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Why a Suspension Seatpost Is Worth It for Your Ebike

Got a bike without suspension that feels like it’s going to shatter your butt every time you go over a pothole or a tree root? You can’t feasibly...

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Matt Jancer

Do You Need a Dedicated IP If You Already Use a VPN?

Dedicated IPs are here, everyone. Not all that many virtual private network (VPN) services offer it yet, but more are beginning to fold it into their...

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Matt Jancer

We’re Still Waiting on the Juiced Bikes Revival From Lectric

This one’s a bit of old news. In fact, I’ve been waiting for most of 2025 to hear more word about what Lectric Bikes plans to do with its new...

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Matt Jancer

What Happens When Lab Mice Are Released Into the Wild?

It’s refreshing to see an experiment that didn’t involve poking or injecting mice to change them internally. Instead, scientists decided to do...

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Matt Jancer

Someone in New York Recreated the ‘Christmas Vacation’ House’s Insane Light Show

Heck yeah, Jason Orsini, of Smithtown, New York. Not only does my birthplace have Melissa Joan Hart to its credit, but it also has a near-perfect...

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Matt Jancer

You Can Dress ‘Skelly’ Up Like a Ken Doll All Year Long

Skelly might be a 12-foot-tall tower of plastic bones, but he’s a one-trick pony. Home Depot only sells the gigantic decoration in advance of...

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Matt Jancer

Why Doesn’t LEGO Make a New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Set?

LEGO makes a set for practically everything. Why not the New Year’s Eve ball drop? New Year’s Eve is kind of an annual s—t show when it comes to...

yesterday 10

Matt Jancer

How NORAD Accidentally Created Its Annual Santa Tracker

Every year on Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) mission shifts from “blow s—t up” to “glow s—t up”...

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Matt Jancer

Rad Power Bikes Files for Bankruptcy

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...

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Matt Jancer

Study Finds Touchscreens in Cars Are Distracting, Shockingly

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....

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Matt Jancer

Google’s Gemini 3 Flash Is Smart, Fast, and Weirdly Dishonest

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...

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Matt Jancer

You Can Still Search DuckDuckGo Without AI. Here’s How to Do It.

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...

tuesday 20

Matt Jancer

Someone Made a Robot Act Out a Scene From ‘Love Actually’. This Is Where We Are Now.

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...

tuesday 10

Matt Jancer

3 More Ebike Sales for the Holidays

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...

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Matt Jancer

3 Notable Ebike Brands That Closed Recently

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,...

20.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

You’ve Got Two Days Left to Order a Camp Snap for Christmas Delivery

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

20.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Claude AI Just Launched a Chrome Browser Extension

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

20.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

Build LEGO’s 3,171-Piece Christmas Tree, If You Dare

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

20.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Warner Bros. Board Rejects Paramount Takeover Bid as Shareholders Weigh $72B Netflix Decision

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...

18.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

There’s Now an App Store for This Robot

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...

18.12.2025 6

Matt Jancer

This Is Why You Might Want a New Internet Browser

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

17.12.2025 6

Matt Jancer

The Spotify Wrapped-Esque ‘Year in Review’ Stuff Is Getting Ridiculous

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...

17.12.2025 6

Matt Jancer

The Lectric XP4 Ebike Is a Lot of Bang for Your Buck

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...

16.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

A Week With DuckDuckGo as My Search Engine

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

13.12.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Ads Are Coming to AI. Eventually.

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...

13.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

You Can Now Get Adobe Apps on ChatGPT. Here’s How to Do It.

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...

13.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

7 Classic Christmas Movies You Can Stream Right Now

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...

13.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

The YouTube App on Your TV Just Got a Much-Needed Upgrade

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...

13.12.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Meta Is Going to Start Using Your Interactions to Train Its AI

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...

12.12.2025 10

Matt Jancer

ChatGPT Has Seen a Blitz of New Releases Lately. Here’s Another.

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...

12.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

How to Get 4 Months of Spotify Premium for Free

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....

10.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

Broken Copy/Paste in Google Docs on Firefox? Here’s an Easy Fix.

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...

09.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

You Can Watch Music Videos on Spotify Now

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...

09.12.2025 10

Matt Jancer

These Robot Dogs Wear Billionaire Masks and Poop Out NFTs. Because 2025 Is a Fever Dream.

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...

06.12.2025 20

Matt Jancer

Netflix Acquires Warner Bros., Including Discovery and HBO, in $72 Billion Deal

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...

06.12.2025 2

Matt Jancer

Logitech CEO Says Many AI-Powered Gadgets Are Unnecessary—And He’s Right

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...

06.12.2025 4

Matt Jancer

This CD Player Is Better Than Anything We Had in the ’90s

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...

05.12.2025 20

Matt Jancer

The DaVinci Electric Guitar Is a Chameleon That Can Change Colors

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....

04.12.2025 6

Matt Jancer

The 17 Best Apps of 2025, According to Apple

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...

04.12.2025 7

Matt Jancer

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Has Landed

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...

04.12.2025 20

Matt Jancer

What the Heck Is Spotify Wrapped’s New Social Feature, Party?

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

04.12.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Nonprofits Can Get AI for Big Discounts: Here’s How

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

03.12.2025 5

Matt Jancer

OpenAI’s ‘Code Red’ About ChatGPT Sounds Pretty Mild, Actually

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

03.12.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Apple Just Knocked $150 Off the iPad Mini—Grab One Before Cyber Monday Ends

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...

02.12.2025 3

Matt Jancer

The Best Dumbphones (for Smarter Phone Use)

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...

02.12.2025 10

Matt Jancer

OpenAI and Google Just Increased Daily Usage Limits for Their Non-Paying AI Users

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...

01.12.2025 10

Matt Jancer

Anthropic Finally Launches Claude Opus 4.5 AI

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

01.12.2025 9

Matt Jancer

Why TV Brightness Is Not Your Best Friend: A Breakdown

“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...

01.12.2025 5

Matt Jancer

Sonos’ Cheaper Surround Sound Speakers Just Got Even Cheaper (For Now)

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....

30.11.2025 10

Matt Jancer

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Are Finally on a Real 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...

30.11.2025 10

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