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Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II The EP-133 K.O. II brings the spontaneous sampling concept of the PO-33 K.O.! into a larger, more stylish, and significantly more versatile format with plenty of retro charm. An internal microphone, built-in speaker, battery operation, stereo input and output, MIDI I/O, USB-C, 9 velocity-sensitive pressure-sensitive pads, 12 voices, and 12 tracks for samples and MIDI make it a mobile idea-capturing machine for beats, loops, and quirky one-shots. This is exactly where its strength lies: record whatever is around you, assign it to pads, sequence it, manipulate it, and do it all without first creating a project in a DAW. In practice, it excels at field recordings, quick drum kits, lo-fi percussion, short sample hooks, or even polyphonic pads built from individual synth notes. Samples can…

The first car I loved was already old when it became ours. Its paint had faded unevenly, the passenger window needed both hands, and the engine turned cold mornings into negotiations. We gave it time, a little throttle and the sort of encouragement usually reserved for nervous animals. It smelled of warm vinyl, gasoline and the peppermint sweets my mother kept in the glovebox. The radio lost stations whenever we crossed the county line, so we sang through the static. No one would have called it advanced. On certain hills, no one would have called it reliable. Yet I remember that car with a tenderness I have never felt toward a flawless machine. It carried our imperfections visibly: a dent from the supermarket, sand beneath the mats, a pale mark…

Even on a monitor screen via a flickering video call, Dan Marshall brings to our conversation a cheerful, comfortable kind of presence, his energy an unlikely blend of head boy and class clown. It’s hard to imagine him saying anything too out of left field. And then he hits us with it: “I don’t really like playing adventure games.” He laughs. “I haven’t played any in forever.” This is the same Dan Marshall who’s been making and releasing adventure games ever since he first started coding, the Dan Marshall behind such games as Ben There, Dan That, Time Gentlemen, Please! and Earth Must Die. Through his one-person label, Size Five Games, over the past 20 years he’s become inextricably linked to the adventure genre – but how can that possibly…

RINCE William and Princess Catherine appeared every bit the glamorous royal couple as they arrived at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards in London Feb. 22. But to careful observers, behind their wide smiles and impeccable styling — the Princess of Wales, 44, rewore a diaphanous pink ombré Gucci gown she first donned in 2019, while her husband, 43, coordinated in a berry velvet jacket — there were subtle signs of strain: flashes of furrowedbrows, drawnlipsanda noticeable lack of their usual supportive touches, body-language expert Judi James observed in one news outlet. The Prince of Wales seemingly acknowledged his fraught mindset when asked if he’d seen Hamnet. “I need to be in quite a calm state, and I am not at the moment,” he said of watching the emotional drama…

Down and dirty. Selena Gomez is unperturbed by reactions to husband Benny Blanco’s hygiene, after the music producer, 37, passed gas and exposed his dirty bare feet on his new podcast Friends Keep Secrets. An onslaught of internet backlash followed the video — along with an unearthed 2024 interview in which Benny admitted he forgoes daily showers, instead waiting until his skin oils get “juicy.” But Selena, 33, followed up the mini-scandal by insisting that she falls “more and more in love” with her husband every day. (Benny later made light of the incident, defending his “great feet” and blaming a dirty floor.) “A huge part of Benny’s appeal to Selena, besides his kind and protective nature, is the fact that he’s unashamedly himself,” says a source. “She says it’s…

Tourette syndrome campaigner John David son suffered a series of outbursts during the British Academy Film Awards in London on Feb. 22, sending the ceremony into chaos. While Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage to present the first award of the night, Davidson, 54, shouted the N-word from his seat. The activist — who’d been invited to the show as the inspiration for the nominated movie I Swear — could also be heard screaming, “Shut the f**k up!” during a separate speech. While Davidson ultimately left early of his own accord, his tics forced host Alan Cumming to address the audience, which included Prince William and Princess Kate. “You may have noticed some strong language in the background. This can be part of how Tourette syndrome shows up…