Whether you’re an avid gamer or just a casual fan, having a wide variety of games to choose from is never a bad thing, right? With Humble Bundle, you can easily stock up on a bunch of PC games. From first-person shooters to cozy forest games, you can get 12 games per month for just $12 with Humble Choice Premium.
When you sign up for Humble Choice, you get a monthly mix of PC games to own forever. But you don’t just get a dozen games each month, you also get exclusive access to the Humble Games Collection and discounts for up to 20% off in the Humble Store. Check out this month’s bundle.
When you purchase something on Humble Bundle, you’ll be sent a key to redeem on platforms such as Steam, GOG, Ubisoft Connect Desktop App and others. I personally love Humble Bundle and have purchased a variety of bundles. There are games I still have access to and enjoy playing even after 10 years and switching devices and platforms. Humble Bundle has also exposed me to games I wouldn’t normally have bought myself but have enjoyed playing nonetheless, and it’s turned me on to indie games I would’ve never known existed.
Another cool thing about Humble Bundle is you can choose where your money goes. Outside the monthly subscription (where 5% of your subscription fee goes to charity), you get to choose not only how much you pay for a game or bundle, but also how much of your payment goes to charity. Since 2010, Humble Bundle has picked a charity each month to donate to, and the Humble community has contributed more than $200 million.
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After losing to Pereira twice in kickboxing bouts, the narrative going into their very first UFC fight was simple: Adesanya would be too experienced for Pereira, a relative latecomer to mixed martial arts.
And that narrative was accurate. At UFC 281, for four straight rounds, Adesanya largely controlled their first MMA fight but then, in the final round, Pereira hurt Adesanya on the feet, before laying a brutal barrage of punches on the former middleweight king, forcing the referee to stop the fight. An upset win? Sort of. Most expected Adesanya would win, but no-one doubted that the incredibly destructive Pereira had a puncher’s chance.
Adesanya’s (left) first MMA fight against Pereira ended in defeat.
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Tonight it’s rematch time. Adesanya is now 0-3 against Pereira but seemed to be cruising in their last fight before the finish. Does that mean Adesanya will win the rematch? Not exactly. You only have to look at the recent fight between Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman to see why. After winning via a Hail Mary knockout in their first title fight, Edwards outclassed Usman in their recent rematch. Point being: Pereira knows he can finish Adesanya in an MMA fight and that sort of confidence changes everything.
Either way, this is a fantastic rematch. I, for one, can’t wait to see how it plays out.
UFC 287 Start time
The UFC 287 main card starts tonight, April 8, at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT). Here are all the details from multiple time zones.
US
The main card starts April 8, 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT).
The prelims start April 8, 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
The early prelims start April 8, 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. PT).
UK
The main card starts April 9, 3 a.m. GMT.
The prelims start April 9, 1 a.m. GMT.
The early prelims start April 8, 11 p.m. GMT.
Australia
The main card starts April 9, 12 p.m. AEDT.
The prelims start April 9, 10 a.m. AEDT.
The early prelims start April 9, 8 a.m. AEDT.
Main event start time
It’s hard to say exactly when the main event will take place, but if you’re looking to only watch the fight between Pereira vs. Adesanya, you should jump on at 11.30 p.m ET (8.30 p.m. PT) to make sure you don’t miss out.
How to watch UFC 287
The UFC now has a partnership with ESPN. That’s great news for the UFC and the expansion of the sport of MMA, but bad news for consumer choice. Especially if you’re one of the UFC fans who want to watch UFC in the US.
In the US, if you want to watch UFC 287, you’ll only find the fight night on pay per view through ESPN Plus. The cost structure is a bit confusing, but here are the options to watch UFC on ESPN, according to ESPN’s site:
Existing annual ESPN Plus subscribers can order the upcoming UFC card for $75.
New ESPN Plus subscribers can buy a bundle of one UFC PPV event (streaming in HD) and an ESPN Plus annual recurring subscription for $100. This is a decent deal. The ESPN Plus annual ESPN subscription will auto-renew after one year, at the price of an ESPN Plus annual subscription at the time of auto-renewal.
There are more options if you live in Australia. You can watch UFC 287 through Main Event on Foxtel. You can also stream via Kayo for AU$55. You can even order using your PlayStation or using the UFC app on your Xbox. I usually buy direct from the UFC website.
How to watch the UFC 287 online from anywhere using a VPN
If you find yourself unable to view UFC 287 locally, you may need a different way to watch the octagon action — that’s where using a VPN can come in handy. With a VPN, like our Editors’ Choice, ExpressVPN, you’re able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop, allowing you to get access to those US, UK or Australian viewing options for UFC 287 listed above from almost anywhere in the world.
It’s also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and adds an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins when travelling or connecting to a public Wi-Fi network.
Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you’re streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing its terms of service or blackout restrictions.
Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.
ExpressVPN is our current best VPN pick for people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It’s normally $13 per month, and you can sign up for ExpressVPN and save 49% plus get three months of access for free — the equivalent of $6.67 per month — if you get an annual subscription.
Quick tips for streaming UFC 287 using a VPN
With four variables at play — your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN — your experience and success when streaming UFC 287 may vary.
If you don’t see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the “search for city or country” option.
If you’re having trouble getting the game after you’ve turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try for a quick fix. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs — like Roku — don’t have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you’ll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you’re using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.
All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network’s sports app, you’ll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help, since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.
And remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you’re using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommend Brave.
This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season.
Now that April is upon it’s time do some spring cleaning. One place might nor think to clean is your iPhone’s storage. Those apps, photos, playlists and videos can pile up quickly, and our phones can only hold so much. From offloading apps to transporting essential items to the cloud, there are a few steps you can take to maximize your phone’s capacity.
The best way to save local storage is to invest in a cloud storage service like Apple’s iCloud, Google Drive, Box or Dropbox to offload some of your files. But there are also certain settings you can change to make sure you’re using your iPhone’s storage capacity to its fullest. With iOS 16, your iPhone will also be able to detect duplicate photos, which should make it easier to keep your image library lean and organized.
See below to learn more about how to free up storage space on your iPhone.
First, see what’s taking up the most space on your iPhone
To maximize your iPhone’s storage, you need to know what’s occupying your device in the first place. Take a look at what’s eating up your storage so that you know where to get started. Launch Settings, tap General and scroll down to iPhone Storage. Choose this option to see a breakdown of the types of files and media that are taking up space on your iPhone. Apple might also make some recommendations about how to free up space, such as reviewing videos stored on your device as shown below.
Take a look at what’s eating up your iPhone’s storage in the settings menu.
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Make sure your iPhone is optimizing photo storage
Photos are among the biggest offenders when it comes to gobbling up space on your iPhone. But the iPhone’s settings menu has an option that enables your device to save smaller photo files locally if your device is low on space instead of the original versions. These full-resolution photos and videos are instead stored in iCloud, and you can download them as needed. To make sure this feature is turned on, start by opening the Settings app. Then scroll down to Photos and make sure there’s a blue checkmark next to the Optimize iPhone Storage option.
Make sure your iPhone is being as efficient as possible when it comes to saving media files.
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Save photos and videos to a cloud service instead of on your device
The best way to free up space on your iPhone is to remove files you don’t need to store on your device. But that doesn’t mean you have to downsize your photo library. Instead, try storing them in a third-party cloud storage service like Google Photos rather than on your device. It’s a quick way to free up a lot of storage without requiring you to part with old memories.
But before you delete anything, make sure the photos you want to save have been backed up or transferred to Google Photos. If your photos and videos are not backed up to another service like Google Photos, Dropbox, Box or OneDrive before being deleted, they’ll be permanently erased. This guide walks you through how to copy over your entire iCloud photo library to Google Photos, but just note that the unlimited free storage option is no longer available.
You might be wondering why you need to use a separate cloud service if your photos are already stored in iCloud. That’s because deleting your photos from your iPhone erases them from iCloud as well, so you’ll want to use another service if you plan to delete images from your device.
You can try saving photos in a cloud storage app like Google Photos.
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Delete apps you no longer use
Another great way to clear out your iPhone is to get rid of apps you no longer use. If you don’t know where to start, take a look at which apps you haven’t used in a long time. Open your iPhone’sSettings menu, tap General and go to iPhone Storage. You’ll see a list of your apps along with how much space each app occupies and the last time you used it. Scroll through the list and try deleting apps that you haven’t used in a long time.
Get rid of apps you haven’t used in a long time. You can see the last time you’ve used a specific app in the iPhone’s settings menu.
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Offload apps you don’t use all the time
If you don’t want to completely delete an app, you can offload it instead. Offloading it lets you retain the documents and data associated with that app so that you can reinstall it anytime and quickly pick up right where you left off. Navigate back to the list mentioned above by opening Settings, pressing General and choosing iPhone Storage. Tap any app in the list and select Offload App. You can also set your iPhone to do this automatically by opening Settings, tapping the App Store option and making sure the Offload Unused Apps switch is toggled on.
You can offload apps you don’t use very often instead of deleting them.
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Automatically delete old messages
It’s not just photos, videos and apps that may be clogging your iPhone’s storage. Getting rid of old text messages can be helpful as well. You can set your iPhone to automatically delete your message history by opening Settings, choosing Messages and tapping the Keep Messages option under Message History. From there, select if you’d like your iPhone to retain text messages for 30 days, one year or forever.
Stop saving text messages indefinitely by changing this setting on your iPhone.
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Delete videos and music from apps
You probably have videos and music stored offline in multiple apps on your phone, and fortunately, there’s an easy way to find those files and delete them. Launch Settings, choose General and select iPhone Storage. Search for an app that you’ve downloaded offline content from, such as Netflix. You’ll then see storage information about the app, such as its size and buttons for deleting or offloading it.
If you’ve downloaded offline videos, you’ll also see a section for this content underneath the Delete App button. Place your finger on a downloaded video and swipe it all the way over to the left side of the screen to delete it.
There’s an easy way to delete videos and music files you’ve saved within an app to free up space on your iPhone.
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Clear out your web browser cache
You can always try cleaning out your web browser cache if you’re really scrounging for space, although deleting apps and media will make a much bigger difference. But doing so could give your iPhone a bit of a speed boost when web browsing, so it’s worth trying if you’re low on storage and are experiencing sluggish browser performance. But just remember that it will sign you out of websites you’ve logged into.
Open Settings, choose Safari and tap Clear History and Website Data.
Clear out your Safari cache to see a performance boost and save a little space.
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If you use Google Chrome, tap the three dots at the bottom of the screen, choose History and tap Clear Browsing Data. You should see a check mark next to three categories: Browsing History, Cookies, Site Data and Cached Images and Files. If you want to only delete browsing data for a certain time period, tap the Time Range option near the top of the screen before hitting Clear Browsing Data at the bottom.
You can also clear your Google Chrome cache easily within the app.
Southampton’s battle to beat the drop doesn’t get any easier, as they face defending English Premier League champions Man City on Saturday at St. Mary’s.
Currently rooted to the bottom of the league table, the Saints slumped to a 1-0 defeat in a crucial face-off with fellow relegation rivals West Ham last weekend.
Their hopes of bouncing back in this fixture look slim, as they come up against a Man City side that looks back to its imperious best, following their 4-1 dismantling of Liverpool last Saturday.
A win for City on the south coast would see Pep Guardiola’s side cut Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League down to five points before the Gunners’ big game against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.
Below, we’ll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game live wherever you are in the world.
Southampton captain James Ward-Prowse will be hoping his side can pull off a shock result at home against title-chasing Man City.
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Southampton vs. Manchester City: When and where?
Southampton host Man City at St. Mary’s on Saturday, April 8. Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m. BST local time in the UK (12:30 p.m. ET, 9:30 a.m. PT in the US, and at 3:30 a.m. AEST on Sunday, April 9 in Australia).
How to watch the Southampton vs. Man City game online from anywhere using a VPN
If you find yourself unable to view the game locally, you may need a different way to watch the game — that’s where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and it’s also a great idea if you’re traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network, and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.
With a VPN, you’re able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors’ Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.
Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you’re streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions.
Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.
ExpressVPN is our current best VPN pick for people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It’s normally $13 per month, and you can sign up for ExpressVPN and save 49% plus get three months of access for free — the equivalent of $6.67 per month — if you get an annual subscription.
Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
NBC’s streaming service Peacock offers access to plenty of Premier League soccer throughout the season. You’ll need to be signed up with a Peacock Premium or Premium Plus account to stream games live. For a limited time, you can sign up for Peacock Premium at a 60% discount, dropping the monthly cost as low as $2 (or even less with an annual account).
Livestream the Southampton vs. Man City game in the UK
Premier League rights in the UK are split between Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video. This game is exclusive to Sky Sports — showing on its Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League and Ultra channels. If you already have Sky Sports as part of your TV package, you can stream the game via its Sky Go app, but cord-cutters will want to get set up with a Now account, and a Now Sports membership, to stream the game.
Sky subsidiary Now (formerly Now TV) offers streaming access to Sky Sports channels with a Now Sports membership. You can get a day of access for 12, or sign up to a monthly plan from 21 per month right now.
Livestream the Southampton vs. Man City game in Canada
If you want to stream this EPL clash live in Canada, you’ll need to subscribe to FuboTV Canada. The service has exclusive rights to this Premier League season.
FuboTV is the go-to destination for Canadians looking to watch the Premier League this season with exclusive streaming rights to every game. It costs CA$25 per month, though you can save some cash by paying quarterly or annually.
Livestream the Southampton vs. Man City game in Australia
Football fans Down Under can watch this EPL fixture on streaming service Optus Sport, which is showing every single Premier League game live in Australia this season.
With exclusive rights to screen every EPL match live this season, as well as German Bundesliga and Spanish La Liga games, streaming service Optus Sport is a particularly big draw for Aussie soccer fans.
If you’re already an Optus network customer you can bag Optus Sport for a reduced price, with discounts bringing the price down to as low as AU$7 per month. If you’re not, a standalone monthly subscription to the service starts at AU$25.
Quick tips for streaming the Premier League using a VPN
With four variables at play — your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN — your experience and success when streaming EPL matches may vary.
If you don’t see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the “search for city or country” option.
If you’re having trouble getting the game after you’ve turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try for a quick fix. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs — like Roku — don’t have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you’ll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you’re using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.
All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network’s sports app, you’ll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help, since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.
And remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you’re using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommend Brave.
Master & Dynamic makes some really nice headphones, including the MW75, an Apple AirPods Max competitor, and the freshly updated MH40, which features new drivers and a new chipset that delivers improved sound and performance. However, they’re pricey, with the MH40 costing $399 and the MW75 running $599, and rarely see major discounts. That’s why I’m highlighting the company’s 30% off “friends and family sale” that’s activated when applying the code GIVEGET30 at checkout. The sale ends April 10.
I’m a fan of the MW75, which comes in multiple color options and is on our best headphones of 2023 list, but it’s out of most people’s price range. With that 30% discount, though, you get about $180 off, so you’re looking at $420. Meanwhile, the new MH40 gets a $120 price chop to $279.
All of Master & Dynamic’s headphones are well built (they’re sturdy) and have a unique retro-modern look. The MW75 does sound a little better than the new MH40 and features active noise canceling. But the MH40 sounds more refined than its predecessor, with support for the AAC and AptX audio codecs, and also has improved voice-calling performance. Additionally, you can plug its USB-C cable in to a computer or Android smartphone for a wired digital connection for high-resolution audio.
I like Master & Dynamic’s $299 MW08 earbuds, which are certainly more enticing at around $210 (with the 30% off code). But note that they’ve been out for a while and the MW09s may be on the horizon.
The Dyson Zone headphones have great sound, excellent noise canceling and its visor can filter out pollution to help you breathe easy. But at almost $1,000 they’re a tough sell, especially for anyone who doesn’t live or work in a place where airborne pollution is an issue, like a major city. A lot of headphone users simply won’t benefit from the air filtration system at the core of the Zone.
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Having spent some time with my review model, I’m impressed with the audio quality and noise canceling, but their significant weight, bizarre appearance and limited appeal makes them tricky to recommend, at least to most people. Those of you with deep pockets and who walk or cycle through New York’s busy streets may well see the value in these unusual headphones. Everyone else will be better served by more traditional noise-canceling headphones.
Dyson’s Zone headphones go on sale globally towards the end of April and will cost $949 ( 749, which is about AU$1,395 converted).
They’re not exactly subtle.
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Dyson first showed off the Zone headphones last year and frankly we weren’t sure what to think. They’re huge over-ear headphones with metal grilles and a quirky removable face visor that sends purified air to your mouth and nose using micro compressors and filters inside the earcups. It’s certainly a first of its kind, and Dyson thinks it’s on to something.
Air filtration could help reduce breathing problems in big cities
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High price
Extremely heavy
Built-in filtration has limited appeal beyond wealthy urbanites
The Zone is designed for urban use, for those of you walking or cycling through the world’s megacities where breathing ground-level air pollution is a serious problem. Then there’s the pollutants in underground subway systems, which can be worse than at street level. Dyson says its filter system captures 99% of airborne particle pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and airborne dust, which are especially problematic in cities.
Now, I can’t give a verdict on how well that actually works because funily enough I don’t have my own particle laboratory to test it scientifically. But I did go and see Dyson’s labs in the UK, where it’s spent over six years testing and refining the Zone using medical-grade mechanical lungs on mannequins in rooms full of pollutants to measure how many bad gases actually get inside those lungs. They also test how well it works on different-shaped heads and how effective the system is in different wind conditions.
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Wearing the visor feels a bit weird, but it’s not uncomfortable. It snaps on magnetically to the headphone cups and sits a little in front of your face to blow a stream of cooling air around your mouth and nostrils. It feels nice.
The airflow is powered by the smallest motors Dyson has ever made — one motor in each earcup — but having them so close to your ears is a bit like having two hair dryers strapped to your head. The canceling helps reduce that noise, but you can still hear it, especially if you’re listening to gentle music or podcasts. I listen to a lot of metal from bands like Periphery and that certainly drowned out the motors when I cranked the volume up.
The air filters sit beneath the metal grilles. They’re easy to replace and each set should last a year.
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The bigger issue for me, though, is that I personally just feel a bit silly wearing the visor out and about. I feel conspicuous, and it certainly attracted plenty of odd looks while I tested it. That said, I live in Edinburgh, a relatively clean city that isn’t the target for the Zone, so there’s little need to wear them here. I may feel differently on the streets of Paris or Beijing.
I like the overall look.
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But it’s new and anything new often looks a bit odd at first. Face masks weren’t common on Western streets until the pandemic hit and now they’re perfectly normal to see out and about, so maybe this type of technology is something we’ll eventually get used to seeing. And Dyson does have a good track record of its unusual products going mainstream, with its bladeless fans and hand dryers being commonplace now, and its Air Wrap hair styler dominating TikTok beauty feeds the world over.
The filters are easy to access beneath the metal grilles of the earcups and Dyson says each set should last around a year before you need to replace them. The Dyson app tells you when they need replacing, while also giving information about the air quality in your area.
The Dyson app shows air quality in your area.
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Pull the face mask off and they just become a standard pair of headphones — albeit big ones. Thanks to those motors, they weigh in at nearly 600 grams (21 ounces), making them extremely heavy. Significantly heavier than Apple’s AirPods Max, which we criticized for being too heavy — and they’re only 390 grams (13.6 ounces). Even so, the earcups are deeply cushioned, which helps make them comfy to wear for a couple of hours at a time. The headband fits securely, making them feel lighter than they are. I never felt they were at risk of slipping off while walking.
I’d be interested in a version where not just the filters and visor are removable, but the whole filtration unit can be disconnected when not needed. It’d make the headphones more comfortable for general use — say, while sitting at your desk for eight hours, or watching a movie at home — when you don’t need to worry about breathing outdoor pollution. It might also allow for models to be sold without the filtration for less money, while still letting you buy the filter system as an optional extra should you decide you need it. I’ll certainly be interested to see what a second-generation Zone looks like.
The active noise canceling is excellent though, with road noise kept to a minimum and the general background hum in cafes and bars removed almost entirely.
They offer a great, balanced tone too, with 40mm drivers providing excellent bass that gives a meaty but controlled kick on EDM tracks that doesn’t overwhelm the rest of the tones. As a result, higher frequencies from acoustic guitars, cymbals or strings sound crystal-clear. Tesseract’s track Hexes was reproduced with rich, warm bass, powerful hits on the kick drum and bright, defined cymbals and vocals.
Those are some big headphones.
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Meanwhile, the shimmering high notes of the acoustic guitars and close-miked vocals in Enter Shikari’s acoustic version of Dreamer’s Hotel sounded superb.
Battery life for audio is a generous 50 hours, although that’ll drop to between 90 minutes and four hours with the air filtration on. But that should be enough for your commute into the office, where you can whack them on a charger for your journey home. Dyson says they can withstand being worn in the rain, but there’s no official water resistance rating here. So keep them tucked away during torrential downpours and try not to take them swimming.
There’s no question, then, that the Dyson Zone performs well as a set of headphones, but the fact remains that $949 is a hell of a lot of money and a huge chunk of that cost is for the air filtration system. So you’ll really need to consider how important that is to you in your everyday life. If you commute daily through the heart of polluted megacities walking alongside traffic or experiencing the stale air of a subway for hours every day, it could be a good investment in your long-term health. If you just want a pair of headphones, you can save yourself a bundle and look elsewhere.
LG’s UltraGear gaming monitors are some of the most popular models you can buy, so the $1,000, 240Hz 27-inch UltraGear 27GR95QE-B OLED HDR model sounded like one of the most interesting monitors to launch at CES this year. And it’s certainly interesting. OLED screens have the highest contrast you can find in a display thanks to their true blacks, and their naturally wide color gamut makes them excellent for TV screens.
But because monitors are used for so many different types of tasks, OLED’s strengths can occasionally become weaknesses and some of the technology’s inherent weaknesses, like brightness, need to be finessed. LG succeeds at gaming, for the most part, but doesn’t entirely succeed at all the other things the monitor needs to do when you’re not playing. There are some things that competing technologies like Quantum Dot OLED, found in monitors such as the Alienware 34 QD-OLED models, handle a bit better.
The UltraGear OLED 27 has a curved 45-inch sibling, the $1,700 45GR95QE-B. It has similar specs to the 27-inch model, with some similar complaints, but its low resolution for its size (3,440×1,440 pixels) means it’s not great for a lot of general uses despite its productivity-friendly dimensions.
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Well constructed with good physical layout
A ton of features
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Some people don’t like the antiglare screen
Can only access all the settings with the remote control
Brightness performance issues
Design and features
The monitor’s physical design hits most of my checklist items for a “yay!” Easy to access ports: check. Easily maneuverable cable management: check. Solid build quality: check. A stand that allows the screen to pivot, swivel and adjust the height: check. Its only illumination is stripes wrapping around the electronics section the screen is mounted on, which may be too subtle for some people, but I like it. Plus, it looks like a gaming monitor without looking like every other gaming monitor.
The vents around the electronics section can be lit up.
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But I hate that you can only access the full set of menu options via the remote. There are a few (like inputs) that you can get to using the hard-to-manipulate single joystick on the monitor and a few more that you can get to using LG’s OnScreen Control software, but a lot of the nitty gritty stuff — gamma and white balance choices, for example — requires the remote. And being able to maintain a slim profile with the skinny OLED screen means it’s got a huge AC adapter brick.
It has an extensive feature set as well. That includes all the basics for gaming, plus a full-range slider for the Black Stabilizer (a necessity for OLED), LG’s Dynamic Action Sync mode, which reduces latency between the system and the screen, and HDMI 2.1 for use with variable refresh-rate supporting Xbox Series X and S, and PS5.
But it’s got a ton of color and image-adjustment options that you rarely see in a gaming monitor, like 18 steps of manual white balance. The LG Calibration Studio is a full-featured profiling tool, complete with recalibration reminders, a host of predefined target spaces (including CIE RGB, Apple RGB, monochrome and a fully user-definable one) and the ability to save two of the custom profiles as hardware presets.
The ports are not only easily accessible, but they sit on either side of the stand so you don’t have to try to tilt or rotate it to accommodate hand contortions in order to plug something in.
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The calibration software can be a bit glitchy, but it’s generally well designed. I’m a big fan of being able to set all the options on a single screen, and it’s pretty straightforward to understand and use. There’s one big thing I miss, though, and that’s the choice of calibrating for a full screen (as with most calibration software) rather than just within a 10% window. In the case of the LG, it’s critically important.
Performance
Basically, in SDR the screen can hit around 200 nits for any screen coverage except full screen. At that point, it seems like it drops to a maximum of around 150 nits. That’s why it seems so dim for most general use — because most of us work on full white screens. The perception of dimness isn’t helped by the excellent antiglare treatment, and a more matte finish makes it seem like it’s lower contrast as well, despite OLED’s effectively infinite contrast. People have complained that they wish the screen was more like the typical glossy TV OLED, which tends to look brighter with more saturated colors, but, well, I loathe glossy screens for the same reasons. I’m used to swimming upstream in life.
But it also screws up calibration, because LG’s software (and presumably its factory) calibrates over an area that has different brightness characteristics than full screen, which screws up the gamma calculations. You may not have any problems with gamma oddities and a lot of profile definitions (like sRGB) are based around low peak brightness, partly because they were defined for a time when monitors tended to peak at 200 or 250 nits. However if you’re, say, doing illustrations on a paper white background, it can mess things up and certainly makes color unpredictable.
SDR Color measurements
Preset
Gamut (% coverage)
White point
Gamma
Peak brightness
Accuracy (DE2K average/max)
Gamer 1 (default)
97% P3
7,950K
2.2
205
5.3/18.4
Gamer 1 (with manual white balance setting C1)
97% P3
6,450K
2.2
188
1.9/3.58
Gamer 2
n/a
6,900K
1.2
206
n/a
FPS
n/a
6,800K
0.97
163
n/a
RTS
n/a
6,500K
0.83
139
n/a
sRGB
96% sRGB
6,150K
1.6
110
4.06/8.17
Vivid
97% P3
8,600K
0.93
139
14.6/27.13
Custom calibration: Adobe RGB (75% window)
90% Adobe RGB
6,400K
2.2
197
1.8/4.6
Custom calibration: Adobe RGB (full screen)
90 % Adobe RGB
6,400K
1.2
170 (at 95% gray), 144 (white)
5.7/12.1
That’s illustrated by the two Adobe RGB calibrations in the chart: I calibrated the monitor using LG Studio, with its 10% window, then measured the results with fractional and full-screen targets in Calman 2023. You can always use a third-party calibration utility to massage it to work, but those profiles can’t be saved as a monitor preset.
The brightness variability also results in odd results for the gaming presets which are further complicated by the Black Stabilizer settings. (OLED can render pure black, which is a case traditional gamma calculations was never meant to handle, so the ability to boost the brightness in shadow areas is essential for visibility.)
The shape of the gamma curve doesn’t really matter much for gaming; appropriate — rather than accurate — shadow detail, contrast, brightness and color matter a lot more (though game designers might disagree). DAS isn’t a pixel refresh booster (OLED is plenty fast at 1ms or less) or motion blur compensation feature so it really doesn’t affect brightness the way those can. And the 240Hz screen refresh is rock solid.
HDR mode measurements
Preset
White point
Full screen brightness (nits)
10% window brightness (nits)
Gamer 1
6,350K
146
642
Gamer 2
8,100K
159
750 (peak 883 – 938 nits in 2% window)
FPS
8,750K
145
709
RTS
6,350K
143
661
Vivid
10,000K
142
663
HDR looks great, and unlike a lot of HDR monitors this one lets you adjust settings like brightness and the gaming presets have settings for HDR along with SDR. In HDR it hits the full rated 98.5% P3 gamut coverage.
LG rates the display at a peak brightness of 800-1,000 nits for a 3% window, which it certainly hit. But it requires several seconds to ramp up to peak and can’t sustain it for more than a few. In practice, you’re more likely to see a maximum of about 700-750 nits consistently, which still looks great given the monitor’s price. The full-screen brightness is still low, but you’re far less likely to encounter situations where it matters.
If you can get away with spending $1,000 on a monitor that you’ll love for gaming but probably not so much for work, then the 27-inch LG UltraGear OLED will probably tickle your eyeballs. But if it needs to multitask while it takes up space on your desk, you may need to put a little more thought into the purchase.
Testing
All measurements are performed using Portrait Display’s Calman 2023 software using a Calibrite ColorChecker Display Plus (formerly X-Rite i1Display Pro Plus) and a Murideo Six-G pattern generator for HDR testing where necessary, or the Client3 HDR patterns within Calman, where possible. How extensive our testing is depends on the capabilities of the monitor, the screen and backlight technology used, and the judgment of the reviewer. For a complete description of our testing procedures, see How CNET Tests Monitors.
Apple released iOS 16.4.1 on Friday, a little more than two weeks after the release of iOS 16.4. The latest update brings security fixes and bug patches to issues that might be actively exploited on your iPhone. The update also fixes a few problems with iPhone features that some users might have experienced, like Siri not responding to requests.
You can download the update by going to Settings > General > Software Update and tapping Download and Install.
Here’s what you’ll get in the update and why you should download it.
Security fixes and bug patches
The most important things in the latest update are patches for two security issues that Apple said might be actively exploited.
Apple said in one instance, an app could execute arbitrary code kernel privileges. According to MalwareBytes, kernel privileges are a serious issue since they offer greater access than administrative privileges. That means someone could access your personal files, load their own malicious code or programs onto your device or alter your system however they want.
The other fix applies to a WebKit issue where some malicious web content may lead to a code execution. According to Okta, this is a form of hacking that can be used to execute commands on your device without your knowledge. It can be used to load a virus, alter software and cause other issues on your device.
Both of these issues can be exploited, compromising your iPhone and your personal information. However, iOS 16.4.1 should fix both issues and protect you and your device.
Siri and emoji fixes
The iOS 16.4.1 update also fixes two issues users have run into: Siri not responding to requests, and the new pushing hands emoji not showing various skin tones.
Here are Apple’s release notes for iOS 16.4.1:
This update provides important bug fixes and security updates for your iPhone including:
Pushing hands emoji does not show skin tone variations
Siri does not respond in some cases
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
You should be asleep, but instead you’re scrolling through your iPhone in the middle of the night. The display is a bit too bright, so you go to lower the brightness — only to realize that it’s already at the lowest setting possible. If you continue using your phone like this, you could strain your eyes, potentially causing headaches and making it harder for you to fall asleep. And that’s not good.
Fortunately, there are a few iOS features that can help you lower your screen’s brightness more than the standard settings allow.
In this guide, we’ll touch on some built-in features that can darken your screen like you didn’t think possible. No more straining your eyes or disturbing others with your incredibly bright iPhone display.
Before we get started, it’s important to note that you probably shouldn’t use all these features together, so experiment with a combination that works for you and the lighting in your environment.
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1. Enable Night Shift to make your display warmer
The Night Shift feature automatically adjusts your display — using your phone’s internal clock and geolocation — to warmer colors that are easier on your eyes. Every morning, the display returns to its regular settings. You can turn it on in your Settings or via the Control Center.
Method 1: Settings
Go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Night Shift. From here, you can either schedule the feature at a certain time or enable it for the entire day and have it disable in the morning. You can also adjust the color temperature by using the slider at the bottom of the page — you can choose between less warm and more warm.
Method 2: Control Center
Swipe down from the top-right to access the Control Center. Then press and hold the Brightness icon and tap the Night Shift button to turn it on and off.
You can access Night Shift from your settings or the Control Center.
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2. Reduce white point to bring down intensity of bright colors
You can also reduce the white point on your iPhone to adjust how intensely colors show up on your screen. Bright colors are especially illuminated at night time, so try this setting to dull them a bit.
In Settings, go to Accessibility >Display & TextSize and toggle on Reduce White Point. A marker will appear under the setting, which you can use to adjust the intensity of bright colors to your liking.
This adjusts the intensity of bright colors on your display.
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3. Use Zoom to add low light filter
If you’re only interested in dropping the brightness, and don’t want warmer colors or less intense colors, there is a way to lower just the display brightness. Using the Zoom accessibility feature, you can add a low light filter over your display to make it darker than usual.
Launch the Settings application and go to Accessibility > Zoom and make sure that the Low Light option is chosen under Zoom Filter. If you’d like, you can toggle on the Zoom feature here, but the easier way is to triple-click the side button from anywhere on your phone to use Zoom.
When Zoom is enabled, your phone will automatically add the low light filter to your display, making it darker, even if your brightness is already at its lowest. A small floating circle will appear on your screen, indicating that Zoom is currently turned on. If you tap the controller, you can hide it. To disable Zoom, simply triple-click on the side button again.
The easiest way to enable the low light filter is to quickly triple-click the side button.
