Samsung is appealing to the lucrative gaming market with its new HW-N650 sound bar, which uses a unique series of holes designed to lock sound effects to the screen better. In addition the company is announcing its first hardware update to 2016’s HW-K950 Atmos sound bar. The HW-N650 features a line of over 50 openings …

We loved the Debuts, Andrew Jones’ first speakers under the Elac brand — and particularly the B6s. A little rough around the edges, these budget speakers nevertheless offered astonishing sound quality and incredible value. Just two years later the prolific speaker designer has already announced the replacements: the Debut 2.0 range. From what we’ve seen, and heard, these speakers are potentially …

Nuvyyo, the maker of the Tablo DVR , now has its native Tablo app on Samsung TVs, enabling users to view and record over-the-air shows. The latest Tablo DVR is able to record up to four shows at once. The Samsung app — for TVs with the Tizen operating system from 2015 onward — joins other software like Roku, Amazon Fire, …

A British judge has upheld the outstanding arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange despite his requests last month for it to be dropped. Judge Emma Arbuthnot dismissed calls from Assange’s lawyers at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court, saying, “I am not persuaded the warrant should be withdrawn,” Bloomberg reports. Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London …

Pour one out for the shiny CD, music fans.  Best Buy has told music suppliers it will pull compact discs from its stores starting July 1, according to Billboard. Declining sales were cited as the reason. Meanwhile, Target is said to have demanded that it sells CDs on consignment. That means it will pay music labels only for goods sold within …

First released 18 months ago, Nougat is now the most popular Android OS in the world, having finally overtaken its predecessor, Marshmallow. Nougat (7.0 and 7.1) is installed on 28.5 per cent of Android phones, according to visits to the Google Play store in the first week of February according to Google’s Android Developers site. Meanwhile, Marshmallow (6.0) is now at …

The National Weather Service accidentally sent out a false-alarm tsunami warning to residents of the East Coast this morning. Users of weather services received a message suggesting that there was a tsunami warning in place from 8.30 a.m. ET. But in fact there was no report of earthquake activity. The NWS has confirmed in a tweet that the alert was …

DTS’ Play-Fi whole-house audio system is now capable of TV audio streaming with synchronized video on select products, the company announced on Tuesday. Play-Fi has had the ability to stream audio from a 3.5mm-connected device for many years, but this is the first time we’ve been able to adjust lip-sync within the app. Previously there was a significant lag between …

In the same week Apple revealed the Feb. 9 availability of its first smart speaker, the HomePod, Sonos has a response: two Sonos One speakers for $349 or £349. The Sonos One smart speaker is $199 or £199 on its own, and the company says the bundle deal will be available from Friday, Jan. 26, for “a limited time.” The HomePod goes …

There will come a day, and probably pretty soon, where pretty much every standalone speaker will have a voice-operated assistant inside of it. In the same way way that most TVs today have integrated “smarts” in the form of streaming apps for video, “smart speakers” will simply be the default, offering streaming audio apps and music at your voice’s beck …