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Ive been a Kindle user for over a decade – heres why the Paperwhite is still my top choice
Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition ZDNET’s key takeaways The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is available for $200. I’ve been testing the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which has the fastest performance yet, and up to 12 weeks of battery life. Remember that Amazon’s promise of up to 12 weeks of battery life assumes 30 minutes of daily…
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Savvy Hongkongers book 9-day Lunar New Year break for festive trips across Asia
Hongkongers packed the airport and cross-border railway station on Saturday, with many opting to take a nine-day Lunar New Year break to destinations across the rest of Asia, as mainland Chinese visitors crossed into the city. Travellers, including families with children and elderly relatives, gathered at check-in counters at Hong Kong International Airport in the…
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How to customize your iPhone home screen with iOS 26
Apple has steadily expanded home screen customization on the iPhone over the past few years, and iOS 26 continues that trend with more visual control over app icons. Building on the changes introduced in iOS 18, the latest update lets you resize icons, remove app labels, apply system-wide color tints and make icons translucent using…
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Why elite Japanese school asked 12-year-olds to read Palestinian poems for exam
During an entrance exam for a top middle school in Japan in January, students were asked to read two poems depicting life in Palestine and write responses to key passages. Controversy soon followed on Japanese social media over the use of the material related to war and displacement. Some criticised the test section as politically…
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Relooted, Reanimal and other new indie games worth checking out
Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. A whole bunch of compelling games arrived this week, and Sony dropped some news about more that are on the way to PS5 and other platforms during its State of Play stream on Thursday. For one thing, I didn’t have a…
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Partial US government shutdown throws Congress into turmoil again
The US Government experienced its second shutdown in four months on Saturday, as funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) halted, underscoring Washington’s growing partisanship and dysfunction. But in an ironic twist, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, at the centre of the Congressional showdown, will continue to operate despite being part of DHS,…
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I let Microsoft Edges new AI feature read all my open tabs – and its a total research time-saver
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft Edge can now summarize your open tabs. The feature uses Copilot to analyze the details across all tabs. You can use this to research hotels, restaurants, products, and more. Microsoft Edge has long been able to summarize the information…
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Japan explores German silent cargo gliders to resupply remote islands
A German defence company has successfully tested an uncrewed cargo glider designed to support frontline military units, a technology that Tokyo is also exploring as it looks to bolster its capabilities in islands to the far southwest of the Japanese archipelago. Munich-based Hensoldt said on February 5 that it had marked a milestone in the…
