Author: Press Room

For years, women’s health on a fitness tracker meant a glorified period calendar. You logged your flow manually (requiring you to remember to do so), and you’d get a vague prediction for the following month (only helpful for those with regular cycles). That was about it. The same device would happily tell you your VO2 Max to two decimal places, but when it came to correlating your energy score with your cycle phase, you’d be out of luck. That’s finally starting to change (albeit slowly). It hasn’t happened because of a single breakthrough, but because several pieces of the puzzle…

I got a really expensive pair of headphones for my birthday a couple of months ago. I was pretty ecstatic about the purchase, but the moment I connected them to my Windows PC, the joy on my face — or ears, in this case — faded. My $200 Sony headphones sounded like a cheap earpiece from a roadside vendor. At first, I thought something was wrong with the headphones. Maybe I bought a fake. Maybe the Bluetooth connection was acting up. Or maybe I’d damaged them somehow. Turns out, the headphones were perfectly fine, and Windows was the problem. Apparently,…

When Apple announced the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and the Series 12 smartwatches one of the headline-grabbing new features was the introduction of Readiness scores. These scores, generated from an array of health and fitness Watch stats, aim to simply tell you whether you’re in good shape to tackle a busy day, tick off a tough workout at the gym or maybe you should be kind to yourself and your body and take a well-deserved rest. Unfortunately, those new scores are only available on Apple’s latest watches. That’s because they’re closely tied to Apple’s new health sensing system. If this…

Kodi isn’t just another streaming app like Netflix or Hulu. It’s a powerful open-source media center that allows you to organize, stream, and play almost any type of content, including movies, TV shows, live channels, music, and even photos. I love that Kodi is entirely customizable and keeps everything arranged within a single, intuitive interface. Unlike the built-in apps that come preloaded or are installed on most smart TVs, Kodi doesn’t confine you to a single brand’s ecosystem. If you have your media files stored externally, whether on a hard drive, NAS, or online, it organizes all your files into…

In 1996, George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first book in what would become his A Song of Ice and Fire series. HBO adapted the books as Game of Thrones, which ran for eight seasons between 2011 and 2019. But when it ended, Martin still hadn’t finished his books. In fact, fans have been waiting for the sixth entry, The Winds of Winter, since 2011. Much has been written about why Martin is taking such a long time with his series. Brandon Sanderson, a fantasy author who turns out books incredibly quickly, has his own thoughts. Brandon…

My Roku Streaming Stick Plus (model 3830R) handles almost everything I throw at it. Then I tried pointing it to a different DNS server, and it stopped responding. Privacy was the main reason. I didn’t love the idea of my ISP logging every app and service my TV reached out to. Ad blocking came next, since a filtering DNS service can stop a lot of tracking and ad requests before they load, and I hoped for snappier app launches too. No single moment sent me down this path; I just had some time on my hands and some general assumptions…

Cloud gaming has always intrigued me. Getting access to my favorite games on almost any device, at any time, without hardware limitations is a fascinating proposition that felt too good to be true. So, when I saw GeForce Now finally being made available in my region, I had to join in right away. On the surface, it’s an excellent concept: you pay a small monthly fee and get access to your own games from your Steam, Epic Games, or Xbox library, on any device that can connect to the internet. Initially, I had a great time using GeForce Now, so…

The Apple TV 4K is one of the best streaming boxes you can buy, even if your other products are outside the Apple ecosystem. The hardware is fantastic compared to the competition, featuring the same A-series chips powering older iPhones. Amazon, Google, and Roku offer compelling alternatives to the Apple TV 4K, but it’s hard to accept the additional bloat and ads that come with them. An underrated perk of the Apple TV 4K is its onboard storage — the latest model comes with either 64GB or 128GB of space. Somehow, Amazon’s $200 Fire TV Cube still comes with just…

Stuff is all about the gadgets. We rarely cross the streams and mention the ‘P’ word. (That’s politics, not Palm, Inc – although both should arguably be whispered in hushed tones.) But sometimes it’s impossible to avoid the loudest voices crashing the conversation. One such outburst recently blasted forth from the mouth and keyboard of Donald Trump, King of the USA. Having apparently tired of renaming bodies of water, he declared that Artificial Intelligence should henceforth be called Super Intelligence. Why? Because ‘super’ is a more appropriate modifier for transformative technology than ‘artificial’.  Tech bros rejoiced. Elon ‘X marks the rot’ Musk said…

How much are you spending on subscriptions every month? The answer is unlikely to be pleasant, even if you reckon you’ve got a fairly good idea. The streaming services are easy enough to remember, but what about everything else? When did you last look at your broadband bill? It’s gone up again, hasn’t it? Well, surprise! It all adds up, basically, and there’s even a term for it, because of course there is. It’s called “subscription creep”. You’ve probably heard of it. In fact, a OnePoll comissioned by Community Fibre survey found that respondents had seven contracts or subscriptions on…