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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...
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...
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...
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,...
Sick of typing away on your smartphone screen when you’d much rather have a tablet when you’re out and about, but unable to tuck an iPad Mini in...
You might have heard the headlines that Anthropic, creator-god of the Claude AI, has created an AI so powerful that only a select few governments and...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a guy in blue tights! No, wait, it’s a drone, and it can probably see you because it’s shooting 8K video in...
“Man, you like it?” What? Who, me? I was at a stoplight in a bike lane in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, straddling an Urtopia Carbon Classic, and...
Samsung is bringing eight new Star Wars themed pieces of art to the Samsung Art Store, where you can find images of photographs and paintings, both...
Did you let that Easter deal go rotten back at the end of March when the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition was on sale for $160 and watch helplessly...
Not since Black Friday 2025 has Adobe offered their premiere suite of creative apps for this low of a price. Creative Cloud Pro includes most of the...
How badly do you want to free up your arms so that you don’t have to carry a small amount of stuff with you as you walk around fairly level,...
Even after the Apple Watch has become ascendent, Fitbit has household name recognition because it’s kept its focus on offering a deep cut of health...
What is up with tech brands announcing new products, releasing them, and slashing their prices on sales all within the first month or two of their...
Your AirPods could be holding you back if you listen to them through your Android phone. Apple earbuds work so seamlessly and cleanly with Apple...
3D printing amazes me. I have dreams that someday soon I’ll be able to tap somebody on the shoulder to print me replacement parts for my weird, old...
Back on October 1, 2025, Microsoft earned the ire of Xbox gamers with the substantial price jump of Game Pass’ monthly access from $20 per month to...
Headlines blare the end of an era: Sony shipped its last Blu-ray players in February 2026, hammering another nail into physical video media’s...
Portable speakers aren’t exactly seasonal, but they are quasi-seasonal. They live much more exciting and varied lives when the temperatures warm and...
Whether you’re way into Fortnite or are so out of the loop that you wonder why all of “the young people” keep talking like Chaucer, Sony’s got...
TVs spend an awful lot of their time switched off, mocking our expensive purchase with a blank, black screen. Samsung’s The Frame 65-inch 4K TV...
We’re still in the Wild West days of ebikes, even though the market has begun consolidating and maturing since the explosion of ebike interest...
Have you heard that half of Americans are using a virtual private network (VPN)? Why not? Lord knows I’ve been shouting about it from VICE’s...
Indoor plants are harder to take care of cats. Fussier and a lot less independent. Nobody has ever overwatered a cat. Almost everybody loves the look...
Ah, Roku City. I never have to step around a tightly coiled pile of yesterday’s puppy chow on the sidewalks of Roku City. It’s a comfortable place...
It was years ago, and I was in the middle of Death Valley testing a swanky, new electric pickup truck for a week. A long day of winding it off-road...
Every so often it’s fun to check out the types of ebikes that live at the higher end of the market. It’s not an area in which I spend most of my...
Phones seem to be the only piece of tech growing more expensive as the years go by. Well, solid state storage and GPUs, too, but that’s a blip...
Apple’s been on a streak for the past year, at least, of sales much more frequent than in years past, when retailers rarely slapped deals on...
Waking up every morning, I stumble foggy-brained to the kitchen to make coffee and then peacefully read a book until the first cup is gone. It’s the...
The secret lies inside the guts of security cameras. The sensors used to capture video under the demanding conditions of bright sunlight to...
I’ve been reading a lot of old books lately that romanticize the spontaneity and pleasant surprise of a knock at the front door. Charming, to be...
What comes to mind when you think “budget TV?” For me, my conception is of a TV that limps along with the kind of specs that would impress...
Amazon had its turn late last month with its Big Spring Sale, now defunct and expired. Hot on Amazon’s heels, Best Buy has launched its own catchy...
There are certain things that over-the-ear headphones do better than earbuds. For all the space they take up, they provide within the ear cups a more...
I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool believer that using an ergonomic mouse is the quickest way to alleviate the wrist pain caused by frequent, long...
Own a Fire TV device or considering buying one soon? Get ready for the imminent release of a free software update that’ll make a bunch of tweaks to...
Gone are the days when people stampeded each other and their own grandmas to get a hold of a Nintendo Switch 2, the follow-up to Nintendo’s...
Moo-shee. That’s how you say it, allegedly. I say allegedly because the bike is so new that I’ve yet to see one in person or encounter anyone...
Free smartphones are a worm on a hook for customers shopping for new cellular providers. All of the Big Three—Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T—and a...
Lightweight ebikes are my specialty. Expensive ones that wield Porsche-like engineering in exotic materials and construction techniques, cheap ones...
Usually when somebody wants to fold a phone in half it’s out of blistering anger, having just received bad news or endured yet another forced,...
Everything has AI these days. Even stuff nobody in the wildest days of 1990s science fiction would’ve guessed. Stanley Kubrick foresaw iPads and...
Not since 2025’s holiday season have I seen a deal this good on the Apple Watch Ultra 3. Granted, it’s $100 off its retail price, for a grand...
Apple’s seem to ripen more quickly these days. The MacBook Air M5 hasn’t even been on shelves for a month since Apple introduced it last month,...
I was tempted to write a headline with one irritating pun or another, something about this deal on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra being out of this...
Two things are indisputably true. One, Dyson vacuums are incredibly popular. They have the sort of brand recognition that puts them on par with Uber,...
Good deals—real deals—don’t tend to last long. What’s up with all of these products that are eternally “on sale,” anyway? They’re like...
Some bonehead merges onto the highway without looking and crumples your car’s fender into modern art. A coked-up doofus throws their car into...
Don’t listen to those who say, “Why don’t you just not use the troublesome apps on your smartphone?” These things, especially social media and...