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Christmas is coming, and Stuff ’ s playing Santa again: our 2025 Gift Guide is packed with techy kit that’ll light up faces faster than fairylights on a frosty night. Which is not to say you can’t keep the best things for yourself, of course…

In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

Imagine this: you set up a small telescope in your back garden. On your phone’s screen, you tap on the Orion Nebula. Seconds later, the scope slews to it, focuses and begins revealing the colourful sw

‘ARTIFICIAL intelligence’ and ‘driverless cars’ – terms that tend to make people excited and uncomfortable in equal measure. Both go hand-in-hand, with AI powering the most advanced self-driving vehic

In September, the Government announced a new digital-ID scheme for all UK adults. It’s been called informally the BritCard, though Government ministers have suggested this won’t be its official name (

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