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Did You Know You Can Get Prescription Lenses for the Meta Quest?

“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...

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The Cheapest Way to Stream Every NFL Football Game

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...

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Is Your House Wyze Enough to Read Your Palms? This Door Lock Is.

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...

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You Can Now Upgrade Your iPhone to Liquid Glass

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...

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U.S. and China Reportedly Strike Outline of a TikTok Deal

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...

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The Apple Watch’s New Update Will Alert You to High Blood Pressure

Medical professionals call hypertension the silent killer. “Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, and many don’t know it,”...

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Signal Is Giving You 100MB of Free, Secure Cloud Storage

You know Signal, right? Used by protesters fighting the good fight and government employees spilling the good tea, the app is a decentralized,...

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Apple TV+ Has a Bunch of Shows Premiering in September & October

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...

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The Complete Primer to Sonos Sound Systems

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...

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How to Build a Budget Sonos Surround Sound System

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...

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The 3 Best Point-And-Shoot Cameras for Under $1K

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...

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The 5 Best Digital Photo Frames on the Market Right Now

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...

13.09.2025 4

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The 3 Best Party Cameras to Live Out Your ’90s Dreams

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...

12.09.2025 4

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What’s a TKL Mechanical Keyboard, and Should You Get One?

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...

12.09.2025 4

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The Totally Totable Ricoh’s GR IV Street Camera Is Now Available

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,...

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The 2 Best Point-and-Shoot Cameras That Don’t Cost a Fortune

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...

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3 White Noise Machines That Will Make You Sleep Like a Baby

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...

12.09.2025 4

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Proton VPN Is on a Damn Good Sale at More Than Half Off

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...

11.09.2025 4

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Sign Up for Walmart+, Get Peacock or Paramount+ for Free

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...

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Hackers Can Now Penetrate Your Apple Calendar. Here’s How to Spot the Scam.

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...

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Hey, QUIC! Check Out This New VPN Feature to Avoid VPN Blocks.

Nearly half of Americans use a virtual private network (VPN), and despite that—or perhaps because of it—companies, organizations, and governments...

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Today’s Moon Phase: September 10, 2025

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,...

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Wanna Stream the MLS Cup Playoffs for $25? Apple TV Has a 70% Off Deal.

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...

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Say Hola, Bebé to 20% Off the Pimsleur Language Learning App

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...

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The Samsung Galaxy Buds3 FE’s Coolest Feature Is Real-Time Translation

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...

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Get in the Loop. I Finally Found a Good Pair of Reusable Earplugs.

Tinnitus sucks. Take it from me, sufferer of childhood ear infections, rider of loud-ass motorcycles, and enjoyer of loud rock concerts and hockey...

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Apple Reportedly Wants to Launch a ChatGPT Competitor Next Year

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,...

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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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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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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

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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