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Anker released the noise-cancelling Soundcore Space One headphones a few years ago, and while they were a more budget-friendly alternative to premium models from Bose and Sony, their performance and fit still fell short in several areas. The brand’s updated Soundcore Space 2 headphones are a major upgrade across the board: They’re comfier, have better ANC, and are currently 18% off at $106.49 (originally $129.99), a rare price cut for a still-new release from a popular brand.

Battery life is one of the Soundcore Space 2’s most attractive features: They last up to 50 hours with ANC on and 70 hours with ANC off, and a five-minute charge gives you up to four extra hours. The noise cancellation is strong for the price, blocking out lower-frequency sounds well. Comfort is also a major upgrade from its sparser predecessor, with roomier, more plush memory foam earcups and a padded headband. They’re also travel-friendly, as the earcups rotate and fold.

The Soundcore app allows you to customize EQ and sound presets, giving you added flexibility if you don’t like the default tuning. Instead of touch-sensitive panels, these headphones use conventional buttons, which help prevent accidental commands while adjusting the earcups and are easy to operate. Along with supporting Bluetooth 6.1, they also have a wired-cable option, which isn’t always the case with modern wireless headphones. That said, they don’t support USB-C audio.

If you want over-ear noise-canceling headphones that perform well but don’t have $200 to shell out for a more expensive model, the Anker Soundcore Space 2 headphones are a comfortable, effective, and long-lasting alternative that hover around $100 at the current discounted price.

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You Can See Everything, the new documentary about Theranos founder (and accomplished con artist) Elizabeth Holmes from filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is breaking records (and brains). Not only is it raking it in at the box office in a way that few documentaries can manage, it’s also dominating the pop culture chat right now thanks to genre-defying techniques; a huge, rule-breaking twist (that I won't spoil); and its unrepentant and inexplicably mesmerizing subject.

While some might argue that you should head into this incredible film experience fresh, if you’re unfamiliar with any of the three major figures involved, you will benefit from a little prep work before you head in—and if you've already seen it, you're no doubt eager to dive even deeper into this truly remarkable (in every sense of the word) story. Here’s what you should watch, read, and listen to before or after You Can See Everything.

Films, shows, podcasts, and books to check out before you watch You Can See Everything

To put it simply: There’s a lot going on here. To ensure you can appreciate the film, you should make sure you know at least the basics about three things: Elizabeth Holmes (and why she’s infamous), and the work of both Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Here’s the crash course.

Podcasts

The 2019 podcast The Dropout is one of the most efficient ways to get the background on Holmes and Theranos. In the style of a true crime podcast, this show from ABC and journalist Rebecca Jarvis offers a deep dive into Holmes and her crimes that will give you all the background you’ll need.

Books

John Carreyrou is the journalist who broke the Holmes story wide open, and his award-winning book Bad Blood offers a more journalistic and less sensational investigation than other accounts, providing a close-up look at Holmes in her CEO persona—an alternately terrifying and charismatic person who comes across as a “character” Holmes is playing. The book will inform your viewing of the documentary in important ways.

Films

While Nathan Fielder is getting most of the attention for You Can See Everything, co-director Lance Oppenheim brings his signature technique to the film—it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting without his visual sensibility and framing.

Oppenheim has helmed several notable films, as he’s made a name for himself as a brilliant documentarian over the last few years, but to get ready for You Can See Everything, check out Spermworld, his 2024 exploration of unregulated sperm donations (you read that right). The doc deals with people who are as reality-challenged, manipulative, and possibly delusional as Holmes, and it will prep you for his visual style of extreme close-ups and excessive coverage that seems almost impossible in a normal documentary setting. You can stream Spermworld on Hulu.

TV shows

If you’re unfamiliar with Nathan Fielder’s work, you need to strap in, because he’s unlike any other comedian or documentarian you’ve ever encountered.

  • To get a sense of his style, start with Nathan for You, a comedy-documentary-reality TV hybrid in which Fielder—as a version of himself—tries to use his business experience to help struggling people and small businesses. Presented as totally sincere, Fielder’s ideas are nevertheless increasingly elaborate and, in a word, unhinged. This show will familiarize you with Fielder’s persona and approach, but if you only have time to cram one episode, check out the series finale, “Finding Frances.” It follows Fielder’s attempts to reunite one of his earlier clients with his long-lost love, and it is a nearly perfect encapsulation of his style and approach. You can stream Nathan for You on Hoopla or Paramount Plus, or rent it episode-by-episode on Prime Video.

  • You should also watch at least some of Fielder’s other series, The Rehearsal. Here, Fielder (again, portraying a version of himself) attempts to help people prepare for difficult conversations utilizing increasingly outlandish techniques and scenarios that spiral into comedic insanity, including building sets, hiring actors, and immersing himself and his subjects in an alternate reality of sorts—an approach that will prepare you for some of You Can See Everything’s swerves. If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, just check out the first episode, “Orange Juice, No Pulp.” It’s a self-contained chapter and will give you the basics. You can stream The Rehearsal on Apple TV or HBO Max, or rent episodes on Prime Video.

Films, shows, podcasts, and books to check out after seeing You Can See Everything

Have more bandwidth before watching You Can See Everything, or want a deeper dive after the documentary has melted your brain? Here’s what else you can check out.

Podcasts

The companion podcast to Carreyrou’s book, Bad Blood: The Final Chapter, is well worth a listen. Hearing the journalist’s perspective about his investigation and work during and after Holmes’ trial offers additional insight into her personality and methods that will really resonate after watching her in Fielder and Oppenheim’s doc.

Films

Once you’ve noodled on You Can See Everything for a moment, there are two more movies you should check out.

  • For more on Holmes’s specific grift and how she pulled it off, Alex Gibney’s excellent The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is the way to go, especially if you didn’t follow the Theranos story closely at the time and your main visual guide to Holmes is the new documentary. Gibney’s film is more traditional, but offers a wealth of insight into Holmes and her bubble. You can stream The Inventor on HBO Max or rent it on Prime VIdeo.

  • If you more from co-director Lance Oppenheim, watch Some Kind of Heaven, his 2020 breakout documentary about The Villages retirement community in Florida. It’s the film that put Oppenheim on the map, and offers hints of the same detached observational style that makes You Can See Everything so arresting. You can stream Some Kind of Heaven on Kanopy or Hoopla, or rent it on Prime Video.

  • Speaking of which, if you loved the visual style and “enhanced” reality of You Can See Everything and want to see more of that, catch the Robert Pattinson-starring Primetime, still in theaters. It’s Oppenheim's narrative film directorial debut, and combines his hyperstyled visual flair with thriller pacing and a narrative based on a true story.

TV shows

  • The Curse, Fielder’s 2023 TV series, is his first work of fiction, and it offers some fascinating insights. It follows a newly married couple (played by Fielder and Emma Stone) who struggle to get an HGTV-style show off the ground as things get excruciatingly awkward (and, eventually, kind of surreal). After watching You Can See Everything, it will be interesting to see how Fielder views the power of editing, the ethics of reality TV, and working with a name actor to get the results that he wants. Plus, similarly to the film, The Curse swerves into a final act that will melt your brain. You can stream The Curse on Apple TV or rent it on Prime Video.

  • You should also definitely watch The Dropout, the 2022 Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried. It’s a well-made film, and Seyfried’s performance was rightly praised for capturing the weirdness of Holmes' public persona. You can stream The Dropout on Hulu.


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If you're like me, you've spent years ignoring most of Siri's functionality. Sure, it's great for setting timers, making calls, and sending a text. But that's kind of it—Apple's promise of an "always-on" digital assistant never truly delivered.

But that's finally changed with the recent launch of Siri AI. Fifteen years after debuting the app on the iPhone 4S and four years after the release of ChatGPT, Apple has taken the time to build out its own private Apple Foundation Models (with little help from Google) that work both on-device and on Apple's servers to give quick responses to your queries. Siri AI's answers are short, to the point, and actually useful. However, the conversational side isn't the only new thing about Siri AI. In fact, once you scratch the surface, you'll find Siri AI features embedded across the entire iOS and macOS ecosystem. Here's how to get the most out of Apple's new, enhanced digital assistant.

Use Silent Response to make sure Siri always answers silently

Siri Silent Responses.
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Siri AI is already tuned for brevity. Compared to Gemini or Claude, its responses are short and to the point. But still, if you ask something with your voice, it responds using voice as well. I personally prefer to quickly read through Siri responses. If you’re like me, you can enable a hidden setting that makes sure that Siri always answers silently, no matter if you’re writing to it or using your voice. Go to Settings > Siri > Responses and switch to the Silent Response option.

Make Siri AI sound more natural using Expressive Voice

Siri AI Expressive Voices
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On the other hand, if you prefer to listen to Siri's responses, it's worth it to spend some time fine-tuning them. If you have an iPhone that’s under two years old, you have access to a more expressive Siri voice. Siri AI has an Expressive Voice feature that works on iPhone 17 Pro and higher, iPhone Air, and Macs with an M3 processor or higher (at least 12GB RAM).

To find this feature, go to Settings > Siri > Voice. Here, you can change the Pace to make Siri faster or slower. The big feature is the Expressivity slider; you can use it to make Siri sound brighter and more enthusiastic, rather than flat. You also have several voice options at the top (color-coded).

Use Visual Intelligence to have Siri take action on anything on your screen

Visual Intelligence is deeply integrated into iOS 27 and macOS 27, and it turns anything on your screen into a source that Siri AI can act upon. It can search anything on your screen, and even take action on things it finds out. You can highlight any text on an iPhone, tap and hold, and choose the Ask Siri option. On the Mac, Ask Siri is the first option in the right-click menu. Choose a file, select text, and get started talking to Siri.

But it goes further. Just pull up Siri AI on your iPhone or Mac and start asking questions about what you’re seeing on screen. If you’re seeing a photo of a cafe on Instagram, ask where it is, or ask Siri to open it in Maps. If you’re watching a scene from a movie or a TV show, ask Siri where it’s from.

Use Apple’s Cloud Photos Cleanup feature to reliably remove objects from your photos

High Quality option for Clean Up in Photos app.
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Clean Up was part of Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18, but it wasn’t great. It used on-device models to remove objects, and the results were lacking. Now that Apple runs its own Apple Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute, it can securely process images on its servers, and the Clean Up process is much better. It now removes objects from photos very reliably, and even accounts for shadows. But to use this, you have to make sure to use the High Quality feature (instead of the default Auto mode).

Tap the Edit button in a photo, go to Tools > Clean Up, and from the top, switch to the High Quality option. Now brush over or tap an object you want to remove. Then, tap Clean Up and wait for a while until Apple’s servers complete the process. Tap Done to save the changes.

Add multiple calendar events to the Calendar app at once using Siri Visual Intelligence

Add multiple events together in Apple Calendar app using Siri AI.
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One of the most tedious parts of using the Calendar app is manually entering multiple events from a complicated schedule—say, for a season's worth of your kid’s soccer practices, or your college course's weekly lecture schedule. With Visual Intelligence in iOS 27, this is now table stakes: You can point your iPhone camera towards a schedule or take a screenshot of one, then tap the Add to Calendar button. Siri will recognize all the events, and you’ll get an option to add them to the calendar individually or all at once.

Use the Mail app integration to archive, triage, and manage emails

Inteacting with Mail app via Siri AI.
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Siri AI's Mail integration is a hidden gem. Once your iPhone or Mac is done indexing your local data from Mail, you can use Siri AI to triage and manage your Mail without even opening the Mail app. In my testing, it works really well, especially because Siri AI understands the context of an email. This means you don't need to remember the exact details about the sender or the subject. You can just ask something like, "Find all emails about my flights from last week and send them to my accountant." You can also ask it to do things for you. For example, you can say, "Archive all the emails from Walmart from last month," and it will give you a one-button option to do just that.

Use this hidden setting to automatically send messages without confirmation

When you start using the new Siri AI more often, you'll realize that it asks for confirmation way too often. For things like deleting mail, that's useful. But for sending messages, less so. There is a hidden setting that removes the extra step when it comes to sending messages via Siri. Go to Settings > Siri > Responses and enable Automatically Send Messages.

Use the Camera Control gesture to manage Siri AI’s camera features

Siri AI mode in Camera in iOS 27
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After the Siri AI upgrade in iOS 27, I find myself using the Camera Control often, and you should try it too. Just press and hold the Camera Control button to launch the camera's Siri mode. Point towards anything you want to find out more about and tap the big Siri icon. In a second or two, you will get the Siri response at the top, along with relevant actions based on what you're looking at. This feature is genuinely useful, and if you don't like using the Camera Control (or don't have access to it on your iPhone), you can also add the Siri AI shortcut to the lock screen, Control Center, or the Action button.

Ask Siri AI to create custom Shortcuts for you

Describe a shortcut feature in Apple Shortcuts app.
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While Shortcuts has been one of Apple's most powerful features, it's also one of the hardest to use. Making an automation requires setting up steps, selecting variables, and thinking about chronology, and more. With Siri AI, Apple is trying to reduce that burden. And when it comes to simpler stuff that an everyday iPhone user needs, it works.

For example, you can open Shortcuts, create a new shortcut, and use the Describe a shortcut feature to talk about a Shortcut you want to build in natural language. You can ask Siri to create a daily morning Shortcut that shows you the day's weather, upcoming calendar events, and the to-do list for the day. You can also ask it to create a Shortcut that converts images in batches and creates new notes with a pre-made template.

Talk to ChatGPT using this hidden gesture

Switch to ChatGPT in the Siri AI app.
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While Apple is now using its own Apple Foundation Models for the new Siri AI, ChatGPT isn’t technically gone. If you have a complex question, or if Siri AI’s answer isn’t doing the trick, you can still summon ChatGPT from the Siri AI app (no need to go to the ChatGPT app for this). Tap on the text field in the Siri app, choose the Ask option and then switch to the ChatGPT service. Siri AI is quite intelligent at routing, so if ChatGPT can’t answer, it will route you back to Siri AI’s own models.


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If horror films have taught me anything, it's that nothing good ever comes out of the fog, but the haze-filled thriller Below has definitely earned record ratings and enthusiastic audiences for Netflix—it's the top debut for a Canadian show in the streamer's history, as it happens. In its wake, consider these 10 other series that take you to isolated and evocative landscapes filled with horrors both human and monstrous.

Midnight Mass (2021)

Claustrophobic, mysterious, and perpetually misty (seriously, you can't see shit in any of these towns), Midnight Mass is very much about the monsters within being no less frightening than those without. It may or may not be the best of Mike Flanagan's Netflix work, but it's certainly the most emotionally devastating. Riley Flynn (Zach Gilford) returns to the tiny, isolated community of Crockett Island, his arrival coinciding with that of Catholic priest Father Paul Hill (Hamish Linklater). Riley is wrestling with his justifiable guilt over a drunk-driving death for which he was responsible, while the charismatic priest is reviving the town's once-flagging religious fervor while exacerbating local tensions. The brewing conflict, involving the limits of both faith and guilt, is fascinating, while the inseparably horrific elements are terrifying. Stream Midnight Mass on Netflix.

Katla (2021)

Running to the darker end of the spectrum, the often devastating Katla moves slowly until it doesn't, deliberately picking up speed as it builds to an emotional climax. Set in Iceland, the show takes place one year following the eruption of the real-life Katla volcano, which buries the nearby town of Vik in choking ash. The few people who've elected to remain are surprised, to say the least, when soot-covered figures from the past start arriving, including the dead son of the volcanologist studying the meteorite in the nearby glacier. Stream Katla on Netflix.

The Terror (2018 – )

Each season of The Terror is distinct, but all converge on the idea that real life is far, far more horrifying than the supernatural stuff going on in the background. Season one, adapted from the Dan Simmons novel, is our focus here, involving as it does the true story of two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, searching for the Northwest Passage before becoming trapped in a field of ice. Starvation, madness, and monsters ensue. While set in the 1840s (and in an ice field), the vibe isn't wildly dissimilar to Below. Stream The Terror on AMC+ and Shudder.

The Third Day (2020)

This weird, ambitious slice of folk horror finds Jude Law's Sam arriving on Osea Island while grieving his murdered son and trying to save his failing business. After he intervenes when he sees a young woman attempting to hang herself, Sam is caught up in some wildly atmospheric creepiness around the town. Later, Naomie Harris' Helen arrives on the island with her daughters only to discover that everything's gone to hell, and that the causeway that connects the island to the mainland is gone. In between the two halves of the miniseries, the creators produced an immersive 12-hour, single-camera livestream capturing a day in the life of the island, a wild bit of innovation. Admittedly, it's all a bit more vibes than plot, but the vibes are genuinely disturbing. Stream The Third Day on HBO Max.

True Detective: Night Country (2024)

One of the better creepy-stuff-in-an-isolated location narratives of recent years, moving away from the schvitzy bro energy of earlier seasons in favor of a darker (literally) and frostier mystery involving missing scientists at a research station near a tiny and necessarily remote Alaskan town, where the dark and the cold are practically characters themselves. The resulting case ties together veteran Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Trooper Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), two women with complicated pasts and screwed-up present family lives. Stream True Detective: Night Country on HBO Max.

Gyeongseong Creature (2023 – )

Set in 1945 Gyeongseong (modern-day Seoul), and during the Japanese occupation of Korea, this series finds the title's monster arising out of human experimentation conducted in secret by the Japanese army. The scars of occupation have been justifiably fertile ground for storytelling in the last few years (see also Apple’s Pachinko), and Gyeongseong adds science fiction to that mix. The second season moves the action to the present day, with a third season renewal looking likely. If Below's monster is a primary draw, South Korean import Gyeongseong is about as good a follow-up as you're likely to find. Stream Gyeongseong Creature on Netflix.

Curon (2020)

Set near the real-life Lago di Resia in northern Italy, this show was inspired by the lake's singular view: the bell tower of a 14th century chapel rising above the water, the only visible remains of a village submerged by a dam in the 1950s. That eerie setting is home to Anna Raina (Valeria Bilello); it was, anyway, until she fled while pregnant with her twin daughters following her mother's tragic and mysterious death. The twins are now teenagers, and the three of them have returned—except nobody seems to want them around. They come to learn that Anna's been having dreams about her mother's death in which she's the killer, and then she herself disappears. It all ties back to that lake and the creepy bell tower—more about family mystery and vaguely supernatural menace than monsters, but the evocative setting ties this and Below together. Stream Curon on Netflix.

Widow's Bay (2026 – )

Another recent addition to the atlas of regrettable vacation destinations is Widow's Bay, an isolated New England island trying to shrug off its literally cursed reputation in favor of becoming a tourist destination à la Martha's Vineyard—but, alas, the timing isn't great. Cozy and idyllic on the surface, Widow's Bay appears to be "waking up," according to a few of the more tuned-in locals. Mayor Tom Loftus (Matthew Rhys), a relative newcomer, is having none of it—at least until a killer clown and waterlogged lady come for him, convincing him to join forces with local eccentric Wyck (Stephen Root) who seems to be on to something with his crackpot theories. The show is frequently funny, but also legitimately scary, with an everything-and-the-kitchen sink approach to the horror genre. Stream Widow's Bay on Apple TV.

The Rig (2023 – 2025)

As we in the real world well know, monsters can be tiny at least as easily as they can be large. This import finds us on a Scottish oil rig (obvi) in the North Sea, abruptly cut off by a mysterious fog (never a good thing) just as the facility is beginning to experience catastrophic system and structural failures. The mysterious haze is more than just a weather phenomenon, though, as there seems to be a microorganism carried within it that causes dramatic behavioral changes, and that may have a relationship to every mass extinction event in Earth's history. But hey—anything to push down the price of oil, amirite? Stream The Rig on Prime Video.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023 – )

The tone is wildly different, but so many of the shows here are included on the basis of their claustrophobic, mist-shrouded settings and similarly hazy human motivations, so it's only fair to give you some actual monsters, and no show has more creatures than this Godzilla spin-off. Monarch does a surprisingly effective job of telling its own story within the universe of all those American Godzilla movies of the past decade or so, bringing the narrative back down to Earth while building out an entire monster-verse mythology in the process. Anna Sawai stars as a young teacher searching for her father, missing since Godzilla's attack on San Francisco (depicted in the 2014 film), and finds herself drawn into the past and present of a secret government agency. Wyatt and Kurt Russell play the past and present incarnations of the Army colonel who helped set the whole thing in motion. Kong and Godzilla make appearances alongside the whole Toho monster stable. Stream Monarch on Apple TV.


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Security patches are turning into roadmaps for attackers, with a growing share of fixes later found incomplete or open to bypass.

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Oren Yomtov, a security researcher at Terra Security, began tracking broken fixes after the team kept running into them in its own work over the past year.

“A fix would ship, a bypass would be found, and another fix would go out. Worried this was sample bias, we looked at every published CVE record and every GitHub-reviewed advisory for one pattern: a fix ships, and a later advisory says it was incomplete or could be bypassed.”

“The data backed up our hunch,” he wrote. “Broken fixes have been reported for years at a low, steady rate until 2026, when the share of open-source fixes on GitHub later reported broken rose about eightfold.”

Exploited bugs and blocklist fixes break most often

Fixes for vulnerabilities on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog are later reported broken about four times as often as fixes for other bugs from the same vendors. The likely reason, in Yomtov’s view, is attention, since exploited bugs draw more people who study the patch and find what it missed.

Bug classes where the usual fix is a list of blocked inputs, such as server-side request forgery (SSRF) and prototype pollution, show up far more often among broken fixes than among CVEs overall. When a blocklist doesn’t anticipate every form of a bad input, an attacker only needs to find one that gets through, Yomtov explained.

Roundcube, the open-source webmail software, is one example. In March 2026, its developers fixed an SSRF flaw (CVE-2026-35540) by blocking links to private addresses, but the check missed other ways of writing the same address, along with domain names that resolve to it. Closing those gaps took three more CVEs, released in May, July and August.

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-21510, a Windows Shell vulnerability the APT28 group was exploiting in the wild, in February 2026. Akamai later found the patch could be bypassed with a crafted Control Panel item that made Windows contact an attacker’s server and leak the user’s NTLM hash. Microsoft fixed the bypass in April as CVE-2026-32202, and that flaw also ended up on CISA’s exploited list. The new advisory makes no mention of the earlier CVE.

Advice for developers and defenders

A patch that only blocks the reported input can make a bug look addressed while it stays in the underlying code, Yomtov argued, and it shows attackers both the vulnerable code and the defender’s idea of what the bug was.

“Diff-hunt your own fix before shipping it, certainly before any attackers do,” he advised, urging developers to check whether a fix addresses the root cause and covers the whole bug class.

For organizations installing patches, Yomtov recommends assuming that when a vendor fixes an exploited bug, someone is reading that patch for a way around it, and to keep testing after a scanner reports no problems.


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In a market where every year there is an expectation of releasing a new model, how long tech companies take to feel the need to upgrade a product is a testament to how good the product is. The Sennheiser Momentum 4 has been around since 2022, and they were only succeeded this summer with the Sennheiser Momentum 5. However, they are still great headphones, and with their $204.60 price (originally $299.99) after a 32% discount, they're a great opportunity to get top-quality headphones at a more than reasonable price.

The Momentum 4 competes with other flagships from its time, including the Sony 1000XM5 and the Bose QuietComfort 45, in terms of comfort, design, audio quality, and other features. The Momentum 4 has a more bass-forward sound compared to its competition, but it's still balanced. The biggest con is that you don't have full EQ control, only being able to select certain presets from the Momentum app. The ANC is great, but not a match compared to the Sony and Bose competition. Where it does beat its competition is with the codecs it supports, including AAC, AptX, AptX Adaptive, and SBC codecs. This means better audio quality for Android devices than the Sony or Bose options.

The battery is powerful, reaching about 60 hours of juice at mid-level. It also has a 3.5mm audio cable, so you can use it wired. The microphone is perfect for making calls, with four-MEMS-mics helping make your voice stand out even in noisy environments. You can see more features from the Momentum 4 in PCMag's "excellent" review. If you're looking for a bargain on an established flagship headphone model without having to pay the premium in 2026, the Sennheiser Momentum 4 are a great pair to consider.

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If you’re shopping around for a reliable laptop but don’t want to spend an arm and a leg on a premium model from Apple, Lenovo has some highly underrated options that are versatile and offer great processor performance for the price—and it's now even more affordable, thanks to Walmart’s newly discounted Lenovo V14 G5 14-inch FHD Laptop, now 37% off and down to $629 (originally $999.99).

It’s powered by the 10-core Intel Core i7-13620H, with  six performance cores and four efficiency cores) and has a maximum turbo speed of 4.9GHz. It’s more powerful than many similarly priced 14-inch laptops and can excel at heavy multitasking, light video or photo editing, and data-heavy office work. It includes 16GB of DDR5 memory, comes with a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for additional storage, and is powered by a modest 47Wh battery.

Despite its power, it’s relatively lightweight, clocking in at around three pounds and 0.7 inches thick. One reason the weight stays low is its plastic build. It might not feel as durable or premium as an aluminum laptop, but the tradeoff for an under-$650 price tag makes it worth it for those on a budget. The V14 G5 includes a range of ports, including two USB-A ports, one USB-C port, and an HDMI 1.4b port, as well as a headphone and microphone jack.

It supports Wi-Fi 6 and includes a physical webcam shutter for added privacy. The keyboard is designed for office use and has a conventional layout that’s helpful for those who find added touchscreens and convertible hinges unnecessary. Despite having a relatively sharp resolution and an anti-glare coating, the panel technology is somewhat outdated and has limited contrast, so it may not be the best choice for photographers, designers, or video editors.

Still, if you’re looking for an everyday office or personal laptop with a strong processor, a solid port selection, and a lightweight build—but don’t mind a couple of cost-cutting compromises—the budget-friendly Lenovo V14 G5 14-inch FHD Laptop strikes the right balance between affordability and performance, especially at nearly $370 off.

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