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Rad Power Bikes Files for Bankruptcy

So it happened. Just last month, I’d reported on the looming possibility of Rad Power going out of business. Even Electrek, reporting on Rad...

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Study Finds Touchscreens in Cars Are Distracting, Shockingly

You’ve got your eyes glued to the rear bumper of the car in front of you as the slow-moving mass of cars plays gridlock Tetris down the highway....

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Google’s Gemini 3 Flash Is Smart, Fast, and Weirdly Dishonest

It’s only been available to the public for less than a week. Still, the latest, lightweight version of Google’s Gemini generative AI, Gemini 3...

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You Can Still Search DuckDuckGo Without AI. Here’s How to Do It.

Recently, I began a trial run—I could hardly call it an experiment… with a straight face—of replacing all my Google usage with DuckDuckGo and...

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Someone Made a Robot Act Out a Scene From ‘Love Actually’. This Is Where We Are Now.

We’ve enjoyed watching robots fail at seemingly basic tasks ever since Honda’s Asimo ate s—t walking up a staircase nearly 20 years ago. Most of...

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3 More Ebike Sales for the Holidays

Blame all those car commercials that, for years, made it seem like unveiling a large vehicle with an equally large bow was the most dramatic Christmas...

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3 Notable Ebike Brands That Closed Recently

Anytime there’s a new technology, there’s a glut of companies that try to strike it big. Look at the field of automobiles in the early 1900s,...

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You’ve Got Two Days Left to Order a Camp Snap for Christmas Delivery

Early this year, the Camp Snap screenless, digital point-and-shoot camera was all over social media. Enough so that there were shortages all...

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Claude AI Just Launched a Chrome Browser Extension

Even as AI-centric browsers proliferate, AI brands are keeping one hand firmly on the branch of the traditional browser before entrusting their full...

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Build LEGO’s 3,171-Piece Christmas Tree, If You Dare

Named the Family Christmas Tree, this mammoth kit has the power to bring families together or, potentially, tear them apart. What family hasn’t...

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Warner Bros. Board Rejects Paramount Takeover Bid as Shareholders Weigh $72B Netflix Decision

It wasn’t even two weeks ago that the news pages walloped us all with word that Netflix had acquired Warner Bros., including HBO and Discovery, in a...

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There’s Now an App Store for This Robot

Remember this fella? The robot that was viciously attacked on camera for clicks by its creators? No? Well, you should watch it so that you can develop...

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This Is Why You Might Want a New Internet Browser

Apple Safari. Microsoft Edge. Google Chrome. These three browsers dominate the browser landscape, and why wouldn’t they? Just look at the company...

17.12.2025 6

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The Spotify Wrapped-Esque ‘Year in Review’ Stuff Is Getting Ridiculous

Love it or loathe it, Spotify Wrapped lands in early December each year like a gift-wrapped box parachuted from above, and by now most people know how...

17.12.2025 6

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The Lectric XP4 Ebike Is a Lot of Bang for Your Buck

The Lectric XP4 series of folding ebikes is a best-seller for the company Lectric Bikes. It pops up again and again whenever one finds discussion of...

16.12.2025 3

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A Week With DuckDuckGo as My Search Engine

Google dominates. It has a heavy presence when it comes to smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes, tablets, security cameras, smart doorbells, and...

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Ads Are Coming to AI. Eventually.

Freedom from advertisements, they said. And for a while, they were right. We got used to paying an almost nominal fee and delving into a new sort of...

13.12.2025 4

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You Can Now Get Adobe Apps on ChatGPT. Here’s How to Do It.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been on a tear lately to reduce the reasons why anyone would need to switch away from an open ChatGPT tab to access a new...

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7 Classic Christmas Movies You Can Stream Right Now

I’ll cut to the chase. You don’t want to hear me blather on about my childhood memories of gathering around the gigantic-yet-not-that-big-screened...

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The YouTube App on Your TV Just Got a Much-Needed Upgrade

The YouTube app on TV streaming devices had always felt like playing hopscotch over a bunch of tires. Streaming apps need to be clean and...

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Meta Is Going to Start Using Your Interactions to Train Its AI

You’d be forgiven for remembering that Meta also has an AI, Meta AI. Or for not knowing at all. There’s a crowded field of front-runners in the AI...

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ChatGPT Has Seen a Blitz of New Releases Lately. Here’s Another.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “Code Red” declaration earlier this month seemed fairly mild in the face of the dramatic language used by Altman to...

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How to Get 4 Months of Spotify Premium for Free

Bread, milk, eggs, music, and heat. The essentials of daily life. Well, unless you’re gluten intolerant… or a vegan… or can’t consume lactose....

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Broken Copy/Paste in Google Docs on Firefox? Here’s an Easy Fix.

Eager to get away from Google’s, Microsoft’s, and Apple’s corporate dominance? Maybe you’ve just got (well-justified) trust issues. Or perhaps...

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You Can Watch Music Videos on Spotify Now

Remember when we didn’t just listen to music? We watched it. MTV pioneered music videos in the 1980s and then abandoned them for reality TV in the...

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These Robot Dogs Wear Billionaire Masks and Poop Out NFTs. Because 2025 Is a Fever Dream.

No, I didn’t just have a stroke. Despite the long hours I’ve put in these past few weeks in the run-up to Black Friday, I’m not yet at the point...

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Netflix Acquires Warner Bros., Including Discovery and HBO, in $72 Billion Deal

Who had this on their bingo card for late 2025? Not me. While the idea of monsters devouring each other plays well on the big screen, like all...

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Logitech CEO Says Many AI-Powered Gadgets Are Unnecessary—And He’s Right

People seem to love it when a CEO says what everyone is thinking. Put it down, I suppose, to the widespread perception that those who take home...

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This CD Player Is Better Than Anything We Had in the ’90s

Physical media is having a second heyday. There was always something special in the days when listening to music was more of a deliberate act than...

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The DaVinci Electric Guitar Is a Chameleon That Can Change Colors

I am decidedly old-school when it comes to guitars: vacuum-tube amps, alnico pickups, and traditional bodies made of alder, swamp ash, or mahogany....

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The 17 Best Apps of 2025, According to Apple

Another year almost over, another round of Apple awards for the apps that most impressed Apple itself in 2025. The awards are chosen for apps on...

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 Has Landed

The launch of Spotify’s annual, highly hyped release of Spotify Wrapped today had me thinking about year-end traditions. This time of year is all...

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What the Heck Is Spotify Wrapped’s New Social Feature, Party?

Spotify’s Wrapped launched early on Wednesday, December 3, to great fanfare as untold numbers of people opened the Spotify apps on their smartphones...

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Nonprofits Can Get AI for Big Discounts: Here’s How

Perpetually understaffed and overworked, nonprofits are more often than not stuck in a manpower deficiency. If you work for or volunteer for a...

03.12.2025 5

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OpenAI’s ‘Code Red’ About ChatGPT Sounds Pretty Mild, Actually

ChatGPT has been on a tear recently, adding apps that appear in the chat window, in-app shopping, and Spotify integration. OpenAI also launched...

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Apple Just Knocked $150 Off the iPad Mini—Grab One Before Cyber Monday Ends

Who knows how long this deal will stick around before it goes rotten? Cyber Monday is over. Every year, several sales-crazed retailers let their Cyber...

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The Best Dumbphones (for Smarter Phone Use)

You know the opposite of the smartphone, that device that’s a calculator and a text messenger and a camera and a navigation system and 200 more...

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OpenAI and Google Just Increased Daily Usage Limits for Their Non-Paying AI Users

Get ’em hooked, and then nudge them onto a payment plan. That’s been the business model of salespeople for generations, from the pigs-in-a-blanket...

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Anthropic Finally Launches Claude Opus 4.5 AI

Even though ChatGPT has captured household recognition among generative AIs, as Uber and Netflix have for ride-sharing and TV streaming, there are...

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Why TV Brightness Is Not Your Best Friend: A Breakdown

“Why did it look so much better on the retail store’s floor than in my living room?” You’re not the only person to have thought that after...

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Sonos’ Cheaper Surround Sound Speakers Just Got Even Cheaper (For Now)

There aren’t all that many opportunities to pick up all the necessary components for a Sonos five-channel sound system when they’re all on sale....

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The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Are Finally on a Real Sale

The AirPods Pro 3 have only been on the market for two months, so it hasn’t been altogether unreasonable that they’ve plodded along at their full...

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The Commodore 64 Is Coming Back. Again.

Even those not old enough to have grown up with a Commodore 64 in the household (or the neighbor’s household) have heard the name bandied about over...

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Camp Snap’s Trendy Screenless Point-And-Shoot Camera Is on Sale for Black Friday

Camp Snap calls it their Black Friday sale, their biggest sale of the season. They’re $10 off, which may sound fairly weak after Camp Snap’s brag,...

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The Retro-Style Camp Snap CS-8 Is $20 Off for Black Friday

Not often do I see sales for Camp Snap’s products. More often, I see them sold out, even at full retail price. When Camp Snap launched the Kodak...

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A Look at Highland Pro, One of My Favorite Distraction-Free Writing Apps

Most word processors are too busy for my liking. Too many buttons on too many toolbars. When I’m putting together a deeply intimate piece of...

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Gemini Is Set to Replace Google Assistant on Android Auto Soon

Not a day goes by that I don’t get in a verbal spat with the bodiless, soulless, guileless Google Assistant that lives inside the Google Nest Hub...

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Apple’s New All-Puppet Holiday Ad Is Pretty Cute

This Apple ad isn’t the first time somebody has shot something on an iPhone that looked quite good, a far cry from the earlier days of digital...

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OpenAI Updated ChatGPT’s Voice Inputs. Does It Change That Much?

OpenAI pushed through an update to ChatGPT that erases one of the borders that had kept it from being a truly seamless experience. As OpenAI tries to...

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How to Add Storage to Your Bike: A Guide

You’ve got two wheels and all the freedom to decide how they take you to where you need to go. But what about when you want to bring back a load of...

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