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Amazon has rolled out software update 5.20.1, bringing a wave of exciting new features to third-generation Kindle Scribe e-notebooks and all Kindle devices released from 2024 forward. Kindle Scribe owners will especially appreciate the standout addition: voice dictation. Now, you can simply tap the microphone icon on your keyboard and speak to type, making it effortless to dictate text for searches, annotations, or naming your notebooks. Related 10 things you should try on your Amazon Kindle besides reading books Discover ten surprisingly useful ways to use your Kindle beyond reading. What is included in update 5.20.1? This feature is perfect…
Taking care of your skin ought to be as straightforward as keeping your phone updated. Wash it, keep it moisturised, and protect it from the sun. Your face, that is. Not your iPhone. Start shopping for anti-ageing products, though, and you’ll soon find yourself comparing retinol percentages and wondering whether you should own a mask that lights up your face. We’ve all been there. There are useful treatments hidden among all those bottles and gadgets, though. The trick is knowing which ones could help with the things that bother you, and how to use them without leaving your face sore.…
Streaming was meant to be our cheap, cable-free future. Instead, the average streaming service now asks for a little more out of your pocket every year and pushes adverts unless you pay extra to escape them. Plus, all the stuff you want to watch is spread across half a dozen apps. Cancelling and resubscribing has become a national pastime. There’s a reward for all that juggling, though. With every platform fighting for a slot on your monthly bank statement, the shows keep coming, and the hit rate is better than the cynics would have you believe. The rest of 2026…
All the top movies due to be released this year – and into 2027. What are you looking forward to the most? Brad Pitt in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth Blockbuster season may have been and gone for 2026, but there are still plenty of reasons for movie maniacs to make a beeline for their local multiplex or fire up their favourite streaming service this year. And that’s because there are still loads of films on their way. The cinematic slate ahead swings from video game adaptations to Brit sitcoms-turned-movies, and from city-stomping lizards to gentlemen art thieves. In…
I’ve been running an experiment with Plex for a good while, taking my small collection of DVDs and Blu-rays, ripping them, and hosting them on a separate computer of mine. I even tried using Plex for audiobooks, and it was very successful. But now I’ve set my sights on a new goal: downgrading my collection for Jellyfin. Essentially, I don’t want to fill my home with rows of hard drives — the original scope of my idea was too big. And the way I see it, Plex offers a lot of neat features I enjoy, but they aren’t necessary for…
Summer is done, and spooky season is officially upon us, which means there’s plenty of creepy films and TV series coming to streaming services in October. It’s not all skeletons, ghouls, murderers and machete-wielding lunatics coming to your television screen this month, of course – you’ll also find rugged horseback lawmen, AI superheros and supervillains, a tactical Chris Pratt and an action movie (incredibly loosely) based on Matchbox cars arriving on streaming services this month. So read on to find out all about them. East of Eden Zoe Kazan’s grandfather Elia directed the 1955 film of John Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley…
A smart TV seems like a harmless device for streaming content, but it’s easily the most invasive gadget in your living room. It logs all kinds of information about you and ships that data off to the manufacturer. Its ability to connect to the internet is what makes all of this ridiculously easy. After realizing how this entire system works and reading several instances of TV manufacturers blamed of spying on users, I decided to disconnect my smart TV from the internet entirely. Spoiler: it didn’t make my TV useless. Related Your TV’s manufacturer doesn’t want you to open this…
Jaguar has revealed the Type 01, a luxury four‑door electric grand tourer that’s the first production car built under the brand’s “exuberant modernist” design philosophy. It’s the most powerful, most aerodynamic and most technically advanced road car Jaguar has made, and, to say you should be excited is an understatement. I’ve driven a fair few Jaguars over the years, from the F-Type SVR to the ahead-of-its-time I-Pace, and, somewhat hilariously, even appeared in an advert for the Jaguar XE. I’ll admit it: I’ve always had a soft spot for the brand, and I suspect I’m not alone. So I’m very…
Apple’s annual Watch launch is about as surprising as rain at Glastonbury, and the latest Series 12 sticks to the script, keeping the same design as its predecessor (and the one before). Put it next to last year’s Series 11, and you’d need a magnifying glass, a spec sheet and maybe even a forensic accountant to tell them apart. But look past the familiar squircle, and things get a little more interesting. The Series 12 introduces a new Health Sensing System, a Readiness app, Audio Intelligence and a fresh S11 processor that delivers more than a speed bump. Meanwhile, Apple…
Your iPhone knows where you are, but don’t automatically assume it’s being sinister. Maps can’t give you directions without it, and your weather app would be fairly useless if it thought you lived in Reykjavik (unless of course, you actually do). But somewhere among the dozens of apps cluttering your home screen, there’s a good chance a few are tracking your whereabouts without the best intentions. That airline app you downloaded a decade ago and have never flown with since? The shopping app you used once for a Black Friday deal? The game you installed to keep your little one…