Author: Press Room
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,…
Christopher Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey is based on Homer’s 2,700-year-old epic poem. There have been a lot of adaptations of The Odyssey over the past couple millennia, and some of them are so abstract most people don’t even realize they are adaptations. That got us thinking about another author whose work is frequently remixed and presented as original: William Shakespeare. There have been a lot of undercover Shakespeare adaptations over the years, although in some cases, the fact that they’re Shakespeare adaptations is now well known. We’ll try to highlight more obscure entries. Related 5 famous books that are…
I expected my KRK Rokit 5 speakers to sound great right out of the box, and they did. In fact, I was so impressed with their balanced, accurate sound that I placed them on my desktop and barely touched them for months, even though they feature DSP with 25 visual EQ settings and a companion app for room tuning. Eventually, however, my curiosity got the better of me. I had mistakenly thought that proper room calibration would mean measuring my room and inputting data, but my speakers (and many others from brands including Sonos, Kef, WiiM, and Harman Kardon) included…
With London playing host to Samsung’s latest Unpacked event, the firm has embraced that most British of institutions to give foldable phone fans a first peek at the Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip8: the traditional London pub. Hidden down a soho side street, the Fold Inn is a world away from the Glitzy Thames-side event space that hosted the global launch. I dropped by for a pint ahead of the pop-up opening to the public this weekend. Wander off the bustling Dean Street, and you’ll spot what is (temporarily) the third pub within 100 feet, snugly…