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The Best E-Readers of 2026: Kobo, Kindle, Boox
This WIRED buying guide, updated in August 2026, rounds up the best e-readers currently available, covering options from Kobo, Amazon Kindle and Boox. It notes that while physical books remain unmatched for many readers, e-readers offer instant access to vast digital libraries, including borrowed books via apps like Libby, and use eye-friendly E Ink displays.…
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The Big Moon’s ‘Fun’ Is A Carefree Indie Bop
The Big Moon have released their new single ‘Fun’, the second track to be shared from their upcoming album ‘Forever’, which is due out on 30th October via Fiction Records. The song embraces a lighter, more joyful side of the band’s sound, deliberately moving away from darker themes in favour of the buoyant energy the…
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Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver’s seat
Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive
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How to Choose a Camera (2026): Sensors, Megapixels, Terms
Wired has published its 2026 guide to buying a digital camera, aimed at helping readers navigate an unusually strong market in which, the author argues, it is “virtually impossible to buy a bad one.” The guide’s core message is that shoppers should not simply seek the most technically capable camera, but the one best suited…
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The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview
An increasing number of job applicants are being interviewed by AI-driven recruitment tools at unusual hours, including late at night, as automated video and voice interviews become more common in hiring. The trend is driven partly by convenience, giving parents, hourly workers and those juggling existing jobs more flexibility over when they interview, but it…
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Millions in Great Britain can now face emergency power cuts at short notice
New grid rules that came into effect this week give Great Britain’s electricity system operator, Neso, the power to impose short-notice rolling blackouts as a last resort to prevent a total grid collapse, without needing the government to invoke emergency powers. This is significant because it is the first time such large-scale power cuts could…
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Finance guru’s chilling warning the AI boom will put further strain on the already dipping Aussie house market
The provided article text does not contain the actual body of this piece — only the Daily Mail’s navigation menu and a list of unrelated headlines came through, with no substantive content on the finance commentator’s warning itself. Based on the title and URL, the piece appears to feature an Australian finance figure (the URL…
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Reform pledge to deport foreign criminals to El Salvador leaves them at risk of torture, charities warn
Reform UK has unveiled plans to deport all foreign nationals from Britain’s prisons, potentially sending some to serve sentences in El Salvador or Kosovo if their home countries refuse to take them back. The policy, announced by Reform’s Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, has drawn criticism from migrant rights charities, who warn it could expose…
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6 Worst Sci-Fi Movies of the 1990s
Collider film writer Liam Gaughan has published a ranked list of the six worst science-fiction films of the 1990s, arguing that despite the decade being a golden era for the genre — producing hits like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and The Matrix — some big-budget efforts badly misjudged what audiences wanted. He suggests the worst…
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Peak’s final biome update was under threat from dataminers, so the developers came up with a load of fakes like Heaven, Hell, and Wisconsin
Developers of co-operative climbing game Peak reportedly used false information in the game’s files to prevent dataminers revealing its final biome before release. The tactic mattered because the team wanted players to discover the update as intended, rather than having its main surprise exposed in advance. The fabricated references included locations such as Heaven, Hell…