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Apple’s September event is usually the fruit company’s biggest consumer hardware moment of the year, and the 2026 version looks set to follow that tradition with a new range of iPhones. Yet there may be some key differences this time around. The event should take place in the second week of the month if previous form is anything to go by and usually – though not always – Apple events are on a Tuesday. That means we are almost certainly looking at the event taking place on Tuesday 8 September. So what’s set to be different this year? Multiple reports…

I get it: buying HDMI cables is confusing. First, you need to check what bandwidth the cable supports and whether it’s sufficient for your resolution and required refresh rate. Some marketing tactics for HDMI cables are misleading, and as a result, you might buy the wrong cable that fails to deliver on its promise. However, when trying to avoid a wrong purchase, most people buy expensive HDMI cables, assuming they’re better. Most fall for the false advertising that an expensive HDMI cable will magically output a better picture, spending $200 down the drain on an HDMI cable when, in reality,…

Published Aug 3, 2026, 5:53 PM EDT Sara Heritage is a tech and gaming journalist, who’s currently making her way up to Master Ball rank in Pokemon Champions. Bylines in IGN, GAMINGbible, The Gamer and more. You can usually find her tinkering with tech, or restoring old consoles, always with one of her 3 cats nearby. Come and talk with her over on Twitter @SHeritageJourno. It’s the start of August, which means your Prime membership has unlocked a fresh batch of free reads. Amazon’s First Reads program gives Prime members one free Kindle book and a bonus short read every single month.…

While I grew up listening to music on hand-me-down Sony headphones, I’ve been an earbuds person for as long as I can remember. They’re small, they disappear into a pocket, and they’ve never given me a reason to look for anything bigger. That is, until I booked a long-haul flight recently for a much-needed vacation and realized my earbuds weren’t going to cut it. Airports and airplanes are practically designed to make you wish you had a proper pair of over-ear headphones, and they frankly fit the travel aesthetic far better than earbuds ever could. So, I started looking for…

I distinctly remember walking into a car garage six years ago. When the salesman asked what my requirements were for the new car I was looking to buy, I said Apple CarPlay. Not a sunroof, special alloys, or metallic paint; CarPlay was what I had decided I couldn’t do without. Needless to say, he looked at me a little strangely (fair), but given that the customer is always right, he thought better of arguing.  As it turned out, CarPlay came as standard on the cars I was looking at (not true of all car manufacturers), so, much to his delight,…

When it comes to realistic sci-fi series, The Expanse books by James S. A. Corey are often held up as the gold standard. The Expanse keeps in mind things like the amount of time it takes for messages to travel through the vacuum of space, how artificial gravity is created, and how the Coriolis Effect works. So far as book series that have been adapted for the screen, The Expanse is definitely among the most realistic, but in terms of book series in general, it has a lot of competition. Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson The Multi-Colored Planet Credit: Spectra…

If I had a pound for every time someone asked me whether they need a smart ring and a smartwatch, I’d be so rich I wouldn’t need to write about them. But alas, here we are. The truth is, it very much depends on who you are and what you are looking to track as to whether one is better than the other. Or, like me, you might appreciate the insights of both. I’ve worn both an Apple Watch and an Oura Ring for the past two years. Currently, I have the Apple Watch Series 11 and the Oura Ring…

All fitness apps promise the same thing. To get you fitter, faster and stronger, better than their competitor. It truly is a minefield out there, littered with influencer-tied apps and fad diet-eating routines. But, and trust us here, whatever your pursuit there is an app out there for you. And, thanks to the Apple Watch smartwatch, you don’t even need a phone. Yes, there’s no shortage of fitness trackers out there, but the Apple Watch has long proved itself as one of the best on the market. And, naturally, there are many an app out there to help up your…

Because I watch a lot of TV at night once everyone else has gone to bed, cranking up the volume isn’t an option. But sometimes, even if I watch in the evening, I have to turn up the volume to hear softer dialogue, then turn it back down when there’s loud background music or booms and bangs in an action show. This frustrating is something most people have encountered at one point or another. My solution for this is to usually keep the TV lower than I’d like, especially late at night, and turn on the captions. In fact, I…

It’s hard to predict what will blow up on Netflix. Sometimes a hotly anticipated new release will make a big splash as expected, and at other times a show no one has heard of can come out of nowhere to dominate the ratings. That’s what happened with Elite Force, a French action series that dropped its first season on July 22. The show became the number one most-watched Netflix series in the world, and now it’s getting ready for more. What is Elite Force about? Welcome to the GIGN Credit: Tim @ Netflix Elite Force follows members of the GIGN, which…