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The PlayStation 5 is skipping towards its sixth birthday, although it might not feel that way if you spent its early years staring at the relentless “out of stock” messages on your phone. Pandemic-related shortages made the console difficult to buy until well into 2022, meaning many owners joined the generation considerably later. The PS5 didn’t immediately leave its predecessor behind, either. Cross-generation releases kept the PS4 relevant for longer than usual, delaying the point at which PS5 truly felt like Sony’s primary console. But with the PS5 Pro now on sale and the original hardware well into its life…

Every week, Netflix releases more new shows and movies than any one person can keep up with. So every week, we’re here to guide you towards the best and brightest. Looking for something to do this weekend? Netflix has at least six suggestions. SEAL Team All seven seasons are ready and waiting for you Credit: CBS First up, as of this past Tuesday, you can watch the entirety of SEAL Team, a military procedural that ran for seven seasons across CBS and Paramount+. The show centers on Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes, played by Bones and Angel star David…

If you’ve been out enjoying the summer this month there’s a good chance you’ve not been able to keep on top of your gadget news in the way you normally would – but help is at hand. Here at Stuff it’s literally our job to keep you up-to-date with all the latest headlines. All the biggest stories can be found in our news section, but this is the home of those other stories we haven’t been able to cover. That doesn’t mean this is second-rate stuff, though. Below you’ll find the very best new gadgets from the past month, starting…

It feels like retro technology is having a real moment again. The iPod is making a return to prominence. Compact discs are on the rise. Dumb phones are specific choices consumers are making, and the rise of cameras without external connectivity continues. There’s good reasons why. Cameras free of the computational processing, and filters can provide a more authentic representation of a scene. Some believe the warm sound of vinyl records is better than even the most uncompressed digital music. The common thread? A growing aversion to the all-conquering smartphone that has taken us away from the activity only being…

Planning a trip to Disneyland Paris with a nearly-four-year-old is, in theory, simple. Book a hotel, buy some tickets, work out how to get there without anyone having a meltdown. In practice it’s a logistical headache of dates, budgets, ride heights and nap schedules. So instead of doing it myself, I handed the job to two AI chatbots and asked them to act as my travel agent. I gave ChatGPT and Gemini the same basic brief: a family trip to Disneyland Paris for two adults and a four-year-old, early November, an affordable but not barebones budget, staying on-site. Then I…

If you’ve ever flown business class, you may have been pleasantly surprised by the little tube of lip balm tucked into the amenity kit. But it’s not as random as it might first seem. It’s a pre-warning of the fate your lips will face on a long-haul flight, when you start to resemble a piece of biltong. Your lips crack, your eyeballs feel as if they’ve been sandblasted, your skin has the texture of a cracker left out overnight, and you’re fairly sure your tongue has taken up permanent residence on the roof of your mouth. It doesn’t matter where…

I’ll be honest with you; I had no idea any of these features existed, but now that I do, I feel like I have a whole new Roku. I’ve switched my Backdrops on and set the photos I want to see on it (with the occasional drop into the art collections so it feels like an art TV). I’ve found my remote when it dropped down between the bed and the nightstand, and I’ve finally been able to get rid of the TV remote itself. Roku markets itself as a way into Netflix, Hulu, and the Roku Channel, but the…

Every car I test, whether it’s an EV or Aston Martin, now arrives wireless CarPlay (some even come with CarPlay Ultra). The press releases always makes a big deal of it. If you’re buying a car, the salespeople mention it before they mention the boot space. And every single time, after a week of trying it out, I dig my trusty USB-C cable back out of the glovebox. I’m not a luddite about this like I am about somethings (let’s bring back physical buttons and proper doorhandles, amirite?) I like wireless everything else – headphones, speakers, err, keyboards… the lot.…

Pachinko is one of the many great hidden gems on Apple TV, which is full of such shows. Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Min Jin Lee, it follows four generations of the Baek family, who emigrate from Korea to Japan in the 1930s. It’s also one of the best-reviewed TV shows of the past decade. And yet, we may never get a promised third season. It’s an outrage everyone needs to hear about. Pachinko is a once-in-a-generation epic It’s a complex tale that’s easy to understand Pachinko was created by Soo Hugh, who previously served…

You might associate Amazon with Alexa or its Prime Video streaming service, rather than rockets and satellites. It doesn’t matter what you think, though. Because it’s true. Amazon is – rather rapidly – building a new internet network in space. It’s called Amazon Leo, and it is, in essence, Amazon’s answer to Starlink – Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet service. Like Starlink, rather than relying on fibre cables, phone lines or nearby mobile towers, Leo uses satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth to provide an internet connection. That’s more than a little useful in rural and remote areas where…