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Summary Built-in Libby: borrow library ebooks and audiobooks natively—big win over Kindle. 7-inch E INK Carta 1300, IPX4 splash-proof, Bluetooth 5.1 and text-to-speech; reader-focused. Launch $149.99 — cheaper than Paperwhite; runs Linux, so no Android apps or Kindle app. The PocketBook Era Lite is a new 7-inch black-and-white e-reader with an E INK Carta 1300 e-paper display, designed as a reading-focused alternative to the standard PocketBook Era. It’s cheaper and all about reading, going head-to-head with the Kindle Paperwhite, and one huge game-changer for library lovers — it has Libby built in. Related This is the better Kindle alternative that…
Pebble’s reemergence into the smartwatch market brings with it a wearable that takes a slightly different approach. While many other watch makers cram their timepieces with features you might never use and make them so they need charging every night, the latest iteration of the Time – last reviewed by Stuff back in 2015 – covers the basics with a battery life measured in weeks. As such, it’s much closer to the old-fashioned watch-wearing experience, especially as it has an always-on display (though the Pebble Round 2, which you can probably guess the shape of, is even more like an…
There are some TV shows that seem to go on forever. Series like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Doctor Who have all been running for decades. Far more often, TV shows will run for a few seasons and then retire themselves. And there are some shows that only get to go once around the track. But that shouldn’t imply they aren’t worth watching. In fact, there are lots of great series out there that only lasted for one season. In this article, we’re going to try and avoid miniseries or other shows that were designed to be one-and-done affairs. We’ll…
Your iPhone and iPad are more than just a smartphone or tablet; they hold vital information. Apple provides various authentication tools to safeguard that information, including Face ID and Touch ID and the ability to set a passcode. Passkeys are also gaining some popularity. If you ever need to change your passcode, rest assured that the process is straightforward and can be completed in just a few simple steps. What is a passcode? A passcode is a feature available on iPhones and iPads that allows you to lock your device with a password. This password, or passcode, is used to…
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly working on its first consumer device with Sir Jony Ive – the former Apple design chief who helped shape iconic products including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Depending on which report you read, it’s a screenless AI companion, a smart speaker, or something that doesn’t fit neatly into either category. Whatever it turns out to be OpenAI is likely hoping for an iPhone-level shift in personal tech. The smartphone isn’t disappearing any time soon, mind, but just as it eventually replaced MP3 players, sat-navs and cameras for millions of people, AI could…
Upcoming sci-fi and fantasy movies are one thing, but there’s something wonderfully ironic buried inside two of the most iconic cyborgs in movie history. RoboCop and the T-800 both show up with glowing red readouts, scrolling data, and heads-up displays that feel like they’re from a dystopian future. But if you pay attention, you’ll find that they run on surprisingly similar software. Both films leaned on hardware and software that any home computer nerd from the 1980s would immediately recognize. The so-called advanced tech running these robots was quite literally off-the-shelf consumer tech repurposed for action-packed cinema. Related 8 sci-fi…
Author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books are unquestionably the biggest fantasy novel series of the past 20 years, in no small part because HBO’s Game of Thrones was one of the biggest TV shows of the past 20 years. But Martin has been working on the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, for a depressingly long time, and fans would be forgiven for thinking it may never arrive. That said, there are plenty of other fantastic high fantasy series out there to read in the meantime, and not just the obvious ones that come immediately…
The experience of watching TV has changed a lot in the past few decades. Streaming services have effectively replaced normal TV for a lot of people. For many, commercials became a thing of the past (and then started to come back as those services introduced ad tiers). Bulky traditional television sets were replaced by flat smart TVs. In that time, studios have tried to repackage older TV shows using modern technology, and while the stated goal is to improve the viewing experience, sometimes it actually makes things worse. Some shows are far better to watch in their original formats than…
If you’ve been running OpenAI’s Codex CLI on a long-lived dev machine, there’s a good chance your SSD has been quietly bleeding out. A bug in Codex’s diagnostic logging system was writing hundreds of terabytes of data to local disks. A failing SSD doesn’t click or grind, and given the severity of the bug, this can chew through the entire lifetime write endurance of a typical consumer SSD in under a year. So if you’ve been using Codex, it’s a good idea to check up on your SSD. Related I tested Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity on a real electronics…
Buying an iPhone is expensive. You might have noticed that if you’ve ever bought one. But doing so is soon likely to get even spendier. I wrote a few months ago that AI was eating the tech world and your favourite gadgets are next. Turns out I was right and the impact quickly moved beyond budget retro handheld makers and hit even the biggest tech companies – including Apple. And while Apple hasn’t yet hiked iPhone prices, if you think that won’t happen with the incoming iPhone Pro, Pro Max and Ultra/Fold/Flippy McDippy models, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Actually, I don’t. Which is a pity,…