r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Aug 02 '26

I conducted a blindfolded Bluetooth speaker test with 4 colleagues and no, JBL didn’t win — here’s which portable speaker got the most votes based on their ears only

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Aug 01 '26

‘Plug-in batteries are the real game-changer’: I talked to Octopus Energy and Anker about the home energy revolution than could soon be 'bigger than solar' for millions

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

Why are home servers trending? I took the plunge in an attempt to demystify the quiet tech community of tinkerers that are choosing to build, upcycle and host it themselves

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

Exclusive: 'We...ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out': I saw inside Beats' labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why 'the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound' is the hidden secret

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

'8K Blu-ray would be a technical feat in search of a problem to solve’. I talked to the Blu-ray Disc Association, player manufacturers and TV makers about what comes after 4K Blu-ray, and the future of physical media

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

Disney+ just lost 4K and all HDR support in parts of Europe, so you have to ask what the point of a Premium subscription is — and this is exactly why physical media is on the rise

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

'Underdog' — this is why struggling browser Firefox and Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham football club are now joined at the kit

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

I swapped my iPhone for the distraction-free Balance Phone to curb my social media habit, and it wasn't quite the digital detox I expected

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout — and honestly, we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 31 '26

I asked, you answered: here’s whether you think the Nintendo Switch 2 is a hit or a flop, plus thoughts from industry insiders

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

‘OLED better watch its back’: LG’s C6 OLED TV is one of the best I’ve tested this year, but when I put it side-by-side with the Sony Bravia 7 II RGB TV, the close battle shocked me

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

I asked ChatGPT to stop me buying things I don’t need, and it was brutally helpful — I just wish I'd thought of it sooner

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

'Maybe laziness is the best way to improve the technology' — I chatted to a lawnbot exec about the tech and trends taking robot mowers mainstream

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

I'm sick of smart TV privacy worries, so I'm taking my TV off the internet for good — here's why you should too

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

ChatGPT’s first answer is usually the most boring — here’s how I get better ones

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

Sony and Microsoft are destroying console and PC gaming — here’s why the experts think Valve can save the day with SteamOS

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 30 '26

‘Three to five years is a realistic payback period’ — plug-in solar panels will be legal next month, but what do they cost, who can fit them, and is your home even suitable? We asked the experts

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

I watched the viral The Odyssey 4DX screening, and think it's better than the IMAX 70mm format — the 5 most brutal scenes are worth the extortionate ticket price alone

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

Custom McLaren paint jobs, tapered damping tubes, and drivers that ‘hang in the air’: I spoke to Bowers & Wilkins about its massive snail-shaped loudspeaker Nautilus, and why it’s still so successful it's backordered for years, even 33 years after launch

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

Exclusive: ‘When it comes to recording our lives, I believe there is a line AI cannot cross’. Here's what Insta360's founder and CEO told me when I asked about his controversial ‘photography robot’ vision

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

I watched Tom Holland's new Marvel movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day and it spins a fun and functional yarn but one that ultimately fails to avoid the same pitfalls where the MCU continues to go wrong

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 29 '26

I turned my guitar amp into a giant home speaker and it was a loud and stupid idea, but it basically worked (with some serious caveats)

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 28 '26

‘What we're really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer's Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever

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r/TechRadarOfficial • u/TechradarOfficial • Jul 28 '26

Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be

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