Author: Press Room
Your TV can connect to half a dozen different devices — a soundbar, streaming stick, external drive, AV receiver, gaming console and even a PC. You probably have a few of these devices hooked up right now, and there’s a good chance at least one is plugged into the wrong port. I don’t blame you. Most TVs don’t make this easy. They might have multiple HDMI and USB ports, but not all of them are ever the same. One HDMI can carry ARC, another might only be capable of 4K at 120Hz, and a USB port that looks normal could…
Ridley Scott, the director behind classics like Alien and Blade Runner, has a new movie out in theaters: The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic thriller set in a world where most of humanity has been wiped out by a flu pandemic. It has a big budget, lots of big-name actors, and the critical consensus is that it’s a massive let-down. If you’re a fan of Ridley Scott, the movie may still be worth seeing for its quiet worldbuilding and excellent performances, even if it’s not the director’s best work. Scott is hardly the first great director to botch an assignment, but…
Call me lazy, but after over a decade of using smart televisions, I’ve never once tried using a VPN. Yes, I’ve seen the VPN ads pop up on videos, but I never really bothered exploring the technology. However, given the massive streaming library already available in our country, it never occurred to me that I might be missing out — until last week. Binge-watching Friends for the 117th time on Netflix India, I wanted to rewatch How I Met Your Mother next, but that’d mean installing another streaming platform, setting up another account, and, of course, signing up for yet…
Most time travel stories try to convince us their plotlines are somehow plausible. From Back to the Future to Interstellar, they establish rules, explain paradoxes, and eventually reveal how everything fits together. Undone, Prime Video’s remarkable animated drama, never feels like an explanation is necessary, and it’s all the more refreshing for it. In it, a young woman named Alma awakens from a coma and appears to travel through time to reshape her destiny, while being guided by figures and events from her past. However, her situation is so ambiguous that we are left to question whether any of it…
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. The ‘Surprise and shine‘ event is now set for Wednesday 9 September. Yet there will be some key differences this time around. So what’s set to be different this year? Multiple reports suggest that Apple will look to break its regular yearly cycle of iPhone launches as smartphone development slows. Rumors suggest that the standard iPhone 18 would launch in Spring 2027 instead, possibly alongside an iPhone 18e. What…
Range anxiety with electric cars isn’t what it used to be – Volvo has even started referring to ‘range comfort’ instead – and today’s EVs can manage 300, 400 or even 500 miles between visits to the charge station. Add in EV charging being quicker than ever, often adding hundreds of miles of range in just a few minutes at an ultra-rapid charger, and for many drivers the long-range driving abilities of EVs have reached, or even eclipsed, those of petrol and diesel equivalents. We’ve driven some of the world’s longest-range EVs over the past few months, including the BMW…
If you’ve somehow made it this far without seeing a single Marvel movie, the good news is that you don’t need to wade through over 30 films to understand what everyone’s been talking about. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is enormous, but a handful of movies do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to introducing its biggest heroes. You could obviously watch all the movies in release order, but that’s a pretty big commitment if you’re only curious about what all the fuss is about. Instead, these are the movies I’d recommend starting with since they introduce the characters…
Summary September Kindle drops span cozy romance to epic fantasy and gritty crime, perfect for autumn nights. Sept 29: Grim Tidings (cozy supernatural romance) and Threshing Day (Empyrean dragon stories) land. Lots more indie thrillers and books to pre-order for everyone. Autumn leaves are falling, nights are getting longer, and it’s the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a cozy night in reading a new book. The Amazon Kindle Store in September 2026 has plenty of new titles. Whatever you’re looking for—a warm romantic comedy, moody historical fiction, gritty crime or a visit to your favourite fantasy world—there’s something to…
On August 25, 2026, singer, songwriter, actor, philanthropist, and all-around delightful person Dolly Parton died at the age of 80. Parton started her career in the 1960s and spent the next several decades building a reputation not just as an entertainer, but also someone who deeply cared about their fellow man. To that end, she made several important contributions to the scientific community, not to mention having a hand in a couple of great sci-fi/fantasy shows. She appeared in The Orville They still love Dolly Parton 400 years in the future Probably Dolly Parton’s best cameo appearance comes in The…
The Game Boy Advance was where it started to go wrong. I bought a flash cart to dabble in the burgeoning homebrew scene and discovered there were emulators for Nintendo’s handheld. I’d dabbled in emulation before on the PC and Mac, but the thought of carrying around chunks of gaming’s history in my pocket? Well. It’s probably not a great admission to say it became a bit of an obsession, but… it became a bit of an obsession. On the Game Boy Advance, there were huge technical limitations, due to the hardware’s piddling performance and dinky screen resolution. But my…