Author: Press Room

I’m a big fan of Spotify’s AI DJ, but it comes with one limitation: I can only play Spotify’s catalog. This isn’t such an issue, given Spotify’s massive library; however, over the decades I have built up a significant collection of original music and rarities, much of it digitized from vinyl, and I wanted something that could intelligently mix my own library at home. This is how I came across SUB/WAVE. This self-hosted solution turned my music collection into a DJ-style radio station, and although it wasn’t exactly plain sailing from the outset, it’s so worth the time investment. How…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may be slowing down, but there will always be room for Spider-Man. Ever since Tobey Maguire squeezed into his spider-suit in 2002’s Spider-Man, the web-slinger has been a mainstay on the big screen. With the arrival of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, we decided to rank every spider-movie that’s come out since then. Related You can argue, but these are the best movie sequels ever made It’s difficult for a sequel to surpass the original, but sometimes, that’s exactly what happens. 11. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Runt of the spider-litter Credit: Sony Of the four series of…

ChatGPT may not be my most-used AI tool, but I still rely on it a lot for tasks that it excels at. For instance, features like voice chat and quicker responses often make ChatGPT the first app that I reach out to rather than, say, Gemini or Claude. Recently, though, I’ve been using one of ChatGPT’s newer features to do more than chat with an AI — monitor things on the web that I don’t want to do manually. After two weeks of using this feature in the Schedule section of ChatGPT, I feel as though I have a proactive…

Flego. That’s the disparaging term our household long used for plastic bricks not made by the leading Danish brand, but often available online for a fraction of the price. No sooner would Lego release a new set than Chinese manufacturers like Lepin would reveal they’d long had their photocopiers fired up. They’d churn out their own versions, barely concealing wanton IP infringement by way of cunning ‘rebrands’ like the infamous ‘Star Wnrs’ universe. And you got what you paid for. The minifigs were janky. The bricks were sometimes worse. Parts were often missing – as were any instruction manuals.  As…

If you’ve ever paid $30 plus to access in-flight Wi-Fi, only for it to drop out for at least half of the time you’re in the air, I can’t even begin to tell you how much you will appreciate Starlink. I’ll admit, I boarded my Virgin Atlantic flight with very low expectations of it. Despite being told (very excitedly, I might add) by a fellow journalist that our plane to San Francisco was an A350-1000, which consequently made it one of 12 Virgin Atlantic planes to have the technology installed, I was far from convinced it would be a better experience…

There was a famous infomercial in the late 1990s in the U.S. about the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie. The pitchman would talk about how you could load up the cooking machine with food and then “set it and forget it.” That motto and principle have been used in tech for years, as devices want to make it easy on the users. They don’t want them to worry about making adjustments by making the factory settings good enough for most people. Unfortunately, for consumers, sometimes this isn’t the best thing. In fact, anybody who has adjusted the settings of their computer, headphones,…

Pop open any watch buying guide or news story (like the brilliant ones on our site) and you’ll be hit with a wall of jargon you’re expected to just… know. Tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater – it sounds like a foreign language, because in a lot of ways, it is. A “complication” is watch-speak for any function beyond simply telling the time. Some are genuinely useful, while some are showing off. Most are a bit of both. Here’s what each watch complication actually does, and why it costs what it costs. Chronograph The chronograph is the complication you’ve almost certainly…

There’s no question that Yellowstone (and all the shows that spun off from it) is the premiere TV western of the last 10 years. But that doesn’t mean it’s the best. In fact, there are quite a few western TV shows that beat Yellowstone at its own game. Chief among them is the modern classic Godless, one of the best miniseries to ever come out on Netflix. Godless is the best western TV show of the 21st century So far, anyway All seven episodes of Godless dropped on Netflix in 2027. Set years after the end of the Civil War,…

Parental controls settings are rather complicated, whatever device you have. Even Apple’s iPhone and iPad Screen Time features are not the most simple thing to navigate. But beyond the thorny issue of time limits, there’s one issue that could actually cost you big money – and that’s the problem of app purchasing and the accompanying menace of in-app purchases. We’ve all heard the horror stories of children running up huge bills. One girl ran up a $11,400/£8500 bill on Apple’s App Store for example. But will bills of that severity are somewhat unlikely, there’s one setting you absolutely must check,…

The best fitness trackers, smartwatches and health apps promise to help us move more, eat better, and understand exactly what our bodies are doing. They count every step, analyse every workout, and record every calorie we eat. But does any of it actually work? I’ve used plenty of it myself over the years, from a Garmin watch and treadmill desk, to calorie-tracking apps and connected bathroom scales. Together, they’ve helped me understand my habits, measure progress, and saved my brain from having to think about all this stuff too much. None of these tools does the actual work for you,…