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Sony’s giving away a free TV. No, seriously. A new 4K TV can easily run you into four figures, especially if you’re set on getting one with an OLED panel. That means any opportunity to save some cash on one isn’t to be missed. So this gigantic saving on one of the best-rated 4K TVs is definitely worth your attention. In fact, it might be the best I’ve ever seen. Right now, if you buy one of Sony’s swanky new Bravia 8 II TVs, you’ll get another 4K set lobbed in your basket for completely free. If you buy a 65-inch Bravia…
Fender has released a free new recording app called Fender Studio that seems pretty powerful. The app, available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, supports multitrack recording and offers a host of effects that emulate guitar pedals and several of the company’s iconic amplifiers over the years. Some of the simulated amps include a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb and a 1959 Fender Bassman, but you can get more, like a Fender Super-Sonic or Tube Preamp, if you connect the app to a free Fender Connect account. It’s the same story with pedals: you get options like Overdrive and Small…
If you’re eyeing up a new smartphone, the £1000 price that the latest handsets typically come with is somewhat off-putting. That’s where mid-range or budget phones come in. And Oppo’s latest budget phone is an incredible offering. The new Oppo A5 offers top-tier specs like a 5800mAh battery, IP69 water resistance, 1000 nits of brightness, and a 50MP camera. You get all of that for £229, which is seriously impressive. The star of the show here is the huge 5800mAh battery. Oppo reckons it’ll last four years without keeling over, and it supports 45W fast charging to keep things moving. Apparently, you…
The new Onn 4K Plus also features a slightly faster processor than the Onn 4K Pro that launched a year ago — a Amlogic S905X5M quad-core processor clocked at 2.5GHz — but only has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, compared to the Pro model that offers 3GB and 32GB, respectively.The Onn 4K Plus also doesn’t double as a smart speaker like Walmart’s Pro model, and sacrifices features on its included voice-capable remote like backlighting and the ability to find the remote when it goes missing. But unlike the entry-level $20 Onn 4K box, the Plus’ remote does include…
With great 3D performance for its size and surprisingly decent battery life, the Zephyrus G14 has long been one of my favourite gaming laptops. Earlier this year, Asus made it that much harder to resist breaking out the credit card and buying one. The 2024 Zephyrus G14 was a fantastic little laptop, but it maxed out with an RTX 4070. The 2025 Zephyrus G14 got enough cooling ability to cope with the demands of the new RTX 5080. 16GB of GDDR7 video memory and DLSS 4.0 support allowed this 1.5kg machine to power through even the most demanding games, with fancy effects like…
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has given Amazon’s Prime Air drones the go-ahead to deliver new categories of devices, including products with lithium ion batteries like iPhones, AirPods, and more, Amazon has announced. The company says those product categories can be shipped to your door within 60 minutes — if you’re in one of the eligible delivery areas in Arizona or Texas, that is.Amazon writes that it recently streamlined its drone deliveries. The new process includes Amazon giving you a delivery time with a five-minute window on either side, and customers no longer having to go outside and put a…
So far at Computex 2025, Acer has released some excellent new computing devices – as you’d expect. My favourite so far has been the lightweight Swift Edge 14 that competes with the MacBook Air. But Acer’s newest release was a total surprise – a health-tracking smart ring. Yep, I’ll say it again. A health-tracking smart ring. I wear the Ultrahuman Air smart ring to track my steps and sleep when I don’t want to wear my Apple Watch. It looks great, works really well, and even syncs with Apple Health. And other options from Samsung and Oura are quite popular. But Acer…
I suspect my dog does not like the Roborock Saros Z70. Unlike the dozens of other robot vacuums that Gus happily lets clean around him while he sleeps, the Z70 keeps stealing his treasures. Not his dog toys — although that could be a future feature — but my family’s socks that he loves to collect and carry around the house with him. Since the Z70 arrived, he’s had competition. The first robot vacuum with a mechanical arm, the Z70 features a five-axis arm, branded the OmniGrip, that uses onboard sensors and a camera to see, pick up, and tidy…
I’m a big fan of smart lighting products, with connected bulbs all throughout my home. But my outside space is a little… lacking, shall we say. Fortunately, Nanoleaf just dropped two new additions to its line-up, and finally my patio might be about to get an upgrade. Nanoleaf’s newest devices are the Rope Light and Solar Garden Lights. One’s designed to twist and turn into whatever squiggly light-up nonsense your creative brain conjures up, and the other makes your garden look pretty magical. First up is the Rope Light – imagine an RGB rave noodle, but posh. It’s 5 metres of…
Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.Microsoft is also planning to…
These days, the top gaming monitors offer crazy fast refresh rates. After all, in lots of games, whether you win or lose can come down to how fast your reactions are – and a super fast monitor helps with that. Asus’s latest esports-grade monitor is absurdly fast, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Asus’s new ROG Strix Ace XG248QSG offers a 610 Hz refresh rate display. That’s not a typo, it really is 610Hz. It marks the brand’s latest entry into the great refresh rate arms race, with a name as ridiculous as the specs. It’s got a native 600Hz…
Some of Adobe’s most expensive Creative Cloud subscriptions are about to get even pricier for users in North America. Starting from June 17th, the Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro for users in the US, Canada, and Mexico, adding a bunch of generative AI perks in exchange for bumping up subscription costs.The pre-tax monthly price for individual Creative Cloud All Apps subscribers on an annual contract will increase from $59.99 to $69.99, or from $659.88 to $779.99 annually. The monthly price for rolling, non-contracted subscribers will jump from $89.99 to $104.99. Contracted prices for teams…