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Smart TVs have become more powerful every year, yet most of us barely use a fraction of what they can do. We just stick to streaming and maybe even watching YouTube Shorts. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but smart TVs are capable of much more than that. With the right apps and perhaps a few accessories, your smart TV can be the most versatile device you own. It can help you browse the internet, play your favorite games without a console, act as a smart dashboard, and even function as a desktop PC. It’s all about installing the…

If I had a penny for every time rumours claimed an Apple games controller was imminent, I’d have, well, a small pile of pennies. But some of them would be pretty old, because this rumour just won’t die. Each time you think it’s gone, it pops back up. This time, Apple Rumour Parper in Chief Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg that Apple will lurk cunningly behind its Beats brand while unleashing a pair of controllers, codenamed T6502 and T1057. Or maybe they’re Terminators. Definitely one of those. Anyway, why would anyone want an Apple (or Beats) game controller? And what…

Summary GPT-6 Astra streamed Minecraft 141 hours, built a semi-automatic blaze farm and got Ender Pearls. A Creeper blew up its storage chest; Astra lost loot, then stalled and farmed potatoes. The run shows LLMs can plan complex tasks but fail on surprises — they need controlled environments and recovery plans. X (Twitter) has been flooded today with memes about ChatGPT playing Minecraft on a livestream for 141 hours. According to a post by its evaluator, Vals AI, GPT-6 Astra got much farther than any other AI model it had previously tested. Reportedly, OpenAI’s latest model managed to set up…

Welcome to our pick of the best cheap gifts for anyone who wants their presents to feel thoughtful, without turning December into a financial endurance test. And despite what you think, you really can give someone a meaningful, memorable gift, without spending hundreds. Take our budget-conscious picks here – there’s a buildable blast from Sega’s past that’s bound to get any millennial weepy-eyed, a satisfyingly manual route to homemade butter, and a neat fix for noisy keys. How’s that for diversity? Each one brings a distinct little improvement, pleasure or talking point – exactly what a good gift should do,…

Between your phone, bills, food, fuel, and all the streaming services, another monthly subscription probably isn’t high on your wish list – especially when the thing asking for your money already lets you use it for free. Like, incidentally, free AI. Paid AI can be worth it, though. If it helps you finish work or get through the admin you keep putting off, there’s a reasonable case for making room in the budget. The question is whether you need the paid version to do any of that. I’ve ChatGPT and Claude as examples here, but the same questions apply to…

Summary BOOX launches three Android 16 ePaper devices: Note Air6 C, Note Mini C, and Palma 3. Note Air6 C (10.3-inch color) and Note Mini C (8.5-inch) offer stylus, multitasking, 6GB RAM; Air6 ~$580. Palma 3: phone-sized B&W reader with deeper blacks, 128GB, stylus; Android lets you run apps beyond Kindle. Onyx BOOX just dropped three new ePaper devices, adding to their Note and Palma lines. If you’re tired of staring at LCD screens, these might be for you. The new lineup includes the Note Air6 C, Palma 3, and Note Mini C, all running Android 16 with either color…

I yawned four times just writing the headline for this article. Once because my third coffee had worn off, once because my dog yawned at me first (rude), and twice because simply typing the word “yawn” is apparently enough to trigger one. If you’ve caught yourself yawning in the last thirty seconds while reading this intro, I’m terribly sorry, but also welcome to the club. For something we all do several times a day, nobody seems to agree on why we do it. The oxygen theory you might have heard at school was tested and rejected decades ago (I know,…

Tom Cruise is easily one of the biggest movie stars alive today, and he’s been at it a long while. From Risky Business and Top Gun in the 1980s, to A Few Good Men and Jerry MaGuire in the 1990s, to Minority Report and War of the Worlds in the 2000s, to the Mission: Impossible movies of the 2010s, to the giant success of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022, the guy has never slowed down. Even the lesser movies in his catalog still slap decades later. One of those lesser known movies, 2003’s The Last Samurai, has suddenly exploded on…

Summary Automated morning newspaper prints emails and calendar as a broadsheet, so you can skip morning screens. Uses a Grok bot template to fetch emails/calendar, builds a printable PDF, and prints via Wi‑Fi printer before waking. Setup is easy but needs a Wi‑Fi printer, a running PC, Grok account, and it can eat free‑trial token limits. I know I’m not the only person desperately trying to create a healthier morning routine for myself. At the moment, I wake up, scroll for an hour, then roll out of bed to start work. But this latest invention by creative technologist Karen Cheng…

YouTube TV has more than doubled in price since its 2017 launch. When it first hit our screens, it was expensive, at $35, but it offered a substantial array of movies, shows, and more. But now, YouTube TV costs $83 per month. It’s time to hit the cancel button and move to these much cheaper YouTube TV alternatives. Related No login, no fees, these free movie sites still work in 2026 Yes, you can still stream movies with no strings attached. Free TV streaming services Free streaming, free media server Justin Duino/MakeUseOfCredit: Justin Duino/MakeUseOf It doesn’t get cheaper than free, and…