5 ways Amazon Astro is better than a real butler (and 5 ways it’s...
Say what you like about Amazon (and we have), it’s certainly a company that’s full of surprises.
On Tuesday, the company announced Astro the robot assistant would be rolling into select American...
The iPhone 13 may be a dull update, but boring will prove to be...
So, another iPhone event is over. The iPhone 13 has been officially unveiled and it’s hard to get too excited about anything contained within the 78-minute presentation from Cook & Co....
Should Netflix pay for hogging ISP’s bandwidth?
Whether it’s Squid Game, the new sensation Maid or just a catch-up binge on Selling Sunset, Netflix and other streaming services are hogging up ISPs bandwidth and costing ISPs money and...
What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…
Spotify joined the live audio game last week with Greenroom.
It’s done via a reskinned Locker Room app that Spotify bought in March for an estimated $50 million USD.
It now joins Twitter...
Samsung wants to make foldables mainstream, but can a folding phone beat my apathy?
Samsung wants to make foldables go mainstream. The fact that this ambition was nestled in the middle of a 2,097-word press release about the company’s second quarter performance – very much...
Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?
What are you doing in three weeks’ time? Samsung hopes that on Wednesday 11 August you’ll be tuned in to the company’s live stream for the next Galaxy Unpacked event.
Actually, given...
Norton 360’s ‘Game Optimizer’ actually looks useful
NortonLifeLock unveils Game Optimizer (called GO) as a new feature in the Norton 360 for Gamers pack. This feature helps clear power-hungry applications running in the background to free up computing...
Spatial Audio: The best (and worse) remixed tracks
After reporting the announcement regarding Spatial Audio last week I figured it was time to check out what Apple calls “the next generation of sound”.
As a music lover I’ve spent countless...
NZ’s mobile data is the third most expensive in the world (sort of)
New Zealand's mobile data is the third most expensive in the world. This is according to data from a Tefficient study that analysed mobile data usage and costs from 44 developed...
Apple’s future vision of wireless charging convenience sounds awful (not awfully convenient)
Remember AirPower? Announced alongside the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in 2017 as a wireless charging pad to fill up all your Apple devices at once, it missed its 2018 release...