These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water. Edifier has a pedigree and a long history of making great, compact speakers.

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels. Wooden barrels are what make ...