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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...

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Matt Jancer

LEGO’s Star Wars Advent Calendar Is Already in Stores

It was the Star Wars set, with a C-3PO chasing a mouse droid across the room in front of a Christmas tree, that had been the calendar to stop me in my...

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Matt Jancer

Google Maps’ Gemini Upgrades Actually Look Pretty Good

My eyes glossed over when I saw AI mentioned, but I read Google’s November 5 announcement anyway: “We’re introducing the first hands-free,...

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Matt Jancer

Australia, Just What Are You Doing Banning Kids From Reddit?

In just over a month, kids under the age of 16 will be banned from accessing Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and...

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Matt Jancer

I’m Learning Morse Code With an App, and It’s Fun?

Morse code was one of those things they taught us about in the Cub Scouts, the predecessor to the Boy Scouts, but they didn’t actually teach us how...

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Matt Jancer

The 3 Best 4K Webcams (So You Can Stop Looking Like a Ghoul on Zoom)

We all spend way too much time on Zoom and Google Meet. Or at least that’s what I say when companies aren’t sniffing around on whether they should...

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Matt Jancer

High Resolution at a Mid-Range Price: The Logitech Brio 4k Webcam

Odds are, your Zoom calls look like crap. It’s not your fault. Hey, don’t feel down in the dumps. You’re a vibrant person with a lovely face....

wednesday 20

Matt Jancer

Gaze Into the Dark Web Through Proton’s New Data Breach Observatory

When it comes to VPNs, I’m picky. And why shouldn’t I be? You only need one, so it doesn’t much matter if there are only a handful I’d...

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Matt Jancer

Go Encrypt Your WhatsApp Backups. It Just Got Easier.

Losing my WhatsApp chat histories would suck. It’d have no discernible impact on my day-to-day life going forward, but I look at my WhatsApp group...

wednesday 2

Matt Jancer

A Boston Fine Arts Museum and Samsung Just Teamed Up for the Love of Art

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, just put a new exhibit up for show in its halls: Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor. These watercolor...

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Matt Jancer

WhatsApp Is Now Available on Apple Watch

It’s easy to forget how much of the world relies upon WhatsApp as its primary messaging app. Texts aren’t free in much of the world. Sure, we use...

04.11.2025 1

Matt Jancer

Now’s the Time of Year to Start Running a Humidifier

Ready for that dry winter air? You know the telltale signs. Your hands start cracking, your elbows get ashy, and most parts of your body feel...

30.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Well, They’ve Gone and Done It. They Made a Home Servant Robot.

Humans are profoundly lazy beings. Think of all the marvelous, modern inventions we’ve created just to keep us from expending more calories than we...

30.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Samsung Galaxy Watch8 vs. Galaxy Watch7: Which One Is Right for You?

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch8 launched back in July 2025, but the Galaxy Watch7 has continued on sale for cheaper than its successor. There’s no...

30.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

RIP Ring Lights. Gone but Not Forgotten.

Let me set the scenery for you. The year is 2020, and there’s a raging pandemic that’s somehow simultaneously shut down the entire world and half...

30.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Thanks for Nothing? The Nothing Phone (3a) Lite Launches With No US Availability.

Good news, bad news. The good news is that the Nothing Phone (3a) Lite, the briefly anticipated budget budget Android phone, launched today,...

29.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

The Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Lite Compared. Which One Is Right for You?

When we learned today that Nothing’s launch of the new Nothing Phone (3a) Lite didn’t include the US, it was a bit of a shock. Granted, it’s the...

29.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

How To Find a Lost Android Phone: A Helpful Guide

So it happened. You’ve lost your Android phone, and it’s roaming around out there alone in the world. Whether it walked off in the pocket of some...

29.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

The Elusive Topre Mechanical Keyboard

Those who dip into the completely unnecessary but brutally delightful world of mechanical keyboards get used to a lot of arcane terminology. There’s...

28.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

I Took the Lectric Xpedition2 Cargo Ebike for a Spin—Here’s How It Rides

Carrying 450 pounds of combined cargo, passengers, and rider—however you divide it up—at 28 miles per hour is no small task for an ebike. I’ve...

28.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Would You Ghost Post on Threads?

Threads, Instagram’s stab at TikTok, introduced a new feature today with the curious name of ghost posts. No, it’s not that thing people do to...

28.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Surfshark VPN Just Got Email Scam Protection for Gmail

Email scams have gotten a lot more sophisticated and convincing since the days of far-fetched stories about deposed royalty seeking out your help in...

28.10.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Lighter Than Nothing. The New Budget Nothing Phone Coming This Week.

Leave it to Nothing to make a whole lot of something from a little bit of anything. Having been rumored for a while and even leaked a few weeks back,...

27.10.2025 4

Matt Jancer

YouTube TV’s Reign as a Sports Streaming Powerhouse Might Be Crumbling

It’s that part of the season at which all of human achievement comes into laser focus. That time of the year when everything else is just a...

27.10.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Aventon’s Early Black Friday Ebike Sales Are Already Here

I suppose it’s only fair that, as Christmas creeps in on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving begins to muscle in on Halloween. As of my writing this, we’re...

27.10.2025 9

Matt Jancer

Surfshark Nearly Doubled Its Number of VPN Servers

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are a boon for online privacy because they keep online scammers, lurkers, and data thieves from following your digital...

25.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Matty Matheson Just Got a Pizza Oven Collab

Gozney calls it a pizza oven, decorated in a way that feels straight out of summer camp. They also call Matty Matheson, who designed the laser-etched...

25.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Ulysses vs. Scrivener: The Ultimate Writing App

Writing is a trade that doesn’t require many tools at all. One of the greatest decisions in my writing when it came to putting together longer...

25.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

How to Buy an Ebike With Your Government Benefits

Love the idea of an electric bike but not up for spending $1,000 or more on a half-decent model? Ebikes have come down in price as they’ve risen in...

25.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

YouTube Has a New Button to Report Deepfakes

Almost since it was unleashed upon the world, YouTube has had a way to detect people stealing audio and video. Now it’s got a new tool that scans to...

25.10.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Claude Can Remember You Now

We’ve all got that friend who’s a bit forgetful. You tell them a story, and then the next time you see them, you have an update, but you have to...

25.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Today’s Moon Phase: October 22, 2025

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to a new lunar cycle! We have officially reached the second day and the second phase of a fresh lunar cycle. The moon...

22.10.2025 30

Matt Jancer

Napster Is (Sort of) Back With Something They Call a Hologram

I love days like this, when something comes completely out of left field to baffle and confuse and excite us. This time it’s the rebirth—no, the...

22.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Spotify Wants to Help You Find Local Live Music

Well, well, well. After years of complaints that music streaming has hollowed out the music industry’s bread-and-butter economic model of selling...

22.10.2025 4

Matt Jancer

The Nothing Headphones Are on a Very Short Sale

Nothing’s best known for its smartphones, but after the launch of its Headphone (1) this summer, it’s increasingly known for its spread of...

22.10.2025 10

Matt Jancer

HBO Max Is Raising Its Prices—Again

For the third time in three years, HBO is raising the price of its streaming service. After wisely re-rebranding itself back to HBO Max earlier this...

22.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Sony’s Alpha 7R V Camera Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever

Televisions aren’t the only pricey electronics that tend to go on sale this time of year. Whereas Christmas has begun its merciless creep toward...

21.10.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Are MacBooks Finally Getting a Touchscreen?

After years of swatting down the idea, ostensibly because it would compete too acutely with its iPad Pro (when paired with a keyboard), Apple’s...

21.10.2025 9

Matt Jancer

My Favorite Budget Bluetooth Speaker? This Baby From Amazon, Right Here.

People may be surprised that as a tech writer, I don’t plop down a JBL or Beats or Sony Bluetooth speaker into the sand at the beach or on the...

21.10.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Radrover, Radrover, Send Deals on eBikes Right Over

Yeah, I know, right? That’s the chant from the children’s game Red Rover. What a callback. That’s one I know more from older pop culture than...

21.10.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Deafen Your Neighbors With the Tribit StormBox Blast. I Did.

Sometimes you just need more power than the Bluetooth speaker dangling from your backpack can muster. You still need it to be portable so that you can...

21.10.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Explaining Monday’s Massive AWS Outage

Just picture a mass of people, an enormous crowd, rushing through a door when one person trips, and the entire mass goes down like dominoes. It...

21.10.2025 10

Matt Jancer

3 Practical Uses for ChatGPT

Forget ChatGPT as a modern-day scribe. I don’t care to read its poetry, and I don’t want to read articles written by it. It digests poorly...

18.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

The Best Alternative to the AirPods 3? The Earbuds They Usurped.

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 are pretty fresh on the vine. Or the stem, I guess, since Apples don’t grow on vines. Whatever. Apple launched the follow-up...

18.10.2025 2

Matt Jancer

The iPad Pro M5 vs. iPad Pro M4: Does It Pay to Upgrade?

Every autumn, a crop of new Apples falls from the Silicon Valley tree in Cupertino, California. Some are iPhones, and some are iPads. Not every iPad...

18.10.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Do This Before You Sell or Trade in Your Old iPad

One of the best things about the Apple iPad only becomes apparent the moment you get rid of it. Whether you’re selling it or trading it in to Apple,...

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Matt Jancer

Ulysses Is the Best Writing App, Trust Me

I tend to turn up my nose at the latest and greatest promises to make writing easier or more efficient. Most of them, I figure, are snake oil. Even...

18.10.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Microsoft Word Has Started Automatically Saving Your Docs to the Cloud

Everybody has been there. You’re banging out the perfect Word doc, and the power cuts out before you can hit save. Last week’s Microsoft Word...

12.10.2025 10

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Microsoft Copilot Can Now Fly in the Right Seat of Your Google Account

Who’d have thought they’d see another day when Microsoft played nice with Google. Beginning this past week, Microsoft began slowly introducing a...

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Home Depot’s 12-Foot Skeleton Is Back—And You Can Finally Buy It Again

He’s 12-feet tall, perpetually naked, can never die, and loves Halloween. No, I’m not just talking about that weirdo who lives in the cul-de-sac....

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