Author: Press Room
Your smart TV hangs on the wall in your living room, pride of place. Most folks, myself included, don’t really think about it beyond what I want to watch in the evening, once my hands are finally unglued from a keyboard. You wouldn’t be wrong to do exactly the same after a long old day. But the news that over 200 million LG TVs were reportedly hoovering up data while in standby mode really got me thinking about how else my smart TV could be breaching my privacy without me realizing. And then it dawned on me: my model has…
Google TV is one of the best operating systems around, but I can’t say the same for its home screen experience. It’s cluttered, and half the time, you’re just scrolling through sponsored content or watching suggestions from services you don’t even subscribe to. The worst part here is the lack of control. There’s no real way to fix any of this from within Google TV’s own settings. The good news is that there are enough third-party launcher apps that solve this problem. I’ve tried almost all the popular options, but these four are the only ones worth your time. FLauncher…
You don’t need to read the name on the dial to understand the innate quality of a watch. Beautiful design, exceptional finishing, specs that border the improbable, you pay for more than the label. Or do you? More and more often, watchmakers are offering timepieces that seem to completely outclass their price tags; the kind of models that you could quite easily convince less informed collectors are worth an extra decimal point than you paid. We’re talking skeletonization, guilloche and retro style ripped out of a vintage catalogue – all for prices that make you wonder what the catch is.…
Summary Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger believes AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade. Today’s more immediate AI threats include autonomous security breaches, increasingly convincing scams, and possible declines in unaided critical-thinking performance. Protect yourself by securing personal data and using AI selectively instead of outsourcing every task — and your underlying skills — to it. An Anthropic safety researcher says he believes there’s a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all within the next decade. Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s Alignment Science team, made the extraordinary estimate after his colleague Jacob…
My Roku Streaming Stick 4K has sat on Auto since the day I plugged it into my LG OLED. I never questioned it because Auto sounds like the setting a company chooses when its engineers have already solved the problem for you. Besides, with all the free Roku content, why would I second-guess a default? And then it happened. During a movie, half a conversation disappeared during a fight scene, and I had to rewind twice to catch what I’d missed. A few nights after that, a swell in a soundtrack on another film turned into something closer to static…
The iPhone Duo is here. If you fancy spending as much as a MacBook Pro on a bend-o-phone with an Apple logo, boy are you going to want to save up your pennies before the 16 October pre-order date. But now that an iPhone can multitask, letting you use more than one app at once, maybe you don’t even need a Mac now, right? And definitely not an iPad? Spoiler: wrong. Second spoiler: I’m miffed about this, because so many other decisions Apple made about the iPhone Duo software are really good. I know. Usually, I’m grumpy, cynical and jaded. I’d normally…
One of this year’s hottest upcoming phone series has just been revealed. Yes, it’s time for the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max (as well as the iPhone Duo), but as you’ll hear, it isn’t time for the standard iPhone 18 – yet. What’s the difference this year? For some time now, reports have suggested that Apple would break its regular yearly cycle of iPhone launches as it juggles with multiple different models of iPhone and smartphone development slows down year-to-year. So we have a premium-only iPhone lineup coming this year, in the shape of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18…
After months, possibly even years of speculation, Apple has finally thrown its hat into the foldable phone ring. The Apple iPhone Duo has been officially revealed and will shortly be going on sale to do battle with the Android-powered competition – which have, until now, had the class to themselves. Rather than do the traditional tall and thin thing, however, Apple has gone for a wider style of fold. That puts it squarely up against one major name: Samsung. While Asian audiences have a little more choice here, the Galaxy Z Fold8 is the only wide foldable currently on sale…
Like clockwork, Apple used its September event to show off a new iPhone generation – except 2026 took a break from the norm by focusing entirely on the iPhone 18 Pro and all-new iPhone Duo foldable phone, leaving the regular iPhone to stick around a little longer than expected. The biggest news was of course the iPhone Duo, but we also got a more in-depth look at Siri AI; AirPods 5 brought active noise cancellation to the firm’s open fit in-ears; and the Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 went hard on fitness improvements. While the event took…
Apple has taken the wraps off Apple Watch Ultra 4, and it’s a big leap that we’ve been waiting for. There’s a new health sensing system, genuinely useful AI features baked into the microphone, and battery life long enough to make plenty of dedicated GPS watches *cough* Garmin *cough* nervous. I’ve gone through Apple’s announcement and pulled out the ten things that you need to know about, whether you’re due an upgrade or just Apple Ultra-curious. 1. It has the most accurate heart rate sensing Apple’s ever made Apple Watch Ultra 4 is built around a new ‘Health Sensing System’,…