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Meta Is Offering Some People a Trade-in Offer on Meta AI Glasses

Those who add a pair of Meta AI glasses, either Ray-Ban (except the Ray-Ban Display) or Oakley, may see a trade-in offer pop up in their cart. I hedge...

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Matt Jancer

You Can Hire Real Humans to Scrub Your Personal Data off the Internet With DeleteMe

Ever Google yourself? Of course you have. Lots of intimate details pop up, don’t they? Things like your birthday, place of birth, past addresses,...

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Matt Jancer

Give Up the Backpack While Biking. Use Pannier Bags Instead.

You know that rear cargo rack that, if you bought a bike in the past few years, probably came with your bike? It’s not for putting cargo or bags on...

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Matt Jancer

How to Store a Bike in Your Apartment

The worst roommate I ever had was a 50-pound ebike I was testing for a couple of weeks. At the time, I was living on the third floor of a walk-up...

yesterday 2

Matt Jancer

More Android Phones Will Soon Work With iPhone AirDrop

That didn’t take long. It’s been just four days since I reported on Google’s surprise announcement that Google Pixel 10 devices would integrate...

yesterday 3

Matt Jancer

What’s a VPN?

You don’t have to be James Bond to benefit from beefing up your online security. Privacy ought to be enshrined as a basic human more widely, and...

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Matt Jancer

The Easter Eggs of Roku City

Ever been to Roku City? If you have a Roku TV or Roku streaming device, then Roku City has been to you. Right there in your TV screen, that cityscape...

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Matt Jancer

Roku Ultra 4K vs. Apple TV 4K

Apple versus Roku. I’ve covered Apple versus Apple, and Roku versus Roku, but I’ve yet to give the Apple TV 4K and Roku Ultra 4K their own...

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Matt Jancer

The Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Is on Sale Early for Black Friday

Meta’s Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets don’t go on sale as often as I’d like. Sales on the two newest models, the Quest 3 and Quest 3S, are...

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Matt Jancer

The Best TV Streaming Box Just Tied Its Lowest-Ever Price

There are several reasons why, after testing all the top 4K-capable TV streaming boxes on the market, I crowned the Roku Ultra 4K the best overall....

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Matt Jancer

Amazon’s Best Fire TV Streaming Stick Is on Its Best Sale of the Year

Amazon’s early Black Friday deal on the Fire TV Stick 4K Max puts me in a bit of a funny spot, although not a spot I’m unaccustomed to occupying....

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Matt Jancer

Confused by Roku’s Streaming Device Lineup? Here They All Are.

I’m rather fond of Roku’s TV streaming devices. Of the three awards I gave in my guide to the best streaming devices, I plopped Rokus onto the...

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Matt Jancer

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...

21.11.2025 5

Matt Jancer

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...

21.11.2025 4

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...

21.11.2025 8

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...

20.11.2025 5

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...

20.11.2025 5

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...

20.11.2025 8

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,...

19.11.2025 10

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....

19.11.2025 5

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...

19.11.2025 2

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...

19.11.2025 3

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...

19.11.2025 2

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...

18.11.2025 2

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....

18.11.2025 4

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...

18.11.2025 4

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...

18.11.2025 3

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...

18.11.2025 8

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...

18.11.2025 10

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...

15.11.2025 20

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 3

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...

11.11.2025 20

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...

11.11.2025 3

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

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