After a reckless shopping spree, I ditched contactless payments and bank cards to see how far £200 cash in hand would get me – and if I could improve my spending habits If I’m lucky, I can just about ...

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Appearance and response style tweaks improve daily usability. New ad controls let free and Go users limit personalization. Memory and history toggles shape privacy and better context. ChatGPT has come ...

Speechify's Voice AI Research Lab Launches SIMBA 3.0 Voice Model to Power Next Generation of Voice AI SIMBA 3.0 represents a major step forward in production voice AI. It is built voice-first for ...

A practical guide for expanding your circle, with advice from sociable people. By Laura Regensdorf Laura Regensdorf lives in Brooklyn with her hound mix, Pina, who has turned out to be a great ...

Yitzi Snow makes his New York Times Crossword debut. The New York Times has launched the Midi, a daily medium-size crossword.

Give it a go before you give it up. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac For the first time in 18 years, Apple redesigned the oft-overlooked Phone app. The overhaul in iOS 26 simplifies the Phone app’s ...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 edition comes with several new features, and several of them are available through the Zelda Notes application. You can use this feature from the ...

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

On a good day, you probably fart between 8 and 14 times, but up to 25 times is within the normal range. It’s something we all do to clear the excess air swirling around our insides. But sometimes, ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 beats Opus in agentic tasks, adds 1 million context, and excels in finance and automation, all at one-fifth the cost.

Whether you have pages of details for a work or school project, artificial intelligence can help you organize, summarize, and leverage your ideas more efficiently. These are the AI-infused note-taking ...