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Summary NASA’s free e-book library is nonfiction treasure—mission reports, engineering manuals, and stunning Hubble images. Files come in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI — easy to load on Kindle, Kobo, iPad, or read on phone/computer. Expect nonfiction, not sci-fi — gorgeous coffee-table books and mission manuals show real cosmic wonder. Craving your next sci-fi fix? NASA’s official e-book library might sound like a treasure trove of science fiction tales, but it’s actually an awesome nonfiction collection that lets you delve into the realities of space travel. Rather than science fiction stories, this open-access repository offers celestial history, engineering blueprints, and high-resolution…
This December, Dune: Part Three will drop into theaters opposite Avengers: Doomsday, a match-up that should be great fun to watch. It’s the final film in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movie trilogy, and is poised to be an ever bigger deal than the first two. It also stands a good chance of ending the trilogy on a bum note. Denis Villeneuve’s movies finally do Dune right It was a long time coming Although it wasn’t an instant hit upon release in 1965, it only took a few years for Frank Herbert’s Dune to become a bestselling book. Dune tells the story…
The internet has settled on a grim nickname for what has become, in essence, my favourite pair of walking headphones: “pervert glasses”. That’s awkward, because headphones really are what my Ray-Ban Metas mostly are to me. Most of the time, I use them as open-ear headphones while walking around town or through the woods near my home. I average around 20,000 steps a day, and I can still hear cars, cyclists, and other people around me. They sound much better than the bone-conduction headphones I’ve tried, too. Occasionally, I’ll listen to an audiobook or YouTube video instead, and they help…
Summary PocketBook Q: phone-sized 5.84-inch E Ink e-reader, 130g for effortless one-handed reading. Distraction-free Linux OS, blocks notifications; supports 25 formats and Libby for library loans. Month-long battery, 32GB, Bluetooth and TTS for audiobooks; splash-proof; $235/€199/£175, preorders Sept. PocketBook is launching a brand-new, highly portable e-reader at the Innovation For All (IFA) 2026 conference in Berlin (4th to 8th September) called the PocketBook Q. Can this tiny e-reader go head-to-head with the smartphone? PocketBook is hoping so. I know I’m not the only one who opens my Kindle app, determined to do some reading, only to get sucked into doomscrolling…
For anyone strolling around with an iPhone, the Apple Watch Ultra 3 is a great rugged smartwatch. It offers a solid design and a fantastic user experience. Its battery life won’t challenge most Garmin watches to a duel, but it’s the best you’ll get in an Apple Watch. Compared with the Apple Watch Series 11, the Watch Ultra 3 has an Action Button for quick access to a feature of your choice (within reason), a brighter, flatter display, and a larger case size, resulting in a larger screen. It also offers Emergency SOS via Satellite. It is not perfect, though.…
Everything is getting more expensive nowadays, from your supermarket shop to mobile and broadband prices, nothing is safe from inflation. Not even your trusty video doorbell subscription. Let’s be honest, the fact that some smart speakers and smart doorbells require a monthly subscription is a crazy concept in itself – imagine trying to explain that to yourself ten years ago. And, it’s not just Ring, from Google and Arlo, most of the models in our best video doorbells guide require a monthly fee to unlock all of the features. If you’ve had enough of monthly fees and price increases, we’ve…
On my journey to find some of the most random pieces of cheap tech on the internet, I stumbled across a $50 projector that seemed to promise the Moon. Truth be told, the $50 price tag was already tempting enough for me, and I was curious to see what it was really capable of. After all, it’s a surprising (if not crazy low) price of entry for a projector that can go up to several hundred degrees, and I fully expected the worst. Imagine my surprise when it exceeded my expectations. The projector isn’t perfect for sure, but it is…
Like many long-time VLC users, I open the app and default to hitting the Play button. However, there’s a Stream option that has always been around, which turns the tool into the source. This is almost the opposite of hitting Play. Without copying a single file, it can make a movie on your desktop appear on phones, tablets, or other devices in your home. It doesn’t require installing a separate media server, and the content doesn’t touch the cloud. Since I found this option, local sharing has stopped feeling like a project. Related How to Watch Plex in VLC (and…
I’d never given much thought to how to change Alexa’s name. Like most smart speaker owners, we’d set up the Amazon Echo Show 10 in our kitchen, accepted its default name, and spent years addressing it as Alexa. Then, while my partner was away for work, my son and I decided it would be funny to change its name without telling her. Amazon doesn’t let you choose any name you like, sadly, but Ziggy was one of the available options. We made the switch and waited for her to return, ready to enjoy the confusion when Alexa suddenly stopped listening…
Summary Duck.ai now offers GPT-5.6 Luna as its default free model, with no account or login required. DuckDuckGo anonymizes prompts and lets users switch between models including Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small 4, and Gemma 4. Duck.ai offers greater model variety than privacy-focused rivals, although Lumo or Confer may be safer for highly sensitive conversations. Using a big-name AI model normally means creating another account and trusting its developer with whatever you type. Duck.ai has offered a convenient way around that for a while, but its older free models made privacy come with a fairly noticeable performance compromise. Thankfully, that…