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Best UPS battery backups 2023

Power outages always seem to come at the worst times, and can wreak havoc on both productivity and connectivity. And with remote or hybrid work becoming the norm, ensuring you have a stable power supply for your most crucial devices is now a priority. A UPS, or uninterruptible power supply, can be used to power… Read more

Best smart security camera 2023

Some smart home tech can give you options that previously would have required expensive purpose-built systems to achieve. For example, a multiroom audio system that allows you to play the same music across multiple rooms of your home used to require a lot of wiring and complex control systems to make reality. Now you can… Read more

Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones review: Moving in silence

It’s been a while since we’ve had a new pair of flagship headphones from noise-cancelling aficionados Bose – almost 4.5 years in fact. In the trend of annual – or at the very most, biennial – launches of tech’s big-name products, that makes the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 practically ancient. It’s been a rather… Read more

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 review: Worth hunting down

Insomniac’s hot streak continues – this is clearly a studio at the very top of its game, churning out top-quality titles at a volume that almost makes no sense. Spider-Man 2, its latest, is a polished and impressive superhero fable that covers familiar ground but does so with such assurance and expertise that you’ll have… Read more

Panasonic Lumix G9ii review: The best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made

People have been speculating that the Micro Four Thirds system is on its way out for years and with Panasonic’s recent focus on full-frame bodies, that was starting to feel more like a reality. Then, out of nowhere, the G9ii arrived on the scene, and the system is more alive than ever. The G9ii introduces… Read more

Volvo C40 Recharge (2023) review

Volvo’s path to electrification is well underway, with the company aiming to be purely electric by 2030. That means there won’t be any more launches for combustion models, with a transition from cars designed initially for combustion to vehicles powered by batteries. The XC40 Recharge is typical of this, having launched originally as an ICE… Read more

Best VPNs for streaming abroad 2023

As a big fan of docu-series and mystery movies, I’m not fond of anything coming between me and my favorite shows. I don’t like how traveling abroad sometimes locks me out of streaming libraries, or greatly limits what I can watch. A very simple solution for bypassing geo-restrictions when moving overseas is a VPN. You… Read more

Best rugged laptops 2023

Construction workers, researchers, and other frontline users need rugged laptops that can survive the harshest environments and operating conditions, while having enough performance for demanding apps. The best rugged laptops have tough exteriors to withstand everything from the extreme heat and dust of desert environments to wet and cold places and include special features like… Read more

Sennheiser Ambeo Plus review: A performance that adds up

The middle child of the Sennheiser soundbar range could be its sweet spot… for those with the budget. If you’re looking to spend upwards of $1000/£1000 on a soundbar, chances are you care a fair bit about how your AV system looks and sounds (and have the budget to splash out). While that sort of… Read more

Sennheiser Accentum review: Hitting the mid-range

Sennheiser is rolling the dice – in more ways than one – with the Accentum. Firstly, it’s diving back into the mid-range market for over-ears having had Momentum flagship headphones at the top-end for ages. Secondly, it’s ripping up the old naming conventions and introducing an entirely new internal brand, and very much hoping that… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic review: You spin me round

For 2023, Samsung brought back a fan-favourite feature: the rotating bezel. It’s an on-again off-again feature that’s appeared on a number of different Samsung smartwatches over the years. This time out, it’s on the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic: a watch which looks quite different to the regular Galaxy Watch 6. But is it enough? Samsung… Read more

Hisense U7K review: Ridiculously affordable

The more I see of Mini LED technology, the more convinced I am that it’s the LCD TV technology of the future. Last year, though, Hisense had the unfortunate privilege of being the one brand that bucked the generally positive Mini LED trend by creating something of a territorial battleground when it came to picture… Read more

Meta Quest 3 review: Taking standalone VR to the next level

Meta has upgraded its popular Quest headset in just about every conceivable way. The Oculus Quest and Quest 2 changed the game for VR, taking the medium from the prohibitively expensive and cumbersome realm of tethered PC headsets, and propelling it into the mainstream. When the Meta Quest 2 launched, amidst the pandemic, the timing… Read more

Acer Chromebook Plus 515 review: Simply put, it adds up

The suffix ‘plus’ has become ubiquitous in our era, but there is plenty that this $400 notebook adds to the ChromeOS realm. Google’s new Chromebook Plus scheme is a coordinated attempt to bring better performance and more things to do on the perceptibly lightweight ChromeOS. Last year’s musclier Chromebooks are being repackaged in new bodies,… Read more

Sony X95L review: Closing the gap

At the start of 2023, pretty much all the TV tech buzz was around OLED TV technologies. Whether it was the new micro lens array system LG had added to its LG G3 or the second, much-improved generation of Samsung’s Quantum Dot-infused take on OLED in the S95C, the chatter was all about which OLED… Read more