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I’ve worn a fair few of the best smart rings over the past couple of years, and almost all of them have shared the same problem: they look like smart rings. Chunky, slightly clinical, and weird enough to make people ask “what’s that on your finger?” The new Oura Ring 5 is the first smart ring that actually looks like a piece of jewellery. After a month of wearing it day and night, I’m convinced this is the smart ring’s iPhone moment – the point when a product reshapes what users expect by default. So, should you buy one? Here’s…
No one, and I mean possibly no one, likes ads. Sure, the people behind them and the people earning from them have their reasons for keeping them around, but as a regular person trying to watch a YouTube video or read an article without five banners fighting for my attention, I’m obviously not a fan. Ad-blocking extensions are everywhere, and while I’m not here to recommend one, I figured building one would be a fun way to test what AI coding tools do when handed a problem that sounds simple on the surface but gets messy fast. So, I gave…
Trying to decide between the MacBook Neo or MacBook Air for your next laptop? It’s not as easy a decision as one may think – though that hasn’t always been the case. It used to be simpler, y’know. For years, if someone asked which Apple laptop to buy, the answer was almost always the same – the MacBook Air. It struck a sweet spot between price, portability, and performance, that very few laptops – Apple’s or otherwise – could match. Then the MacBook Neo arrived, bringing macOS to a lower price point without asking buyers to spend four figures. Far…
Introduction One of the best things about Mazda is it always likes to do its own thing. Just look at how it continues to use various powertrains across the range rather than go all-in like many rivals. For the Mazda 6e, though, collaboration was the name of the game. This electric car has been produced in a production partnership with Chinese carmaker Changan. The coupe-style saloon with a hatchback is already known as the Changan Deepal L07/SL03 in other markets. That will surely discount it from any kind of US release, despite Mazda taking the bare bones and making this…
I just fished a watch out of Lake Zurich, and no, that wasn’t an accident. Certina has launched the DS Super PH2000M, rated to a genuinely ridiculous 2000 metres. That’s double the depth rating of anything the brand has made before, and it’s not just a small spec bump either. It’s the next chapter in a story that started back in the 1960s, when Certina’s PH watches (PH stands for hydrostatic pressure) first went chasing depth. The first PH model topped out at 200m. By 1970, the DS-2 Super PH1000M had doubled that. Now it’s doubled again. I got the…
Fantasy author George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fire novels, in 1996. He published four more books in the series over the next 15 years, ending with A Dance With Dragons in 2011. Since then, fans have been waiting for him to complete The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in the saga, without luck. In fact, Martin has now been working on The Winds of Winter for longer than it took him to write the first five books in the series. That is a sobering statistic, and…
Summary Kobo now syncs with StoryGraph to auto-log finished eBooks and audiobooks. Progress, finishing stamps, and journal prompts appear automatically; highlights/notes don’t sync yet. Connect via Kobo account Integrations; syncing needs Wi-Fi and can be manual or paused by turning Wi-Fi off. If you love a neat digital library, or just get a kick out of watching your reading stats go up, you know how annoying it is when your eReader and tracking app don’t talk to each other. Good news — the anticipated Kobo and StoryGraph sync is finally live, meaning your accounts are finally on the same page.…
I pay for a handful of streaming services, but YouTube Premium is never one of them — at least, not directly. I swear by Paramount Plus, and I’ve resisted regularly subscribing to platforms like Netflix to cut down on monthly costs. That said, I get Apple TV free as part of my Apple One plan, and my Google AI Pro subscription now includes YouTube Premium Lite. I’ve been using the premium version of the latter for the first time, and I have to say, I’m unimpressed. Don’t get me wrong, the ad-free videos and offline downloads are useful, but I…
As unfortunate as it is, barely anyone goes to Google or YouTube instantly to look something up anymore. The reflex is to open ChatGPT (or whatever chatbot you prefer) and ask. It hurts me to write that as someone who writes content for the web, but I’d be lying if I said I was any different. Unlike Google or YouTube though, the chatbot I’ve been leaning on isn’t free, and I pay it a fair bit of money just to keep asking it questions. It also comes with other strings attached, like my privacy and a quiet trust that the…
What happens when a luxury audio specialist takes over the townhouse in New York’s affluent Chelsea neighbourhood previously owned by Lady Gaga and is given carte blanche to show off its gear in the best possible light? You get House of Sound, an ultra-exclusive demo space that helps properly minted music lovers visualise what millions of dollars of McIntosh and Sonus Faber kit would look like in their lavish homes. Spread across six floors, there’s enough Hi-Fi equipment here to fill a mansion multiple times over, along with art and photography documenting the brands’ involvement in iconic music events like…