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Android TV updates home screen for Freeview Play viewers

Home News (Image credit: Android TV) Android TV has rolled out a home screen update for Freeview Play designed to make it easier for viewers to explore content relevant to their tastes. Users will now have access to a new ‘Discover’ tab that offers personalised suggestions based on viewing history, interests and Google trends. A… Read more

Google is trying to make Assistant more useful for your family this Mother’s Day

Google is announcing some improved Assistant features for families, including improved broadcasts, new bells, and some new stories that can be read to kids. Google says it’s rolling out the features for Mother’s Day, but a few of them could be useful for everyone, not just moms. The first is an expansion of its Broadcast… Read more

Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini now support Deezer voice control

Home News (Image credit: Deezer) Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini smart speakers now support voice control for Deezer. In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the USA, subscribers of Deezer Premium, HiFi, Family or Student tiers can now ask Siri to play specific tracks, artists, albums, favourites or playlists on their… Read more

Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini can now integrate with music streaming service Deezer

Owners of Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini can now connect their smart speakers directly to Deezer and make the music streaming service their default player. That means they can take advantage of the HomePod’s Siri voice controls to navigate their tunes and playlists on Deezer. To connect the services, you’ll first need to be a… Read more

FuroSystems Aventa e-bike review: Fast and furious?

(Pocket-lint) – While many of us are still very much locked indoors for the foreseeable, working from home, the spectre of a potential commute is beginning to rear its head for plenty of people. Now more than ever, an electric bike is an attractive prospect. Avoiding public transport, getting fresh air, but without the risk… Read more

Cambridge Audio’s Evo system: “I can accept ‘lifestyle’, but this is a proper hi-fi product”

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge Audio) As much as we love it, hi-fi isn’t traditionally synonymous with convenience – those stacks of components and tangles of cables, the rigamarole around turntable assembly, the nuisance caused by being repeatedly bitten by the hi-fi upgrade bug. Aiming to bring the two closer is a new era of… Read more

The Nintendo Switch can’t be stopped

Nintendo Switch sales were up 44 percent percent from January to March compared to the same pandemic-impaired quarter from a year earlier. Today’s numbers bring total Switch sales to 28.83 million for the fiscal year, up 37 percent compared to the 21 million Switch consoles the company shipped the year prior, and beating the company’s… Read more

The Verge’s Father’s Day Gift Guide 2021

A bunch of traditional and not-so-traditional gift ideas May 5th, 2021, 9:00am EDT If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Finding a good gift for Father’s Day can be really difficult — especially with all those “traditional” dad gifts out there that are just, well,… Read more

Here’s how to turn your Lenovo laptop into an Echo Show, if you want to do that for some reason

A new Show Mode feature from Amazon is now rolling out to some Lenovo laptops. When you activate this, it will change your home screen to look like the home screen of an Echo Show smart display, in a similar fashion to the Show Mode feature on Amazon’s tablets. That means you’ll be able to… Read more

Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021

The Apple Watch Series 3 was first released in September 2017, bringing fitness improvements and a faster processor. Nearly four years later, in 2021, Apple is still selling the Series 3 as its entry-level Apple Watch model starting at $199, an $80 savings compared to the more recent Apple Watch SE. Only, as I’ve recently… Read more

Apple to ship an 8-inch foldable iPhone in 2023, according to report

2023 could be the year of the foldable iPhone, reckons renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In an investor note seen by MacRumours, Kuo claims that Apple is beavering away on a folding iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display. He even goes so far as to say the tech giant will ship 15 to 20… Read more

MSI’s New MEG Z590 Board Is Slathered in Silver and Gold

Home News (Image credit: MSI) As spotted by TechPowerUp, MSI has just announced three new motherboards for the Z590 platform: the MEG Z590 Unify, Unify-X, and the MEG Z590 ACE Gold Edition. All three boards are aimed to extract the most from Intel’s Comet Lake and Rocket Lake CPUs, with very robust power delivery setups,… Read more

Samsung HW-Q800A soundbar review: Sonically powerful all-rounder

(Pocket-lint) – The Samsung HW-Q800A soundbar replaces the previous HW-Q800T, but offers an almost identical set of features. That includes a 3.1.2-channel speaker layout, a powerful subwoofer, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based decoding, eARC, and built-in Amazon Alexa for voice control. New this generation is the inclusion of Apple AirPlay 2, and optional wireless rear… Read more

This world-ending asteroid is the perfect vehicle for Pink Floyd

Goodbye, life. If you’d like a visual of one way that doom could overtake Earth almost immediately, then YouTube user Anselo La Manna has just the video for you: a large asteroid impact simulation scored to nothing other than Pink Floyd. Specifically, that’s “Great Gig in the Sky,” off what might be the band’s most… Read more

30 Apple Music tips, tricks and features

Home Advice Since its launch in 2015, Apple Music garnered 72 million subscribers by the end of 2020 and even more impressively (depending on who you ask) racked up a five-star review from us. Five iOS updates and a couple of hefty interface refreshes later, the arrival of the splendid HomePod Mini (despite the discontinuation… Read more