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Watches don’t need to stick to gender rules – and neither should you. Some women prefer chunkier timepieces traditionally labelled as “men’s watches”, and that’s totally valid. In fact, plenty of the models in our best watches for men guide work just as well on slimmer wrists, especially with today’s trend for oversized styles and gender-neutral design. But if you’re after something more compact, refined or purposefully designed with women in mind, you’re in the right place. This guide focuses on the best watches made specifically for women – from elegant dress pieces to sporty daily wear, and everything in…

There’s a new tab in Google Search. You might have seen it recently. It’s called AI Mode, and it brings a Gemini- or ChatGPT-style chatbot right into your web search experience. You can use it to find links, but also to quickly surface information, ask follow-up questions, or ask Google’s AI models to synthesize things in ways you’d never find on a typical webpage.For now, AI Mode is just an option inside of Google Search. But that might not last. At its I/O developer conference on May 20th, Google announced that it is rolling AI Mode out to all Google…

While the best laptops are insanely powerful these days, battery life is becoming one of the limiting factors. Even with perfected silicon chipsets, there’s still only so long a laptop can last. But HP’s new OmniBook 5 series offers the longest battery life I’ve ever seen in a laptop. HP reckons its new OmniBook 5 series laptops can keep chugging for 34 hours on a single charge. That’s an incredible amount of time. But that’s not even the best part. You get all of this for a starting price of $799. The OmniBook 5 series is clearly HP’s shot at…

Gmail’s smart replies, which suggest potential replies to your emails, will be able to pull information from your Gmail inbox and from your Google Drive and better match your tone and style, all with help from Gemini, the company announced at I/O. The improvements build on Google’s “contextual” upgrade to smart replies it introduced last year. That change allowed responses to be longer than before, meaning smart replies could be more than a short “Sounds good!” But they could still only bring in information from the Gmail thread you were in. With the changes announced today, smart replies will theoretically…

Marshall’s latest product isn’t from its speaker or headphone heartland – it’s a high-end full Dolby Atmos and DTS-X one-box soundbar that takes on the Sonos Arc and Arc Ultra at a slightly lower price of $999/£900. And I went to Marshall’s HQ in Stockholm to try it out. Marshall’s history as a British amplifier specialist for guitarists and more has certainly been diversified upon in recent years. In 2010 it teamed up with Swedish company Zound to make Bluetooth speakers and then headphones like the excellent Monitor III ANC. That resulted in Zound buying Marshall in 2023 and re-branding…

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…