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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Something funny happened this week. After a firmware release initially set to go public on Monday, a release that would bring lossless audio and...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
There have been numerous complaints about poor battery life on the Philips Hue Secure Camera for a while, with customers’ experiences falling far...
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...
Sad face! Or more accurately: colon, parenthesis! You’ve done fucked up. What, you never used Windows before? If you were a dedicated Windows user...
Rejoice, I guess. Google, owner of Fitbit and a fair chunk of the rest of the world has deemed your mere mortal ass worthy of an extension on that...
How much of a premium would you pay to tap twice? $120 sound about right? That’s the cost difference of leaping up to the Kindle Paperwhite...
Finally, Google’s newest phone has a release date: Thursday, April 10 for the US, UK, and Canada. Europe gets it on April 14, and then it arrives in...
I’d bet the muckety-mucks at Garmin are still wondering where it all went wrong. It seemed like a relatively mild company move, no? Introduce a...
The earliest indications that something is off with Samsung Galaxy Watches’ sleep tracking popped up in Korean on a Samsung community forum earlier...
Big Tech, from smartphone manufacturers to app developers, have gotten so good at gaming humankind’s propensity toward addictive behaviors that they...
Seriously, are you all right, Apple? You’ve been hitting the sales on relatively new devices pretty hard for a few years now, which was already out...
Gotta shoot something, but don’t have a bunch of cash to make it happen? Canon’s EOS R50, introduced back in 2023, has been at the top of the heap...
Yes, that Severance. The one all your friends can’t stop talking about. The show that, along with White Lotus, has brought back an echo of the water...
There’s a lot of stuff on Amazon. Dunk that into the basket of the most understated statements of 2025. Even though Amazon itself stocks “just”...
What a leap backward in terms of privacy and security. Switzerland is mulling changes to its notoriously privacy-oriented digital security laws that...
Bach, Bach, Bach it up. Have you been missing out on more than five million classical songs on the app, Apple Music Classical? Apple calls it the...
Just days before he was due to be selected as a contender for president of Turkey, Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul from the secular Republican...
How much of an Apple aficionado are you? Enough to swear off the superior Fuji and eat only McIntosh apples? Got a Fathead of Steve Woz on your...
Google’s Pixel phone lineup may not sell in the numbers of its prime competition, the Samsung Galaxy and Apple iPhone, but they offer a pure Android...
Apple Music has been offering lossless audio for nearly four years, but its own premium headphones have been locked out of the experience and limited...
Remember that time you spit in a tube and mailed it? For science, people. I don’t want to know about any other purposes for which you may have done...
No big surprise here. Dictatorships hate human rights, chief among them privacy. As the Russian news agency Interfax reported in December 2024, Russia...
Nothing lights up the synapses of my Millennial brain than hearing the bizarrely catchy, awkwardly upbeat theme song that kicks in as the disparate...
Ever heard of the Streisand effect? Back in 2003, a photographer took an aerial shot of actress Barbara Streisand’s beachfront Malibu home to...
Hear me out. Yes, the MacBook Air M4 just released this month, and yes, the MacBook Air M3 was last year’s model. That makes the MacBook Air M2 a...
Everybody’s got ’em. AirPods, that is. And while Apple’s wireless earbuds are very good, they also reserve some of their best features for users...
Despite my reliance over the recent years upon Apple, Samsung, HTC, Google, and Motorola, one common thread among them has been that as soon as I...
Normal iPad too big for ya? Try out the iPad Mini. Its 8.3″-screen reduces the overall dimensions so that most people can more comfortably stash it...
Not even two weeks ago, TCL launched the QM7K. It’s too early to see the expected price drop common to TCLs after they’ve been on sale for a few...
Too good for its own good. Fujifilm has been a darling of the photography world for years now, ever since it introduced the original FinePix X100 14...
We all knew it was coming, but we just got the deets on the dates. Amazon’s annual Spring Sale runs this year from Tuesday, March 25 to Monday,...
It looks great from its initial coming-out party. Held just yesterday, Google unveiled the Pixel 9a to approving fanfare across the web, with its...
Everything that’s old comes back into fashion. Elephant-leg jeans, tie-dye shirts. Now it’s Pebble smartwatches. They’re back, and their...
Pity the poor, $599 iPhone 16e. All that hype over the past year, and when it was announced exactly one month ago, it landed like a ham dropped out of...
Google’s AI voice assistant never got the love or household name recognition that Siri and Alexa got. For one, its name was Google Assistant. What...
Having grown up in Hurricane Alley, I’ve weathered a few storms and stayed up plenty of nights (and some subsequent days) with no power, huddled...
You know watermarks. Those translucent marks splashed over images that look like, well, like somebody wrote or drew with droplets of water. They’re...
Who can resist the countdown clock? Not a tech journo, not a tech-savvy early adopter. It’s like one of those big, inflatable gorillas outside a...
When Apple released the iPhone 16 last September, many took the bait and ordered one. Many balked, though. Given that it’s a $799 phone, you’d be...
Right off the bat, I’ll say I haven’t tested this yet. It just came out yesterday, and as much as I’d like to overnight a TV and stay up all...