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More often than not, AI chatbots are like our saviors—helping us draft messages, refine essays, or tackle our dreadful research. Yet, these imperfect innovations have caused outright hilarity by churning out some truly baffling responses. 1 When Google’s AI Overviews Encouraged Us to Put Glue on Pizza (and More) Not long after Google’s AI Overview feature launched in 2024, it started making some peculiar suggestions. Among the nuggets of advice it offered was this head-scratcher: add non-toxic glue to your pizza. Yes, you read that right. Glue. On pizza. This particular tip caused an uproar on social media. Wild memes…
The year known as 2024 has brought us some great, and not so great, gadgets. We’re not haters, though. The whole idea is that we’re positive about great tech. And testing out a lot of gadgets and gear is part of the job at Stuff. Indeed, it could well be argued that it is the job, given what this website is all about. So the Stuff team has picked our favourite items, gadgets and gizmos that got us through the year. Enjoy our festive selection box. Dan Grabham, Editor-in-Chief Although I loved finally getting my hands on Apple’s Vision Pro, it’s a…
Listening to music in high-resolution (Hi-Res) doesn’t have to cost a fortune. With a few smart choices and simple upgrades, you can dramatically improve your audio experience without splurging on expensive equipment. 1 Download and Play Lossless Audio Formats anokato/Shutterstock If the audio itself is highly compressed, it doesn’t matter that your hardware is expensive or your audio setup was professionally installed. There are many different audio formats. If you want to listen to Hi-Res music, you must listen to lossless audio formats. Although compressed audio formats like MP3 and M4A require less storage and are conveniently available in all…
The best iPhone and iPad photography apps Presets Snapseed lets you save a stack of edits as a custom filter (or ‘look’, as Google puts it). Handy. Apple Photos does not. Fortunately, Presets heroically fills the void. Make edits in Photos, go to … > Copy Edits, and switch to Presets. The app spots what you copied and lets you stash the edit. Prior saved edits – and dozens of bundled free presets – can be arranged in collections. With a tap, you can add one to the clipboard, ready to send back to Photos and apply to a snap via…
Join us in toasting Sonic’s 25th birthday with a nostalgic trip down Mega Drive lane… It’s been over 30 years since Sonic the Hedgehog’s loop-the-loops and pinball speed revolutionised our console lives. Before the little blue cannonball burst onto the scene in 1991, the Mega Drive was struggling to lure us from the charms of the Nintendo NES and a certain mustachioed plumber. But that all changed thanks to an incident on the technicolour South Island. With his eye on the island’s six Chaos Emeralds, Dr. Robotnik started imprisoning local animals and (naturally) turning them into robots. Sonic came spinning from…
Tablets might let you tote around a collection of tomes, but backlit pixels aren’t the best for bookworms. If you want a portable library without any eye strain, then the best e-readers go easy on your eyes by impersonating paper. With E Ink displays that imitate printed words, e-readers offer a more natural reading experience and many are lighter than a paperback, too. Some e-readers are even waterproof for summer beach reads, and some even feature built-in backlights for gentle illumination – so you won’t need a torch if book club runs past bedtime. Tempted to digitise your reading list?…
Taking a Jeep Wrangler on a family holiday to the Isle of Wight was an inspired idea – or so I thought. I’ve always been a fan of the Wrangler’s rugged charm, and the promise of open-air drives under the summer sun was irresistible. Yet, by the end of the trip, I found myself torn between singing its praises and muttering frustrations. Let’s start with the good. Few vehicles have the presence of a Jeep Wrangler. Mine was painted in a bold Firecracker Red, and it turned heads everywhere we went. The design is iconic – square-jawed, unapologetically adventurous, and…
Smart TVs are changing how we all enjoy entertainment, and AI is taking that to the next level. From better picture and sound quality to voice control and so much more, these AI-powered features are making smart TVs so much better! Better Voice Control and Interaction Thanks to AI-driven virtual assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant, smart TVs now offer a far better quality of voice control and interaction than even a few years ago. That means you can search for movies, adjust the volume, or even check the weather and other mundane tasks, all with simple voice commands. AI-powered…
The Steam Deck has been with us for several years now. In that time, we’ve spent countless hours messing about with Valve’s undoubtedly flawed but extremely exciting first-gen handheld gaming console. A lot of our issues with the original handheld have been addressed with the recently released Steam Deck OLED. This replaced the first Steam Deck‘s solid but unspectacular LCD display with an awesome HDR OLED panel. It also squeezes a bit more battery life out of the machine. And while there are now several rival handheld gaming PCs that are more powerful than the Deck, such as the Asus…
Summary Spotify Wrapped 2024 includes an AI-generated podcast by Google’s NotebookLM app. The AI hosts in the podcast discuss your Spotify Wrapped stats and musical journey. The AI podcast may be a little underwhelming, but the technology is still a work in progress. If you haven’t yet listened to Spotify’s AI-generated podcast all about your Wrapped for 2024, you really should. While it may not quite blow you away as intended, it’s still worth seeing what all the fuss is about. After all, artificial intelligence isn’t going away anytime soon, so we may as well see exactly what it’s capable…