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Rokus Are Getting a New Feature to Help With Choice Paralysis

Roku’s got major plans for 2025, it seems. Having just announced two new devices earlier this week—the Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick...

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Get a Year of Proton VPN for 50% Off

I called it the best free VPN both in my standalone review and my guide to the Best VPNs, but that doesn’t mean it’s only good as a free option to...

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Samsung Just Accidentally Leaked the Galaxy S25 Edge Price

Ever since Samsung unveiled the rest of the Galaxy S25 lineup at January’s Galaxy Unpacked event, those left pining for the slimmer Galaxy S25 Edge...

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Kindle Colorsoft Is 20% Off During the Amazon Book Sale

Remember the scenes in the movie Pleasantville when Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon begin to experience color again after having spent so long...

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Might the Nvidia RTX 5000 Series GPU Stock Woes Finally Be Over? Read the Dirt Here.

I’ve been reporting over and over on the yo-yo melodrama that’s been the Nvidia GeForce 5000 Series ever since it debuted. It follows a...

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Everything About to Leave Netflix in May 2025

Another month, and you know what that means. For millions of us renters, it means the rent check is due. It also means Netflix is about to boot off a...

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Rumor: Samsung to Unveil Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7 in July

All hail the rumor mill. It’s always churning. When we’re asleep here in the US, the sun shines brightly upon it over on the other side of the...

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Google Fixed the Pixel Watch’s Step Counter With a New Update

Chalk this up to “oops, we did it again.” Second time’s the charm, right? After breaking a key feature of the Pixel Watch, Pixel Watch 2, and...

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Roku Launched Two New Budget Streaming Sticks

Streaming wars aren’t only fought among streaming channels like Netflix and Hulu. They’re also fought among the companies producing the hardware,...

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Amazon May Be Making a Big Change to Its Fire TVs Later This Year

Amazon’s Fire TVs run on a modified version of the Android operating system, although if a fresh rumor turns out to be correct, it won’t for long....

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Fujifilm Is Teasing Its Next Camera: ‘Half the Size, Twice the Story’

Who doesn’t love a cryptic video teasing the next magical piece of tech? Fujifilm has done just that, whetting our appetites with an unnamed, barely...

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The Burly Super73 S2 SE Ebike is Lots of “E”, Less “Bike”

You’d be forgiven for glancing over one of these and mistaking it for a vintage motorcycle. That’s the point, really. Super73 carved out its...

23.04.2025 4

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There’s a Way to Supercharge Your Pics in Google Photos After You Take Them

I’ve never considered myself a particularly skilled photographer. Walking around with my iPhone, when I’m not out for the specific purpose of...

22.04.2025 3

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This JBL Charge 5 Bluetooth Speak Is $55 Off at Walmart

How much is the latest and greatest Bluetooth speaker really worth to you? “New and improved” is a seductive siren song, but do you always need...

22.04.2025 4

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HBO Max Knocks a Heavy Chunk Off Its Annual Sub Prices

Wasn’t streaming television supposed to free us from the high prices of cable and satellite subscriptions? Of course, they’d all skyrocket in...

22.04.2025 3

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My Favorite Language-Learning App Has a 20% Off Sale for One More Day

I’ve raved about this one before. Simply put, I always thought I was pretty sucky at learning languages. Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Babbel, Memrise,...

22.04.2025 3

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You Can Still Get a New $750 MacBook Air M2. You Just Have to Shop at Best Buy.

Back in March, I posted a deal on leftover MacBook Air M2s—2022’s model—in which you could mosey over to Amazon or B&H Photo Video to pick one...

19.04.2025 3

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LEGO Dropped New Star Wars Sets Ahead of May the Fourth

Star Wars conquered the merchandise shelves as thoroughly as it conquered the movie theater, and so partnering with LEGO was always a natural fit. The...

19.04.2025 2

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Razer Is Selling Laptops Again. Just One, in Pre-Selected Configurations.

At the beginning of April, as the US’ hilariously ill-conceived tariff scheme was entering its “bumper cars” phase, visitors to Razer’s...

19.04.2025 3

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Defeat the Rebels With This Star Wars TIE Fighter Stand for the Amazon Echo Dot

The Galactic Empire is a truly detestable organization of classic movie villains. When it comes to their rides, though, they had style. Never mind...

18.04.2025 2

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Lectric eBikes Are (Almost) All on Sale for Earth Day

Earth Day is that annual celebration where, every April 22, we gather to celebrate the fact that we haven’t yet completely burned up the Earth. And...

18.04.2025 3

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Fitbits Are Losing Google Assistant as Smartwatch Brand Circles the Drain

Voice assistants are, on the one hand, one of the most annoying aspects of technology in my day-to-day life, alongside home internet’s inability to...

18.04.2025 2

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Watch NASA’s Free Documentary About Protecting Earth From Deadly Asteroids

Asteroids slamming into Earth have lately been one of the few aspects of space that’ve managed to compete with the shitstorm of news that’s been...

18.04.2025 3

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You’ve Got a Week Left to Snag an Apple TV+ Subscription (for the Cost of a Taco)

Three dollars won’t get you much these days. Maybe some cut-rate shares on our crashing stock market, but even a feathery-thin T-shirt from Shein...

17.04.2025 4

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The Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Is on a Rare Sale Right Now

Having kept one eye on Quest 3 and Quest 3S deals consistently over the past year, I’ve been frustrated at the dry spell of sales on these two...

17.04.2025 4

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Amazon’s Newest Kindle Scribe Is Almost $100 Off Right Now

Good things come to those who wait. Or so they say. Too often, I’ve felt I could say the opposite. Waited too long for one purchase or another, and...

17.04.2025 4

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How to Get a Free (or Nearly Free) Google Pixel 9a

After a tease, a false start, and a strange period where you couldn’t preorder it, just “sign up to get notified,” the Google Pixel 9a is...

17.04.2025 2

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Surfshark VPN Adds Split-Tunneling Support to Macs. Here’s What That Means.

Surfshark is a relative newcomer to the VPN scene, having only just been founded in 2018. Now, it’s owned by the same people who brought...

17.04.2025 3

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Apple AirPods Max Headphones Are $69 Off Right Now

Hot on the heels of March’s announcement that an update would bestow upon the Apple AirPods Max support for lossless audio, the headphones have...

15.04.2025 2

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Rumor: Fujifilm Suspends Orders for X100VI, GFX100RF, and X-M5 in the US

Nice timing, Fujifilm. It was only just last month that I got the chance to write a story titled, “The Fujifilm X100VI Is Finally in Stock—If...

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Audio-Technica’s Hotaru Turntable Makes Music Float and Glow—If You Can Take the Sticker Shock

Hotaru, in Japanese, means firefly. How fitting a name it is, then, for the newest turntable in Audio-Technica’s lineup. There’s a remarkable...

15.04.2025 3

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Garmin’s Got a 4K Dash Cam for Bikes

You ought to have a headlight and taillight on your bike if there’s even the remotest chance of being caught out after dusk. It does wonders for...

12.04.2025 5

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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...

11.04.2025 20

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Canon Rumored to Cancel Massive DSLR Price Drops—Thanks to Tariffs

Oh, tariffs. Everything this week has been tariff this, tariff that. “When will you talk about something else, Matt?” you may be wondering. I’m...

11.04.2025 4

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The YouTube TV App Keeps Vanishing From Rokus. Here’s How to Get It Back.

More often these days, it’s a company such as Apple or Microsoft dropping things onto our apps that we don’t want rather than us fumbling around...

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Amazon CEO Says You Should Expect Prices to Rise

Nobody seems to know exactly when, who, or how much when it comes to tariff numbers on certain countries. Now that Trump paused tariffs for most...

11.04.2025 4

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You Can Finally Buy a OnePlus Watch 3—At a Massively Tariff-Inflated Price

Hoo boy. It’s been a season of delays and dashed hopes, from the Apple iPhone 16e to the Google Pixel 9a to TikTok’s on-again-off-again ban. The...

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Amazon Wants to Do All Your Shopping for You—Even on Other Websites

Not content to Hoover up loads and loads of third-party stores through Amazon Marketplace, now the merry retail giant is publicly beta testing a...

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SurfShark VPN Is as Low as $2 a Month Right Now

The world is awash in VPNs right now. Some are major players and nearly household names, others are new even to me—and I do this for a living....

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US Government Delays TikTok Ban… Again

Oh, there will certainly be a deal by Saturday, April 5, said Vice President JD Vance in an interview with Fox News. “It’ll come out before the...

04.04.2025 6

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Kindle’s New Recaps Give AI-Generated Reminders of Book Series Events

Amazon’s been testy recently, ever since it nuked the ability to download purchased Kindle Books back in February. I wouldn’t say they made up for...

04.04.2025 3

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NordPass Released the 200 Most Used Passwords. People Really Pick These?

NordPass, from the fine folks who brought you NordVPN, just released their annual study on passwords, and it only confirms what we’ve been hearing...

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Apple’s AirPods Max Lossless Update Actually Works Now

Something funny happened this week. After a firmware release initially set to go public on Monday, a release that would bring lossless audio and...

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This ‘Deal’ on a MacBook Air M3 Isn’t a Good Deal at All

Nobody can resist a good, “Hey, check out this deal on Apple yadda yadda” headline. I should know. I write ’em. I’d be shit at my job if I...

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These Device Skins Let You Touch Grass Without Going Outside

God, I hope this isn’t just the prankiest prank, a double-prank by claiming explicitly not to be a prank. If you don’t know, touching grass is a...

02.04.2025 2

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Zelle Shut Down Its Money-Swapping App

There was always that one person who wasn’t on Venmo, long ago forgot their PayPal password, and wasn’t using Apple Pay. “What do you have,...

02.04.2025 3

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Early Access Alexa+ Is Here, and It’s Only a Half-Promise Half-Fulfilled

In all fairness to Amazon, back when they announced Alexa , they did say that features would be rolled out gradually. But we expected more of them to...

02.04.2025 3

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iOS 19 Rumored to Leave the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max Behind

We’re a ways away from the release of iOS 19, since iOS 18 was released on September 16, 2024. But an interesting tidbit has floated into the rumor...

02.04.2025 3

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Philips Hue Cameras Are Getting a Free Update to Improve Battery Life

There have been numerous complaints about poor battery life on the Philips Hue Secure Camera for a while, with customers’ experiences falling far...

01.04.2025 3

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Another TikTok Ban Is Just Days Away

Déjà vu, right? We’ve been here before. Last time it was when TikTok disappeared from our lives and devices on 10:30 p.m. EDT on January 18. And...

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