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Apple iPhone cases suck. I bought a silicone one for my iPhone 16 Pro and it’s started falling to bits this week – despite me being a very light user of the case itself. (In the sense I work from home and the iPhone only rarely leaves the house.) Given that I have a lovely editor, I got […]
I wrote about 30 years of tech. This was to celebrate Stuff magazine’s 30th, which is on the way. It’s a properly long read (although bite-sized, so you can snack on it in chunks), covering everything from DVDs to iPhone to ChatGPT. How many of these do you remember? What do I want to see from Apple? Two pieces […]
Lego isn’t the only brick brand. But, for good reason, Chinese brands in particular built a bad reputation for themselves. Things have been changing, though, with a handful of companies innovating beyond Lego’s efforts. One such example is Lumibricks. For Stuff this week, I look into one of its sets in ’Why Lego should be paying […]
Oops. Bit late this time, because reasons. (Mostly that it’s still stupidly hot in the UK and my brain melted this weekend.) Anyway… Pod people! MacFormat 433 (September 2026) has my feature on the return of the iPod. Apple hasn’t sold one of its digital music players in years, yet they’re making a comeback. Writing this […]
I hate AI search. Search engines are integrating it to gradually shift emphasis away from websites and onto chatbots that give you all the answers. But chatbots are confidently wrong much of the time. It’s refreshing, then, to see Quiche Browser fighting the good fight and defaulting to non-AI search. This won’t come as a […]