Andrew McDonald

This is the first time I’ve had a fourth generation QD-OLED panel in, and it’s pretty big news! This is the Philips EVNIA 8900P, specifically the 32M2N8900P – not to be confused with the non-P version I reviewed a couple months ago which is a third gen panel – and this offers more brightness, less purple reflections, and even more colour and clarity. If you liked the last one, you’re going to love this one even more. Let’s take a closer look at it so you can see exactly why, what’s new, and decide for yourself if this is for you.

What's driving the day in Westminster. Politics and policymaking in the UK capital. By ANDREW MCDONALD with MEGAN MCELROY

What's driving the day in Westminster. Politics and policymaking in the UK capital. By ANDREW MCDONALD with MEGAN MCELROY

Britain's new foreign secretary brings the U.K.-EU reset into his department's ambit — and seeks advice from old foes across the political aisle.

This little guy is Corsair’s latest entry in the small wireless mouse game, with this being the Harpoon v2 Wireless. This little thing has the same high end MARKSMAN sensor you’ll find in Corsair’s highest end gaming mice, and yet it’s small, fairly light, and not horrendously expensive either. This feels very much like an evolution of the original Harpoon, so if you liked that, you’ll like this one plenty too. Let’s take a look at this thing, test it out, test it for latency, and see how it holds up.

Good Monday morning . This is Andrew McDonald. DRIVING THE DAY

This one is unique. AKKO’s Echo, also known as the TAN8 Master, and it’s freaking carbon fibre! It’s also a pretty damn high end gaming mouse – PixArt PAW3955 sensor, Nordic 54L CPU and an 8000 hertz polling rate wirelessly all make it damn nice. It isn’t even all that expensive either, so let’s take a look at this fancy AF thing and see if it’s worth it, or if it’s a unique novelty.

START YOUR DAY RIGHT … by reading this slightly terrifying release from Britain's AI Security Institute last night on “unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing.”

Trying to move away from the Alexa’s of the world has been getting easier and easier – Home Assistant really does feel like a magic bullet that means you can control all your smart home tech locally, at no cost, and do so privately. No trillion dollar corporations know if you’re home, or if you’re on the crapper. Perfect. Except, if you value voice controls, that’s still a little rough. Even with Home Assistant Voice PE, an entirely local and open source Echo Dot replacement, getting commands to actually work can be a pain – so much so that we don’t really use ours at all. In part that’s because I keep buying smart buttons like these Ikea Matter over Thread ones and sticking them everywhere so we have one-button control of things like lights or HVAC, but it sure would be nice to get more use out of the voice controls.

I’ve been using my Philips EVNIA 8600 for exactly three years now. Three years using a QD-OLED as my primary display, all day, every day. To hear the nay-sayers say it, this should be an unusable destroyed mess by now! Barely usable, entirely covered in burn-in scars! But… is it? Well let’s take a look and see…