet. These are the Jaybird X2 earbuds and they are simply amazing. I suppose this review is a bit backwards as I’ve just given you the verdict here, but let me tell you why these are so great… First up, let’s get into the box. The packaging is very similar to its predecessor, the BlueBuds X. Opening up the side flap will reveal the headphones and accessories....

I’ve recently been testing the brand new Synology DS-216+ NAS ($299), a network-attached-storage product meant for consumers. Although Synology products include a variety of features, I will be focusing on two primary functions that I consider most essential and most useful to people today: Mac backup and home media management (TV shows and movies). With Apple no longer shipping optical drives in most of their products, I think now is a great time to convert your home movie collection of DVDs and Blu-rays to digital files, which a NAS is great for storing....

It was somewhat inevitable Keith David would end up voicing a character on Rick And Morty, so here’s a guide to his guest appearances. Dan Harmon made a name for himself with cult sitcom Community, but arguably his most famous creation is Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty. This galaxy hopping adventure series follows scientist Rick Sanchez who all but forces his meek grandson Morty on his various quests. Rick And Morty manages to blend cool sci-fi concepts and countless movie references - including everything from The Purge to The Lawnmower Man - with some surprisingly deep characters....

The $10 million gender discrimination settlement put forth by League of Legends developer Riot Games has been rejected by new legal counsel for the victims in the case. The spiraling lawsuit against the studio has been going on for the better part of a year and a half. After Riot employees began reporting a sexist work culture in August 2018, the company’s controversial arbitration policy for legal disputes quickly became public knowledge....

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story paved a lot of new territory for the Star Wars franchise as the first stand-alone spinoff movie. While it took place during events in which fans were already well versed, there was still new ground covered and new details about the Star Wars universe were revealed. The ultimate result of the movie was never a mystery. Thanks to the opening crawl, it was already known the Death Star plans were successfully stolen....

[ooyala code=”tyZ3RkZDptTdk4MiQaHJVCnxUdZyD8pf” player_id=”null”] Today Autodesk launched FBX Review for Apple Mac OS X and iOS 7. The free standalone app gives professional artists and animators a powerful, lightweight tool to conduct detailed reviews of a wide range of 3D assets, including detailed 3D models, environments and character animations. Now artists on the Windows or Apple platforms can use FBX Review to view 3D assets with a full feature set, without using commercial 3D animation software....

The market of counterfeit Apple products has been well documented in the past, with offerings ranging from knockoff AirPods to deceivingly well-designed Apple Watch clones. Now, a new report from Motherboard examines a counterfeit iPhone X purchased for $100… Right off the bat, in terms of design, the counterfeit iPhone X largely resembles one you’d buy from an Apple Store: The packaging is also eerily similar, with the same “Designed by Apple in California” branding and a paper insert explaining how to use Face ID....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker introduced an apparently new Force Heal power - but it actually made its debut in The Clone Wars. Every Star Wars movie expands the lore, introducing new Jedi and Sith powers, and The Rise of Skywalker was no different. Its principal new Force ability was a variation on Force Heal that seemed entirely original. Rey demonstrated Force Heal in the deserts of Pasaana, when she healed an injured desert serpent....

Sonja Morgan made her first appearance on The Real Housewives of New York in season 3 and has been gracing fans’ TVs ever since. Sonja is well-known in the New York social circuit and has had some of the funniest moments on RHONY. As Bravo fans have seen over the years, Sonja lived by the seat of her pants and made impulsive decisions that made great reality TV. Although Sonja has been on Bravo screens for years, there are still unknown or underrated things about “Sonjarita” that aren’t talked about enough....

Apple is widely expected to debut a redesigned iMac with Apple Silicon sometime this year, as previously reported by reliable outlets such as Bloomberg. Now, a new rumor claims that the redesigned iMac will also be available in multiple colors similar to the newest iPad Air. In a new video, leaker Jon Prosser claims that he’s being told that the redesigned iMac will use the same colors as the fourth-generation iPad Air introduced last year....

Some unverified news out of China this morning points to new iPhone 5S production shots and specs which don’t seem out of the realm of possibility. The production shots above claim to be of the iPhone 5S, but with the case expected to be identical to the 5, it is hard to tell the difference. Specs for the iPhone 5S from this same leak include NFC reader (which was taken out of the iPhone 5 late in production we’ve heard), a Fingerprint Reader (which may or may not be causing production delays), Sharp 4-inch 1136×640 (and maybe LG) IGZO display for power savings and better image quality and new 12 megapixel backside camera with dual LED flash....

To identify more small business holiday tips and uncover ways marketers can leverage people’s desire to support local and small businesses this holiday season, we used our Sprout superpower: social listening. In the last three months, between September 1 and November 29, we captured more than 1.9 million Tweets related to small businesses from over 852,200 unique authors. Even though it’s evident that the struggle is still very real for small business owners, the listening data we gathered from Twitter showed that there is hope yet....

I’ve reviewed several Thunderbolt 3 SSDs over the last year or so, and the Akitio Node Lite with Intel Optane SSD is the best performer of them all. Advertising speeds up to 2600 MB/s read, it’s the only external SSD that I’ve tried thus far that skirts close to such a speed rating without being affected by noticeable thermal throttling. Granted, the combo package of Akitio Node Lite + Intel Optane SSD should be a great performer, after all its price is $1500 for a 960GB SSD....

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/52132178 w=700&h=393] At some point, most of us are going to walk away from our computer while it’s turned on. Sometimes when that happens, family members, roommates, or even complete strangers will decide it’s OK to mess with your computer. Keycard makes it easy to avoid that issue without having to put your machine to sleep and then wake it back up every time you walk away for a few minutes....