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Working from home is quietly doing something to my speaking ability. I’m an experienced writer and a fluent English speaker. It’s been my working language my entire life. But after years of a lonely solo writing lifestyle, I noticed something uncomfortable. I’d join a video interview or a team call, open my mouth, and feel a half-second delay between thought and word that wasn’t there before. My fluency had just gone a little rusty from disuse. So I ran an interesting experiment with ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode as a speaking coach. Each ChatGPT prompt was chosen to help me work…

If you’re in the market for the best tablet, it’s worth considering a few options beyond the popular models from Apple and Samsung. One of those is, of course, Amazon, which has emerged as a major player at the cheaper end of the tablet market. Amazon offers a pretty diverse range of tablets under the Fire branded lineup, so we’ve rated the best Fire tablets to make your decision easier. As they all derive from Camp Bezos, Amazon Fire tablets come with a certain seal of approval that other retailers may not provide. Much like the Echo, Fire tablets are…

For the longest time, I was convinced that cutting the cord was the ultimate upgrade for my car. A wireless CarPlay receiver felt like the kind of small tech change that would dramatically improve my everyday drives. It meant no more cables lying around. Just step in, start the car, and everything connects automatically. It sounded absolutely perfect. When I first started testing a CarPlay feature that genuinely impressed me, I couldn’t stop talking about how wireless was something I eventually wanted to upgrade to. I was sold on the idea before I even bought the receiver. So eventually, I…

If you’ve owned an iMac, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, or Apple Watch, you’ve already experienced the design handiwork of Sir Jony Ive. Now the former Apple design chief is working on a smart speaker and other hardware for OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT. On paper, it sounds like a formidable pairing – the designer behind Apple’s most iconic products teaming up with the company that dominates consumer AI. Together, they’re said to be building a camera-equipped, screenless ChatGPT smart speaker capable of observing its surroundings and even making purchases. But standalone AI hardware hasn’t exactly had a smooth run…

XPeng is a Chinese brand that, first and foremost, specialises in tech. It also builds cars, but thankfully not as an afterthought. This, the XPeng G6 Performance, is an all-wheel-drive, mid-size SUV that’s clearly designed to take on the Tesla Model Y. It’s potent and, naturally, comes packed with tech treats. There’s space and comfort too. As a package, it ticks every box any disillusioned Tesla owner could imagine. The XPeng G6 occupies the same ballpark as models from Chinese brands Jaecoo, Omoda and BYD so competition is tough and pricing is keen. It’s also competing with itself, as buyers…

Game of Thrones was the most culturally dominant TV show of the 2010s, the most popular show in HBO’s history, and the most successful fantasy series in many years. Other studios and streamers tried to cash in by making their own high fantasy series, mostly to no avail. Fans seemed to enjoy The Witcher on Netflix…for the first couple seasons, until public opinion soured. Prime Video readied two high fantasy series: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which has largely been a let-down; and The Wheel of Time, which Amazon stupidly canceled just as it was finding…

While NotebookLM is an amazing research tool, and there are some great prompts that can make it even more powerful, I’ve always felt like it was a bit too much for my needs, even if that sounds like an unpopular opinion. I wanted something that sits in the middle, not as minimal as the ChatGPT website, but not as heavy or structured as NotebookLM. That’s when I started exploring Khoj, (which translates to “discovery” in English). After spending some time with it, I genuinely feel like I’ve found that perfect middle ground I was looking for. Related One of NotebookLM’s…

TV is lousy with great sci-fi shows, but it can be risky to commit to a series partway through. Why? Because the network can always cancel it in the middle of the run, meaning you’ll have gotten invested and then be deprived of an ending. It’s happened way more often than it should. But there are also plenty of series that are over and done with, so you can watch them without fear that you’ll never be able to finish. Related 5 sci‑fi thrillers that unravel one episode at a time Prepare for a thrilling journey through time and space…

We’re living in a golden age of science fiction on TV. Apple TV+ alone has an embarrassment of great sci-fi shows, from Severance to Pluribus to For All Mankind to Silo and beyond, and there are always intriguing new ones coming around the corner. But that doesn’t mean that the sci-fi shows of the past have nothing to teach us. Take Continuum, a Canadian sci-fi series that ran on the network Showcase for four seasons, from 2012 to 2015. This show rarely gets brought up when people start talking about history’s greatest sci-fi shows, but it deserves a place in…

There is the rare piece of science fiction media that actually has a lot of science in it, but by and large, people know not to think too hard about the laws of physics when watching, say, Star Wars or Star Trek. Most sci-fi movies just set themselves in outer space and call it a day. But it’s nice when you come across a movie or TV that goes the extra mile to keep things grounded, which is what you’ll get if you watch the little-seen Netflix movie Stowaway. Everyone is in danger in Stowaway The science of air This…