Author: Press Room

I cut the cord years ago, and I still watch local news for free — here’s how When I finally canceled my premium TV subscription, I had the same hesitation most people do: What about live television? It’s easy to replace most shows and movies with streaming services, but losing immediate access to local breaking news, regional weather alerts, and community updates feels like a real trade-off. The truth is, paying a massive monthly bill just to see what is happening in your own backyard is unnecessary. Two years into life without a cable box, I actually watch more local…

For anyone who remembers endlessly scouring the shelves of Blockbuster Video on a Saturday night, streamed entertainment is nothing short of a miracle. However, no matter how much I appreciate having entire libraries of content at my fingertips, I have recently come to realize that streaming fatigue is a very real issue, and this “burnout” has often led me back to my local media collection. This frustration is just one reason why Kodi’s free local media player has quietly remained relevant. Once a movie or TV show is stored in my library, it stays there, with no regional restrictions and…

Summary ROG Xbox Ally X20: 7.4-inch Nebula OLED, 1400 nits, 120Hz and FreeSync for stunning visuals. Same Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme, 24GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, Auto Super Resolution—hardware mostly unchanged. Only sold in ROG XReal AR glasses bundle; unknown price, likely $2k–$2.5k—may price out gamers. ASUS has announced the ROG Xbox Ally X20 at Computex 2026 — an upgrade to the Xbox Ally X handheld with a huge 7.4-inch display and a new OLED panel, taking inspiration from its rival, the Lenovo Legion Go 2. But there’s a catch: this new handheld will only be available in a bundle with…

A projector is a great alternative to a traditional TV. This may seem like a bit of an exaggeration, but there are a lot of reasons why a projector works as a TV substitute in this day and age. Obviously, there is the light issue where it can be difficult to use a projector at times of the day when the sun is up. But, if you’re using your projector indoors, you can circumvent this. For anyone who is interested in the versatility that a projector offers, there are a lot of benefits. You can pick it up and move…

The best iPhone and iPad photography apps Fastbackward Apple’s Photos provides algorithmic ‘Memories’, designed help you revisit much-loved experiences to make happy faces at. But if you want to gawp at every photo taken on today’s date throughout the years? Tough. Well, unless you install Fastbackward. This app groups your pics by year, and lets you dive into each one to check out location info and metadata. It also makes the tedious business of library pruning less soul-crushing because you can check in daily to delete the duds. But if even that feels like too much effort, hit ‘Show a…

All the top movies to check out this year. What are you looking forward to the most? Josh O’Connor in Disclosure Day Summer 2026 is here, which means blockbuster season is just getting started. But megabucks movies are only one part of the upcoming movies banquet awaiting us this year. Hollywood has a full slate of new sequels and fresh adaptations ready to roll on film both at movie theatres and on home streaming services, as well as some entirely original stuff for movie lovers to sink their teeth into. From hidden extraterrestrials to charismatic stuntmen, there’s no shortage of…

We’re more than a decade into the music streaming era, and if we’ve learned anything thus far, it’s that physical media and streaming services can coexist. Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music combine to account for roughly a billion users, and there’s no underestimating the behemoth that is the streaming industry. However, physical media isn’t exactly hurting either. Vinyl is the most popular physical media format, with 46.8 million EPs and LPs sold last year in the U.S. The medium started making its comeback in the late 2000s after virtually dying in the heyday of CDs, and it’s officially surging…

I’ve owned OLED TVs since 2015. Over the past decade, I’ve sweated over OLED burn-in for the longest time. Thankfully, my obsessive routines have so far prevented the threat of permanent image retention. Yet when it comes to my latest TV tech defect, there’s really no hard and fast way to fix the problem. Color banding might not be nearly as well known as OLED burn-in, but for mega AV dweebs like myself, it’s an absolute thing. Color banding has semi-ruined some of my favorite PC games, yet if you know what TV settings and software measures to deploy, this…

Backrooms is a new horror film from A24, based on the series of Backrooms short films that director Kane Parsons has been releasing on his YouTube channel since 2022. And the original germ of the story can be traced to a creepy bit of internet folklore. Backrooms is something of a home-grown internet success story; the movie taking in over $70 million in its debut weekend, demolishing its $10 million budget. Kane Parsons is all of 20 years old, and was just 16 when he started uploading his Backrooms shorts to YouTube. Some people have had a hard time believing…

I have been deep into OpenClaw for a while now. It is a great tool, genuinely, but at some point I started wondering if there was something that did everything it does and then some. So I went looking. I am the kind of person who, once something is working, immediately starts wondering what the ceiling is. The ceiling on OpenClaw turned out to be lower than I wanted. So I went looking, found Hermes, and things got a lot more interesting. Hermes beats OpenClaw in the ways that actually matter Do more, with fewer tokens If you have not…