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Why your TV wowed you in the store but looks unnatural at home – and how to fix it ASAP

Why your TV wowed you in the store but looks unnatural at home – and how to fix it ASAP

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Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Store mode exaggerates brightness, color, and motion for display. Home mode delivers more accurate, balanced picture quality.  Switching modes is simple but may require a factory reset. The TV-buying experience has a lot in common with buying paint: it always looks different in your home than it did in the store. While paint colors look different on your wall because the gods delight in small miseries, TVs have special picture settings just for store display units that push them to the limit and are designed to grab your attention from the next department over.  Also: How to disable ACR on your TV – and why doing so is critical for your privacy Retail picture modes boost contrast, color saturation, 4K upscaling, and motion smoothing to create a very bold image, but don’t always represent how a TV will look in your actual home using one of the common presets or a custom picture mode.  While most new smart TVs automatically …

Meet the ‘Loewe Boys’ Who Wowed Paris With Their First Menswear Collection

Meet the ‘Loewe Boys’ Who Wowed Paris With Their First Menswear Collection

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. A couple of days before their fall 2026 runway show for Loewe, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez were shopping their own collection. “I want these for myself,” Hernandez said, grabbing a flat, rubber-toed, slip-on sneaker that looked like a cross between an aquasock and a climbing shoe. Examining a shelf of handbags in a rainbow of suedes in their bright Paris design studio, Hernandez picked up a delightfully rounded black nubuck briefcase. “I’m getting this one,” he added. “Good! Because I got the brown,” McCollough replied. This was a new and thrilling experience for the creative and life partners, who have been making clothes for women since 2002, when they launched their beloved NYC-based label, Proenza Schouler. But until the duo joined the LVMH-owned Spanish luxury house last year following Jonathan Anderson’s move to Dior, they had never before done menswear. “For selfish reasons, we’re very …

These MWC Phones and Gadgets Wowed Me, but Where Are They Now?

These MWC Phones and Gadgets Wowed Me, but Where Are They Now?

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Mobile World Congress sees the biggest and best tech companies, the world over, gather in Barcelona to show off their latest, greatest products. MWC 2026 runs March 2 to 5 and we expect to see several major phone launches, some wild concepts and a lot of tapas. But what about products we saw in prior years? From Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S phones to incredible hardware from Xiaomi, we’ve seen some amazing devices in the years CNET has been attending the show. But we’ve also seen a lot of unusual products that have promised more than they’ve delivered.  From concept devices that are quickly forgotten to new gadgets that boast revolutionary functions, these are the MWC tech launches that arrived with a fanfare… but aren’t necessarily where you’d expect them to be today.  Andrew Lanxon/CNET Humane AI pin AI might still be the biggest buzzword in tech, thanks to every phone company cramming their devices with all kinds of bizarre AI functions. But at MWC 2024, one company wanted to take that further. The Humane AI …

Inside GQ Bowl 2026, Where Thom Browne Wowed Teyana Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, and More in San Francisco

Inside GQ Bowl 2026, Where Thom Browne Wowed Teyana Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, and More in San Francisco

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Cruz wasn’t the only former Super Bowl champ who pulled up on the star-studded gray carpet. Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith didn’t bring his ring, but he did arrive in one of the designer’s signature slim coats. Aspiring champs Sauce Gardner and Damar Hamlin might have missed showtime this season, but they were in high spirits as they dapped each other up and swapped notes on their respective fits. 49ers captain Christian McCaffrey charmed his front row seatmates Teyana Taylor and Queen Latifa while observing the scene from behind oversized aviator sunglasses. What’s it like to have fashion finally come to San Francisco? I asked. “It’s so cool, man. I mean, it’s such a fashionable city in its own right,” McCaffrey said. In reply to my skeptical look, the running back clarified that he was talking about the city’s character more than its clothes. “I mean the architecture of it, the history of it, the uniqueness of it, the hills, the houses, the Bay,” he said. “To add real fashion to the mix, it feels …