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So it happened. Just last month, I’d reported on the looming possibility of Rad Power going out of business. Even Electrek, reporting on Rad...

You’ve got your eyes glued to the rear bumper of the car in front of you as the slow-moving mass of cars plays gridlock Tetris down the highway....

It’s only been available to the public for less than a week. Still, the latest, lightweight version of Google’s Gemini generative AI, Gemini 3...

Recently, I began a trial run—I could hardly call it an experiment… with a straight face—of replacing all my Google usage with DuckDuckGo and...

We’ve enjoyed watching robots fail at seemingly basic tasks ever since Honda’s Asimo ate s—t walking up a staircase nearly 20 years ago. Most of...

Blame all those car commercials that, for years, made it seem like unveiling a large vehicle with an equally large bow was the most dramatic Christmas...

Anytime there’s a new technology, there’s a glut of companies that try to strike it big. Look at the field of automobiles in the early 1900s,...

Early this year, the Camp Snap screenless, digital point-and-shoot camera was all over social media. Enough so that there were shortages all...

Even as AI-centric browsers proliferate, AI brands are keeping one hand firmly on the branch of the traditional browser before entrusting their full...

Named the Family Christmas Tree, this mammoth kit has the power to bring families together or, potentially, tear them apart. What family hasn’t...

It wasn’t even two weeks ago that the news pages walloped us all with word that Netflix had acquired Warner Bros., including HBO and Discovery, in a...

Remember this fella? The robot that was viciously attacked on camera for clicks by its creators? No? Well, you should watch it so that you can develop...

Apple Safari. Microsoft Edge. Google Chrome. These three browsers dominate the browser landscape, and why wouldn’t they? Just look at the company...

Love it or loathe it, Spotify Wrapped lands in early December each year like a gift-wrapped box parachuted from above, and by now most people know how...

The Lectric XP4 series of folding ebikes is a best-seller for the company Lectric Bikes. It pops up again and again whenever one finds discussion of...

Google dominates. It has a heavy presence when it comes to smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes, tablets, security cameras, smart doorbells, and...

Freedom from advertisements, they said. And for a while, they were right. We got used to paying an almost nominal fee and delving into a new sort of...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been on a tear lately to reduce the reasons why anyone would need to switch away from an open ChatGPT tab to access a new...

I’ll cut to the chase. You don’t want to hear me blather on about my childhood memories of gathering around the gigantic-yet-not-that-big-screened...

The YouTube app on TV streaming devices had always felt like playing hopscotch over a bunch of tires. Streaming apps need to be clean and...

You’d be forgiven for remembering that Meta also has an AI, Meta AI. Or for not knowing at all. There’s a crowded field of front-runners in the AI...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “Code Red” declaration earlier this month seemed fairly mild in the face of the dramatic language used by Altman to...

Bread, milk, eggs, music, and heat. The essentials of daily life. Well, unless you’re gluten intolerant… or a vegan… or can’t consume lactose....

Eager to get away from Google’s, Microsoft’s, and Apple’s corporate dominance? Maybe you’ve just got (well-justified) trust issues. Or perhaps...

Remember when we didn’t just listen to music? We watched it. MTV pioneered music videos in the 1980s and then abandoned them for reality TV in the...

No, I didn’t just have a stroke. Despite the long hours I’ve put in these past few weeks in the run-up to Black Friday, I’m not yet at the point...

Who had this on their bingo card for late 2025? Not me. While the idea of monsters devouring each other plays well on the big screen, like all...

People seem to love it when a CEO says what everyone is thinking. Put it down, I suppose, to the widespread perception that those who take home...

Physical media is having a second heyday. There was always something special in the days when listening to music was more of a deliberate act than...

I am decidedly old-school when it comes to guitars: vacuum-tube amps, alnico pickups, and traditional bodies made of alder, swamp ash, or mahogany....

Another year almost over, another round of Apple awards for the apps that most impressed Apple itself in 2025. The awards are chosen for apps on...

The launch of Spotify’s annual, highly hyped release of Spotify Wrapped today had me thinking about year-end traditions. This time of year is all...

Spotify’s Wrapped launched early on Wednesday, December 3, to great fanfare as untold numbers of people opened the Spotify apps on their smartphones...

Perpetually understaffed and overworked, nonprofits are more often than not stuck in a manpower deficiency. If you work for or volunteer for a...

ChatGPT has been on a tear recently, adding apps that appear in the chat window, in-app shopping, and Spotify integration. OpenAI also launched...

Who knows how long this deal will stick around before it goes rotten? Cyber Monday is over. Every year, several sales-crazed retailers let their Cyber...

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...

Get ’em hooked, and then nudge them onto a payment plan. That’s been the business model of salespeople for generations, from the pigs-in-a-blanket...

Even though ChatGPT has captured household recognition among generative AIs, as Uber and Netflix have for ride-sharing and TV streaming, there are...

“Why did it look so much better on the retail store’s floor than in my living room?” You’re not the only person to have thought that after...

There aren’t all that many opportunities to pick up all the necessary components for a Sonos five-channel sound system when they’re all on sale....

The AirPods Pro 3 have only been on the market for two months, so it hasn’t been altogether unreasonable that they’ve plodded along at their full...

Even those not old enough to have grown up with a Commodore 64 in the household (or the neighbor’s household) have heard the name bandied about over...

Camp Snap calls it their Black Friday sale, their biggest sale of the season. They’re $10 off, which may sound fairly weak after Camp Snap’s brag,...

Not often do I see sales for Camp Snap’s products. More often, I see them sold out, even at full retail price. When Camp Snap launched the Kodak...

Most word processors are too busy for my liking. Too many buttons on too many toolbars. When I’m putting together a deeply intimate piece of...

Not a day goes by that I don’t get in a verbal spat with the bodiless, soulless, guileless Google Assistant that lives inside the Google Nest Hub...

This Apple ad isn’t the first time somebody has shot something on an iPhone that looked quite good, a far cry from the earlier days of digital...

OpenAI pushed through an update to ChatGPT that erases one of the borders that had kept it from being a truly seamless experience. As OpenAI tries to...

You’ve got two wheels and all the freedom to decide how they take you to where you need to go. But what about when you want to bring back a load of...
