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Insulated water bottles from Legami Milano at a homewares trade fair in Germany in 2025. Photo: AP
Fashion

What your choice of water bottle says about your personality and needs

With features like self-cleaning tech and personalised designs, there is a water bottle out there for everyone, from Owala to Hydro Flask.

Video gaming

Why old-school video game consoles and titles are back in demand

Meta Platforms

Meta’s upcoming smart glasses with a screen and how they’ll work

Video gaming

Nintendo’s Switch 2 priced at US$450 for June 5 launch

The company’s first entirely new platform in eight years, the Switch 2 has the potential to lift sales for game makers and retailers.

Nintendo has confirmed that its highly anticipated new Switch 2 console will be released on June 5. Photo: Nintendo/PA Media/dpa
Nintendo has confirmed that its highly anticipated new Switch 2 console will be released on June 5. Photo: Nintendo/PA Media/dpa
Artificial intelligence

Lost your phone? Now you can ask your Samsung fridge to find it

The latest Samsung Bespoke fridges’ AI-enhanced Bixby assistant responds to voice commands to find missing phones and activate appliances.

Smartphones

Review | US$200 less than standard handset, what you lose buying iPhone 16e

A fast downloading smartphone with a long lasting battery and new modem, the economy Apple handset lacks a decent camera.

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Wellness

‘A tsunami of addiction disorders’ facing young people, study suggests

More than a quarter of 10- to 17-year-olds show risky or pathological use of digital media, study says, with 1 in 20 considered addicted.

Boys are more likely to show problematic digital media use, with 6 per cent of them meeting the criteria for pathological media use, a new study says. Photo: Shutterstock
Boys are more likely to show problematic digital media use, with 6 per cent of them meeting the criteria for pathological media use, a new study says. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple

Apple’s AirPods to get Star Trek-like upgrade with live translation

The capability will be offered as part of an AirPods software upgrade due later this year, sources say.

Apple

Apple prepares major interface revamp for iPhone, iPad and Mac

Loosely based on the Vision Pro headset’s software, the new design could help revive demand for Apple’s iPhones.

Smartphones

Review | Xiaomi 15 flagship has predecessor’s looks but is full of AI features

Chinese marque’s new compact flagship phone has transformative AI apps and software for editing photos and translating speech and text.

Xiaomi 15 series phones. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Apple M4 MacBook Air, M4 Max and M3 Ultra Mac Studio roll out

New MacBook Air laptops have speedier processor and are US$100 cheaper than M3 versions, while Mac Studio gets its first update in two years.

Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with an AI-ready M4 chip for superior performance compared with previous models. Photo: Apple
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with an AI-ready M4 chip for superior performance compared with previous models. Photo: Apple
Apple

Apple’s new iPad Air gets a speed boost with the M3 chip

The iPad Air update represents a faster turnaround than usual, coming only 10 months after the last version.

Wellness

Children’s mental health at risk from chatbots, advocacy groups say

An autistic boy urged by a chatbot to kill his parents? A teen driven to take his own life? Lawsuits make case for regulating AI companions.

Wellness

No phones. Only real people. Welcome to The Offline Club

Over 2,000 people have attended The Offline Club’s London events in just a few months, mostly adults aged 20 to 35 eager to digitally detox.

People attend a digital detox event run by The Offline Club at the Sherriff Centre in London on February 12, 2025. Photo: AFP
Apple

Apple unveils US$599 iPhone 16e, a budget-friendly AI handset

The 16e will include a powerful chip to run Apple Intelligence, a set of features with access to ChatGPT.

iPhone 16e phones with the new C1 cellular modem are tested at an Apple lab in California. Photo: Reuters
iPhone 16e phones with the new C1 cellular modem are tested at an Apple lab in California. Photo: Reuters
Wellness

Apple launches Powerbeats Pro 2, its first earphones to measure pulse

Apple’s first Powerbeats Pro sports earphones in years are smaller with a better fit, chip and battery. They work seamlessly with iPhone.

Photography

Why Gen Z are using 10-year-old iPhones, old digital cameras

Gen Z and millennials carry two iPhones: the latest, and models a decade old for photos as part of the ‘young-tro’ – young and retro – trend.

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Video gaming

3 of the best space exploration and adventure games around

X4: Foundations, No Man’s Sky and Elite Dangerous offer everything space adventurers could want, on PC and other platforms.

Elite Dangerous is an open-world game in which you can explore a huge universe of 400 billion star systems alone or as competing factions.
Elite Dangerous is an open-world game in which you can explore a huge universe of 400 billion star systems alone or as competing factions.
Apple

How Apple’s parental control features are child’s play to override

Security measures on Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs to protect children from unsuitable content don’t work, recent software tests show.

Artificial intelligence

How AI pets help young people in China combat anxiety, isolation

In the 90s there were Tamagotchis. Now a new generation of sophisticated AI pets is providing connection in an increasingly stressful world.

Wellness

How your remote-controlled sex toy could be hijacked by strangers

Bluetooth sex devices could leave users open to data interception by anyone within range, research suggests. AI sex robots are a new threat.

Sex toys that can be remote-controlled via Bluetooth leave users open to the interception of sensitive information, research commissioned by the British government warns. AI sex robots are another risk. It plans legislation to protect users. Photo: Shutterstock
RedNote

How to set up an account on RedNote, a TikTok alternative: 9 steps

RedNote is attracting users of another Chinese short video app, TikTok, in the US who fear a ban. See our 9-step guide to opening an account.

Employees on the balcony of the RedNote (also known as Xiaohongshu, meaning “little red book”) company headquarters building in Shanghai, China. The RedNote app has been seized on as an alternative to Tiktok, which faces a ban in the United States. Photo: EPA-EFE
Employees on the balcony of the RedNote (also known as Xiaohongshu, meaning “little red book”) company headquarters building in Shanghai, China. The RedNote app has been seized on as an alternative to Tiktok, which faces a ban in the United States. Photo: EPA-EFE
Fashion

Smart glasses without premium pricing? Welcome to the tech’s new era

Back in 2013, Google Glass would set you back US$1,500. Now, smart glasses are as low as US$200. Some were on display at the CES tech event.

Wellness

New health tech wearables at CES measure blood sugar, capture heart murmurs

MindMics’ earbuds and DexCom’s Stelo patches stand out at CES 2025, while an expert calls the approval process for such devices ‘pathetic’.

Tourism

Are electric-powered skis, unveiled at CES, the future of snow sports?

E-winter sports trended at CES Las Vegas, with an electric off-road board for snow and sand, and battery-powered skis, grabbing attention.

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E-Skimo founder Nicola Colombo demonstrates his battery-assisted skis. Photo: AFP
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