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At this point we’re well on our way to Prime Week. Amazon Prime Day returns later this month, and it looks like Amazon has found a way to break time...
True to Polaroid’s nature, Polaroid announced a new camera on the same day that it went on sale. An hour ago nobody even knew the Go Gen 3 was in...
Valve may be having a splendid time or a gut-wrenching time, depending on your view of things. Its handheld Steam Deck is a runaway success, so much...
AI is working hard at making it hard for you to tell it’s AI at all. College essays, news articles, scam emails. AI-written prose masquerading as...
Like the movies, James Bond video games of late have had a so-so run of mixed reviews. And very much like the movies, the last nearly universally...
Anytime somebody asks me my favorite video game console of all time, I don’t hesitate for a second. It’s the Sega Genesis. It was peak ’90s. Now...
When it comes to flossing, I’d be willing to bet that two things are true for just about anyone. One, your dentist urges you to floss more...
The Disney tent is large and expansive. ESPN, ABC, Hulu, FX, National Geographics. All of it is owned by Disney, and the House of Mouse isn’t...
“Due to a global chip shortage (thanks AI), inventory is limited.” So reads the jarring, red-and-white banner that runs across the top of the Camp...
One of the complaints I’d heard repeatedly since the original Oura Ring debuted in 2015 is that it’s a chunk, far larger than a normal band and...
We were stuck between two worlds in our junior year of high school. Not yet seniors who were allowed to drive off campus to lunch, but no longer...
Think you’re safe and breathing pure, clean air inside your own home? Hah. Think again, my pollution-huffing friend. Homes are way leakier than...
For nine years Sony has welcomed spring with a wide-ranging PlayStation sales event. I’m talking true spring, when it begins to warm up and people...
Fitbit had been a bit of a moribund brand lately. Its last fitness tracker—they’re not really jack-of-all-trades smartwatches—was the Fitbit...
I suppose I have KLM and a far-off airport to thank for my new Braun Series 9 Pro beard trimmer. I wouldn’t have bought it if KLM hadn’t lost my...
What’s all this outdoor garbage doing floating around in your home, your safe space, your refuge, your castle? Do you really not mind that even when...
You know the drill. You’ve seen the advertisements on TV, and maybe even had a parent go through the whole process in your younger days. For years...
It’s a great time to replace your laptop. Apple plops down a bushel of affordable new MacBooks in the spring, typically with improved speed and...
One quarter of you reading this have seasonal allergies. I can tell not just by the CDC’s own survey, but also by the fact that your screen is...
Caleb Schomo, frontman for Ohio metalcore outfit Beartooth, has come out as gay. Along with his announcement, his wife of 14 years, Fleur Shomo,...
Maybe you live a life of ups and downs. And by that I mean your bike your way around a city that’s built over lumpy hills. Or, you simply like...
Hate to break it to you, but the air inside your home isn’t all that different from the air outside your home. You know, with all that pollution...
A guy shared a way to remote control his Bambu Labs 3D printer, and Bambu went full Tony Soprano on him. No, they didn’t break his legs or feed...
Every vlogger is excited about the April 2026 launch of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4, the latest release of the heavyweight, de facto standard 4K video...
Valve’s Steam Deck has been rarer than hen’s teeth ever since the global RAM shortage has made shortages and price hikes of computer hardware a...
You’ve got the big-screen-sportin’, Dolby Atmos-havin’ 4K TV, but what’s the point of spending all that dough if you’re going to play all...
Ever since Google became the dominant search engine around the turn of the millennium, it’s functioned in more or less the same way. You type your...
It’s a classic and (nearly?) universally beloved miniature ritual at parties, park hangs, zoo visits, backyard barbecues, beach vacations, and...
Nintendo had been teasing this one for the past week, saying that we could expect to see it hit retail shelves in early June, but it looks like this...
It isn’t just a certain honey-haired burglar child who argues that aiming for the middle of whatever is the way to go. Middle-of-the-range is often...
You know the lyrics. I’m talking about the piña colada song, and its real title is Escape, by the way. Even if you find piña coladas repulsive...
The Mac isn’t that bad of a gaming platform anymore. For the 2000s until the 2020s it was an afterthought. PC gaming ruled on Microsoft’s Windows...
Ebikes exist on a continuum of those wishing to be as close to an analog bike as possible and those who’ve given up entirely on the facade. These...
Your TV just hangs there on the wall when it’s not in use. Off, a blank black slab of thin glass that screams to every bystander, “Hey, I’m a...
I called it “2025’s weirdest camera” when it launched in June 2025. Fujifilm’s X Half was nothing like the Fujifilm X1000. The latter is a...
You’ve got the 4K TV. You even made sure to check that the movie you’re going to fire up says “4K” on it. You’re about to ease back into...
Nearly half of Americans are using a virtual private network (VPN) to maintain their privacy online. I know. It can feel like a pointless endeavor...
New York City’s Times Square is magical and all, but I typically quicken my pace when I’m forced to walk through it, rather like the way in which...
Ever wish you could basically wear Boba Fett’s helmet on your head and go about your daily life? You know he was listening to music and podcasts in...
It’s not particularly fragile, the screenless Camp Snap digital camera. I know because I got it in my grubby mitts shortly after it blew up huge on...
Despite the fact that it’s been years since I had a device that could gobble one up and play it, I’ve held onto my two enormous, Weimaraner-sized...
My friends and family like to tease me that I spend my vacation in (at least in their eyes) very un-relaxing ways. To me, there’s no better way to...
Hand it to the Fujifilm X100. That series, released in its initial iteration way back in 2010, didn’t invent the fixed-lens digital camera, but it...
Who knows when I first downloaded Spotify. Whenever it was, the date was lost the the cobwebs of history inside my faulty mind. Neither can I remember...
Cutting the cord—you know, ditching cable or satellite TV—is a relief because it frees you not just from contracts but it also frees you from...
You want a smartphone for cheap, but you don’t want a cheap smartphone. As in you don’t want a piece of crap just because you want to spend well...
LEGO’s wasting no time mining the 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Yes, it’s really been a quarter of a...
Nowhere is Apple’s tendency toward word salad in product names more apparent than in the MacBook Pro family of laptops, which sits above the MacBook...
My career as an ebike tester stretches back to the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. I was living in New York City, ebikes had exploded in...
End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram is dead as of today, Friday, May 8, 2026. It showed up as a whisper, a mere murmuring that Instagram...