Author: Press Room
On my journey to find some of the most random pieces of cheap tech on the internet, I stumbled across a $50 projector that seemed to promise the Moon. Truth be told, the $50 price tag was already tempting enough for me, and I was curious to see what it was really capable of. After all, it’s a surprising (if not crazy low) price of entry for a projector that can go up to several hundred degrees, and I fully expected the worst. Imagine my surprise when it exceeded my expectations. The projector isn’t perfect for sure, but it is…
Like many long-time VLC users, I open the app and default to hitting the Play button. However, there’s a Stream option that has always been around, which turns the tool into the source. This is almost the opposite of hitting Play. Without copying a single file, it can make a movie on your desktop appear on phones, tablets, or other devices in your home. It doesn’t require installing a separate media server, and the content doesn’t touch the cloud. Since I found this option, local sharing has stopped feeling like a project. Related How to Watch Plex in VLC (and…
I’d never given much thought to how to change Alexa’s name. Like most smart speaker owners, we’d set up the Amazon Echo Show 10 in our kitchen, accepted its default name, and spent years addressing it as Alexa. Then, while my partner was away for work, my son and I decided it would be funny to change its name without telling her. Amazon doesn’t let you choose any name you like, sadly, but Ziggy was one of the available options. We made the switch and waited for her to return, ready to enjoy the confusion when Alexa suddenly stopped listening…
Summary Duck.ai now offers GPT-5.6 Luna as its default free model, with no account or login required. DuckDuckGo anonymizes prompts and lets users switch between models including Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small 4, and Gemma 4. Duck.ai offers greater model variety than privacy-focused rivals, although Lumo or Confer may be safer for highly sensitive conversations. Using a big-name AI model normally means creating another account and trusting its developer with whatever you type. Duck.ai has offered a convenient way around that for a while, but its older free models made privacy come with a fairly noticeable performance compromise. Thankfully, that…
There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store, several hundred of which are currently in my App Library, huddled in folders and opened on average once a month if they are lucky, with a few unlikely ever to grace my iPhone’s screen again. There are, of course, the standard apps that many of us use daily, from social media to banking, possibly a health and fitness app for your morning sleep score, or messaging apps like WhatsApp for the latest on whether anyone has found Timmy’s jumper. But they aren’t the ones I’m talking about here. Instead,…
TV is TV, movies are movies, and never the twain shall meet. Or at least, that was probably what a lot of people probably thought when TV came on the scene in the 1950s. But of course, they were wrong. Movies became more popular after airing on TV, TV shows got adapted for the big screen, and there’s been a lot of cross-pollination back and forth. Sometimes, episodes of TV are straight-up shown in theaters. In fact, one of the best in coming theaters in the near future. Breaking Bad is coming to theaters Get your tickets now! According to…
As part of Hisense’s Labor Day sale, you can save up to $300 on the company’s QD7 Smart TV at Costco, including the company’s massive 100-inch model. You don’t want to miss out! Display Size Up to 100 inches Operating System Fire OS Never miss anything with this massive, 100-inch smart TV. Football season is starting now—so that means it’s time to upgrade your living room set. But why settle for a normal 65 or 75-inch TV when you can go even bigger? With the Hisense QD7 coming in at a gigantic 100 inches, you and your guests will never…
When you’re standing in a store comparing TVs, it’s easy to spot how one is brighter or shows off more accurate colors than the one next to it. But once you bring that same TV home, those differences stop being so obvious. And the worst part is that even after doing all that comparison shopping, most people never actually bother changing the default settings on their TVs. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you should dive deep into every single picture setting your TV has to offer. But if there’s one thing you shouldn’t ignore, it’s the picture mode…
Tim Endres has been involved with Gamescom – the annual PC, mobile and console gaming event for business and public visitors – since it was inaugurated in 2009 at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany, becoming the event’s director in 2017. As hundreds of thousands of gamers are expected to attend the latest edition this week, we chat to Tim about how Gamescom has grown in nearly two decades as the largest and most important physical event for gaming in the world, starting with his own beginnings in gaming… The first game I played was on a calculator. I was born…
I was aghast when Apple introduced Liquid Glass. It obliterated clarity and readability, unwisely deciding the floating interface aesthetic from an overpriced headset should be inflicted on everyone using an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac. Apple claimed Liquid Glass better showed off your content. Mostly, it showed off itself, screaming for attention with every interaction. I disliked it enough that I still haven’t updated my everyday iPhone from iOS 18. But things are changing. Apple’s imminent ‘27’ updates to iOS, iPadOS and macOS suggest people who understand good design are back in control. The defaults are considerably better than last year’s horror show. Icons…