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Amazon Wants to Do All Your Shopping for You—Even on Other Websites

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...

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SurfShark VPN Is as Low as $2 a Month Right Now

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....

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US Government Delays TikTok Ban… Again

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...

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Kindle’s New Recaps Give AI-Generated Reminders of Book Series Events

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...

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NordPass Released the 200 Most Used Passwords. People Really Pick These?

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...

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Apple’s AirPods Max Lossless Update Actually Works Now

Something funny happened this week. After a firmware release initially set to go public on Monday, a release that would bring lossless audio and...

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This ‘Deal’ on a MacBook Air M3 Isn’t a Good Deal at All

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...

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These Device Skins Let You Touch Grass Without Going Outside

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...

02.04.2025 2

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Zelle Shut Down Its Money-Swapping App

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,...

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Early Access Alexa+ Is Here, and It’s Only a Half-Promise Half-Fulfilled

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...

02.04.2025 3

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iOS 19 Rumored to Leave the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max Behind

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...

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Philips Hue Cameras Are Getting a Free Update to Improve Battery Life

There have been numerous complaints about poor battery life on the Philips Hue Secure Camera for a while, with customers’ experiences falling far...

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Another TikTok Ban Is Just Days Away

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...

31.03.2025 3

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Microsoft Is Killing Windows’ Blue Screen of Death

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...

31.03.2025 3

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Google Will Let You Keep Your Fitbit Account Until 2026

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...

31.03.2025 3

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Double-Tap Page Turns Are Now Available on Kindle—But There’s a Catch

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...

29.03.2025 3

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The Google Pixel 9a Finally Got a Release Date

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...

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Garmin Ticked Off Smartwatch Users With Its New Subscription Fee

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...

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How to Fix the Samsung Galaxy Watch’s Sleep Tracking Problem

The earliest indications that something is off with Samsung Galaxy Watches’ sleep tracking popped up in Korean on a Samsung community forum earlier...

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Light Phone III, a Premium Dumb Phone, Now Available for Preorder

Big Tech, from smartphone manufacturers to app developers, have gotten so good at gaming humankind’s propensity toward addictive behaviors that they...

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The New Apple iPad Is on Sale Just 2 Weeks After Release

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...

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Canon Announces EOS R50 V Camera for Vloggers on a Budget

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...

28.03.2025 4

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C’mon Apple, Sell the Lumon Terminal Pro From ‘Severance’ for Real!

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...

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Amazon Unleashes ‘Interests’ AI-Powered Shopping Tool

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”...

27.03.2025 2

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Switzerland Mulls Law Change That Threaten Swiss VPNs’ Privacy

What a leap backward in terms of privacy and security. Switzerland is mulling changes to its notoriously privacy-oriented digital security laws that...

27.03.2025 2

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Apple Music Classical (Yes, Really) Just Got 3 New Features

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...

27.03.2025 2

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Turkey’s Social Media Ban Was Lifted, but Citizens Are Sticking With VPNs

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...

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Anker’s 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 25% Off on Amazon

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...

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Google Pixel 9 Pro $250 Off for Amazon’s Spring Sale

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...

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Lossless Audio Coming to AirPods Max (But Only If You Use a Cable)

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...

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23andMe Just Went Bankrupt. Delete Your Data Before They Sell It.

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...

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Russia Is Working Harder to Take Down VPNs

No big surprise here. Dictatorships hate human rights, chief among them privacy. As the Russian news agency Interfax reported in December 2024, Russia...

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Wake Up to The Office’s Theme Song With a Hatch Sunrise Alarm Clock

Nothing lights up the synapses of my Millennial brain than hearing the bizarrely catchy, awkwardly upbeat theme song that kicks in as the disparate...

25.03.2025 5

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Meta Tries to Kill Damning Tell-All Book, Accidentally Promotes It to Bestseller

Ever heard of the Streisand effect? Back in 2003, a photographer took an aerial shot of actress Barbara Streisand’s beachfront Malibu home to...

22.03.2025 4

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Want a New MacBook Air M2 for $750? Grab It Now, Because They’re Going Fast

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...

22.03.2025 5

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Sick of AirPods? Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 Earbuds Are Cheaper Now Than Ever.

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...

22.03.2025 5

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Anker’s Newest USB-C Charger Is Fast, Cheap, and Pocket-Sized

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...

22.03.2025 5

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Apple’s Newest iPad Mini Is $100 Off Ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale

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...

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Should You Get a TCL QM7K or Last Year’s Much Cheaper QM7?

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...

21.03.2025 4

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Where to Find the Fujifilm X100VI for Sale

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...

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Amazon Spring Sale Starts March 25

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,...

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Google Pixel 9a Delayed Over ‘Component Quality Issue’

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...

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Everything You Need to Know About the New Pebble Smartwatches That Just Launched

Everything that’s old comes back into fashion. Elephant-leg jeans, tie-dye shirts. Now it’s Pebble smartwatches. They’re back, and their...

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The Google Pixel 9a Is the Budget Powerhouse the iPhone 16e Wished It Was

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...

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Hello Gemini, Goodbye Google Assistant

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...

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Sick of Power Outages? Back Up Your Whole House with the Mesh Home Battery

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...

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Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Can Remove Watermarks. It’s a Nightmare for Copyright Enforcement.

You know watermarks. Those translucent marks splashed over images that look like, well, like somebody wrote or drew with droplets of water. They’re...

18.03.2025 4

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Pebble Smartwatch Relaunch Likely Set for March 18

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...

18.03.2025 7

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Get Up to 4 iPhone 16s to Switch if You Open a New Line at T-Mobile

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...

15.03.2025 4

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TCL Launched the QM7K, the Next Contender for Best-Value 4K TV

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...

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