After a long winter for the Northern region of the United States, it seems the weather may have realized the calendar says April.
Now with the world on the cusp of Easter Sunday for those that celebrate the holiday, along with baseball season in full swing, and the NHL (National Hockey League) and NBA National Basketball Association) preparing for their respective playoffs, it’s time to take a breath.
With all of that on the table, let’s take a pre-holiday look at the headline makers before you tackle that big plate of Easter ham or lasagna, and deserts such as cannolis and cake to check out some of the top tech stories from this past week.
KMB Comm Residential Technology News Review
Starting the week off, AV Nirvana put a story together on the newly announced Planar 6 RS Edition turntable. Planar is a go-to turntable brand for audiophiles of all budgets.
The story says the Rega Special version employs a Tancast 8 foam-core structure, along with an RB880 tonearm and outfitted with the company’s Nd9 moving magnet (MM) cartridge.
AV Nirvana estimates the price for the turntable will be approximately $3,195.
A news item that many of the major home technology websites have been running and we’ll use the post from eCoustics, on the TCL Sony BRAVIA partnership.
The eCoustics’ version of the story states the joint venture has transitioned from a memorandum of understanding to a definitive agreement. eCoustics points out the new venture will be branded as BRAVIA and the new company will provide all the research-and-development (R&D), as well as manufacturing, sales, logistics, and customer service for BRAVIA products.
Moving onto home entertainment, LinkedIn posted an item on Netflix seeking to add more NFL (National Football League) programming to its services.
Citing the Wall Street Journal, the social media post says the popular streaming service would like to add a Thanksgiving Day eve game, along with an international game to is Christmas Day game content.
Netflix has been busy adding live sports over the past couple of years with football, mixed-martial arts (MMA) and boxing. The service has made the news recently with its May 16 MMA card that will be co-headlined by Nate Diaz vs Mike Perry, Rhonda Rousey vs Gina Carano, and Francis Ngannou vs Philipe Lins.
Rounding out the KMB Comm residential technology items for the week is IMDB’s April 2026 TV and Streaming Calendar.
The popular TV and movie website regularly updates its list of new content titles and for April, the website says there are a range of new movies and TV shows becoming available.
Among the titles available this month include Disney+’s, “Star Wars: Maul-Shadow Lord.”
The series takes place after the clone wars in the “Star Wars” universe and the series will be made up of 10 episodes. Prime Video’s “The Boys” also returns. This series is about a group of superheroes that abuse their superpowers.
One more popular streaming series to note: HBO is bringing back its teen-based adult drama, “Euphoria,” which stars A-list actors Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney.
A Quick Tour of National News
Broadening our tech focus, the next couple of KMB Comm Technology Week in Review items cover the tech giant Apple.
The first story comes from LinkedIn. A post from mid-week on the website says that rather than competing in a crowded field against AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini, Apple will concentrate on hardware instead.
Citing a Bloomberg story, the LinkedIn post states that Apple is shifting gears to focus on hardware and services, and to support this emphasis the company’s iOS 27 will include extensions that will permit Apple users to employ other chatbots within Siri.
Over on Yahoo, the web company’s Yahoo Finance coverage had a story on Apple turning 50-years-old. The story includes a brief history of the company that includes its present status as the world’s second-biggest company.
The last story of the week has nothing to do with electronics. Someone or a group of candy fiends with a large, sweet tooth stole about 414,000 KitKat bars shaped like Formula-1 cars.
LinkedIn in its story says the 12 tons of candy were stolen while in transit from Italy to Poland.
Quoting The Athletic, the LinkedIn post says, “we’ve always encouraged people to have a break with KitKat—but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally,” a spokesperson said to The Athletic.”
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