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The first-generation Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones are for $280, marked down from $430. That 35 percent savings is an even steeper discount than we saw last year Black Friday.BoseIn our of the first-generation Ultras, we gave them a score of 86 out of 100, noting their best-in-class active noise cancellation (ANC) and comfort. Bose improved its stock tuning for these headphones, which we could immediately tell sounded warmer and clearer. Bose has typically lagged behind the likes of Sony and Sennheiser in raw sound quality, but the first-generation QuietComfort Ultra was a big step toward catching up.Bose added “Immersive Audio”…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was a massive hit when it launched just over six years ago (man, time flies!), but it seemed like Nintendo’s support for the game had come to an end. Then, the company surprised us all when it unveiled the game wouldn’t just be getting a performance-enhanced Switch 2 version, but there would be a huge, completely free, content update for all players. Both the update and Switch 2 version were set to drop tomorrow, January 15, but Nintendo had one last surprise in store for us – the 3.0 update is available now.After seeing commotion about…

APP/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAcross North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976.They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much of the world because they follow a calendar that starts at 950 BC, when King Sheshonq ascended the throne of Egypt.The Amazigh new year, known as Yennayer, begins between 12 and 14 January – depending on the area in which they live in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya – so over the last few days families have been laying on huge feasts, lighting bonfires and…

“Build it from the north” was the cry from transport experts for years as tens of billions of pounds were channelled into projects in the south east, London, and even HS2’s viaducts, verges, and bat tunnels in the home counties.The wide-ranging Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) plan is not just about rail expansion to realise the potential of the “untapped goldmine of the North of England” — although that is a big part of it.In the 2030s, it will see a new high speed line between Liverpool and Manchester, and later a line between Birmingham and Manchester to replace the cancelled…

Generated with Google Gemini Google’s Pixel 10a may land far earlier than anyone expected, with a new leak hinting at a mid-February debut and a fresh “Berry” color in the mix. The surprise timing suggests Google is preparing to move up its launch cycle. The rumor comes from a Bluesky post by Roland Quandt, a well-known industry leaker and WinFuture writer with a long history of landing Pixel intel early, bringing fresh attention to Google’s next entry in the A-series lineup. A familiar face with a few fresh twists Droid-Life now pegs the Pixel 10a’s release for Feb. 17, tightening…

YouTube is rolling out some additional parental controls, including a way to set time limits for viewing Shorts on teen accounts. In the near future, parents and guardians will be able to set the Shorts timer to zero on supervised accounts. “This is an industry-first feature that puts parents firmly in control of the amount of short-form content their kids watch,” Jennifer Flannery O’Connor, YouTube’s vice president of product management, wrote in a blog post. Along with that, take-a-break and bedtime reminders are now enabled by default for users aged 13-17.The platform is also bringing in new principles, under which…

Meta has shut down its Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru Games, and Armature Studio as part of its massive job cuts to its virtual reality division, Reality Labs. These three studios, which Meta acquired over the last five years, had developed VR games for the studio.As reported by Bloomberg, Meta has begun cutting over 1,000 jobs across the Reality Labs division, which oversees the company’s VR hardware (such as its Meta Quest headsets) and software. Reality Labs consists of roughly 15,000 employees, meaning about 10 percent of workers will be impacted. The layoffs began Tuesday, with employees from Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru, and…

Mark PoyntingClimate researcherJustin Sullivan / Getty ImagesThe California fires of January 2025 were one of the most expensive weather-related disasters in US historyGlobal temperatures in 2025 did not quite reach the heights of 2024, thanks to the cooling influence of the natural La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific, new data from the European Copernicus climate service and the Met Office shows. But the last three years were the world’s warmest ever recorded, bringing the planet closer to breaching international climate targets.Despite natural cooling from La Niña, 2025 was still much warmer than temperatures even a decade ago, as humanity’s…

Getty ImagesHoover’s latest novel, Woman Down – her first since 2022 – was released this weekBest-selling author Colleen Hoover has revealed she has been having treatment after being diagnosed with cancer.The US writer, 46, known for It Ends With Us and Reminders of Him, said she has nearly finished radiotherapy and that earlier surgery was a success.She publicly discussed the news in an Instagram post this week, with a selfie showing her in a hospital gown.In a further message on Tuesday, she told fans: “I’m doing much better. My cancer diagnosis was a while ago but I chose to keep…

We’re almost exactly halfway through January, but Nintendo has clearly taken a better-late-than-never approach to its 2025 year in review feature, which finally went live this week for Switch and Switch 2 users. All you need to do is head here and sign into your Nintendo account to see your 2025 breakdown.Like most annual gaming wrap-ups, Nintendo’s shows how many games you played over the calendar year, as well as your total playtime. It also shows you your most-played titles for each month, your preferred genres by percentage, and if you scroll all the way to the bottom you can…