Getty Images The Covid public inquiry will start four weeks of hearings on Monday, looking into the purchase and distribution of billions of pounds’ worth of medical equipment during the pandemic. In total, it’s thought £48bn was spent on personal…
Once it’s plugged in, the Revolution’s screen is on and currently never goes off. Instead of turning off after breakfast, it stays on, a big “R” logo the color of glowing coils in the center. If it’s nighttime and you’re…
Cassettes do have a warm and distinctive sound, though—once you have a taste for light hiss, you may find yourself missing it in cleaner formats. The unique difficulty of skipping songs gives the album format a primacy no other medium…
I’m a fan of Xiaomi’s new 15 and 15 Ultra flagship phones—even if they only bring incremental improvements over their predecessors. The Xiaomi 15 is a classy, compact competitor to the iPhone 16 or Pixel 9, but the Xiaomi 15…
I’ve always been the kind of person who’s surrounded by “doom piles”—random collections of my belongings that don’t necessarily have a rhyme or reason. I have ADHD and a love of Things, and I’m a Millennial who’s never had enough…
It chose a restaurant, but then couldn’t complete the process as the spot it chose required a credit card to confirm a reservation, at which point the user had to take over. You can be flexible in your query—in another…
Also interesting is the Smart ForcePad trackpad, which has a three-layer illuminated dashboard—you can cycle through these layers to access specific keys. One layer is the numeric keys, for example, and another layer is the media controls. The whole machine…
Key to its success is Xiaomi’s LaserLink technology. This is a proprietary optical communication module, apparent as a small dot on the back of the phone and the lens where data is transferred as light (near-infrared laser) at speeds of…
Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word “racist” into their iPhones it typed it out as “Trump.” The tech giant has suggested the issue with…
A company which fell victim to what’s thought to be the world’s biggest ever theft is seeking to recover some of its losses by crowdsourcing online bounty hunters. Last week, hackers believed to be from North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group…
