Category: 8. Tech

You might recall that last September, we told you that the Phone by Google app would rotate into landscape mode when the phone slightly turned sideways. The big problem came when…

In 2004, 28% of Americans spent time reading for pleasure on an average day. By 2023, that number has fallen to just 16%, a decline of more than 40% in two decades. Simultaneously, our screen times have gone up, with Gen Z sometimes spending over…

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• CachyOS makes Wayland the default on the live ISO and installer, moving away from X11 as the default.
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Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This limits their use in real-world machines, even though they can bend, stretch, and twist in ways that rigid motors cannot.

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OpenAI‘s new Agent Tools – launched in October 2025 – offer a faster, simpler way for businesses to automate tasks, improve customer support, and streamline operations. These tools include AgentKit, Agent Builder, ChatKit, and Agents…

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• January brought two Windows 11 out-of-band patches after outages and a restart-on-shutdown bug.

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Google’s Pixel 9a

Ewan Spence

Ahead of the launch of the Pixel 10a in February, Google has slashed the price of the Pixel 9a. With the Pixel 10a expected to make a smaller jump in specs than previous new Pixel A smartphones, the Pixel 9a offer is…

Southland Stags flyer Michael Manson is in line to potentially debut for the All Blacks Sevens this month, named in a 13-man travelling squad for HSBC SVNS Series events at Singapore’s National Stadium and Perth’s HBF Park.

New Zealand Sevens…

Following yesterday’s release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine…

Saturday, 24 January 2026

A few weeks ago there were a rash of stories claiming that iOS 26 is seeing bizarrely low adoption rates from iPhone users. The methodology behind these numbers is broken and the numbers are totally wrong. Those false…