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“Would you like to upgrade to prescription lenses?” The Meta spokesperson asked me as I talked about some blurriness I had while wearing the Meta...
Streaming NFL games has never been all that easy. Not until now, that is. Even just a couple of years ago, I remember pulling my hair out over trying...
All right, wise guys and gals. You’re smart enough to lock your home when you leave and when you go to bed, but is it truly a smart lock? Can it...
We’ve been used to it for so long; have any of us really noticed it in years? Since 2013, the Apple iPhone’s icons, windows, and tabs have looked...
After punting this ball down the field enough times to go from a field in Washington DC to a street in Beijing, the US and China have finally agreed...
Medical professionals call hypertension the silent killer. “Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, and many don’t know it,”...
You know Signal, right? Used by protesters fighting the good fight and government employees spilling the good tea, the app is a decentralized,...
Despite the hard news attached to Apple TV these days, there are a bunch of titles piling up that make it harder to ignore Apple’s streaming...
Why did you drop all that money on that 4K TV? Go on, it’s a serious question. Ponder it for a moment, and you’ll come up with some variation of...
Hand it to Sonos. They’ve created an Apple-like cult following by creating a halo of perceived quality with the rarified air of eternally high...
We all drool over the best point-and-shoot cameras. If money grew on trees, that’s what we’d all shoot. But camera gear is expensive, and not...
I often lament, after taking a particularly good picture, that I may never see it again because I hardly ever scroll through my phone to look at...
You know the drill—stare through the hole, push the button, and out comes the print. Everybody finds out together whether it’s any good after it...
TKL stands for tenkeyless, as in it doesn’t have a tenkey. Maybe you know it as the numpad, or number pad. That cluster of digits on the right side...
Launch day is here. While you’ve been able to pre-order the GR IV, Ricoh’s successor to its six-year-old GR III, as of September 12, 2025,...
Smartphones have dominated the consumer photography space for going on 20 years now, but they just don’t feel the same as holding up a dedicated...
Maybe it’s the snoring of the person next to you. Or the street noises outside your window. Or your loud-ass neighbors. Whatever it is, it’s...
The catch is that you have to sign up for a full year rather than going month to month. There, I got the catch out of the way early. Look at us being...
What a world in which Walmart became the underdog after Amazon’s ascendance. It doesn’t take a King of the Hill episode to illustrate how recently...
Chalk this up under the enormous, ever-growing bucket titled “New Shit to Be Afraid Of.” Hackers have figured out a way to sneak phishing scams...
Nearly half of Americans use a virtual private network (VPN), and despite that—or perhaps because of it—companies, organizations, and governments...
Happy Wednesday! Hump Day is finally here, meaning we are one day closer to the weekend. Right now, we’re in the waxing gibbous moon phase,...
Major League Soccer’s 30 teams are duking it out in the final weeks of their seasons before the MLS Cup Playoffs kick off on October 22. Since...
There’s no language-learning method I rave about as much as Pimsleur. You can read about how I used it to brush up on my long-mediocre Spanish and...
Samsung launched the Pixel Buds3 FE on September 4, and for all the buzz about its incorporation of Google’s ChatGPT competitor, Gemini, there’s...
Tinnitus sucks. Take it from me, sufferer of childhood ear infections, rider of loud-ass motorcycles, and enjoyer of loud rock concerts and hockey...
Apple’s efforts to keep up with the AI race have been, frankly, stale and unimpressive. Late last year, there was Apple Intelligence’s weak debut,...
“People have asked for this for a while…” reads Instagram’s September 3 announcement. Yeah, Instagram. People have been asking for this for...
First, it was 4K resolution that was the marker for a TV of distinction. Then it was HDR, which stands for high dynamic range. A few formats duked it...
Name some things that feel right in your hand, as if they were made specifically to nestle perfectly into the palm. Don’t say glove. That goes on...
Count this as Garmin’s attempt to preempt Apple’s thunder. Only a week before industry analysts expect Apple to launch its Apple Watch Ultra 3,...
As of the past six weeks or so, the price on my favorite mouse has remained stuck at $30. It’s a very fair price for an excellent wireless mouse; a...
OpenAI has been on a roll since it unveiled ChatGPT to the public in late 2022. It hasn’t been all smooth sailing. The generative AI has come under...
Who doesn’t love a good follow-up rock n’ roll album? It sure shuts up the haters who hand-wave away the success of a debut album as a flash in...
Once a computer turns seven years old, Apple sunsets it into forced retirement, kind of like that movie Logan’s Run. Instead of a time-telling...
Love film, and love the artistic look that lower-spec cameras and film can turn out? Sure, it’s not as high-res as modern digital cameras or even...
It’s a harmless FU. One could even say it’s a bit of a sweet thing to do. Certainly, it’s less harmful than the act that inspired your sweet...
There are only two certainties in life, as the popular saying goes. One, that everybody on Earth seems to want a Fujifilm X100VI, and two, that...
Back in July, Perplexity AI unleashed a new bit of software that the world wasn’t ready for. There had been a few rumblings about its imminent...
Mechanical keyboards trickled back into Western markets after almost entirely disappearing from the market in the late 1990s. You can thank gamers,...
What a strange beast. Digital cameras and smartphones have made the panoramic shot easy, but back when we were stuck with film, these sorts of...
What’s not the weirdest thing about the Pentax is that it’s the first 35mm film camera to enter the market in decades. It’s that Pentax chose to...
Kayak, the aggregator for flights, stays, and rental cars, launched Kayak.ai back in April 2025. Given the length of time it’s been in operation, I...
Even if you don’t know what a PopSocket is, you’ve seen one. Those things that look like doorknobs from a 1990s hotel dresser stuck to the back of...
Just because the rooms in your home are closed off from the outdoors by windows, walls, and doors, it doesn’t mean that outdoor air isn’t seeping...
Few smartphones hold the sort of industry-wide awe and respect, plus the customer devotion, as the Google Pixel. Apple’s iPhone is up there, sure....
It’s been a long time coming. The Ricoh GR III has been a smash hit among photographers who value a compact, discreet point-and-shoot camera since...
In case you haven’t heard of it, or in case your brain is overloaded by all the incessant talk about AI this, chatbot that, xAI—an Elon Musk...
Has it really been eight years since TCL burst onto the scene with the 55P607? It hadn’t been a new manufacturer back in 2017, but it made a name...
What is Perplexity AI up to? Although they’re not quite on the level of household names like Google and ChatGPT, they’ve boldly pitched a public...