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It’s hard to predict what will blow up on Netflix. Sometimes a hotly anticipated new release will make a big splash as expected, and at other times a show no one has heard of can come out of nowhere to dominate the ratings. That’s what happened with Elite Force, a French action series that dropped its first season on July 22. The show became the number one most-watched Netflix series in the world, and now it’s getting ready for more. What is Elite Force about? Welcome to the GIGN Credit: Tim @ Netflix Elite Force follows members of the GIGN, which…

By now, you’re likely familiar with (and tired of) AI tools making up things and confidently presenting them to you in a way that makes you second-guess what’s real. I am too. However, I wanted to flip that around. Instead of catching an AI in a lie, I decided to tell Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini the same lie just to see how difficult it would be to take it back once it stuck. From blank slate to total recall When AI tools were still in their honeymoon phase, they weren’t any good at personalization. All you could really do was…

Introduction I’ve been mightily impressed with the recent crop of electric cars I’ve had from Mercedes-Benz. The GLC 400 4MATIC electric is no different: this sizeable premium electric SUV offers lots of space and the ever-impressive array of interior tech that’s a standout feature across the current Merc range. However, it’s also a sensible option that didn’t provide me with quite the same levels of excitement as key rivals including the excellent BMW iX3 or Porsche Macan Electric. Nevertheless the electric GLC has great foundations, sitting on the same MB.EA dedicated EV platform (albeit in a midsize format) as the…

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…