2026-06-17

The new Google Home Speaker is launching next week, and you can pre-order your new smart hub right now — but you’ll need Google Home Premium for the full Gemini package

Google has announced that its new Google Home Speaker will be go on sale on June 25. [...]

2026-06-17

Wear OS 7 has landed — here are the 5 biggest new features you need to know about, from live updates to widget creation

Wear OS 7 is rolling out now with three new features, but some of the biggest upgrades are still to come. [...]

2026-06-17

How to watch England vs Croatia: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as the Three Lions begin FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign

Here's how to watch England vs Croatia for free online and from anywhere in Group L of the FIFA World Cup 2026. [...]

2026-06-17

CrankGPT is a hand-powered, fully offline AI bot powered by a Raspberry Pi and 8GB of RAM — and I'm all for apocalypse-ready chatbots that don't need data centers

If you want to protect your privacy and be kinder to the environment, you can run a local AI using a hand crank. [...]

2026-06-17

‘A real step up in pretty much every way’: I listened to Cambridge's new Evo 300 streaming amp, and it raises the bar for modern hi-fi

First impressions of Cambridge’s new flagship just-add-speakers streaming amplifier are very good indeed. [...]

2026-06-17

How to watch Alone season 13 online from anywhere

Set in the bleak Richardson Mountains straddling Yukon and Canada’s Northwest Territories, here's how to watch Alone season 13 online from anywhere. [...]

2026-06-17

The Philips Baristina is one of the best coffee makers I've ever used, and it's half price at Amazon right now — who needs Prime Day?

The Baristina makes brewing coffee with fresh beans as easy as using Nespresso pods, and you don't need to be a Prime subscriber to get this epic deal. [...]

2026-06-17

This Google-backed ‘phone cluster computing’ project is turning retired Pixels into low-cost Linux data centers — as UCSD researchers say a 2,000-phone cluster will soon support 100 computer science classes

Google says old phones could see their components reused as affordable cloud servers. [...]

2026-06-17

Microsoft still has an uphill battle against Valve's SteamOS — Windows 11's Xbox mode saves on RAM usage, but apparently doesn't help with gaming performance

Xbox mode on Windows 11 does use less RAM than the standard desktop, but it seemingly means nothing for gaming performance. [...]