Interest in Samsung’s next flagship is already building, even though the company has not officially announced it. The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra is expected to succeed the Galaxy S26 Ultra in early 2027, and early reports point to meaningful changes rather than a minor refresh: a redesigned camera island, a larger silicon-carbon battery, a next-generation […]
Amazon is starting over with tablets. After 15 years of Fire tablets built on a forked version of Android and its own Appstore, the company has launched an all-new line that runs full Android with Google Play Store access and built-in Alexa+. The flagship is the Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, a 12-inch device aimed […]
Most bedside tables end up as a tangle of compromises. A phone that doubles as an alarm clock but keeps you scrolling, a separate wireless charger, a lamp you switch on just to find your glasses, and no idea whether the room is too warm or too dry for decent sleep. IKEA’s latest small home […]
On the morning of 6 October 2026, shoppers who had the ASOS app installed received a push notification that looked unlike any sale alert. Titled ” ASOS HACKED”, it was addressed to the retailer’s own data protection officer and IT team, claimed its Snowflake instance had been “fully compromised” and included a link to a […]
For fifteen years, Amazon tablets have meant compromise: cheap hardware, a locked-down fork of Android called Fire OS, and an app store that made you sideload YouTube. The Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is a clean break. Announced on 8 October 2026, it is not a Fire tablet with a new name. Amazon describes it […]
Twenty-eight years after two Ph.D. students started tinkering with web links in a Stanford office, their project answers more than 8 billion searches a day, runs the operating system on over three billion phones, hosts the world’s largest video library, and powers much of the internet’s economy. Google did not get there by having the […]
Amazon is letting independent sellers run parts of their Amazon business from inside the AI assistants they already use. The company announced a new Selling Partner plugin that connects Amazon seller data and actions to Anthropic’s Claude and Amazon’s own Quick assistant, with more integrations to come. The shift is significant because it moves Amazon’s […]
Beats has a new flagship over-ear. The Beats 360 are official, and they are not just another Studio refresh. After almost two decades of Studio headphones, Beats is positioning the 360 as a separate family — lighter, more customizable and built to survive workouts as well as commutes. Priced at $349.99 in the US and […]
iOS 27 started rolling out to iPhones on Monday, September 14, and it’s a bigger update than Apple usually ships in September. The headline item is a rebuilt version of Siri that Apple is calling Siri AI, but there’s also a genuinely useful set of AI photo editing tools, a quieter refinement of the Liquid […]
Monzo activated its backup bank this week after its main platform failed. Customers could not use the app normally. The bank switched to Monzo Stand-in and kept core payments running. People across the UK reported issues on Tuesday afternoon. They could not check balances or view transactions. Monzo posted on X that the app was […]