Author: News Room
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a “Show more” button you can click, you’ll Google will show a full AI Overview at the top of your search, an “Ask anything” box under that, and then the list of links. It can lead to a lot of scrolling.It’s unclear exactly what Google’s…
Search for fat-loss tech, and you’ll soon be bombarded with electrical muscle stimulators, metabolism trackers, compression belts, and other devices making suspiciously ambitious promises. Sadly, none of them can actually melt away fat while you scroll on your phone, slumped on the sofa. Believe me. I’ve tried. In fact, I’ve tried enough fitness apps and gadgets over the decades to finally come to an important realisation – all the useful ones tend to be fairly boring. And that’s because losing weight is actually very simple. On paper, at least. I want to know roughly what I’m eating, whether my weight…
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…
I often wear more than one smart ring at a time. Not because I’m so data-obsessed that I need three rings and a smartwatch to tell me what I already suspected (that I slept badly), but because I’m usually testing and comparing different models. They aren’t all that subtle, though, so along with the occasional dodgy look (fair enough, I do look like I’m wearing knuckle dusters), people often ask whether a smart ring is worth it and what they are supposed to track. Whether it’s worth it depends entirely on the kind of person you are. If you want…
Xbox has unveiled a new disc-to-digital feature, which it says will ensure gamers get more from physical game libraries, but could also be a sign of the company’s intentions to move away from discs for the next-generation Project Helix games console. In a post on Xbox Wire this week, Xbox says “most” Series X and Xbox One discs will soon offer owners the opportunity to digitise the games for accessibility away from the console. Microsoft says it gives gamers more flexibility, but also help to preserve games as “technology, devices and distribution continue to evolve.” Xbox says the feature will…
Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural Rendering” file and apply it to Control before it expanded to other games, as reported earlier by Notebook Check and VideoCardz.In one video, a person shows how Control protagonist Jesse Faden’s facial features become more and less defined as they tweak various DLSS 5 settings…
Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99. Apple also increased the cost of its individual Apple One subscription, which includes Apple TV and Apple’s other subscription services, from $19.95 per month to $21.95.According to Deadline and Variety, the price change is effective immediately, and current subscribers will be notified of it before their next bill. Read the full article here
Google has revealed a new version of the Fitbit Air wearable fitness and wellness tracker, which incorporates the Pokémon Sleep app that incentivises good sleep and healthy sleep routines. The Fitbit Air Special Edition Pokémon Sleep, to give it its full title, features a custom design that might encourage more folks, especially younger fans, to engage with the device, begin playing the game, and seek better sleep as a result. We can see some parents throwing this on the Christmas list to encourage their offspring to go to bed at the same time every night for sure. The 30th anniversary…
Come on now, Samsung! A 1,100Hz refresh rate on a gaming monitor? This is getting awesomely silly. Over at Gamescom, Samsung has announced the final specification for its next Odyssey G6 (G60H) monitor first previewed at CES and the company has since boosted the vertical refresh rate from the originally announced in January by an additional 60Hz. Naturally, Samsung says, it’s a world’s first and means each frame you see (or don’t see) while gaming will be displayed for less than a millisecond. However, that’s only when you drop the resolution to 1280×720. The the 27-inch IPS LCD monitor can…
Spoilers follow for the first season of Dark Matter.First, a reminder of where the story left us. Based on the novel of the same name, Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a physics professor in Chicago who is living a relatively normal and contented life with his artist wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and teenage son Charlie (Oakes Fegley). In another world, a different version of Jason decided to forgo that family life in pursuit of his dream, which was apparently to build a gigantic box that allowed people to travel to other parallel universes. But that alt version of…
Introduction I must have said the phrase “hold on, this costs how much?” more times than I can count this year, but rarely for good reasons. Dell, on the other hand, has managed to buck the trend for ever-increasing prices and AI-inflicted inflation with what might be the Windows laptop steal of the century – if you’re in the USA and/or in education, anyway. The new XPS 13 can currently be snapped up for just $599 in the US if you can prove you’re a student or teacher – and even if you’re not the $699 starting price still buys…
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.”The company’s line of smart glasses already disables their built-in cameras if someone covers the LED capture light, which blinks to alert others that you’re recording or taking a picture. However, some wearers found that they can bypass these restrictions by covering the LED light after they started recording. This…