Month: August 2025
This is the most exciting printer design I’ve seen in years – and it reminds me of an obscure vertical Panasonic printer
SMÅ Printer simplifies printing with only three buttons and a single LED for status updates The top-feeding paper design saves desk space while holding up to 120 sheets reliably Maintenance is intuitive, allowing one-handed ink replacement without spills or awkward handling Our printers have long been seen as bulky, frustrating…
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OpenAI rival gets free publicity by offering to buy Google Chrome for just under $35 billion – so does that mean it will kill Comet?
Perplexity AI stunned the industry with an unsolicited $34.5 billion cash offer for Google Chrome Chrome browser remains a key part of Google’s AI tools and long-term LLM development strategy Perplexity’s own valuation is less than half of the amount it offered to acquire Chrome Perplexity AI has attracted attention…
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Can a robot vacuum effectively mop your floors, too? I’ve tested all kinds of hybrid robovacs, and here’s what I’ve found
Most modern robot vacuums don’t just vacuum your floors – they can also mop them for you. This type of robovac is sometimes referred to as a ‘hybrid robot vacuum’, and it’s increasingly difficult to find bots that don’t offer mopping these days. But how much should you focus on…
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Remember floppy disks? This YouTuber set out to build his own from scratch – see how he got on
Floppy disks were officially deemed obsolete in 2010, yet persisted in surprising places for years Polymatt used CNC machining and PET film to craft a functioning magnetic storage disk Iron oxide coating allowed the handmade disk to store and retrieve basic magnetic data Floppy disks, once a staple of personal…
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The Apple Watch may get a major redesign – but not in time for the Apple Watch 11
A new report outlines changes to the Apple Watch 12 We could get new sensors and an exterior redesign The wearable won’t be launching until September 2026 It looks likely that the Apple Watch 11 will be unveiled sometime next month, if Apple sticks to its usual schedule, but a…
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The end of laptops at work? Desktop as a service is now cheaper and easier to run, reports claim
DaaS could be more effective than laptops for 95% of workers by 2027 Hosted machines are twice as popular as they were in 2019 DaaS spending could grow to $6bn by 2029 New Gartner research has suggested hosted PCs, otherwise known as Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), are now cheaper to operate than…
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