Author: Press Room
Fancy splurging out on a new bit of coffee-making kit? The best coffee machines can get pretty expensive, with some creeping up as far as the thousands. I recently used a coffee machine that cost almost $5000/£4000 to see if it could make better coffee! That got me thinking, how much coffee do you actually need to drink in order to justify the espresso machine that’s in your Amazon basket? Whether you’re trying to justify the purchase to your partner or just trying to sleep better at night after buying one, we’re going to work it out. How much does…
Being eight years old, my son doesn’t go anywhere on his own. However, recently, after a football tournament he got separated from me in a sea of children all wearing the same kit. Nothing happened but he was a bit shaken up when he realised the woman he’d been trying to catch up with wasn’t me and I was in a bit of a state trying to push through the crowd to find him. Just normal growing up stuff. It did play on my mind however and made me worry about how big the crowds would be at our upcoming…
Govee has finally launched the latest version of one of its most popular standalone smart lights, bringing an even sleeker design and wider illumination to bathe even more of your walls in colour. The Floor Lamp 3 is also being joined by the Govee Lantern Floor Lamp, which sees the firm head into more neutral interior design territory for the first time. Following a public debut at CES back in January, the Floor Lamp 3 goes on sale today in the US for $169.90, through the official Govee website and Amazon US. I’ve had one in the corner of my home office…
Claude Design arrived and immediately took the world by storm. Word on the street is that UI designers are already changing their LinkedIn titles to “prompt engineer.” I’m joking (mostly). But Claude Design is genuinely impressive. Around the same time, OpenAI upgraded its already frontier-level image generation in ChatGPT with ChatGPT Images 2. It can follow prompts with much better accuracy, and it seems to have fixed one of the biggest problems with AI images: text. NotebookLM, meanwhile, has been in the text-heavy image generation game for a while. It can generate slide decks, infographics, and other visual summaries from…
Are you looking to upgrade your smartphone or trade up to a new laptop soon? This may not be the best time to do it. 2026 is set to be a turbulent year for tech, with price rises expected across the board. Games consoles, TVs, smart home kit and even new cars are set to leave more of a dent in your wallet than they otherwise would. The memory modules used by pretty much every consumer gadget are in short supply, which has pushed up wholesale prices on the remaining production capacity. Manufacturers are now going to pass those higher…
Looking for the best password manager around? We don’t blame you. Forgetting your passwords and going through the tedious motions of resetting them is something we could all do without. Sure, you could use the same password for everything including the best VPN, but that’s obviously asking for trouble. And choosing a secure, unique password for all of your accounts is an option only suitable for those with super-human brains. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves. So unless you actually enjoy impossible CAPTCHAS and jumping through hoops trying to identify pictures of buses, bridges, and bicycles, why not make…
On the hunt for the best new Lego sets, here in space year 2026? You’re in the right place. And because there are so many Lego releases to keep up with, I’ve taken the liberty of hand-picking some favourites to help make life that little bit easier. From cracking Transformers and art sets to brick-based foliage and a Lego pub, there’s a whole host of shiny new blocky goodness to sink your teeth into and make your thumbs mad at. So without further ado, here are some of the best new Lego sets available in 2026. Transformers Soundwave Lego Optimus was…
Stuff magazine has been the go-to guide for gadget lovers since 1996, and right now you can grab six issues for just £33. That’s a great saving on the cover price alone. But the headline here is what comes with it: a free Joby Beamo Ring Light for your smartphone, worth £46. You’re essentially getting paid to subscribe. Joby’s Beamo ring light is quick and easy to set up using Apple’s MagSafe tech – you’ll be ready to record in an instant, with four brightness settings. This portable and compact ring light is a genuinely useful bit of kit, whether…
A few months ago, I was genuinely excited to switch to a wireless Android Auto dongle. My experience with a wired connection hadn’t been great. Yes, it was cheaper and more practical, but dealing with cables every single time got annoying. So going wireless felt like the obvious upgrade, and at first, it really did feel like one. But that excitement didn’t last very long. After a few weeks of regular use, the charm started to fade. What once felt convenient slowly turned into something I just had to tolerate. Small issues began creeping in, and over time, they became…
I have been getting really into local LLMs lately, and I’ve even built my own local AI server. The problem is that it is an extremely expensive hobby, and I do not have thousands of dollars in hardware lying around to scratch that itch properly. But I still find myself wanting to try out the biggest open-weight models, and I think I have found a pretty good solution to that. Related I’ll never pay for AI again AI doesn’t have to cost you a dime—local models are fast, private, and finally worth switching to. Nvidia Build lets you run open-weight…