Author: Press Room

Are you still buying and binning plastic bottles on a daily basis? Keep ploughing through the plastic and you’ll have Attenborough to answer to. And his penguin friends. If you don’t fancy an aggressive peck from a flightless aquatic activist? It’s time to change your drinking ways, quit polluting the waves and buy one of the best water bottles. Of course, for true sustainability, that means hiking into the hills, cupping your hands and sipping straight from a hilltop spring. Zero pollution, plastic-free and as fresh as can be – the ultimate in eco commitment and guaranteed to make you…

When you bought your PlayStation 5 (one of the best gaming consoles around), it came with one official Sony PS5 controller and that undoubtedly felt like enough. Then your mate came over and you wanted to play some couch-based multiplayer and you realised that you need one of our list of the best PS5 controllers. These days, you can spend $200/£200 on a PS5 controller if you want. We’re not automatically saying to do so but by investing that much, you often get more advanced controls with extra paddles or feedback, and you tend to be able to choose almost…

Ferrari has pulled back the curtain on the interior and interface of its first electric sports car – and it’s packed with Apple DNA. The new model is called Ferrari Luce, and its cabin has been shaped in close collaboration with ‘LoveFrom’, the creative collective founded by former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson. Revealed at an event in San Francisco, the Ferrari Luce interior sets out to challenge what an EV cockpit should feel like. Rather than defaulting to wall-to-wall touchscreens, Ferrari and LoveFrom have doubled down on tactility and precision. There are mechanical buttons, toggles…

Netflix has always been my go-to streaming service. Whether I am in the mood for something comforting, mysterious, thrilling, or downright spooky, it is usually the first app I open without a second thought. I trust Netflix’s recommendations and do not mind paying a monthly subscription for an actual ‘ad-free’ experience that rarely disappoints. That said, the default isn’t always perfect. I realized there was still room for improvement that could make my experience even better. With a few small tweaks that were neither complicated nor time-consuming, Netflix began to feel even better, smoother, and more enjoyable to use. These…

I’ve been dabbling around with local LLMs on my computer for a while now. It all started as a hobby when I ran DeepSeek-R1 locally on my Mac, and is now a pretty amazing part of my workflow. I’ve tried just about every popular local AI inference app on Android, and performance has always been the biggest sticking point. You’re already working with serious hardware limits because, duh, it’s a phone. That makes the software side absolutely critical. That’s where MNN Chat absolutely nails it. MNN Chat is the best local LLM app I have ever tried I still wish…

When people think of realistic sci-fi media, their minds might go to a TV show like For All Mankind, which meticulously charts out how the world would be different had the United States and the Soviet Union never stopped running the space race, doing its best to take the science seriously. They probably wouldn’t think of a century-old silent movie where a group of characters travel to the Moon only to find that the atmosphere is breathable. And yet, when NASA scientists put together a list of the seven best sci-fi movies ever made back in 2011, a movie that…

One of VLC’s best features is its ability to play online videos just as easily as local files. Yet most of us never bother to use that feature, simply because it takes far too many steps to actually move the video from your browser to VLC. Open in VLC is a free extension that solves this problem. Once you install it, sending videos from your browser to VLC only takes a single click. That’s it. One click, and you’re all set to watch the video in a clean, distraction-free player with full control over playback. Why I prefer watching online…

I’ve had the opportunity to test a lot of fitness tech over the years. Most of it gets quickly relegated to a cupboard or drawer, never to see the light of day again. Some kit does stick around, though, and actually manages to motivate me to get out the door, pack a gym bag, or feel good enough to work up a sweat. This is the fitness tech I actually use on a regular (and often daily) basis, plus some kit I’ve yet to be won over by. Fitness tech stuff I actually use Garmin Forerunner 970 or Apple Watch…

In 2011, NASA scientists met at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and came up with a list of the seven best (and worst) sci-fi films ever made. “Best” doesn’t necessarily mean “most realistic,” and there are a couple of movies on their list — like 1951’s The Day The Earth Stood Still — that aren’t especially scientifically rigorous. But according to contemporaneous reports from the likes of NPR, the scientists were trying to nudge Hollywood producers towards making the science in their movies more plausible, so it was a factor. Classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Contact appear…

Every morning, the first thing I do is turn on the TV and play a few spiritual songs. It’s my way of easing into the day, slowly and peacefully. What immediately disrupts that calm, though, is my smart TV’s home screen, which is cluttered and overflowing with ads and sponsored recommendations. Some days I manage to tune it out. Most days, I really can’t. I really enjoy using a browser on my smart TV. It feels freeing and functional, at least until I’m done and inevitably taken back to that same ad-heavy home screen. That constant visual noise eventually became…