The YAS-209 soundbar is Yamaha's first smart speaker of any kind, and since its release last year it has remained one of my favorite soundbars, period. Yamaha chose Amazon's Alexa for its voice control, and the YAS-209 performs well as a smart speaker and sounds excellent with music, TV and movies.

HBO Max will stream movies like Matrix, Dune and all of Warner Bros. new movies set for theatrical release next year, making them available to watch at no added cost online the same day as their debuts on the big screen. Each film will be on HBO Max, which is $15 a month, for one month…

Dr. Quincy Fortier artificially inseminated unsuspecting women. The powerful HBO documentary Baby God examines the complex fallout.  When we first meet geneticist Brad Gulko in the new HBO documentary Baby God, he's peering into a microscope and reflecting on the precision of today's genetic tests. We soon learn Gulko isn't just being interviewed as a…

The view from the Chang'e 5 spacecraft on the lunar landscape. China's Chang'e 5 mission to the moon has already left our natural satellite in its rearview. China's National Space Administration announced Thursday that its ascent module had blasted off from atop the lander, carrying samples of rock and soil it drilled and scooped from…

Tony Goncalves, TK, presented plans for HBO Max in October. HBO Max is no longer offering one-week free trials to new subscribers, the latest subscription streaming service to remove a try-it-out-free period. The move comes three weeks before its mega-budget movie Wonder Woman 1984 is set to drop on the service to stream the same day…