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The low entry price and no-commitment approach of streaming services makes them attractive to budget-conscious buyers. Buying a digital copy or physical release of one movie could cost the same as an entire month’s worth of a video streaming service. This leads to the misconception that physical media is an expensive hobby, and streaming is cheap. In reality, you could end up spending more in the long run on monthly subscriptions than it would cost to own the media you truly care about. The barrier of entry to owning physical media has never been smaller. A $10 Blu-ray player from…

Music streaming became mainstream a decade ago, and the top streaming services have over a billion users combined. Prices keep rising, and platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, or Amazon Music need to deliver new features to justify the added cost. For music fans that crave the highest possible quality, streaming services have marketed lossless and spatial audio as upgrades over lossy stereo. The platforms didn’t stop there — beyond CD-quality lossless music, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music offer “high-resolution” or “hi-res” lossless files. High-resolution lossless music streaming looks great on a spec sheet, but it offers few practical…

At WWDC 2026, Apple didn’t even bother to provide ‘new feature’ cards for iOS and macOS. Instead, updates were grouped into themes: ‘oops Liquid Glass’, ‘think of the children’ and ‘AI! AI! MOAR AI!’ So tvOS – often the forgotten child of Apple’s operating system family – never stood a chance. There was no painfully short segment featuring an Apple exec trying very hard to sound excited. And although the Apple TV platform wasn’t ignored entirely, the revealed tvOS 27 updates were meagre: smoother app launches, a refreshed Podcasts app and a setting to adjust system text size. If rumours are true,…

We’ve all heard the advice that a wired Ethernet connection is better than a wireless one. Even if you’re using the latest Wi-Fi 7 gear, direct Ethernet cables will win in speed, reliability, and bandwidth every time. Understanding this concept is one thing, but actually implementing it in your home is another. There are many obstacles to wiring devices to Ethernet that stop people from taking entire rooms off Wi-Fi. I used to connect my main computer and Apple TV to Ethernet, and leave everything else on Wi-Fi. As an apartment dweller, I only had a single RJ45 jack available…

When you want to get utterly and completely lost in a book series, there are no genres like sci-fi or fantasy, which are full of long, detailed series guaranteed to keep you busy for weeks. But not every author finishes their grand epic saga. Octavia E. Butler never completed her Earthseed Series, and Douglas Adams never wrote more adventures in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Happily, plenty of authors were able to bring their stories home. The Expanse by James S. A. Corey 2011-2021 Credit: Orbit The Expanse is a series of nine books set a few hundred years…

I love a new set of headphones, and I love a bargain even more. So when I saw the FiiO EH13 headphones with LDAC and ANC popping up on my socials, I was immediately hooked. And now, after using them for a week, I’m blown away with the quality that FiiO has managed to pack into these $50 cans — but they’re not completely without fault, as you’ll see. Related I’ve reviewed dozens of wireless earbuds, and this is my go-to pair I have reviewed dozens of wireless earbuds in the past year, dozens more through my career, and these…

Every year, one of the world’s largest and most impressive collections of cars and bikes rocks up to a posh country house in the English countryside; with motorsport great and classics rubbing shoulders with the latest EVs, the Goodwood Festival of Speed should be on every car nut’s bucket list. This year’s show was a scorcher, with the usually luscious green lawns having turned to straw halfway through the first day – but that didn’t stop the car world from turning out in force with a bunch of upcoming and newly-revealed models. These are the new arrivals that stood out…

Late last year Apple debuted a second version of the Vision Pro headset with the latest M5 chip – but when will we get a genuine successor? Apple Vision Pro was in the works for a long time and was finally announced in 2023. But the reaction from both users and developers has been somewhat underwhelming over the last couple of years, even if the technology on board has to be experienced to be believed (the Wall Street Journal published a particular damning article from users’ perspectives). What it can do is simply incredible. After all, the M5 version is…

Apple’s September event is usually the fruit company’s biggest consumer hardware moment of the year, and the 2026 version looks set to follow that tradition with a new range of iPhones. Yet there may be some key differences this time around… For one, it’s not just phones. Whispers suggest Apple could unveil its first proper HomeKit security camera, a beefed-up Apple Watch Ultra 4 with a built-in fingerprint scanner, and even AirPods packing infrared cameras that let Siri see what you’re looking at. It’s shaping up to be one of Apple’s most interesting Septembers in years – here’s everything we…

I’m a longtime Android Auto user, and one of the things I enjoy most about it is how much control it gives me. Over time, I’ve tweaked the interface, experimented with different apps, and shaped the experience to fit exactly how I use my car. It has really turned my dashboard into something more useful than just a screen for navigation and music. But as good as Android Auto already is, I couldn’t resist digging a little deeper. I went looking for apps that fly under the radar — tools and services that don’t get talked about nearly enough. What…