June
‘AI agents’ could turn out to be as useless as The Internet Of Things
Technologies that could automatically fix “smart” home systems are here, but they share the same problem they are meant to solve: they don’t work well together.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 sets sales record in boon for games sector
The numbers, released by the company on Wednesday, bode well for its target to sell 15 million units by March next year.
Warner Bros Discovery ‘fumbling through disruption’ as cable TV struggles
This week’s effective break-up of the US media group after just three years has left staff exasperated as the swashbuckling pay television era disintegrates.
This home Wi-Fi system has a killer feature, but it comes at a price
Amazon’s eero Pro 7 isn’t the fastest we’ve tested, but it does strike a nice balance between speed and other features. However, there’s a catch.
May
Bingo! This new 8K TV gets our ticks of approval
Samsung’s top-of-the-line Neo QLED LCD television scores even better than an OLED in our tests. Except when it doesn’t.
Hisense’s C2 Ultra projector is great – as long as you’re not allergic
Hisense’s choice of technology isn’t the only thing standing in the way of our desire to own a C2 Ultra. Walls stand in the way, too. And ceilings.
April
Warning: Viewing Samsung’s latest OLED TV may cost you dearly
After a marathon session in front of the top-of-the-line 83-inch OLED S95F, all the joy has been stolen out of our Lab’s previously perfectly good enough TV.
March
Netflix’s $438m ‘The Electric State’ is a dud. No Matter?
The movie shows how different Netflix is from the traditional studios – and how easily it can spend so much for a poor result without Wall Street noticing.
January
You won’t regret buying this TV, but will you use it?
LG’s StanbyME Go is one of the most fascinating, utterly silly contraptions we’ve reviewed in the Digital Life Labs.
The biggest news at the biggest gadget festival wasn’t even a gadget
Nvidia has grown to be the world’s biggest company on the back of artificial intelligence. Now it’s giving back to the AI community.
PC makers spruik half-price AI laptops at year’s biggest trade show
The industry launched chips, PC graphics cards and laptops that it says will drive down the cost of running AI models while increasing performance.
Robot puts a sock in it for world’s biggest gadget fest
CES – formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show – starts officially on Wednesday, but already a theme has emerged, and it doesn’t take AI to figure out what it is.
December 2024
This $25,000 TV breaks the extreme barrier
The Hisense 110″UX isn’t just four times bigger and four times brighter than many of the best TVs on the market. It’s four times more everything.
September 2024
The streaming service reeling in Netflix in Australia
Amazon Prime Video is closing the gap on the nation’s most popular entertainment platform, all while more Australians are downgrading to ad-supported plans.
August 2024
How to hide your tech in plain sight
Like Samsung’s Frame TV, the Samsung Music Frame uses the power of invisibility to get spouses to finally agree on something for once in their lives.
July 2024
This is LG’s best OLED TV ever, despite the dumb AI
In an unfair fight, the Digital Life Labs has pitted LG’s new OLED G4 TV against an old Samsung TV we often couldn’t even switch on.
June 2024
Aussie experts can stop your smart-device cameras spying on you
When photos snapped by a robot vacuum cleaner of a woman on the toilet went viral, the smart home sector knew it had a problem; Aussie academics claim to have solved it.
May 2024
It’s bigger and brighter, but is it Samsung’s best TV?
We pit Samsung’s “pinnacle” TV against a lesser model. The results won’t surprise you.
April 2024
Samsung’s new OLED TV is the best TV ever. Or is it?
The idea that anything could be inferior to this device has forced us to ponder the very essence of what it means to have eyes in your head.
A router that will (eventually) make your home Wi-Fi fly
Can you save money and improve download speeds, both at the same time? With WiFi 7, we think you can.