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Recording a meeting on your phone is easy. Turning an hour of mind-numbing corporate chat filled with nonsense phrases like “circling back”, “moving the needle” and *shudders* “cadence” into a useful set of notes – complete with decisions, deadlines and jobs for everyone involved – is considerably less appealing. And that’s where AI notetakers come in. Most look like unusually slim voice recorders, wearable pins, or even wireless earbuds, and come with an app where the magic happens – AI can transcribe the conversation, identify speakers, and turn everything into a structured summary. Some AI notetakers can also extract action…
Summary Boox rumored to release four new devices, led by the pocket-friendly Palma Palma 3 reportedly uses E Ink Carta 1300 for deeper blacks, 25% faster refresh and snappier pen input. Other models: Note Air6 C (Android 16), Tab Elite for power users, Note Mini C color e-paper; possible Oct launch. Boox, the popular e-reader alternative to Kindle, is rumored to be releasing four new devices, with the highly anticipated Boox Palma 3 leading the line. Earlier models like the Palma 2 were perfect if you were in the market for a pocket-sized e-reader, thanks to their smartphone-style design. But…
Reading fantasy novels is fun and absorbing, but the genre has its problems. For one thing, some series are so long — e.g. Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Wheel of Time — that reading them can basically become a full-time job, and not everybody has that kind of time. The genre is also plagued by unfinished series. Fans have been waiting years for George R.R. Martin to finish writing The Winds of Winter, for example, or for Patrick Rothfuss to complete The Doors of Stone. When you’re tired of unfinished series and don’t have time to devote to a…
Without waxing nostalgic, there are some fantastic vintage watches out there, from the undiscovered to the iconic, unimpeachably timeless to painfully of their time. And while the modern watch release slate continues ever on, sometimes it’s worth taking a step back from the latest 1000m dive watch to see what older timepieces can offer. In this current climate of endless heritage throwbacks, vintage watches are more in the spotlight than ever before – and if you’ve yet to explore why, then allow me to enlighten you with five reasons vintage watches are better than new. Image credit: Everywatch 1. Unsurpassed…
Apple’s next major product category expansion is rumoured to be the smart home. In the immediate term we’ll likely see more advanced versions of products we’re familiar with, like Siri AI-infused Apple TV and HomePod models. The first brand new product is likely to be Apple’s first ever smart display – a kitchen counter style device that’ll set the table for all that’ll follow. We’re known about all of these things for a while, and reports say they’ve been gathering dust while Apple gets its Siri ducks in a generative AI row. Moving forward is where it gets interesting. The…
For 27 years, Concorde made a mockery of time. Leave London, cross the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, and land in New York before your watch caught up with the time difference, arriving (on paper) before you’d even technically left. Then, in October 2003, its time was up. Concorde flew its last commercial route – BA002 from JFK to London – and was wheeled into retirement, done in not by a lack of ambition but by a multitude of problems. Over two decades later, three separate programmes believe they’ve identified where Concorde went wrong and are working to…
Audiophiles are always searching for better sound quality, but you don’t need to upgrade your gear to enjoy a sharper listening experience. Optimizing the audio gear you already own is more important than discovering the products you’re planning to buy next. Acoustics and speaker placement are crucial elements of any great listening room — and they can be the hardest to master. I made a handful of speaker placement mistakes while building a Dolby Atmos home theater in my living room, and you can learn from these five pitfalls. Related I finally added Dolby Atmos to my home theater without…
I’ve been paying for the Pro versions of both Claude and ChatGPT, and after using them extensively, one question keeps coming back: which one would I actually trust if I gave it a job and let it get on with it? That’s exactly what I wanted to find out with Claude’s Cowork and ChatGPT’s Work. After giving them a fair shot, I came away with a surprisingly clear winner — and, more importantly, I finally know which one I’d spend my money on. Related These 5 Claude prompts turned my plain-text research into something people actually want to read From…
Now and then, AI models like ChatGPT and Claude surprise me with their answers. Not in the conventional sense of being good or bad, but sometimes they’re so unexpected that I fear we may be headed toward the plot of the 2004 film I, Robot. While that’s unlikely to happen, ethics is a real concern for AI models, especially since most people use chatbots daily for crucial tasks in law, medicine, and other fields. I’ve already benchmarked the most famous models against each other to find out what they’d do in a fictional scenario involving an impossible ethical dilemma, and…
Summary Stuff Your Kindle Day: Sept 1–2, 2026 — 48 hours of free thriller, suspense, and horror e-books. Downloads are permanently free—no trials or catches; they don’t count against Kindle Unlimited borrows. Visit Book Below on Sept 1, click titles to grab free copies—they drop into your Kindle library forever. If your reading list needs a darker, more gripping edge for the change in seasons, great news! The next major Stuff Your Kindle Day event is right around the corner, where you can pick up free thriller and horror books for your Kindle. Hosted by Book Below, the upcoming Thrill,…