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The TK705STi’s highly responsive, low-latency performance makes gameplay ultra-realistic. For movies and TV? It’s a purely average home projector.

It's impossible to talk about a new Xbox game without also talking about the state of Xbox. Microsoft's gaming division is in freefall: Recent headlines are dominated by extensive layoffs, decimated studios, and confusing strategies, most of which stem from years of bad decisions and expensive acquisitions. But it wasn't always that way. Through its […]

GoPro's Wireless Mic System nails the basics, but it has some frustrating flaws.

The resulting report is a near-random mixture of real problems and grievances.

Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, are due to launch this fall. […]

It's a year of refinement for the Galaxy Watch. With the new Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, which are being announced today, Samsung is more or less taking what people like about its watches and tweaking those elements to be better. The company has been doing this for the past few generations […]

When it comes to enthusiast-geared Honda hardware, the Civic Si, Civic Type R, and Acura NSX often come to mind first for their revvy VTEC (Honda's form of variable valve timing) engines and playful chassis dynamics. The Prelude, on the other hand, less so. Instead, the Prelude is a technological study - still aimed at […]

It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.

The familiar story with Xteink’s tiny e-readers plays out once again with its new X4 Pro: upgraded hardware held back by frustrating software. The company’s latest tiny e-reader adds a touchscreen and lighting, so choosing it over a Kindle or a Kobo feels like less of a compromise — until you use it. The new […]

It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.

I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution, especially compared to the […]

Nintendo does a lot of weird things, but Splatoon might just be one of the strangest - or at least the boldest. The series started as an attempt to muscle into the ultra-competitive online shooter space, but in a way that feels a world away from the violence and bombast of Call of Duty or […]

New gaming gear is always promising to shave milliseconds off latency or response time. The improvements usually aren't obvious. But the Glorious GHS InfinitePlay wireless headset, on the other hand, could save you far more than just milliseconds: It has the fastest hot-swap battery system I've ever used, and the headset doesn't die when you […]

When you wire up a payload cms live preview , you’re not just plumbing a URL—you’re building a contract between the admin panel and your Next.js App Router. The goal is keystrokes-ago fidelity: editors click Preview, land on your front end, and see exactly what’s in the draft, even when the public site is cached to the hilt. Our implementation at techpotions settled on one preview route, one shared secret, and one shared URL builder. Here’s every decision that made it work. One /next/preview route for the entire site The admin panel’s preview button doesn’t need to know about your page structure. It calls a single /next/preview route with a secret query param and a slug search param that points to the document being previewed. // app/(payload)/next/preview/route.ts import { draftMode } from ' next/headers ' import { redirect } from ' next/navigation ' export async function GET ( request : Request ) { const { searchParams } = new URL ( request . url ) const secret = searchParams . get ( ' secret ' ) const slug = searchParams . get ( ' slug ' ) if ( secret !== process . env . PREVIEW_SECRET ) { return new Response ( ' Invalid token ' , { status : 401 }) } const draft = await draftMode () draft . enable () redirect ( slug ?? ' / ' ) } That’s the entire route. No collection-specific logic, no second-guessing which page type is involved. The redirect lands on the actual page, which reads draftMode().isEnabled and fetches accordingly. This is the pattern the Payload CMS preview documentation expects: a function that resolves to a string with additional URL parameters pointing to your app. The preview-URL builder lives in one shared lib Here’s where most implementations drift apart. The admin config, the preview route, and each page component all need to agree on how a preview URL is constructed. Store that logic in one place—a single getPreviewUrl utility imported everywhere—or you’ll be chasing 404s in production when someone renames a collection slug. // lib/getPreviewU

Two posts ago I said I'd shipped code I never read. It's easy to write that as a general observation about the industry. It's less comfortable to go open your own repo and count. So I did. Here's what I found, and what I've actually done about it. The repo It's a desktop app I built for my own company. Roughly fourteen thousand lines of Python, a Tkinter UI, invoicing and documents and reports, the kind of internal tool nobody else will ever see. I had never written Python before I started it. I built it anyway, with a lot of AI help, learning as I went. That combination - no prior experience, heavy AI assistance, a real deadline because the business actually needed the thing - is basically a diff debt factory. I wasn't cutting corners on purpose. I just didn't have the knowledge to evaluate half of what I was merging, and it worked, so I moved on. What I actually found The clearest example took me months to notice. Five different parts of the app generate PDFs. Quotes, proformas, reports, petitions, heat treatment certificates. Every one of them was failing, in different ways, at different times, and I kept fixing them individually. Different error, different module, different patch. The actual cause was one thing: LibreOffice wasn't installed on the machine. Every one of those modules quietly depended on it to do the document conversion. Not one of them said so anywhere. I'd merged that dependency five separate times without ever registering that I'd taken it on. That's diff debt in its purest form. The code wasn't messy. It wasn't badly written. It just made an assumption I'd never read, and I paid interest on it five times over before I understood the principal. There were smaller ones too. A path handling bug that only showed up because my Windows username has a Turkish character in it - the code assumed ASCII and nobody, including me, had thought about it. Two Python versions installed side by side, quietly fighting. A stray quotation mark in my system PATH th

You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStation logo if your console recognizes the disc. How badly […]

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The line between editorial content and paid promotion has been eroding for years. On most major retail platforms, in countless lifestyle publications and across the breadth of social media, content that presents itself as independent assessment is frequently underwritten by the very brands being assessed. This is not a new problem, but it is a worsening one. The consequences are practical. Consumers who believe they are reading a review and acting accordingly may be making purchasing decisions on the basis of what is, in effect, an advertisement. The financial cost of that mistake is modest in most individual cases. The cumulative effect on consumer trust is not. Understanding what separates a genuine review from disguised promotional content requires more than checking for a disclosure label. It requires looking at structure, incentive, methodology and language - and recognising that some of the most effective adverts are those that most convincingly resemble reviews. What a Review Is Actually Supposed to Do A review serves one primary function: to help a reader make an informed decision about a product, service or brand. That function is incompatible with advocacy. A reviewer who is trying to help a reader decide cannot simultaneously be trying to persuade that reader to buy. This distinction sounds obvious. In practice, it collapses quickly when the person writing the review has a financial relationship with the brand, when the product was provided free of charge without conditions, or when the publication depends on advertising revenue from the sector it covers. None of those arrangements automatically invalidates the content produced. But each one creates a structural incentive that pushes in a specific direction - and that direction is rarely towards harder scrutiny. The Disclosure Problem Regulatory frameworks in the UK, including guidance from the Advertising Standards Authority and the Competition and Markets Authority, require that paid-for content be clea

In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It's one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around at home. But chord organs largely fell out of favor […]