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Summary Operation Bluebird is reviving the Twitter name with a new social network unaffiliated with X Corp. Twitter.now charges $20 for early access, but its terms do not guarantee that you can keep your chosen handle. Free alternatives such as Bluesky already offer a familiar Twitter-like experience without charging for usernames. Twitter is back, or, at least the name is. Operation Bluebird has opened early access to twitter.now, a new social network that promises to rebuild the town square around trust and user control. Paying $20 supposedly makes you a “Founder,” gets you in before the public, locks your handle,…

IFA is one of the world’s biggest annual consumer technology expos and it gets underway in Berlin, Germany next week. Indeed, as it welcomes in the public too, it’s by far the biggest such show in terms of attendance, with over 215,000 people roaming the vast halls. As usual, it’s taking place at the massive Messe Berlin fairground which as usual will have 26 halls and 160,000 square metres full of new smart home tech, kitchen appliances, PC, hi-fi, headphones and home theater gear. The Stuff team will be on the ground in Berlin, covering the cream of the announcements…

Another weekend approaches, which means another opportunity to get cozy on the couch and take in some new shows and movies on Netflix. Because Netflix is always adding new content to its library; it’s just a matter of knowing what’s worth watching. This is our guide to the biggest and best new releases. The Airport Chaplain Elrond at the airport Credit: SBS The Airport Chaplain is an Australian drama about an airport “fixer” named Tobias Wallace (Hugo Weaving) who is dedicated to his job to the point where he doesn’t think the airport can run without him. He has an unusual…

Humanoid robots have become almost ridiculously impressive over the past few years. We’ve seen them running, dancing, doing backflips, folding clothes, making drinks, and performing all sorts of tasks that would have seemed impossible not that long ago. Tesla is developing Optimus, Boston Dynamics has completely reinvented Atlas, and companies including Figure, Agility Robotics, 1X, and Unitree are all pushing ahead with their own increasingly capable machines. The humble smartphone is beyond dull, in comparison. Sorry, phone. But I’ve always wondered how much any of this really matters outside a carefully controlled demo. Watching a robot fold a T-shirt is…

For the first time ever, Rakuten Kobo has launched its award-winning line of eReader in over 500 Best Buy stores across the United States. Previously, U.S. customers could purchase Kobo eReaders online through kobo.com, or in person at Staples, and Target. Now, book lovers can visit their local Best Buy to see and try out Kobo’s latest devices, including the waterproof Kobo Clara Colour and Kobo Clara BW, as well as the feature-rich Kobo Libra Colour. Related This is the better Kindle alternative that most people don’t consider Kobo beats Kindle on library books, format flexibility, and physical buttons Here’s…

Apple’s September invite has landed, and while the tagline “Surprise and Shine” doesn’t confirm that the company will introduce its first folding phone – especially given the long-rumoured device will hardly be a surprise (we’ve had longer-running theories about it than some conspiracy podcasts) – we at least now know the official date it is expected to appear.  The “surprise” element could be anything from the long-rumoured HomePod Display to AirPods with built-in cameras, but while unlikely to shock, the folding iPhone is expected to steal the show. After waiting eight years for Apple to catch up with Samsung on…

My aging 2015 car has one big problem: it doesn’t have Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. I didn’t really mind, as I could always connect my smartphone to the in-car audio using a cheap USB-C to 3.5mm adapter to keep the music playing, no matter what. That is, until I noticed that more and more of my smartphones were failing to work with my good old adapter. Everything worked fine when I used a Nothing Phone 1, but with the Samsung Z Fold 8? It doesn’t want to know. A $20 adapter solved my problems overnight, and my wonderful Car…

It’s practically common knowledge within the tech world that Samsung is supplying Apple with flexible OLED screens for its debut foldable smartphone. The iPhone Ultra is widely expected to make its debut on September 9 alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, but I already feel like I’ve had a sneak peek. That’s because I’ve just finished testing the Galaxy Z Fold8. Samsung’s first wide book-style foldable uses the same passport-sized outer screen and 4:3 aspect ratio inner display that Apple is believed to have gone for; the upcoming iPhone is also predicted to have a dual camera array at the rear…

The Note series has long been Redmi’s affordable phone standout in Europe. Diluting parent company Xiaomi’s bigger hitters down to a more attainable price point was a mostly winning formula, even if successive generations did start to feel a little iterative. The Redmi Note 17 Pro Max takes a different approach, dialling back some hardware but going big in others – namely the absurdly big battery. The whopping 9210mAh cell is almost a third more than what you got inside the outgoing Redmi Note 15 Pro Plus – and that’s if you buy the global variant. Asian markets get a…

The latest generation of open-weight large language models have been absurd. We’re now getting what people have started calling “Mythos-class” models: enormous, extremely capable models that are increasingly difficult to distinguish from the frontier stuff in actual use. Moonshot AI dropped its latest Kimi models with fantastic benchmark results (so good that Anthropic panicked and gave everyone $100 of free Fable credit), then came DeepSeek with V4 Pro, and Alibaba with Qwen 3.8. Qwen 3.8 is the one I’m most excited about, though, because unlike the other new Mythos-class models, it comes with an official 27B weight. That’s small enough…