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Summary September Kindle drops span cozy romance to epic fantasy and gritty crime, perfect for autumn nights. Sept 29: Grim Tidings (cozy supernatural romance) and Threshing Day (Empyrean dragon stories) land. Lots more indie thrillers and books to pre-order for everyone. Autumn leaves are falling, nights are getting longer, and it’s the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a cozy night in reading a new book. The Amazon Kindle Store in September 2026 has plenty of new titles. Whatever you’re looking for—a warm romantic comedy, moody historical fiction, gritty crime or a visit to your favourite fantasy world—there’s something to…
On August 25, 2026, singer, songwriter, actor, philanthropist, and all-around delightful person Dolly Parton died at the age of 80. Parton started her career in the 1960s and spent the next several decades building a reputation not just as an entertainer, but also someone who deeply cared about their fellow man. To that end, she made several important contributions to the scientific community, not to mention having a hand in a couple of great sci-fi/fantasy shows. She appeared in The Orville They still love Dolly Parton 400 years in the future Probably Dolly Parton’s best cameo appearance comes in The…
The Game Boy Advance was where it started to go wrong. I bought a flash cart to dabble in the burgeoning homebrew scene and discovered there were emulators for Nintendo’s handheld. I’d dabbled in emulation before on the PC and Mac, but the thought of carrying around chunks of gaming’s history in my pocket? Well. It’s probably not a great admission to say it became a bit of an obsession, but… it became a bit of an obsession. On the Game Boy Advance, there were huge technical limitations, due to the hardware’s piddling performance and dinky screen resolution. But my…
Greek mythology has inspired entertainment through poetry, novels, songs, and plays since time immemorial, and this influence endures in the age of film. While some movies, such as Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, attempt to retell ancient tales faithfully, others borrow their characters, themes, and structures, transplanting them into wildly different settings. So wild, in fact, that they are sometimes difficult to spot. 7 Shakespeare adaptations you didn’t know were Shakespeare adaptations From sci-fi to horror to romantic comedy, the works of William Shakespeare have been made over in many different ways. The Lighthouse A nightmare inspired by Prometheus and Proteus…
If you’ve ever tumbled down a YouTube/Instagram/TikTok rabbit hole, you’ll definitely have spotted at least one DJI Osmo Pocket: the compact gimbal-stabilised camera is a content creator’s best friend. Well what if one of those had a baby with an Honor Magic8 Pro? You’d get something like the Honor Robot Phone – possibly the most exciting new handset I’ve tried so far in 2026. While unassuming from the front, this oddball handset is hiding a gimbal of its own, letting its high pixel count sensor capture the sort of steady footage no other phone can hope to match. It also…
I often wear more than one smart ring at a time. Not because I’m so data-obsessed that I need three rings and a smartwatch to tell me what I already suspected (that I slept badly), but because I’m usually testing and comparing different models. They aren’t all that subtle, though, so along with the occasional dodgy look (fair enough, I do look like I’m wearing knuckle dusters), people often ask whether a smart ring is worth it and what they are supposed to track. Whether it’s worth it depends entirely on the kind of person you are. If you want…
Does extraterrestrial life exist? Well, the universe is impossibly vast and the great majority of it is unexplored, so the odds are good. But we have yet to actually see any proof. That’s where science fiction authors come in. Writers have been imagining what first contact might look like for decades, and the best books tend to be those where the alien species are stranger than most humans are even capable of imagining. Remembrance of Earth’s Past The Trisolarans are coming Credit: Tor Books Let’s start with a well-known example. The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy is widely celebrated series of…
I still think about the shed. Not because it’s some dazzling piece of production design — it’s a plain, dusty backyard shed in rural Illinois, the kind you’d walk past without a second glance. But open the trapdoor inside it, ride the elevator down, and you step out onto an alien planet below a sky that never quite looks like ours. That image is the whole pitch for Night Sky, and it’s why I burned through all eight episodes over a long weekend in 2022, convinced I’d found the next big thing on Prime Video. Six weeks later, Amazon canceled…
When Valve announced the Steam Machine, there was a lot of dismay (and rightfully so) over its price, and it was possible to even assemble a more powerful PC for roughly the same budget. But specs only tell half of the story. The Steam Machine also has a bunch of other tricks up its sleeve, something which many will find expensive (or in some cases, outright impossible) to implement. Whether it’s the custom, tiny Mini-ITX form factor or the whisper-quiet, low-power internals, the Steam Machine still excels in a few areas. One of these areas would be HDMI-CEC support —…
Summary Operation Bluebird is reviving the Twitter name with a new social network unaffiliated with X Corp. Twitter.now charges $20 for early access, but its terms do not guarantee that you can keep your chosen handle. Free alternatives such as Bluesky already offer a familiar Twitter-like experience without charging for usernames. Twitter is back, or, at least the name is. Operation Bluebird has opened early access to twitter.now, a new social network that promises to rebuild the town square around trust and user control. Paying $20 supposedly makes you a “Founder,” gets you in before the public, locks your handle,…