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The Coway AP-1512HH Mighty Air Purifier Is 30% Off (Pay $160 Instead of $230)

One quarter of you reading this have seasonal allergies. I can tell not just by the CDC’s own survey, but also by the fact that your screen is...

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Beartooth Singer Caleb Shomo Comes Out as a ‘Proudly Gay Man,’ Wife of 14 Years Offers Support ‘Whilst Losing Everything’

Caleb Schomo, frontman for Ohio metalcore outfit Beartooth, has come out as gay. Along with his announcement, his wife of 14 years, Fleur Shomo,...

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The Best Editor-Tested Electric Bikes for Conquering Steep-Ass Streets

Maybe you live a life of ups and downs. And by that I mean your bike your way around a city that’s built over lumpy hills. Or, you simply like...

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This Coway Air Purifier Gave Me Clean Air After a Four-Alarm Fire

Hate to break it to you, but the air inside your home isn’t all that different from the air outside your home. You know, with all that pollution...

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Looking for a More User-Friendly 3D Printer Than Bambu?

A guy shared a way to remote control his Bambu Labs 3D printer, and Bambu went full Tony Soprano on him. No, they didn’t break his legs or feed...

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Want to Get the Banned DJI Osmo Pocket 4?

Every vlogger is excited about the April 2026 launch of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4, the latest release of the heavyweight, de facto standard 4K video...

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If You Can’t Find a Steam Deck In Stock, Get This Instead

Valve’s Steam Deck has been rarer than hen’s teeth ever since the global RAM shortage has made shortages and price hikes of computer hardware a...

21.05.2026 3

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Beam Me Up, Scottie. Sonos’ Budget Soundbar and Sub Are On Sale

You’ve got the big-screen-sportin’, Dolby Atmos-havin’ 4K TV, but what’s the point of spending all that dough if you’re going to play all...

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Google’s Search Bar Looking a Little Weird Today? This Is Why.

Ever since Google became the dominant search engine around the turn of the millennium, it’s functioned in more or less the same way. You type your...

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This Tiny Canon Printer Turns Your Phone Into a Pocket Polaroid (And It’s Only $99 Right Now)

It’s a classic and (nearly?) universally beloved miniature ritual at parties, park hangs, zoo visits, backyard barbecues, beach vacations, and...

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Buy a Switch 2, Get a Free Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, or Pokémon Game

Nintendo had been teasing this one for the past week, saying that we could expect to see it hit retail shelves in early June, but it looks like this...

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The New Apple iPad M4 Dropped to Its Lowest Price Ever!

It isn’t just a certain honey-haired burglar child who argues that aiming for the middle of whatever is the way to go. Middle-of-the-range is often...

19.05.2026 9

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The Viral Ninja SLUSHi Is $90 Off Right Now—Piña Coladas Are In Your Near Future

You know the lyrics. I’m talking about the piña colada song, and its real title is Escape, by the way. Even if you find piña coladas repulsive...

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Apple’s MacBook Neo Is No Gaming Machine, But We Found the Best Mac for Gaming

The Mac isn’t that bad of a gaming platform anymore. For the 2000s until the 2020s it was an afterthought. PC gaming ruled on Microsoft’s Windows...

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The Porsche of Ebikes: An Honest Review of the Specialized Turbo Vado SL2 5.0 EQ

Ebikes exist on a continuum of those wishing to be as close to an analog bike as possible and those who’ve given up entirely on the facade. These...

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Class Up Your Walls, Slob: Samsung Arthouse ‘The Frame’ TV Is on Sale

Your TV just hangs there on the wall when it’s not in use. Off, a blank black slab of thin glass that screams to every bystander, “Hey, I’m a...

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Fujifilm’s Weird Little Vertical Camera Is on Sale—and It Rips

I called it “2025’s weirdest camera” when it launched in June 2025. Fujifilm’s X Half was nothing like the Fujifilm X1000. The latter is a...

18.05.2026 6

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These Streaming Devices Turn Any TV Into a 4K Beast

You’ve got the 4K TV. You even made sure to check that the movie you’re going to fire up says “4K” on it. You’re about to ease back into...

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One of the Few VPNs Worth Using Is 60% Off Right Now

Nearly half of Americans are using a virtual private network (VPN) to maintain their privacy online. I know. It can feel like a pointless endeavor...

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People Are Camping Out for the Saturday Launch of the Swatch Royal Pop Collab

New York City’s Times Square is magical and all, but I typically quicken my pace when I’m forced to walk through it, rather like the way in which...

15.05.2026 6

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Get a Deal on Robot Eyes: Latest Ray-Ban Wayfarer AI Smart Glasses Are $52 Off

Ever wish you could basically wear Boba Fett’s helmet on your head and go about your daily life? You know he was listening to music and podcasts in...

15.05.2026 6

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Your Camp Snap Camera Needs a Sleeping Bag (Did You Know?)

It’s not particularly fragile, the screenless Camp Snap digital camera. I know because I got it in my grubby mitts shortly after it blew up huge on...

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Every Disc at The Criterion Collection Is 30% Off (Even 4K Ones and Preorders!)

Despite the fact that it’s been years since I had a device that could gobble one up and play it, I’ve held onto my two enormous, Weimaraner-sized...

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Playing in the Great Outdoors? Bring This Gold-Standard Emergency Messenger, Now on Sale

My friends and family like to tease me that I spend my vacation in (at least in their eyes) very un-relaxing ways. To me, there’s no better way to...

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Shots Fired: Panasonic’s Latest Fujifilm Fighter, the Lumix L10 Premium, Is Available for Preorder

Hand it to the Fujifilm X100. That series, released in its initial iteration way back in 2010, didn’t invent the fixed-lens digital camera, but it...

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Remember the First Song You Ever Listened to on Spotify?

Who knows when I first downloaded Spotify. Whenever it was, the date was lost the the cobwebs of history inside my faulty mind. Neither can I remember...

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This Tiny Roku Stick Hides Behind Your TV and Does Everything

Cutting the cord—you know, ditching cable or satellite TV—is a relief because it frees you not just from contracts but it also frees you from...

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How to Get a $799 Google Pixel 10 for $299

You want a smartphone for cheap, but you don’t want a cheap smartphone. As in you don’t want a piece of crap just because you want to spend well...

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LEGO’s Upcoming The Lord of the Rings Kit Is an 8,000-Piece Behemoth

LEGO’s wasting no time mining the 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Yes, it’s really been a quarter of a...

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Apple MacBook Pro M5 Is $300 Off—It’s the Rare Deal You’ve Been Waiting For

Nowhere is Apple’s tendency toward word salad in product names more apparent than in the MacBook Pro family of laptops, which sits above the MacBook...

12.05.2026 6

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This Bluejay Beach Cruiser Is the Most Charming Ebike I’ve Ridden in Years

My career as an ebike tester stretches back to the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. I was living in New York City, ebikes had exploded in...

12.05.2026 8

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Your Instagram DMs Just Got a Lot Less Private—Here’s How to Claw That Back

End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram is dead as of today, Friday, May 8, 2026. It showed up as a whisper, a mere murmuring that Instagram...

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Google Unveils the Fitbit Air—You Can Preorder This Anti-Screen Tracker for $100 Right Now

Screens are distracting. That much is accepted as a maxim today. If your phone is tempting enough when it’s out of sight in a purse or pocket, how...

08.05.2026 6

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Swatch Is Planning a “Royal Pop” Follow-Up to the MoonSwatch in a Week

Hand it to Swatch. They still know how to properly tease out interest in an audience over the span of weeks, even in this age of product leaks and...

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The Tile Pro (Apple’s AirTag Rival) Just Dropped to $25

Anytime Apple enters an arena, you know the competition is (probably) about to erupt. But the Life360 Tile preexisted Apple’s 2021 entry into the...

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Too Cheap to Buy Smart Appliances? This $26 Gadget Is the Workaround

It looks like something that’d be a project for a middle school robotics class, but there’s an undeniable ingenuity to the SwitchBot Button...

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AirPods Max 2 Are $40 Off (By Apple Standards, This Is a Good Deal)

Retailers continue their strange but welcome trend of discounting Apple products almost as soon as Apple launches them onto the market. The Apple...

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Don’t Want to Wait for the Rumored ChatGPT Phone? There’s a Samsung For You

Are we that surprised that OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora, is rumored to be fast-tracking development of its very first piece of...

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I Ditched My iPhone’s Garbage Flashlight for This Tiny Beast (It’s On Sale Right Now)

Olight is often said to be the Apple of flashlights. Flashlight enthusiasts—yes, there’s such a thing—go wild for Olight’s innovative designs,...

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Breathe Like You Don’t Live in a Dust Trap—Our Favorite Air Purifier Is on Sale

Cleaning is something I do because I have to and because I don’t like living a gross mess that resembles the set of Good Burger. It’s not...

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Jump to Lightspeed With a Millennium Falcon Desk Lamp

Let’s be honest. I could tell you that placing a fairly realistic reproduction of the Millennium Falcon on your desk would make you a more...

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Valve’s Steam Controller Sold Out in 30 Minutes. Buy These Instead.

You know Valve. If you grew up in the late 1990s, then their seminal title Half-Life defines the modern first-person shooter in a way that Doom pushed...

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There’s No Quicker TV Streaming Experience Than the Apple TV 4K—Full Stop

What you see before you is the third-generation Apple TV 4K. Apple released it in 2022 and, well, it’s still here. But this Apple has a long shelf...

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Create a Garden-Sized Bird Surveillance State With This Smart Bird Feeder

Free as a bird, so the saying goes. No rent to pay, no 9-5 job to work. Vacations to the tropics are free every winter, if you don’t mind a little...

04.05.2026 7

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LEGO Just Discounted Some Classic Star Wars Sets for May the 4th

The prequels and sequels seem to get all the love lately, and in no small part due to Disney’s tie-ins to constantly debuting Star Wars movies and...

04.05.2026 8

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Microsoft Briefly Says You Need a Lot of RAM for PC Gaming, Then Takes It Back

Processors get all the glory when it comes to spouting performance specifications, but RAM is the beating heart of a computer’s engine. Plenty of...

04.05.2026 8

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Get Years of Surfshark VPN for Under $46

Almost half of Americans are using a virtual private network (VPN). What’s your excuse for not being part of that (almost) half? Maybe it’s being...

01.05.2026 8

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Spotify’s New Verify Badge Will Call Out AI-Generated Slop

The Velvet Sundown was just the first major band to make it into the mainstream headlines. After running up a huge number of listens on Spotify with...

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We Actually Found a Coupon Code for Bungie’s New Halo-Like Game, Marathon

Long before Halo: Combat Evolved debuted as a launch title for Microsoft’s original Xbox in 2001, its developer Bungie was semi-famous as the...

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The Velotric Summit 2 Ebike, the Confident Commuter Bike With Big-Ass Tires

Every niche of bike or ebike has a fairly clear mission statement right in its name. Mountain bikes go off-road. Gravel bikes go off-road, sort of,...

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