12 Motorcycles Bikers Love For Long-Distance Riding
There are all sorts of ways to enjoy motorcycles. Sure, you can enjoy riding a motorcycle to-and-from work, but there are elevated experiences, too. Rides that rise above the typical daily commute and can include stuff like knee-dragging track days, hill-climbing dirt bike excursions in the desert, and exploring unknown back roads on the lookout…
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I spent two weeks with the gorgeous Philips Café Aromis espresso machine, and creating delicious custom coffees has never been so much fun
Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series: two-minute review The Philips Café Aromis 8000 Series is a premium automatic coffee maker that works brilliantly by itself, and even better when paired with the Philips HomeID mobile app. The Café Aromis offers a huge menu of over 50 different hot and cold drinks, and encourages you to tinker…
LG B6 review: a great budget OLED TV, but not the upgrade I hoped for
LG B6 OLED TV: Two minute review The LG B6 is the entry-level OLED TV in LG’s 2026 TV lineup. While it provides a brightness boost over its predecessor, the LG B5, which I rated as one of 2025’s best TVs, the LG B6 doesn’t deliver the full and clear upgrade I was hoping for….
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‘Most likely, you won’t see it on a Leica M camera’: Leica hints that generative AI tools like Gemini Omni are at odds with its photography heritage, but says they ‘make perfect sense’ for phones like
These days, it’s not uncommon for phones to share two big selling points: a partnership with a trusted photography brand and flashy AI features. The Xiaomi 17T Pro, launched this week in Vienna, is no different, boasting Leica-tuned cameras and fresh new AI skills from Google’s text-to-video tool, Gemini Omni. Of course, Leica is a…
Three things you need to overcome CAPTCHAs when web scraping
For more than two and a half decades, CAPTCHA has been the bane of every casual user minding their business on the Internet. If you’ve spent any time scraping, you know exactly the feeling of frustration when clicking all the squares with traffic lights and failing. The good news is that CAPTCHAs are very much…
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The 5.7 HEMI Engine’s Greatest Hits: From Muscle Cars To Mopar Legends
Chrysler’s HEMI is one of the most recognizable names in automotive history, its reputation built primarily on the iconic 426 HEMI that powered muscle cars like the Dodge Charger R/T and Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda. But the 426 was also incredibly short-lived, only made available as a street car engine from 1966 to 1971; after that,…
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Google Health has taken over from Fitbit on my phone, but I still don’t trust AI enough to talk to me about my health
You might have noticed the furore around users being forced to switch from the Fitbit app to the Google Health app this month, and it’s an update that’s happened on my phone too now: five years after Google acquired Fitbit, the Fitbit app is now no more, though the brand name lives in with the…
