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We’ve tested oodles of noise-canceling headphones and the Sony WH-CH720N might have an unfortunate name, but they’re the best budget-friendly pair we’ve tried. They usually offer good value when selling for the full $178 MSRP, but right now they’ve fallen to $95 shipped on Amazon and $100 on Best Buy.These headphones are well-built and well-designed, with great active noise cancellation and robust sound. They don’t fold up and they don’t come with a case, but you can get a case as a separate purchase if that’s a deal-breaker for you.These are lightweight, with adaptive sound that can adjust itself to…

The NCAA Tournament selection committee offered an early “preview” of the top 16 seeds for the Big Dance on Saturday. Though the picture will immediately begin to change as new results roll in, the exercise provided some interesting fodder for college basketball fans to digest. Among the biggest takeaways from the bracket preview was just how stacked the Midwest was. Again, this will all shift before Selection Sunday on March 15, but it was shocking to see a single region containing No. 1 overall seed Michigan, No. 6 overall seed Houston and No. 9 overall seed Florida. Michigan earns No.…

The Stop Killing Games campaign is evolving into more than just a movement. In a YouTube video, the campaign’s creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for “long-term counter lobbying” when publishers end support for certain video games.”Let me start off by saying I think we’re going to win this, namely the problem of publishers destroying video games that you’ve already paid for,” Scott said in the video. According to Scott, the NGOs will work on getting…

Designers are often asked who their “woman” or “man” is—it’s always been more than that for Daniel Gayle and James Bosley of Denzil Patrick, the London brand now in its fifth year. The designer and artistic director interpolate the aesthetics of each season’s cast of characters (from motorsport racers and medieval knights to teddy girls and Cockney Pearly Kings) with how their family and community actually express themselves. The brand takes its name from Gayle’s two grandfathers, and for fall 2026, he and Bosley imagined how these impeccably dressed, once-new-to-London-Londoners would dress themselves in the city today.At their gallery-set presentation,…

Arturia launched a new version of its flagship effects suite, FX Collection, which includes two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910. FX Collection 6 also marks the introduction of an Intro version with a selection of six effects covering the basics for $99. That pales in comparison to the 39 effects in the full FX Collection Pro, but that also costs $499.Pitch Shifter-910 is based on the iconic Eventide H910 Harmonizer from 1974, an early digital pitchshifter and delay with a very unique character. Arturia does an admirable job preserving its glitchy quirks. Pitch Shifter-910 is not a transparent…

Feb 21, 2026, 08:32 AM ETBill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89.Pirates chairman Bob Nutting said: “Maz was one of a kind, a true Pirates legend … His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history and the 1960 World Series championship, but I will remember him most for the person he…

For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law. Now his America PAC has been slapped with a reprimand by the Georgia State Election Board for sending out pre-filled absentee ballot applications. State law prohibits anyone, other than an authorized relative, from sending an absentee ballot application prefilled with the elector’s information.Residents of Chattooga, Cherokee, Coweta, Floyd, and Whitfield counties reported receiving absentee ballot applications from America PAC, partially pre-filled. According to the State Election Board, the applications also failed to note that they were not actual ballots…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing held at the White House February 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Saturday said he would increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%, one day after the Supreme Court struck down a broad swath of the president’s trade agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump said the new tariffs will be “effective immediately.” He also warned that additional levies would follow. “I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many…

The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators.  Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind, and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have their “check engine light” on. LLM wrappers are essentially startups that wrap existing large language models, like Claude, GPT, or Gemini, with a product or UX layer to solve a specific problem. An example would be a startup that uses AI to helps students study. “If you’re really just counting…

The biggest news of the week, by far, is Ronda Rousey (and Gina Carano) are back!Earlier this week, Most Valuable Promotions announced that Rousey is coming out of retirement to fight Gina Carano in an MMA bout this may. So, let’s talk about that, plus whatever else you hooligans have questions about.Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano undercardWith the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano news, it opens the door for a lot of names to compete on the Netflix card. So, be the matchmaker: what other fights would you make for this card?Great question, Mike!AdvertisementThe announcement of Rousey vs. Carano caught…