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Spotify Kids and Family Music Toggle. Take your Wrapped back from the nursery
Every parent with a streaming habit knows the damage. You spend years…
Ruark R1S Terracotta. A warm-toned birthday edition of a tiny smart radio
Ruark turns 40 in 2026, and rather than inventing a new product for the occasion, the British audio brand has dressed up one of its…
LG G6. Flagship OLED hits £2564 and brings a free Atmos soundbar along
A flagship TV and a proper sound system usually mean two big bills. A UK deal on the LG G6 cuts that down to one.…
IKEA Badkruka. A boxy stay-at-home speaker with an optical input for the TV
IKEA already sells Bluetooth speakers that cost less than lunch, but the new Badkruka is aimed at a different job. It isn't a pocket gadget…
JBL Synthesis SDR-38. A flagship AV receiver at less than half its list price
Flagship AV receivers usually hold their value stubbornly, which makes the latest UK offer on the JBL Synthesis SDR-38 stand out. What Hi-Fi? published the…
Mobile
Lava Virat Curve. A second screen hiding inside the camera bump
Rear screens have been a recurring experiment in Android land, usually reserved…
Apple and Google. The UK plans a law to block nude images on kids’ phones
The UK's attempt to get Apple and Google to fix a child-safety problem voluntarily has failed, so the government is turning to legislation. The two…
MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro. Eight big cores and no small ones on 2nm silicon
MediaTek's next flagship chip is also its first on a 2nm process. The Dimensity 9600 Pro was unveiled in Hsinchu on September 15, 2026. It…
X XChat. The encrypted messenger quietly vanishes from both app stores
X's attempt to split direct messages into their own app appears to be over almost as soon as it began. On September 14, 2026, XChat,…
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. Samsung wants a slice of the 2nm order
Qualcomm's next flagship silicon may not come out of a single fab after all. A report from Korea's Chosun Biz, picked up by GSMArena on…
Photo
Ricoh GR IV 30th Anniversary Edition. Six thousand cameras land October 21
Ricoh has finally put a date on the most collectible GR in…
Canon EOS R8 Mark II. The cheap full-framer finally gets a joystick
Canon's entry point into full-frame mirrorless has stopped apologising for itself. The EOS R8 Mark II, announced on September 15, 2026, keeps the 24.2-megapixel full-frame…
Sony FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS. G Master super-telephoto reach under a kilogram
Super-telephoto primes have traditionally been the heavy artillery of wildlife and sports photography, the kind of glass that lives on a monopod and needs its…
Fujifilm instax Pal 2. The odd little digicam grows up into a tiny film camera
The first instax Pal was hard to love. It was a rounded, palm-sized digital camera that carried the Instax name but didn't shoot instant film,…
Sony a7 V. Seven months out of eight at the top of Japan’s sales charts
Japan's August 2026 camera sales figures look a lot like the months before them. The Sony a7 V is back at No. 1 in the…
Robots
InOrbit OpenRobOps. A free fleet manager that speaks ISO 21423
Anyone who has shipped a mobile robot knows the dirty secret of…
Agility Robotics Digit 5. A taller humanoid built to work beside people
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, 2026, and the fifth-generation humanoid is less a facelift than a rethink of what a warehouse robot…
Arm Physical AI. Dermot O’Driscoll brings the trust question to RoboBusiness
Robots that can see, reason and act are no longer the hard part, Arm argues. The hard part is building autonomous machines that people will…
Universal Robots Gen 7. Three g-Series arms with a wrist made for AI
Six generations and more than 100,000 cobots in, Universal Robots has rebuilt its platform from the tool flange back. Gen 7, the company's seventh-generation robotics…
T-Rex and N0-Foundation. The tactile data race giving robots fingertips
Vision-language-action models have handed robots a surprising amount of general competence. Trained on oceans of images, video and text, then fine-tuned on teleoperated demonstrations, they…
Technology
WB Group Warmate 30. Poland’s mini flying wing that never comes home
Park it next to a photo of a B-2 Spirit and you…
LG Smart TVs. The denial that answers a narrower question than the one asked
LG has finally said something about the accusation that its televisions listen to living rooms. On September 12, 2026, the company posted a formal statement,…
WIRED Uncanny Valley Live. Paulina Borsook returns to take on tech power
How are women doing in the power structures of Silicon Valley? WIRED sums it up in two words: in a word: shaky. That is the…
Meta Ray-Ban. Smart glasses turn first dates into a trust problem
Summer 2024, a bar in midtown Manhattan, a first date. Courtney McAnuff's date showed up in a low baseball cap and black-framed glasses. Partway through…
Apple watchOS 27. Siri AI moves onto the wrist and Walkie-Talkie bows out
Apple's Siri AI has made it to the Apple Watch. watchOS 27 rolled out to the public on September 14, 2026 as a free download.…
Entertainment
Wo Long 2 Wings of Ember. Team Ninja names a date and opens the alpha
Koei Tecmo has finally pinned a day on the calendar for its…
Xbox Fable. Playground Games vows its reboot finally sticks the landing
Endings have long been the sore spot of the Fable series, and Playground Games knows it. In an interview with The Guardian published on September…
Hammer Dracula 4K Limited Collector’s Edition. The count rises again
Plenty of vampires have stalked the screen, but few left a mark like Christopher Lee in Hammer's 1958 Dracula. Lee turned the count into a…
The Batman Part II. Protest signs point to the Court of Owls and Anarky
A crowd scene can say more than a trailer. New set photos and videos from Matt Reeves' The Batman: Part 2, which is shooting in…
Helluva Boss Season 3. Hazbin Hotel cameos come first, the real crossover later
Fans of Vivienne Medrano's Hellaverse have waited a long time for Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel to properly share the screen. In an exclusive interview…
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