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The Sonos Ace Headphones Are on an Early Black Friday Sale

Sonos has gone a bit crazy with the deals this year, even compared to last year. While the pickings were ok in 2024, the early Black Friday deals...

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Paramount+’s One-Week Free Trial Is Back, Baby

Watching TV and movies has only gotten more expensive over the course of the year. The landscape is more fractured than ever, and so it’s not...

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Matt Jancer

Android’s Quick Share Now Works With Apple’s AirDrop

Androids and iPhones have never gotten along. They each had their own corner of the consumer playground and stayed there. If you wanted to share a...

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Matt Jancer

Sonos Has a Killer Early Black Friday Sale on Surround Sound System Speakers

You can’t buy a complete Sonos sound system in one kit, but you can buy the Sonos speakers separately to create a sound system. Deals on Sonos...

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Matt Jancer

Looking for a Cheap Pair of Indoor Security Cameras? TP-Link Has a Deal.

Since when did indoor security cameras get so expensive? The more I look around the market these days, and the number of them going for over $100 per...

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Matt Jancer

First Impressions of Trying Spotify’s New “Fewer Repeats” Shuffle Mode

So much better. Such was my immediate thought when trying out Spotify’s tweak to its shuffle mode. Count me among the people who’ve long...

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Matt Jancer

X.Com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN

Regular folks use virtual private networks (VPNs) to keep themselves safe from online data thieves, hackers, snoops, and crooks. Those who live, work,...

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Matt Jancer

61 Organizations Tell World Governments to Get the Hell Off Encryption’s Back

Consumer encryption and privacy protections are under attack, with a number of European governments weakening laws that guarantee anonymity online....

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Matt Jancer

You Can Upgrade Your Old, Cheap Roku to a Better Remote

Among all the streaming TV devices, Roku makes my favorite remote controls. They’re ergonomic and comfortable to use while you’re staring at the...

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Matt Jancer

Google Figured Out Each State’s Ideal Time to Do Your Holiday Shopping

Procrastinators hate this time of year. Or if it doesn’t color their entire year, it at least colors their view of shopping for gifts. I know...

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Matt Jancer

Google Awards the 10 Best Android Apps of 2025

Another year nearly gone as we head into the tail end of November. Everybody’s attention has turned toward that annual holiday, the most American of...

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Matt Jancer

Apple HomePod, Where Are You? We Need You.

All right, all right. If you’re not in the Apple ecosystem, you’re probably telling me to go to hell, and that’s fine. I wouldn’t buy a...

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Matt Jancer

Need a Good, Free Password Manager? Check Out Proton Pass.

Dashlane, my previous favorite password manager, ended its free tier on September 16, 2025. If you had a free account, it’s gone, deleted, finito....

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Matt Jancer

Google Bestowed Five New Updates to Gemini Live AI

Google wants Gemini to be the preeminent AI, I’m sure, but it’s stuck in a competitive battle with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and...

tuesday 2

Matt Jancer

Here’s Our First Look at the PlayStation Gaming Monitor

Sony’s dropping the PlayStation name on quite a few things these days. The PlayStation VR headset made perfect sense. The PlayStation 27″ Gaming...

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Matt Jancer

DJI’s Got an Answer for the Insta360 Drone Everyone’s Drooling Over

Normally when we say get ready for a drone battle, we’re referencing a dour-faced news article, because we’re living in the future and it...

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Matt Jancer

Two Big Investors Just Offloaded All Their NVIDIA Shares

NVIDIA is, by far, the most valuable company in the world. It has the world’s (as of yet) unquenchable thirst for AI to thank for that. Its chips...

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Matt Jancer

OpenAI Updated ChatGPT to a New, Chattier Attitude. Again.

After getting itself in hot water earlier this year for imbuing ChatGPT with a fawning, sycophantic approach toward its users that was nudging some of...

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Matt Jancer

The Weird Apple Employee-Only Merch That Turned Into Collector Gold

Ok, ok. I gave Apple a hard time over its iPhone Pocket, a glorified sock cut down the belly for people who have so much money to spend on it ($150...

15.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Spotify Tweaked Shuffle So That You’ll Hear Fewer Repeats. Thank God.

Shuffle on Spotify has long driven me crazy. I’ve got 7,000 liked songs, and I swear it seems like Spotify wants me to hear only the same three...

15.11.2025 2

Matt Jancer

New York City Adopts 15 MPH Speed Limit for Ebikes

New York City became the first major US city to enact a speed limit for ebikes when, on October 24, 2025, it passed a 15 MPH limit. I’ve been...

15.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Stay Golden, Camera Boy

We’ve all heard of the gold-plated wristwatch as a reward for faithful years of company service, but solid gold… computer keyboard keycaps, those...

15.11.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Meta Overhauled Facebook Marketplace: Here’s Everything That’s New

Facebook Marketplace has always sat in an enormous gray area between the other two major online marketplaces. It was slicker than the...

15.11.2025 3

Matt Jancer

The Best VPNs to Protect Your Online Security

Nearly half of Americans are using a VPN. Are you one of them? You should be. The mechanics behind VPNs are murky to most people, but think of it like...

14.11.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Apple’s iPhone Pocket Is Just Silly Enough to Take Off

Modern life was all about convenience, making a rush for everything to be as easy as possible. Post-modern life, then, is all about making it...

13.11.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Like Wrapped? Spotify Now Lets You Review Your Week in Music Anytime.

For 10 years now, Spotify Wrapped’s end-of-year look back on each user’s streaming preferences has been a cultural touchstone. People compare with...

13.11.2025 6

Matt Jancer

Mozilla Pocket Is Dead. Here Are 3 Free Alternatives.

The Mozilla Foundation’s dearly departed app, Pocket, is finally and truly dead. After two stays of execution ever since Mozilla announced in May...

13.11.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Blast From the Past: Apple’s Silliest Products

News that Apple is charging between $150 and $230 for a shoulder sock (the iPhone Pocket) designed to hold your iPhone—insecurely, I might add,...

13.11.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Verizon Is Just Handing Out $300 in Home Internet Discounts… If You Ask

It landed in my email inbox two days ago, the one I use for website accounts and newsletters, especially to catch the spammy messages, and I barely...

13.11.2025 5

Matt Jancer

4 Alt-Rock Songs That Used Orchestra Sections Surprisingly Well

Rock music has been incorporating orchestral moments into songs for decades. From Led Zeppelin to Queen, there are some great examples, and the...

11.11.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Rad Power Could Be the Next Big Ebike Company to Collapse

Rad Power Bikes made a name for itself in two significant ways. One, it was one of the early ebike manufacturers when it retooled itself into a...

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Matt Jancer

Google Says That Free VPN You Downloaded Could Be Spying on You

Most VPNs are sketchy. There are a lot of them, since nearly half of Americans are now using them. They’ve blown up—from a niche item known only...

11.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

What if the Answer To Bad Passwords Is More Websites That Won’t Let You Use Them?

You’ve been there. Staring at a password entry screen, wondering what your password for that website was. Heads up, though. If you can guess your...

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Matt Jancer

When Are the MacBook Pro M5 Pro and Max Coming?

As is Apple’s custom, from the strange land of Cupertino, California, there will undoubtedly be three versions of the MacBook Pro M5. The regular,...

10.11.2025 2

Matt Jancer

The MacBook Air M4 Is Going for a Stupidly Good Price Right Now

Oh, Apple, what’s your game plan? Or maybe I should direct that toward Amazon, because that’s the only place I’ve seen this deal. The MacBook...

10.11.2025 3

Matt Jancer

JBL Is Dropping Earbuds Made Specifically for Kids—Here’s What to Know

JBL has launched a new pair of earbuds designed to expand as kids grow, with safeguards to protect their hearing and ensure they can still hear...

09.11.2025 20

Matt Jancer

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket on November 12—Here’s What You Need to Know

Mozilla has extended the deadline for downloading saved Pocket articles yet again to November 12, 2025. If you’ve saved articles on Pocket and want...

09.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

This Is the Ultimate 4K Webcam, But It’ll Cost You

Not all that easy to find at a retailer, and not all that easy to afford at $400, the Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra is top dog when it comes to choosing a...

06.11.2025 2

Matt Jancer

LEGO’s Star Wars Advent Calendar Is Already in Stores

It was the Star Wars set, with a C-3PO chasing a mouse droid across the room in front of a Christmas tree, that had been the calendar to stop me in my...

06.11.2025 20

Matt Jancer

Google Maps’ Gemini Upgrades Actually Look Pretty Good

My eyes glossed over when I saw AI mentioned, but I read Google’s November 5 announcement anyway: “We’re introducing the first hands-free,...

06.11.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Australia, Just What Are You Doing Banning Kids From Reddit?

In just over a month, kids under the age of 16 will be banned from accessing Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and...

06.11.2025 3

Matt Jancer

I’m Learning Morse Code With an App, and It’s Fun?

Morse code was one of those things they taught us about in the Cub Scouts, the predecessor to the Boy Scouts, but they didn’t actually teach us how...

05.11.2025 20

Matt Jancer

The 3 Best 4K Webcams (So You Can Stop Looking Like a Ghoul on Zoom)

We all spend way too much time on Zoom and Google Meet. Or at least that’s what I say when companies aren’t sniffing around on whether they should...

05.11.2025 8

Matt Jancer

High Resolution at a Mid-Range Price: The Logitech Brio 4k Webcam

Odds are, your Zoom calls look like crap. It’s not your fault. Hey, don’t feel down in the dumps. You’re a vibrant person with a lovely face....

05.11.2025 20

Matt Jancer

Gaze Into the Dark Web Through Proton’s New Data Breach Observatory

When it comes to VPNs, I’m picky. And why shouldn’t I be? You only need one, so it doesn’t much matter if there are only a handful I’d...

05.11.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Go Encrypt Your WhatsApp Backups. It Just Got Easier.

Losing my WhatsApp chat histories would suck. It’d have no discernible impact on my day-to-day life going forward, but I look at my WhatsApp group...

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Matt Jancer

A Boston Fine Arts Museum and Samsung Just Teamed Up for the Love of Art

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, just put a new exhibit up for show in its halls: Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor. These watercolor...

05.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

WhatsApp Is Now Available on Apple Watch

It’s easy to forget how much of the world relies upon WhatsApp as its primary messaging app. Texts aren’t free in much of the world. Sure, we use...

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Matt Jancer

Now’s the Time of Year to Start Running a Humidifier

Ready for that dry winter air? You know the telltale signs. Your hands start cracking, your elbows get ashy, and most parts of your body feel...

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Matt Jancer

Well, They’ve Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.

Humans are profoundly lazy beings. Think of all the marvelous, modern inventions we’ve created just to keep us from expending more calories than we...

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