Smart home tech can be expensive. It might cost hundreds of dollars to replace your light bulbs with smart ones. However, some devices cost next to nothing but can make a huge difference to your smart home.

I've been fascinated by eclipses ever since reading the classic Tintin comic Prisoners of the Sun. In the story, Tintin escapes death by convincing his captors that he can command the Sun, ordering it to disappear at the exact time that a solar eclipse is about to happen.

ChatGPT's new image-generation capabilities are useful for a lot more things than just turning yourself into Studio Ghibli characters. You can use it to transform uploaded images into plenty of other styles.

If you own an Echo smart speaker, you can set up a Good Morning routine that will do things such as wishing you a good morning and playing you the latest news headlines when you say good morning to Alexa. Whichever smart home system you use, creating a routine that runs first thing in the morning can be a useful way to start your day.

People are going nuts for ChatGPT's new image-generation capabilities, creating everything from images of themselves in the style of Studio Ghibli to images of other people in the style of Studio Ghibli. Incredibly, ChatGPT can even make images in other styles, too.

Open a popular AI chatbot app right now, and the chances are that you'll soon come across a feature called "Deep Research." You can find Deep Research in ChatGPT, in Google Gemini, and in Perplexity. It's rare that AI companies give a feature exactly the same name.

It's easy to take our Moon for granted, especially when we're in our homes at night, away from its light. Even when we're outdoors, it's always there above us, waxing and waning in the sky. Familiarity can make us assume that there's nothing that special about our Moon.

When OpenAI drops a new feature, there's often a small amount of buzz among people who are interested, but it rarely breaks the internet. However, with the release of an updated image generation model, ChatGPT did exactly that.

The deepest point below sea level that humans have been on our planet is 35,853 feet into the Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench. As deep as that sounds, it's less than 0.2% of the average distance of 3,959 miles from the surface to the center of the Earth.

We've never had it so easy. Modern technology provides us with so many small conveniences that it's easy to take them for granted. You can pause a live TV show, undo a mistake on your computer, or ask a smart speaker to play your favorite band without even thinking about it.

The "Wait" action in Apple's Shortcuts app is a useful way to make the shortcut pause for a specific amount of time. You can set the action to wait for 30 seconds, for example, before the next action takes place. You might want to use this to let an app open or a page load before the next action happens.