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All the highlights coming to a small screen near you this year Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky on Apple TV Cord cutting – swapping a costly satellite or cable subscription and getting all your visual entertainment from cheaper, more convenient streaming services – was once sold to us as a utopian dream. And, for a while, it was just that. But the days of a monthly Netflix subscription costing less than a pint of beer are long gone, and the fragmentation of streaming services over the past decade or so means most of us are now subscribing to at least half…

All the top movies to check out this year. What are you looking forward to the most? Willem Dafoe in Robert Eggers’ Werwulf Summer 2026 is in full swing, and so is blockbuster movie season. After all, there are few better antidotes to a sweltering heatwave than to retreat into a dark, air conditioned cinema for the hottest hours of the day. Hollywood has a full slate of new sequels and fresh adaptations ready to roll on film both at movie theatres and on home streaming services, as well as some entirely original stuff for movie lovers to sink their…

Silo is such a complicated show that even its showrunner gets confused sometimes. While filming the final seasons of the Apple TV sci-fi thriller, Graham Yost remembers two instances where he messed up details: once it was an actor who realized that a conversation they were about to shoot should’ve already taken place, the other involved the Japanese localization team pointing out that a subtitle didn’t match what was going on onscreen. In both instances, the problem was ultimately fixed, but Yost’s reaction was the same: “Oh shit, you’re right.”Keeping everything straight is one of the big challenges of working…

Apple’s smart speaker ambitions have felt strangely quiet over the past few years, but with whispers of a new HomePod Mini 2 and Home Hub incoming, that’s soon set to change. Reports suggest that Apple is preparing its first HomePod Mini refresh in almost six years, alongside an entirely new smart home device widely referred to as the Home Hub. Together, they’re expected to usher in a more capable version of Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence, while giving Apple a much stronger answer to products such as the Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub. Nothing has been officially…

Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off a short message to a mailing list for peer-to-peer enthusiasts. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Cohen wrote, followed by a link to his personal website.“What’s BitTorrent, Bram?” the founder of the list asked in response.Cohen never bothered to reply. The world would find out soon enough.In the following years, BitTorrent quickly became the world’s most popular file-sharing app, unleashing a massive wave of piracy that upended Hollywood forever. At one point, BitTorrent was said to be…

You may remember the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix last year where each of the 10 F1 teams were given its own drivable car made out of Lego. Now the concept is back for this weekend’s British Grand Prix but with a new spin – during the driver’s parade on Sunday each of the 22 drivers will have their own drivable Lego car, each made from around 28,000 Lego bricks plus a few actual car bits like go-kart wheels. Now, this won’t be a lap of Silverstone taken at speed – the cars are only capable of 15mph/25kmh – so…

I’ll admit it upfront: I’m a bit of a badge snob. Years of testing everything from Bentleys and Aston Martins to Breitlings will do that to you. So when Jaecoo offered me a day with its new flagship car, the Jaecoo 8 SHS-P, I wasn’t expecting to come away impressed… boy, was I wrong. I spent the day threading it through the lanes around West Wycombe, to fully test it out. Here’s how I got on. The hybrid system is the star of the show Jaecoo calls it the Super Hybrid System, and while that does sound like a gimmicky…

Smartphones that transform into sizeable tablets used to be pure sci-fi… but now bendable screens are our tech reality. Besides the obvious wow factor, these book-style foldables offer innovative flexibility that could change the way you use your mobile – while also packing in hardware to rival the best phones with more traditional form factors. Think folding phones are just a hinged gimmick? Think again. The best foldable phones are about as versatile as handsets get, even if they almost exclusively come at prices that make regular flagships look cheap. We’ve tested them all to work out which is best,…

Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night’s launch, Amazon Leo has 396 satellites deployed, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes,” according to Chris Weber, VP heading up business and product for Amazon Leo. That puts the company on track to meet its “mid-2026” target for commercial availability. Just don’t expect miracles on day one.SpaceX went live with its “Better than nothing beta” back in 2020 when it had almost 900 satellites operating in low-Earth orbit. It initially served a narrow band of…

Trying to work out who owes what after a group dinner could soon become a lot less painful. Apple is preparing a Wallet feature for iOS 27 that will let iPhone users split a bill, simply by taking a photo of a receipt. The tool will be built into Apple Wallet and Apple Cash, letting iPhone users photograph receipts and automatically generate payment requests. It was announced as part of Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote and will arrive later this year as part of iOS 27. The feature reportedly goes beyond simply dividing the total cost equally, and users will reportedly…

That’s it then. Game over for game discs. Sony has just confirmed it’s going to stop making physical games media from 2028. Apparently player habits have shifted enough that discs just don’t make sense anymore, so the firm is calling time on production. Microsoft is rumoured to be following suit with the next-gen Xbox. Sony’s announcement was a timely one, with Rockstar having only just revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 ‘boxed copies’ would just contain a download code. It’s also just one week removed from Sony mass-deleting hundreds of digital movies from gamers’ consoles, reminding us that anything you can’t…

Introduction Domestic rivals might regularly skip Europe, due to foldable phones being more of a niche proposition to Western audiences than Chinese ones, but Honor has been happily bringing the fight to Samsung for five generations now. That makes the Magic V6 the latest in a string of book-style handsets that’ve gotten slimmer and slicker with each new iteration. This year’s effort has an even bigger battery than the retiring Honor Magic V5, along with class-leading resistance ratings and a new CPU generation. Software that’s better suited to multitasking and a legitimate claim to being the World’s Thinnest Foldable should…