What is AI Distillation? By Nigel Powell published 30 March 25 AI model distillation is a powerful way to improve AI performance on smaller computers.
'It helped me enormously': The Rings of Power's Celebrimbor actor had a 'forensic' crash course in ring-making to upgrade their character in season 2 By Tom Power published 24 August 24 The Rings of Power's Charles Edwards has a new sense of appreciation for his character after 'intricate' season 2 lesson.
Feel like you're losing your edge? This app could help you sharpen your mental skills By Paul Hatton published 16 February 25 Homescreen Heroes: Pixa delivers brain-training games based on the goals you want to achieve
Vertere's elite DG X turntable is modular, expensive, and hugely desirable By Becky Scarrott published 20 March 25 UK-based turntable specialist Vertere's new and easy-to-set-up turntable is for audiophiles and fledgling vinyl lovers alike – if they can afford it.
Edifier Stax Spirit S5 review: excellent wireless over-ear planar magnetic headphones that don't cost a fortune By Simon Lucas published 29 July 24 With the Stax Spirit S5 wireless over-ear planar magnetic headphones, Edifier is attempting to sell you a taste of the truly high-end while only charging premium money.
House of Marley's new affordable record players have built-in speakers, Bluetooth, eco-friendly materials, and one even has mood lighting By Carrie Marshall published 16 October 25 These two new wireless vinyl spinners promise "instant enjoyment"
Anthropic and IBM want to push more AI into enterprise software - with Claude coming to an IDE near you By Craig Hale published 8 October 25 IBM and Anthropic have teamed up to create a Claude-powered IDE while working on agentic AI guidance.
Here's one good reason you may want to 'downgrade' your SSD and lose capacity in the process — cheap QLC SSD can be transformed into expensive SLC to improve endurance but it's not for the fainthearted By Wayne Williams published 8 May 24 Tech enthusiast turns cheap QLC SSD into an expensive SLC one, losing a large chunk of capacity but massively improving endurance.
This ingenious TV unit is secretly an elite projector screen – with hidden compartments for your home theater speakers or soundbar By Carrie Marshall published 3 November 25 Now you can play projector peek-a-boo
SSD vendor runs out of ideas to improve storage device, so transforms an external bamboo SSD into an essential oil diffuser - just be careful about going overboard with the oil By Efosa Udinmwen published 7 October 25 Apacer AS712 portable SSD fuses bamboo design, essential oil diffusion, and high-speed 1TB storage for a lifestyle-tech hybrid.
These glossy high-end tower speakers boast a 3.5-way design to bring the bass and cost as much as a full-size sedan By Carrie Marshall published 5 August 25 Money No Object: Avid launches flagship floorstanders for its EVO Series
"This is the next revolution” - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hails the arrival of the 'agentic enterprise' By Mike Moore published 14 October 25 The “agentic enterprise” is set to transform how we live and work, if Salesforce has anything to do with it.
A great high-end hi-fi brand just released two affordable pairs of Bluetooth stereo speakers, and they look perfect for a modern vinyl setup By Carrie Marshall published 25 August 25 Elipson's making active versions of its bookshelf and floorstanding speakers
Pure's stylish speakers are a more joyful way to start your day By Sponsored published 12 August 25 Sensational sounds for chilling out, working out and hanging out
This AI app will turn your reading list into a podcast with digital hosts By Eric Hal Schwartz published 29 November 24 ElevenLabs debuts AI-powered tools turning documents into podcasts.
Ancient way of coding helps boost popular video encoder by 100x — but is it too good to be true? By Efosa Udinmwen published 23 July 25 FFmpeg developers rewrote a single filter in Assembly, achieving a 100x speedup, although its impact is limited and real-world benefits remain questionable.
How to use ChatGPT to make it sound like you’re an expert on something, even if you know nothing By Eric Hal Schwartz published 2 August 25 ChatGPT can make you seem like an expert if you use the right prompt.
Traditional hi-fi speakers aren't a dying breed, and Sonus Faber's elite new bookshelf speakers mix in smart sustainable materials to prove it By Carrie Marshall published 26 July 24 Sonus Faber's new Concertino G4 standmount speakers look incredible and promise to sound even better.
Google Learn About is the patient teacher with a bag full of tricks we all wanted as kids By Eric Hal Schwartz published 12 November 24 Google debuts AI education tool Learn About.
Who is Magnifico Giganticus in Foundation season 3? The Apple sci-fi series' most important new character explained By Tom Power published 25 July 25 Foundation season 3's latest character introduction might have set the stage for one of the sci-fi epic's most shocking story beats yet.
De'Longhi's new manual coffee machine lets you call the shots By Cat Ellis published 22 October 24 The new La Specialista Opera puts you in charge.
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, June 4 (game #93) By Marc McLaren published 3 June 24 Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
Join the resistor-ance with FiiO's new super-smart (and refreshingly affordable) desktop DAC By Carrie Marshall published 10 September 25 FiiO promises 'a brand new kind of listening experience' for your high-end headphones and IEMs with its new K13 R2R headphone amp/DAC.
Google Cloud is making its AI Agent Builder much smarter and faster to deploy By Craig Hale published 7 November 25 Google Cloud’s AI Agent Builder gets ADK upgrades, support for new programming language and more.
OpenAI launches GPT-5-Codex with a 74.5% success rate on real world coding By Craig Hale published 16 September 25 Two weeks ago OpenAI merged its Codex tools – today we get the new GPT-5-Codex for even better performance.
I use this simple roleplay trick to boost my learning with ChatGPT, Gemini or any other AI, and you can too By Graham Barlow published 6 August 25 Using roleplay in your prompts can make learning anything so much easier using ChatGPT, Gemini or any other AI.
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, December 21 (game #293) By Johnny Dee published 21 December 24 Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
Never mind the earbuds: this firm says it's found the cure for your ear canals By Carrie Marshall published 11 December 24 Apparently, your ear canals' poor geometry is to blame for your headphones' poor performance – and Flare has the answer.
3 ways to use the new ChatGPT Study mode that aren’t for homework By Eric Hal Schwartz published 1 August 25 How ChatGPT's Study Mode can help people learn things outside of school
Intel piles pressure on Nvidia with launch of new AI accelerator that is faster and cheaper than the H100 — but will it be enough to keep up with the stunningly fast H200? By Wayne Williams published 13 April 24 Intel's Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is taking aim at Nvidia's H100, claiming to be faster as well as cheaper.
