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NHL Referees Are (Almost) All Wearing Apple Watches

Take a close look at the wrists of the refs the next time you see an NHL game. Chances are that the refs will all be wearing Apple Watches. It’s not...

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Apple’s iPad Is 20% Off Right Now. But There’s a Bit of a Catch

We don’t know exactly when the 11th generation iPad comes out. Rumors are hanging like fog all over the internet that we can expect Apple to...

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Microsoft Is Killing Skype After Buying It for $8.5 Billion 14 Years Ago

Way back before everybody was suddenly stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and using Zoom to work and socialize, there was a predominant video...

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February 28 Is ‘Economic Blackout’ Day. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Fed up with Corporate America’s short-sighted subservience to an administration that seems hellbent on screwing over the 99 percent, a grassroots...

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Nearly Half of Americans Are Using a VPN

Ah, VPNs. Whether it’s Netflix whining about subscribers using them to circumvent geographical restrictions or horny people using them to watch...

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Google Just Made It Easier to Remove Info About Yourself Online

Well, shoot. Google has taken a step that allows you to find and request removal of information about you that’s floating around the internet, and...

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How to Get Early Access to Amazon Alexa+

Since Amazon gave us a glimpse this morning of Alexa 2.0, hereby known as Alexa , we’ve now gotten further details on how Amazon plans to roll out...

27.02.2025 6

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Don’t Buy Your MacBook Pro M4 From the Apple Store. It’s a Lot Cheaper Elsewhere Right Now

We’ve all got the fantasy. We walk into the Apple Store, almost all of which seem to resemble a liminal space between reality and the sort of void...

27.02.2025 7

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The Best Streaming Devices for Watching TV and Movies in 4K

4K TV? Check. High-speed internet? Check. Increasingly overpriced streaming app that lets you play 4K content? Who are we kidding? Apps, plural....

27.02.2025 2

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Alexa Plus Is Amazon’s New AI-Powered Assistant—Here’s How Much It Costs

Amazon hinted that they’d announce the next iteration of Alexa at today’s Amazon devices event so heavily that I was more surprised by the sun...

26.02.2025 6

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Ads for This Swedish VPN Are Suddenly Everywhere. It Lives up to the Hype.

You could be forgiven for finding Mullvad’s mascot, Cookie the mole (hah), so endearing that you forget that VPNs are serious business, because even...

26.02.2025 7

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This Point and Shoot Camera Is All Over Instagram and TikTok. But Is It Good?

Turning our phones into pocket cameras was such a success (or curse, depending on your mood) that everywhere from beach to brunch you see them held...

26.02.2025 5

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Check Out These New, Free Tools in Adobe’s Photoshop App for iPhone

Photoshop, like Netflix and Uber, has such a stranglehold on our ideas of not just a specific app but a specific type of app that we use it as a verb....

26.02.2025 4

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The Xiaomi 15 Ultra Is the Year’s Best-Looking Smartphone

Are our smartphones phones first or cameras first? For the past decade and a half, I’ve felt it was more of the latter. The Xiamoi 1t Ultra leans...

26.02.2025 4

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OnePlus Watch 3 Launch Delayed Two Months Over Two-Letter Typo

Pity the poor copywriter who let this typo slip through the final design review… and then keep slipping all the way through production. Let’s see...

26.02.2025 4

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You Can Now Share Your AirTag Tracker With American Airlines to Find Lost Bags

Add the big, silver bullet to the list of flying bus companies that’ll take a look-see at your AirTag if you have to report lost luggage. American...

24.02.2025 5

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The MacBook Air M4’s Performance Scores Just Leaked—It’s Fast

Nobody’s needed to upgrade their computer every year for a long time now. Like smartphones, they’ve matured enough that one is usually fine for a...

22.02.2025 4

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iPhone 16e Versus iPhone SE 3. How Much Did Apple’s ‘Budget’ iPhone Really Change?

The iPhone 16e seems sure to go down in tech history as a pocket-sized example of feature creep, in which a development team keeps adding more and...

22.02.2025 5

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Amazon Is Killing Your Ability to Download Kindle Books Next Week

The further we head into the future, the more tenuous existence itself becomes. We’ve seen it happen to music as we ditched records, tapes, and CDs...

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Substack to Let Creators Monetize Videos (for TikTok Refugees Sick of Algorithms)

Starting today, Substack will let creators monetize their videos by hiding them behind a paywall. It’s part of a push to nab disaffected users from...

21.02.2025 4

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Let AI Help You Find a New Job—After It Puts You Out of One

So you can’t use AI at work? That’s rough. But there are no rules about using AI to help you find new work. Admit it. As soon as ChatGPT was...

21.02.2025 5

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South Korea Banned DeepSeek Downloads Over Privacy Concerns

Amid the furor over TikTok’s one-day ban in the US and subsequent, though belated, return to the Apple and Google app stores, Western governments in...

20.02.2025 3

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Macbook Air M4 Rumored to Be Launching No Later Than March

Ever since Apple shifted the MacBook Air lineup to its own chips and gave Intel the boot, MacBook Airs have become more and more compelling for scores...

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Major League Soccer Kicks Off 30th Season This Weekend. Here’s How to Watch.

Happy birthday, Major League Soccer. You’re turning 30 years old, and you may have been a late bloomer, but you’ve started to show up your older...

19.02.2025 6

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This Dancing Robot Can Boogie Its Way Through a Human Attack

Welcome, robot. Lesson number one of your new existence: life isn’t fair. Sometimes you’re just minding your business dancing, and a soccer ball...

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Having Trouble Charging Your Galaxy S25? You’re Not the Only One.

You’d think that after dropping at least $1k for the latest and greatest smartphone, you’d be able to charge it, huh? Owners of the Samsung Galaxy...

19.02.2025 7

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Spotify’s Rumored Hi-Fi Tier ‘Music Pro’ Could Be Coming This Year

Murmurings from Spotify lately have fed the rumor mill that we may see Spotify’s long-promised, almost-vaporware high-resolution music...

18.02.2025 3

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NordVPN Review: Is This Privacy Powerhouse Actually Worth the Hype?

They’ve broken partway into the popular consciousness lately. There’s even a prominent slider in your iPhone’s setting’s marked “VPN.” But...

18.02.2025 5

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Amazon Alexa Update Delayed Because It Won’t Stop Giving Wrong Answers

Fashionably late or just late? Alexa was supposed to be the belle of the ball of Amazon’s February 26 event, where Amazon is expected to pull the...

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Metro by T-Mobile Will Let You Pay Your Phone Bill by Playing a Game—Seriously

“Play games. Earn points. Save money.” It’s weird that Metro by T-Mobile doesn’t even use exclamation points to make this seem fun,...

15.02.2025 6

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Lock Up Your Kids, Folks. Apple May Be Building a Humanoid Robot.

Ever since Honda’s backpack-wearing robot nerd ate shit in front of millions while ascending a staircase, I’ve been skeptical of humanoid robots....

15.02.2025 5

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TikTok Is Back on the iPhone and Android App Stores

The White House’s approach over the past month has been to keep everyone guessing through capricious feuds and ambiguous decrees, paralyzing them...

14.02.2025 4

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Nvidia Announces Release Dates for RTX 5070—and Really, It Could Be Worse

NVIDIA took to X early in the morning of February 13 to announce that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti would become available for sale at 9 PM EST on February...

14.02.2025 5

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Amazon Prime Video Majorly Updates Streaming App for Apple TV Devices

Apple and Amazon haven’t always played nicely together. The two have been locked in competition for years in the Streaming Wars, so it must be so...

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Google Maps Is Trying to Become Waze With These Latest Updates

Google Maps is the king of navigation for me in most respects. When I just want to walk somewhere, when I need a quick and safe bike route optimized...

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OpenAI Cancels o3 AI Model in Favor of a ‘Unified Release’

If you were beginning to get confused by OpenAI’s spiraling naming conventions and releases of its ChatGPT elements, get in line. Even OpenAI is...

13.02.2025 3

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Apple TV+ Comes to Android Devices

Better late than never, I suppose. Just over eight years ago, the Apple TV streaming app debuted on iOS. It took another three years for it to come to...

13.02.2025 3

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Apple Reportedly Delayed the iPhone SE 4 Launch (But Only by a Week)

Good things come to those who wait. I say good and not great because the iPhone SE 4 is a mid-range Apple device with a mid-range price tag to match....

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Apple Now Owns Pixelmator, the Popular Photo Editing App

After 10 years, Apple finally, once again has a photo editing app worthy of its role as an editor’s weapon of choice. Don’t bring up the Photos...

12.02.2025 3

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OnePlus Watch 3 Unveiled and Arriving Feb. 18

You remember OnePlus, yes? Founded in China in 2013, it doesn’t have the mass market star power of Samsung or Apple, but its smartphones are coveted...

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The Google Pixel 9a Colors Just Leaked

It’s not exactly the Willy Wonka rainbow of color. It isn’t even available in as many colors as Trix cereal. Nonetheless, we’ve got a fairly...

11.02.2025 4

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Update to iOS 18.3.1 Right Now. There’s a ‘Sophisticated Attack’ Risk, Apple Says.

Well, that didn’t take long. After a fairly weighty update to iOS 18.3 two weeks ago and all the fanfare that accompanied the features contained...

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Roku Streaming Stick 4K Review: Is it Worth it?

Lots of TVs these days come with built-in streaming capabilities. They tend to be slow as hell, though, so I bypass all of them with a dedicated...

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Astronauts Are Streaming Live on Twitch—and You Can Talk to Them

Live from the International Space Station, 250 miles above the Earth and traveling 17,500 miles per hour, comes an event like no other before. This...

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Deleted TikTok Too Soon? You Can Get It Back—If You Have an Android.

Ever since the US government has given TikTok owner ByteDance a reprieve from its ban in the American market, it’s been unavailable on the Apple App...

11.02.2025 3

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You Can Now Control Your IKEA Smart Lights From Your Apple Watch

The Swedish furniture giant has gone Hüshenlippsen and hasn’t made much fuss about the new feature pushed to the IKEA Smart Home app when it...

08.02.2025 4

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Pebble Founder Gave an Early Look at His Relaunched Smartwatch

Remember the news that Google had released the PebbleOS operating system under an open-source license so that anyone can use the software (with...

08.02.2025 7

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UK Government Ordered Apple to Give It Access to Your iCloud Account

Hoo, boy. Western governments will talk our fuckin’ ear off about the dangers posed to our privacy and personal digital security by Chinese tech...

08.02.2025 3

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Apple’s Super Thin Foldable iPhone Unveiled in Alleged Leak

Ever tried to fold an apple in half? Of course not. That’d be ridiculous. But an Apple? No, that’d be equally ridiculous, because Apple has never...

07.02.2025 4

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Spotify Is ‘Doubling Down’ on Music in 2025. What Does That Mean?

Big Tech is like that friend you had in your early 20s who was always full of big ideas and infectiously optimistic but always seemed to be...

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