Author: Press Room
Choosing the best iPhone used to be easy. With the original, you picked a storage size. A year later, there were colour options too. (Well, black or white.) Then – boom – you owned one of the best smartphones on the planet. Now? You’re faced with an increasingly complex selection of shiny new iPhones and last-generation stragglers. Our guide is here to cut through the noise. We’ll spell out who each currently shipping iPhone is best for, dig into the highs and lows, point you towards the ideal older iPhone for kids, and tackle common questions that might otherwise derail…
Forgotten someone important? The best last-minute Christmas gift ideas can be bought online and delivered almost instantly. Better yet, each one feels more thoughtful than anything you can pick up at the petrol station. From subscriptions to gift cards, we’ve rounded up our top instant presents in the list below – each capable of saving the festivities at the eleventh hour. And each less disastrous than any DIY gift you might try to rustle up on Christmas Eve. Check out our full list of the best Christmas gadget gift ideas for every tech fan Still got time for Prime? We’ve…
iOS 26.2 is now out and the new version of the iPhone OS has a bunch of new capabilities, including alarms for reminders, an updated sleep score and numerous interface tweaks. The much-maligned Liquid Glass interface has had a couple of tweaks, namely that there is now a slider when you are customizing the lock screen that enables you to reduce the transparency of the elements and particularly the large clock. A toggle to lessen the effect of Liquid Glass across the entire system was introduced in iOS 26.1 – check out how to use that here. That toggle is…
Audiophiles seek out lossless audio formats for their superior quality, but the reality is that most listeners stream in lossless simply because it’s included with their subscription. Apple Music uses ALAC for lossless streaming, while Amazon Music, Tidal, and Spotify use the FLAC format for lossless tracks. However, if you’re deciding whether to flip on the toggle beside lossless audio on your favorite streaming service, remember that better isn’t always better. If sound quality is your only concern, the ALAC and FLAC formats are the gold standard for lossless audio. Sound quality isn’t the only characteristic of an audio format…
My TV used to be the saddest thing in my room. It dominated an entire wall yet spent most of its life powered off. This always made me feel I was wasting its potential. But the good thing with smart TVs is that you’re not limited to streaming movies and TV shows. With the right app, you can use a smart TV for all kinds of weird but useful things. That’s exactly what I did. I used the projectM Music Visualizer app to make my TV react to whatever music drifted through the room. After this, my TV stopped feeling…
There are a ton of detective series out there, both very popular ones and those that have flown under the radar. Mindhunter, which ran for two seasons on Netflix between 2017 and 2019, is somewhere in the middle: it definitely found a fanbase, but that fanbase wasn’t big enough to secure it a third season, leaving us with two of the best seasons of true crime TV ever produced. I’m not kidding: I’ve had trouble watching other detective shows, even really good ones, after mainlining Mindhunter, and I’m afraid that it’s ruined the genre for me forever. Mindhunter is written,…
The Nintendo Switch was the first handheld console I embraced going digital with my games. There’s something alluring about having your entire library installed and ready to play at any time. Sadly, that kind of luxury isn’t really an option on my Switch 2. Nintendo’s latest console might have a seemingly generous 256GB of internal storage (more like around 230GB after accounting for system files), compared to the paltry 32GB of its predecessor and 64GB of the Switch OLED – but I used all of it up testing just a fraction of the Switch 2’s launch line-up. Simply put, Switch…
It takes real talent to make a home gaming system uglier than the original C64. But Commodore managed it with the C64GS, which was about as attractive as a radiator. If you bought one back in December 1990, you have Stuff’s sympathies. But that’s no C64! Where’s the rest of it? Does the ‘GS’ stand for ‘Got Suckered’? ‘Games System’, actually. It’s right there on the sticker, though your version is apt. Commodore UK, having spotted the looming threat of consoles, asked its US overlords for permission to make a cut-price C64 for people who only wanted to play games. It then…
Right now, Apple TV+ is getting a lot of attention for airing Pluribus, which is quickly becoming everyone’s new nerdy obsession. But Pluribus is far from the only sci-fi show that’s thriving over there. Between Severance, Silo, For All Mankind, and more, it’s clear that the people at Apple TV+ love throwing money at sci-fi TV, and not every project they make gets the attention it deserves. For instance, the first season of a sci-fi comedy show called Murderbot aired this past summer, and now that the year is almost over, it’s time to give the series its flowers. Murderbot…
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Every day, there seems to be a new AI tool that promises to supercharge your creativity, productivity, writing, and make your life much easier. That said, as the AI market expands, so does the confusion. With so many tempting options, countless subscriptions, and impressive feature lists, it’s pretty easy for anyone to splurge on an AI tool that you would barely use or even need. Well, not all AI tools are the same. While some tools feel overpriced and gimmicky, a handful of them actually deliver and justify their cost. I’ve…