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- September 9
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- I just touched the iPhone Duo and Apple just solved the foldable crease problem in the most wonderfully basic way
- 15 things we learned from Apple's big iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro launch — from its first-ever foldable to new AirPods
- The iPhone Duo lacks Face ID, a telephoto camera, and the Action Button, but I still want it more than every Android foldable I've ever tested — here's why
- ‘Who wants a stylus?’ — Steve Jobs famously mocked them, but Apple Pencil support could be the iPhone Duo’s secret weapon
- The Paper season 2 star confirms 'divisive' character is 'a work in progress' ahead of new episodes releasing on Peacock — 'things change every day'
- September 8
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- ChatGPT Images 2.5 is out — I’ve been testing it for 24 hours, and these are the 3 new features you’ll actually use
- Best of Gamescom 2026 — The 15 top devices and games we saw at this year’s show
- ‘I also want to feel the frontier’ — Gemini users are starting to think that Gemini Pro 4 won’t ever see the light of day thanks to the release of ChatGPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1
- 3 reasons students stop worrying about battery life when they buy the Dell XPS 13
- ‘I’ve seen AIs of me sitting with Obama talking about insane things that we never did’: George Clooney raises the alarm over AI fakes — while Maggie Gyllenhaal says the tech 'fundamentally did not work’ when she was pressured to use it in filmmaking
- We tried Xiaomi’s thunder-stealing iPhone Ultra rival — here’s what the Xiaomi 18 Fold could tell us about Apple’s rumored foldable
- The wait for The Wolf Among Us 2 has been a long one — but its Gamescom 2026 preview has me more hyped than ever
- ‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’: We were dreaming about ChatGPT thousands of years before it existed — here's how ancient myths shaped the AI we’re building today
- September 7
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- Wi-Fi 8 explained — TP-Link launches first routers, but here's why most Wi-Fi 6 and 7 owners should probably wait
- 'The Half-Life 2 of AI': Saber executive thinks the controversial tech will create great games someday — but I’m not so sure
- UGreen is bringing local storage, computing, and smart-home control together with its new AI tech — I’ve seen it in action, and it could be a game changer
- The Real Housewives of London season 2 cast on 'surprising friendship dynamics' in new episodes — and why they're just shocked as fans are going to be
- What's next for Philips Hue? Executive Marco Merolla says AI will change 'the way you can enjoy the system and create beautiful things'
- Forget the robots — next-gen phone-charging tech was the coolest stuff I saw at IFA, with Belkin, UGreen and ESR all offering something new
- NordVPN vs Free VPNs: Does premium performance beat free alternatives?
- September 6
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- Will the iPhone 17's price drop when the iPhone 18 launches? The answer is more complicated than usual this year
- I upgraded my Sennheiser HD 660S2 wired headphones with a more powerful iFi DAC to unlock the highest quality audio — but I honestly wasn’t expecting these results
- The Grand Tour presenters 'wouldn't' do their own version of Clarkson's Farm on Prime Video — but they do have another ingenious idea for a potential spinoff
- ‘It’s the singer, not the song’: Wildlife Photographer of the Year contender sparks huge debate about whether camera gear actually matters — as decade-old Nikon DSLR captures ‘wild shot’
- I was an Nvidia DLSS 5 sceptic — but here are 5 reasons why I'm now hopeful that it'll revolutionize graphics in PC games
- ‘Resilience comes from designing for disconnection, not assuming more connectivity’: The future of battlefield AI systems lies in both coordination and local capability
- Will the iPhone Ultra really be 'Ultra'? 5 features the foldable could surprisingly ditch, from Face ID to MagSafe
- Casualty star teases potential future romance between Flynn and Stevie after 40th anniversary special episodes — 'I think there's a lot more to come'
- September 5
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- 7 new 4K Blu-rays from August 2026 to add to your collection
- My first 90 minutes wandering through Silent Hill: Townfall's 90s Scottish town were atmospheric… and aimless
- Nvidia's RTX Spark is more impressive for gaming than I expected after going hands-on at Gamescom 2026 — but I still have one wish
- Why is there so much worry about OpenAI Astra, and what issues could ‘recurrent depth’ reasoning cause? The experts weigh in
- I rode in a self-driving powered wheelchair that avoids obstacles and people, and can be summoned when you need it — it’s like Tesla’s Autopilot for personal mobility
- Plug-in solar shone at IFA 2026 — here are the 5 best products we saw, from Anker to DJI and EcoFlow
- 'I got this one wrong': As a running watch expert, I thought Garmin's LED flashlight was just a gimmick — but 4 years on, it's proven to be a top-tier smartwatch feature
- September 4
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- I tried these stylish, futuristic-looking open earbuds, and although they boast sound by Bose, they're not as harsh on your wallet — here's everything you need to know
- I heard the Sonos Beam Ultra, and it delivers the most impressive Dolby Atmos sound I've experienced from a compact soundbar
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve delivers Top Gun thrills, but I was hoping to see more of its story and the bonds with your wingmen
- Why did FulcrumSec hackers try to extort Manchester Airports Group, and what happens now the data is leaked? The experts weigh in
- Xreal already made my favorite smart glasses, and its Aura specs take things to a whole new level with 2K screens and Android XR capabilities
- The 9 best new headphones and earbuds we saw at IFA 2026: tiny keychain AirTag buds, big Beyerdynamic cans, 'Noise' with sound by Bose, and much more
- Hohem's 'world’s first' 2-in-1 pocket gimbal and action camera's detachable design and native 4K video could make it a major rival to DJI and Insta360
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #5, Friday, September 4
- Alice and Steve season 2: everything we know so far about the Hulu show's return
- 'We stop thinking about the data that we're giving away because it's cool' — Smart tech and the decline of public privacy
- I photographed birds of prey in flight with Fujifilm's new 400mm f/4.5 super telephoto prime lens — and it proved the X series is no wildlife slouch compared to Sony and Canon
- The Grand Tour season 7 presenters on 'surreal moment' of getting Jeremy Clarkson's seal of approval — 'he loves the new episodes'
- I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to use
- September 3
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- The Grand Tour presenters had Amazon meeting 'days after' Richard Hammond Throttle House cameo on YouTube — 'we had no idea of any details'
- Persona 4 Revival plays fantastically, but I'm still not convinced it's an essential remake of Golden
- Death Stranding movie director is being given 'a lot of freedom' to tell 'standalone' story separate from Hideo Kojima video game franchise — 'I like things where it could be easy to miss the mark'
- I tried TCL's phone with a paper-like OLED display, plus its new nxtPaper tablets, and I was seriously impressed — here's why
- ‘You can really unleash a lot of creativity’: Philips Hue founder George Yianni explains why its AI upgrades will be genuinely useful and 'a bit of a game changer'
- Final Fantasy Resonance offers the exact old-school vibes I wanted to see from the first HD-2D game in my favorite RPG series
- A nation of birdwatchers: how a network of smart bird feeders is changing the way we look at nature
- I just saw Hisense’s world-first 3D micro-LED TV, and it looks incredible — this could finally solve 3D TV’s biggest problem
- Launching a business in 2026? Use these 7 AI tools
- How to launch a website in a day with just $13
- The Gentlemen season 2 ending explained: who dies, does Eddie get revenge for [SPOILER'S] death, shock final scene and season 3 predictions as Netflix confirms renewal
- September 2
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- 5 new features coming to Android — including improvements to Google Messages, Gemini Live, and Find Hub
- Director says Afterworld has 'some of the deepest simulation' of any Paradox strategy game — 'The idea is to drip-feed you until you're hooked'
- Power when you need it: how having a compact and lightweight power bank can minimize interruptions to your daily routine
- September 1
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- I think Sonos just fully solved home audio, mostly by doing exactly what we want — even with AI
- I used Oppo’s flagship phone and teleconverter to shoot the lunar eclipse — here’s what I learned
- ‘Having the latest chipset will cost a lot more’: Poco gets real about the ‘pressure’ of rising memory costs as it launches the F9 Ultra with an unchanged chipset
- Exclusive: Sonos CEO Tom Conrad explains why the new Sonos Ace Ultra headphones can achieve what fans wanted the first Ace to do, why its new Ultra soundbar is small, and the AI features of the company's new 'operating system'
- 'I closed my inbox and waited to see how the afternoon went' — I gave ChatGPT permission to watch my inbox, then stopped checking my email
- Today Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO — I've been an Apple computing journalist since 2004, here are the 5 ways that Cook changed Apple for the better
- How to secure your business by moving from passwords to passkeys
- How to edit an entire week of social media video on your lunch break with Veed's AI video editor