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Instagram Finally Drops an iPad App After Years of Waiting

“People have asked for this for a while…” reads Instagram’s September 3 announcement. Yeah, Instagram. People have been asking for this for...

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Matt Jancer

Dolby Vision 2 Is Coming, Promising a TV Experience ‘Beyond HDR’

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...

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Matt Jancer

JBL Released a Portable Bluetooth Speaker Modeled After a Seltzer Can

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...

03.09.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Garmin fēnix 8 Pro’s New MicroLED Smartwatch Screen Is the Brightest Ever

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,...

03.09.2025 3

Matt Jancer

My Favorite Computer Mouse’s Price Dropped. Buy It Before the Next Tariff Madness.

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...

03.09.2025 2

Matt Jancer

ChatGPT Is Finally Getting Parental Controls

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...

03.09.2025 6

Matt Jancer

Marshall Unveils a Subwoofer and Cheaper Soundbar

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...

03.09.2025 9

Matt Jancer

3 MacBook Models Declared Obsolete by Apple: Here’s What That Means

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...

03.09.2025 8

Matt Jancer

Vacation Like It’s 1975 With This Slick, Portable Film Camera

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...

03.09.2025 5

Matt Jancer

You Can Send People Who Ghost You These Blank Sweetheart Candies

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...

02.09.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Should You Keep Trying To Find a Fujifilm X100VI or Go With an X100F?

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...

01.09.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Perplexity Comet Plus Has Just Made Contact: Here’s Everything You Need To Know

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...

01.09.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Keep It Old School With These Sick Mechanical Keyboards

Mechanical keyboards trickled back into Western markets after almost entirely disappearing from the market in the late 1990s. You can thank gamers,...

31.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Actor Jeff Bridges Is Bringing Back This Weird 35mm Film Camera with a Swiveling Lens

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...

31.08.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Where To Find the Pentax 17 Half-Frame 35mm Film Camera

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...

31.08.2025 1

Matt Jancer

Kayak’s AI Trip Planner Has a Tourist’s Sense of Direction

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...

28.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

PopSocket Just Launched Its First Kindle Case

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...

28.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

This Air Purifier Has Family Sedan Looks and Porsche Performance

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...

28.08.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Google Pixel 10 Drops Today—Here’s Everything You Need to Know

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....

28.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

You Can Pre-Order Ricoh GR IV Right Now—Here’s Where To Get It

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...

24.08.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Whoops. Grok Just Leaked 370,000 User Chats to Google.

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...

24.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Last Year’s TCL QM7 Is Awesome, Beautiful, and More Than 50% Off

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...

21.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Perplexity Is Trying To Buy Chrome From Google

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...

18.08.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Dog Allergies? This Pet Bed Is Also an Air Purifier.

Pets are wonderful. Reasons worth waking up in the morning, comforts as we fall asleep at night, tucked warmly in our beds. They’re also little...

18.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

NordVPN Is Discontinuing Meshnet, a Feature Few Even Knew Existed

Meshnet was always a cool feature from NordVPN, and one of the signature ways in which my favorite VPN distinguished itself from my other favorite...

18.08.2025 3

Matt Jancer

The Fire TV Stick 4K Max Is a Fine Streaming Device (If You’re an Alexa Control Freak)

The Fire TV Stick 4K Max didn’t take the podium in my guide to the Best 4K Streaming Devices. That’s why it’s taken me this long to ramble on...

16.08.2025 2

Matt Jancer

The Latest Apple iPad Mini Is Back on Sale for $100 Off

After almost a month at or near its full retail price of $499, the latest iPad Mini (7th generation) is back down to its almost-lowest-ever price of...

16.08.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Samsung’s New Galaxy S25 Edge Gets a Major Discount

It looks like retailers finally got the message that while the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge was a compelling device, customers felt less than convinced...

16.08.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Don’t Trust Google or Microsoft as Your 2FA App? Check Out Proton.

Two-factor authentication is one of life’s everyday little headaches. But it’s world’s better than one of life’s everyday big headaches:...

16.08.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Like Risky Shots? This Camera Is Tough To Kill.

In cinematography, they call it a crash cam. That’s the biggest word I’m going to use today, by the way. Anyway, the crash cam acts as a...

15.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Antigravity Pulls the Wraps off the A1, the World’s First 8K 360-Degree Drone

It feels like it was forever ago, since it set the drone industry alight with speculation, excitement, and the anticipation of an international slap...

15.08.2025 7

Matt Jancer

The MacBook Pro M4 Is Basically on a Perma-Sale: Where You Can Get It

Who knows what Apple is up to with all these sales lately? The MacBook Pro M4 is their flagship laptop, perched above the equally impressive and...

15.08.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Popular Apps Are Vessels for Malware—Here’s How To Protect Yourself

Downloading from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store is one way to improve your security. It’s just not foolproof. Even there, apps that are...

14.08.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Your AirPods Basically Just Became Universal Translators

As iOS 26 worms its way through a public beta (that you can join), eagle-eyed enthusiasts and journalists work to extract clues to see what’s on the...

14.08.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Ditch That Big Scanner and Download This Free Scanning App

As a writer who works on a smattering of contracts, I’ve had to print out, sign, and scan more sheets of dead trees than any reasonable person who...

14.08.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Kodak Admits ‘Substantial Doubt’ Around Staying in Business

I don’t envy a single person who had to sit on the earnings call that Kodak held for its investors on Monday, August 11, when they had to hear that...

14.08.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Punkt Rocker: A Dumbphone for Smart People

Dumbphones are in right now. They’re exactly what they sound like: phones that are the antithesis of smartphones. Aside from taking and making calls...

13.08.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Sometimes You Just Need a Cheap (But Real) Camera To Tuck in Your Pocket

Need a camera that you wouldn’t particularly hesitate to put in danger, perhaps as you’re snapping photos on a boat? Or one that you could tuck...

13.08.2025 7

Matt Jancer

United Is Bringing Whole Seasons of Apple TV Shows to Flights—but Read the Fine Print

United Airlines has announced a partnership with Apple TV to show free television shows on the seatback entertainment system of United flights....

13.08.2025 9

Matt Jancer

Sonos Arc (and Arc Ultra) Wall Mount Back in Stock. Finally.

I’d wager that there are an awful lot of Sonos Arc and Arc Ultra soundbars just sitting around on boxes and coffee tables, waiting for the day when...

11.08.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Sonos Just Admitted It Was Wrong—and That’s Good News for Everyone

It began as a trickle of positivity on August 6. Sonos owners on the Sonos subreddit began filtering in to say that after a recent firmware update,...

09.08.2025 6

Matt Jancer

Orange You Glad the iPhone 17 Pro Might Come in… Orange?

Well, I wouldn’t have believed it even if it’d sprung up like Linus’ Great Pumpkin and ambushed the whole Peanuts gang. Apple’s always had a...

09.08.2025 8

Matt Jancer

HBO Max Is About to Get Even More Annoying About Password Sharing

You all know somebody who’s got one. That account that a former beau, ex-roommate, friend, ex-friend, or parent let you join once to watch some...

09.08.2025 6

Matt Jancer

Samsung Just Gave the Galaxy Buds 3 Earbuds Gemini AI

Everything seems to have AI packed into it these days, although if I’m being a stickler for clarification, it’s not the Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy...

09.08.2025 10

Matt Jancer

YouTube’s Gonna Start Using AI To Guess Your Age Next Week

Big Tech has been preoccupied lately with society’s largest—nay, only—problem: teenagers watching videos intended for adults, and YouTube is the...

09.08.2025 6

Matt Jancer

Why People Are Freaking About Instagram’s New Maps Feature—and How To Turn It Off

When Instagram pushed through a relatively little-hyped, seemingly innocuous update on August 6, there’s very little chance its head honcho thought...

09.08.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Buy These Sonos Speakers Before They Raise the Prices

Sonos has become the latest company to raise prices because of Trump’s tariffs. During a company earnings call, Sonos’ CEO stated that a price...

08.08.2025 6

Matt Jancer

They’re Selling the Google Pixel 9a for $399 Right Now

Back in May, shortly after Google had released the Pixel 9a in April, I went on record saying that the higher-end Pixel 9, on sale for $599, was a...

08.08.2025 8

Matt Jancer

This YouTuber Folded the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 200,000 Times. Did It Break?

Folding phones have a bit of a public relations issue regarding durability. Past examples of folding phones have sometimes delaminated. Such is life...

08.08.2025 9

Matt Jancer

Bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 or Z Flip7? You Can Get $120 Worth of Google AI Pro for Free.

Samsung launched its Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 foldable smartphones only a little more than a week ago, and already there’s a deal...

07.08.2025 4

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Garmin fēnix 8 Pro’s New MicroLED Smartwatch Screen Is the Brightest Ever

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My Favorite Computer Mouse’s Price Dropped. Buy It Before the Next Tariff Madness.

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ChatGPT Is Finally Getting Parental Controls

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Should You Keep Trying To Find a Fujifilm X100VI or Go With an X100F?

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Perplexity Comet Plus Has Just Made Contact: Here’s Everything You Need To Know

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Keep It Old School With These Sick Mechanical Keyboards

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Kayak’s AI Trip Planner Has a Tourist’s Sense of Direction

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PopSocket Just Launched Its First Kindle Case

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This Air Purifier Has Family Sedan Looks and Porsche Performance

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You Can Pre-Order Ricoh GR IV Right Now—Here’s Where To Get It

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Whoops. Grok Just Leaked 370,000 User Chats to Google.

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Last Year’s TCL QM7 Is Awesome, Beautiful, and More Than 50% Off

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Perplexity Is Trying To Buy Chrome From Google

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Dog Allergies? This Pet Bed Is Also an Air Purifier.

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NordVPN Is Discontinuing Meshnet, a Feature Few Even Knew Existed

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The Fire TV Stick 4K Max Is a Fine Streaming Device (If You’re an Alexa Control Freak)

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The Latest Apple iPad Mini Is Back on Sale for $100 Off

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Samsung’s New Galaxy S25 Edge Gets a Major Discount

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Don’t Trust Google or Microsoft as Your 2FA App? Check Out Proton.

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Like Risky Shots? This Camera Is Tough To Kill.

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