Author: Trendici
CES 2026 is nearly over and it’s been a fruitful one with a lot of new, weird and impressive tech. But you don’t have to wait until later this year to get your hands on some of the things announced this week in Las Vegas. A surprising number of gadgets are up for pre-order, if not outright available to buy already, from chargers and docks to projectors, keyboards and smart home gear. CES remains a place for companies to showcase concepts and big ideas, but these are the gadgets that have real prices and real order buttons as of today.…
A new update has emerged as Manchester United considers whether to appoint Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Michael Carrick as their new interim manager. The Red Devils have been without a permanent manager since they decided to part ways with their former boss Ruben Amorim on Monday morning. Amorim‘s position became untenable as performances and results suffered by the head coach naively refusing to adapt, while he also clashed with club chiefs over recruitment. Since his exit, it has emerged that the Premier League giants are looking to appoint an interim boss until the summer, at which point they will look…
Fender Audio may have announced its new headphones and speakers right before CES, but Las Vegas afforded us the first opportunity to see the brand’s new lineup in person. Fender Audio is a Fender-owned brand from Riffsound that’s designing and making new devices after licensing the name. It’s been a while since the guitar and amplifier company made any general-use speakers of its own, and this new arrangement is similar to what Zound was doing with Marshall for a spell.Logistics out of the way, let’s get down to what the Mix and Ellie are like in the flesh. First, the…
Liverpool manager Arne Slot has conceded the league title is all but gone and that they are aiming for the top four ahead of their trip to Arsenal. Having been the favourite to retain the title after a summer of spending, a substantial loss of form has Liverpool in fourth, 14 points behind leaders Arsenal. And instead of a title push, Liverpool find themselves with one eye over their shoulder with three points separating them and ninth-place Fulham. Speaking ahead of his side’s trip to the Emirates, Slot suggested a top four battle was what his team were concentrating on.…
YouTube introduced some new filters to its advanced search tools today. Possibly the most exciting change is that Shorts are now listed as a content type, so the three-minute-or-less videos can be excluded as results in your searches.This is a welcome update for any of us who have been on the hunt for a long-form explainer only to wade through dozens of ten-second clips before finding anything close to our goal. Especially with the addition of even more AI slop last year thanks to the Google Veo 3 engine, an option to exclude Shorts may look even more appealing.The other…
Becky MortonPolitical reporterGetty ImagesSome people are waiting more than a year to have their disability benefit claims processed, which risks pushing them into debt and poverty, MPs have warned.The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) aims to process 75% of new claims for Personal Independence Payment (Pip) within 75 working days but in the last financial year only 51% of claims were processed within this timeframe.A report by the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the department was providing “unacceptably poor service levels”.The DWP said that at the end of October, the average time taken for a Pip claim to…
Oh no. Arsenal drew 0-0 at home to Liverpool! They’re only six points clear at the top of the Premier League now. They’ll be absolutely devastated… Jokes aside, thank God the Premier League scheduled this game on its own on Thursday night after a hectic Wednesday consisting of eight matches, most of which were sodding mental. There was a naive expectation that – on the rainiest night ever, in the last Premier League game of this mad glut of fixtures, with Arsenal not needing to go out and win and Liverpool obviously delighted with a point – this game would…
After years of testing its humanoid robot (and forcing it to dance), Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is entering production. The robotics company said at CES 2026 that the final product version of the robot is being built now, and the first companies that will receive deployments are Hyundai, Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder, and Google DeepMind, the firm’s newly minted AI partner.This final enterprise version of Atlas “can perform a wide array of industrial tasks,” according to Boston Dynamics, and is specifically designed with consistency and reliability in mind. Atlas can work autonomously, via a teleoperator or with “a tablet steering interface,”…
EPAThe deal is expected to expand the number of victims who can seek compensationSpain’s Roman Catholic Church has reached an agreement with the government to compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy.The accord follows complaints that religious leaders had failed to tackle the issue adequately.It means the government will manage possible compensation in co-ordination with the Church, handling cases where other legal avenues are no longer available because the alleged crime took place too long ago or the individual accused has passed away.Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards are estimated by the government to have suffered sexual abuse…
It’s hard to say this without making it sound like a backhanded compliment, but Liverpool’s expertly conceived and hard-won point from a goalless draw at Arsenal made a more compelling case for their revival than any of their recent wins. Liverpool’s results have clearly improved over recent weeks after a dire spell, but all season it’s been hard to shake the notion that Arne Slot’s side have played at pretty much the same vaguely disappointing level all season only to have that base performance level masked by contrasting streaks of compelling yet misleading results. The recent wins – and even…