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Dell’s XPS 13 is a stalwart of the ultrabook laptop category. Its portable size and the ability to spec it with decent hardware make it a good pairing for on-the-go professionals or well-off students. Its internals have received a boost from Intel’s Meteor Lake (Core Ultra Series 1) chipsets in… Read more »

Headphones made specifically for kids is a niche that works. The little critters, as anyone who has kids will tell you, don’t always make choices in their best interests. Plonking something like the iClever BHT20 cans onto their heads means you won’t add hearing damage to the litany of injuries… Read more »

One of the best parts about smartphones is the ability to make content. If you’re looking to take your content creation to the next level, upgrading your phone’s camera with accessories is an affordable option worth considering. The DJI OSMO Mobile 6 is comfortably one of the better – if… Read more »

It’s almost the time when you’re supposed to put down the festive cheer, avoid looking at the scale, and start shopping around for a basic notebook for the kids to take to school. Acer’s Aspire Lite 14 would like to have a word, especially if you’re all about sticking to… Read more »

There’s nothing more mortally embarrassing than inviting over that special someone to Cloud Atlas and chill – only to find it’s been removed from Netflix entirely. Scouring the many, many streamers operating in SA for a further ten minutes isn’t great, either. As streamers become more prominent, with many subscribing… Read more »

Ah, the flip-phone champion. But whatever happened to the Razr V1 and V2? No idea. Perhaps they lurk to this day in a dusty, long-abandoned Motorola lab, waiting to take off a future archaeologist’s fingers. Or maybe they were just the ones that didn’t make it – including a reported… Read more »

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out how life arose in… Read more »

Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second. However, this high speed and reliability comes at the cost of significant energy consumption: data centres and household IT appliances… Read more »

Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more efficiently, and explore less energy-intensive designs inspired by the human brain. We can build data centres more sustainably, using wood or low-carbon concrete and steel. The heat from the data centres can warm homes in the local area. Of course,… Read more »

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the history of the Moon. The three of us were all interested… Read more »