Author: Press Room

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…

I bought an LG OLED (with its webOS) specifically because of how HDR was supposed to look — deep blacks, bright highlights that actually punch, color that doesn’t flatten out in dark scenes. Then I sat down to watch something in actual HDR, and it looked worse than the SDR stuff I’d been watching for years. Skin tones leaned orange. Bright scenes had this waxy glow around anything white. A campfire scene in a nature documentary looked like someone had dragged the saturation slider to the right and forgotten about it. My first instinct was that HDR was overrated, or…

Nothing is more humbling for a frequent traveller than landing after a long-haul flight and realising that your body missed the time-change memo. There you are, feeling like a phone on one per cent, while everyone around you goes about their day functioning perfectly normally.  That is jet lag. Your internal clock is stuck on the time of your departure city, while the sun has got its hat on and you’re definitely not singing hip hip hooray. Wide awake at 3am, gagging for a nap at 3pm, and about as sharp as the knife from the flight that got you…

The AI world is moving so quickly that it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the latest trends. From some of the early 21st century machine learning efforts, to the today’s generative AI landscape where multi-model content can be generated from scratch, the progress feels exponential. Indeed, we’re now entering the Agentic AI era where AI ‘agents’ can act on your behalf with little to no active input required from the user. Are we at risk of being overtaken by the machines? Right now human beings still have the edge. Although we can’t process data or generate content at the…

The 2025 Roku Streaming Stick Plus gives you an HDMI plug on one end and a USB-C port on the side. That is the whole list. Streaming sticks skip the Ethernet jack to stay small and cheap, and most buyers never miss it, though the omission stings if you spent a weekend pulling Cat6A through your own walls. Roku does support wired networking on its 2025 sticks, using that same USB-C port and an adapter that runs about $15. Nothing on the box mentions it. My office is the room where I stopped treating that as a curiosity, because wiring…