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You may have noticed that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the most complacent entities out there. While this is okay for simple problems, complacency can ruin your experience with AI platforms when using them for advanced tasks involving important decisions. Not all AI chatbots act the same way, though. Among the exceptions, Claude is the best example of what AI chatbots could do differently, and this behavior has me craving the same spirit of contestation from other chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. Related I added one line to my Claude prompts and stopped getting generic answers…
You can usually set your watch to Apple’s iPhone release schedule, so it’s practically a given that we’ll see the iPhone 18 in some form or another in September. Unfortunately, the upcoming smartphone is also almost guaranteed to land at a higher price than its predecessor. Apple raised its hardware prices almost across the board in June, in response to the climbing cost of computer memory and flash storage. Blame the industry’s ongoing obsession with artificial intelligence on that one. iPads, MacBooks, HomePods and the Vision Pro headset all saw big increases – some by thousands – but the iPhone…
Watching a movie or TV show without subtitles is unsettling for me — it isn’t that I have hearing issues; I’ve just found subtitles to be a reliable way to follow the dialogue because I may miss bits and pieces due to mixing issues or a hard-to-catch accent. However, not every release comes with subtitles by default; for example, older films and TV shows, as well as those in foreign languages, do not. Finding the right .srt file for that is tedious and frustrating, and I have to scour the internet to find a version perfectly in sync with the…
Harlan Coben is a bestselling author known for writing mystery and thriller novels. His books have been flying off the shelves since the 1990s, but it was only in the 2010s that Hollywood really sat up and took notice. Specifically, Netflix has gone all in, creating 13 series (and counting) based on Coben’s work. But not all Harlan Coben shows are created equal. Some are worth checking out, and others can be safely skipped. Related If you want a great binge, start with these finished Netflix shows These 10 Netflix TV shows will delight you from start to finish. Stay…
Apps are big business and one of the main reasons for the success of iOS and Apple’s ubiquitous phone. Android may shift more units than Apple’s mobile platform, but the App Store gets the lion’s share of the best free apps, from high-end audio tools through to cutting-edge education offerings. So welcome to our guide to the best free iPhone and iPad apps. But what can you get when unwilling to spend anything at all? Actually, loads; as our selection shows, iOS and iPadOS apps are available for all manner of tasks, from sprucing up photos and composing music to keeping…
8) Mario Tennis: Power Tour (2005, Game Boy Advance) Presumably concerned Game Boy Color owners would throw their consoles out of the window if the company had the audacity to release a normal tennis game on the system, Nintendo crafted Mario Tennis to be closer to a quirky RPG that just happened to have tennis mechanics in place of a battle system. For this Game Boy Advance sequel, the mash-up was particularly glorious, twinning amusing Zelda-like chats and exploration with high-octane ball-thwacking that was the best on the system. Add in furiously addictive madcap mini-games and you’ve a title that…
Wait, Fable 5 is back! But wait, it’s going away again — for us mere Pro subscribers, at least. At the same time, there’s a new model on the market: GPT-5.6, complete with the fancy names Sol, Terra, and Luna. Unlike Fable 5’s upgrade over Opus, GPT-5.6 feels more incremental. The interesting improvement isn’t raw intelligence. It’s tool use. That ties in nicely with OpenAI releasing its Claude Cowork rival, ChatGPT Work (apparently the best name OpenAI’s marketing team could come up with.) In theory, GPT-5.6 should be much better at coding and other tasks that require tools. But is…
The low entry price and no-commitment approach of streaming services makes them attractive to budget-conscious buyers. Buying a digital copy or physical release of one movie could cost the same as an entire month’s worth of a video streaming service. This leads to the misconception that physical media is an expensive hobby, and streaming is cheap. In reality, you could end up spending more in the long run on monthly subscriptions than it would cost to own the media you truly care about. The barrier of entry to owning physical media has never been smaller. A $10 Blu-ray player from…
Music streaming became mainstream a decade ago, and the top streaming services have over a billion users combined. Prices keep rising, and platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, or Amazon Music need to deliver new features to justify the added cost. For music fans that crave the highest possible quality, streaming services have marketed lossless and spatial audio as upgrades over lossy stereo. The platforms didn’t stop there — beyond CD-quality lossless music, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music offer “high-resolution” or “hi-res” lossless files. High-resolution lossless music streaming looks great on a spec sheet, but it offers few practical…
At WWDC 2026, Apple didn’t even bother to provide ‘new feature’ cards for iOS and macOS. Instead, updates were grouped into themes: ‘oops Liquid Glass’, ‘think of the children’ and ‘AI! AI! MOAR AI!’ So tvOS – often the forgotten child of Apple’s operating system family – never stood a chance. There was no painfully short segment featuring an Apple exec trying very hard to sound excited. And although the Apple TV platform wasn’t ignored entirely, the revealed tvOS 27 updates were meagre: smoother app launches, a refreshed Podcasts app and a setting to adjust system text size. If rumours are true,…