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One of the biggest problems with book recommendations is that they're usually too obvious. I don't need another list of books to read after The Lord of the Rings , or someone telling me to try Brandon Sanderson because I like fantasy. I wanted recommendations based on the strange mixture of books I actually enjoy — ones that felt personal, not algorithmic. So I gave ChatGPT my bookshelf. Metaphorically, at least. Rather than asking for recommendations straight away, I told ChatGPT to learn my reading taste first. I started listing favorite authors and books, then asked it to quiz me about others I'd forgotten. It wanted to know what I'd enjoyed about particular novels, whether I'd read similar authors, and even the rough timeline of when I'd discovered them, building a picture of the books that had shaped me. I also gave it some ground rules. It should avoid obvious reco...

China’s latest ChatGPT rival, Kimi , is now available for download on the Apple App Store, so I downloaded it on my iPhone, intending to test it against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. I had the prompts ready; I had the comparison planned. Then Kimi presented me with a very modern problem that I wasn’t expecting: too many people were already trying to talk to it. This is not just app-launch inconvenience. It captures one of the biggest problems in AI right now: being clever is one thing, but the best models are only useful if companies have enough servers and GPUs to allow people to actually use them. In our recent Kimi review we said: "Kimi delivers impressive performance for coding, document analysis, and multi-step agentic tasks, especially considering its price point." Kimi may be positioned as a serious open-weight rival to US models, but if the first ordinary-user experience is that...

I've spent the better part of a month filming everything from product close-ups to run-and-gun vlogs on my iPhone 17 Pro Max, and two accessories have completely changed how that footage looks and sounds: the DJI Osmo Mobile 8 gimbal and the DJI Mic Mini wireless microphone . Individually, neither breaks new ground. But linked through DJI’s OsmoAudio ecosystem, they target the two quickest giveaways of amateur filmmaking at once: shaky movement and poor audio. Why the Osmo Mobile 8 makes iPhone footage look intentional (Image credit: Future) The Osmo Mobile 8 is one of DJI's smartphone gimbals, and the headline upgrade over its predecessor is 360-degree pan rotation. That means you can track a subject through a full 360-degree spin without hitting a mechanical dead-end mid-take. It seems incremental on paper, but eliminating that rotational hard stop saves you from constantly having to p...

Jetkiller reaches 370 km/h to chase faster Russian Shahed attack drones The original P1-SUN reportedly destroyed more than 5,500 Russian drones already SkyFall plans serial production of the upgraded interceptor beginning in August 2026 Ukrainian drone manufacturer SkyFall has unveiled the P1-SUN Jetkiller, an upgraded interceptor built to counter Russia's jet-powered Shahed attack drones. The new model made its public debut at the recent Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom. According to Reuters , the Jetkiller reaches a top speed of 370 km/h, up from 310 km/h on the standard P1-SUN. A solution to Russia's jet-powered Shaheds Russia has begun fitting some Shahed attack drones with jet engines instead of propellers, allowing speeds of up to 500 km/h, which significantly narrows the window Ukrainian air defenses have to detect and intercept incoming drones. Yurii Chereva...

A strong password is sometimes the only thing standing between your accounts and a hacker, so it's well worth investing time into creating unique passwords. Trying to remember all of these passwords can be tricky (or downright impossible if you've got a lot of accounts) – but that's exactly why password managers are so useful. Password managers store your login credentials securely, ensuring that only you can access them, and can even help you generate complex passwords with a click of a button. Better yet, some password managers alert you if they detect weak or reused passwords, and can even search for personal details that might've been leaked to the dark web during a data breach. There are a lot of password managers available, however, and they're not all as trustworthy as they claim to be. It's why the TechRadar team has spent time testing and reviewing more than 30 of...