Sonos is definitely a luxury brand. It has some other soundbars that it offers, but they’re not what you’d buy on a tight budget. If you think that $249 is bad, then you won’t want to hear about the $449 Beam soundbar. That still pales in comparison to the $899 ARC. What’s the deal with the Sonos Model S36 soundbar? What’s the deal with the Sonos Model S36 soundbar? A soundbar is like a Bluetooth speaker on steroids, and the Model S36 fits that bill....

This isn’t exactly a short-term thing and while Sony won’t make new PS4s forever, it currently doesn’t have a plan for when it will stop. The PS4 is one of Sony’s best-selling consoles to date. In addition to being one of the best-selling consoles period. So there’s no reason for Sony to stop making them while it can still turn a profit. Though, it will eventually transition to manufacturing PS5s only....

This study investigated the influences of two meditative techniques on the two main ingredients of creativity: divergent and convergent styles of thinking. Cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University specifically looked at Open Monitoring (OM) and Focused Attention (FA) meditation for the study. In OM meditation, the individual is receptive to all the thoughts and sensations experienced without focusing attention on any particular concept or object. In FA meditation, the individual focuses on a particular thought or object....

Back in October, the EU parliament finally passed the USB-C mandate bill, and it was published in the Official Journal of the European Union afterward. Each union member has 24 months to comply with the legislation and adopt the bill as national law. Various sources already predicted that the USB-C mandate bill could go live in 2024. In the October announcement, the EU lawmakers also said the bill would take effect by the end of 2024....

Once again I was confronted by the silliness of how upset I was by losing some little possession. It’s not a crime to love a hat. But it’s doubly annoying to lose a trifling thing and be annoyed by losing it. It’s like Russian nesting dolls of annoyance. When does it stop? Why is it so hard to let go of the smallest things? We seem so attuned to gaining and getting....