Author: Press Room
Call me lazy, but after over a decade of using smart televisions, I’ve never once tried using a VPN. Yes, I’ve seen the VPN ads pop up on videos, but I never really bothered exploring the technology. However, given the massive streaming library already available in our country, it never occurred to me that I might be missing out — until last week. Binge-watching Friends for the 117th time on Netflix India, I wanted to rewatch How I Met Your Mother next, but that’d mean installing another streaming platform, setting up another account, and, of course, signing up for yet…
Most time travel stories try to convince us their plotlines are somehow plausible. From Back to the Future to Interstellar, they establish rules, explain paradoxes, and eventually reveal how everything fits together. Undone, Prime Video’s remarkable animated drama, never feels like an explanation is necessary, and it’s all the more refreshing for it. In it, a young woman named Alma awakens from a coma and appears to travel through time to reshape her destiny, while being guided by figures and events from her past. However, her situation is so ambiguous that we are left to question whether any of it…
Apple’s September event is usually the fruit company’s biggest consumer hardware moment of the year, and the 2026 version looks set to follow that tradition with a new range of iPhones. The ‘Surprise and shine‘ event is now set for Wednesday 9 September. Yet there will be some key differences this time around. So what’s set to be different this year? Multiple reports suggest that Apple will look to break its regular yearly cycle of iPhone launches as smartphone development slows. Rumors suggest that the standard iPhone 18 would launch in Spring 2027 instead, possibly alongside an iPhone 18e. What…
Range anxiety with electric cars isn’t what it used to be – Volvo has even started referring to ‘range comfort’ instead – and today’s EVs can manage 300, 400 or even 500 miles between visits to the charge station. Add in EV charging being quicker than ever, often adding hundreds of miles of range in just a few minutes at an ultra-rapid charger, and for many drivers the long-range driving abilities of EVs have reached, or even eclipsed, those of petrol and diesel equivalents. We’ve driven some of the world’s longest-range EVs over the past few months, including the BMW…
If you’ve somehow made it this far without seeing a single Marvel movie, the good news is that you don’t need to wade through over 30 films to understand what everyone’s been talking about. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is enormous, but a handful of movies do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to introducing its biggest heroes. You could obviously watch all the movies in release order, but that’s a pretty big commitment if you’re only curious about what all the fuss is about. Instead, these are the movies I’d recommend starting with since they introduce the characters…
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…