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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 3

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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

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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...

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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 4

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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 4

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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The Commodore 64 Is Coming Back. Again.

Even those not old enough to have grown up with a Commodore 64 in the household (or the neighbor’s household) have heard the name bandied about over...

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Camp Snap’s Trendy Screenless Point-And-Shoot Camera Is on Sale for Black Friday

Camp Snap calls it their Black Friday sale, their biggest sale of the season. They’re $10 off, which may sound fairly weak after Camp Snap’s brag,...

28.11.2025 3

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The Retro-Style Camp Snap CS-8 Is $20 Off for Black Friday

Not often do I see sales for Camp Snap’s products. More often, I see them sold out, even at full retail price. When Camp Snap launched the Kodak...

28.11.2025 4

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A Look at Highland Pro, One of My Favorite Distraction-Free Writing Apps

Most word processors are too busy for my liking. Too many buttons on too many toolbars. When I’m putting together a deeply intimate piece of...

28.11.2025 5

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Gemini Is Set to Replace Google Assistant on Android Auto Soon

Not a day goes by that I don’t get in a verbal spat with the bodiless, soulless, guileless Google Assistant that lives inside the Google Nest Hub...

28.11.2025 4

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Apple’s New All-Puppet Holiday Ad Is Pretty Cute

This Apple ad isn’t the first time somebody has shot something on an iPhone that looked quite good, a far cry from the earlier days of digital...

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OpenAI Updated ChatGPT’s Voice Inputs. Does It Change That Much?

OpenAI pushed through an update to ChatGPT that erases one of the borders that had kept it from being a truly seamless experience. As OpenAI tries to...

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How to Add Storage to Your Bike: A Guide

You’ve got two wheels and all the freedom to decide how they take you to where you need to go. But what about when you want to bring back a load of...

27.11.2025 3

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Ready for an Android PC? Here’s What You Can Expect.

Almost a year ago to the day, Android Authority broke an exclusive story on Google’s drive to replace ChromeOS with an Android-based operating...

27.11.2025 3

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How to Donate Your Used Electronics

Congratulations on that new purchase. Your new smartphone, television, tablet—whatever—is really swell. Now you’re left with a now-obsolete...

27.11.2025 4

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Meta Is Offering Some People a Trade-in Offer on Meta AI Glasses

Those who add a pair of Meta AI glasses, either Ray-Ban (except the Ray-Ban Display) or Oakley, may see a trade-in offer pop up in their cart. I hedge...

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You Can Hire Real Humans to Scrub Your Personal Data off the Internet With DeleteMe

Ever Google yourself? Of course you have. Lots of intimate details pop up, don’t they? Things like your birthday, place of birth, past addresses,...

26.11.2025 4

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Give Up the Backpack While Biking. Use Pannier Bags Instead.

You know that rear cargo rack that, if you bought a bike in the past few years, probably came with your bike? It’s not for putting cargo or bags on...

25.11.2025 3

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How to Store a Bike in Your Apartment

The worst roommate I ever had was a 50-pound ebike I was testing for a couple of weeks. At the time, I was living on the third floor of a walk-up...

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More Android Phones Will Soon Work With iPhone AirDrop

That didn’t take long. It’s been just four days since I reported on Google’s surprise announcement that Google Pixel 10 devices would integrate...

25.11.2025 3

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What’s a VPN?

You don’t have to be James Bond to benefit from beefing up your online security. Privacy ought to be enshrined as a basic human more widely, and...

24.11.2025 10

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The Easter Eggs of Roku City

Ever been to Roku City? If you have a Roku TV or Roku streaming device, then Roku City has been to you. Right there in your TV screen, that cityscape...

24.11.2025 10

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Roku Ultra 4K vs. Apple TV 4K

Apple versus Roku. I’ve covered Apple versus Apple, and Roku versus Roku, but I’ve yet to give the Apple TV 4K and Roku Ultra 4K their own...

24.11.2025 2

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The Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Is on Sale Early for Black Friday

Meta’s Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets don’t go on sale as often as I’d like. Sales on the two newest models, the Quest 3 and Quest 3S, are...

23.11.2025 4

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The Best TV Streaming Box Just Tied Its Lowest-Ever Price

There are several reasons why, after testing all the top 4K-capable TV streaming boxes on the market, I crowned the Roku Ultra 4K the best overall....

23.11.2025 3

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Amazon’s Best Fire TV Streaming Stick Is on Its Best Sale of the Year

Amazon’s early Black Friday deal on the Fire TV Stick 4K Max puts me in a bit of a funny spot, although not a spot I’m unaccustomed to occupying....

23.11.2025 3

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Confused by Roku’s Streaming Device Lineup? Here They All Are.

I’m rather fond of Roku’s TV streaming devices. Of the three awards I gave in my guide to the best streaming devices, I plopped Rokus onto the...

23.11.2025 5

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The Sonos Ace Headphones Are on an Early Black Friday Sale

Sonos has gone a bit crazy with the deals this year, even compared to last year. While the pickings were ok in 2024, the early Black Friday deals...

21.11.2025 5

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Paramount+’s One-Week Free Trial Is Back, Baby

Watching TV and movies has only gotten more expensive over the course of the year. The landscape is more fractured than ever, and so it’s not...

21.11.2025 4

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Android’s Quick Share Now Works With Apple’s AirDrop

Androids and iPhones have never gotten along. They each had their own corner of the consumer playground and stayed there. If you wanted to share a...

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Sonos Has a Killer Early Black Friday Sale on Surround Sound System Speakers

You can’t buy a complete Sonos sound system in one kit, but you can buy the Sonos speakers separately to create a sound system. Deals on Sonos...

20.11.2025 5

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Looking for a Cheap Pair of Indoor Security Cameras? TP-Link Has a Deal.

Since when did indoor security cameras get so expensive? The more I look around the market these days, and the number of them going for over $100 per...

20.11.2025 5

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First Impressions of Trying Spotify’s New “Fewer Repeats” Shuffle Mode

So much better. Such was my immediate thought when trying out Spotify’s tweak to its shuffle mode. Count me among the people who’ve long...

20.11.2025 8

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X.Com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN

Regular folks use virtual private networks (VPNs) to keep themselves safe from online data thieves, hackers, snoops, and crooks. Those who live, work,...

19.11.2025 10

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61 Organizations Tell World Governments to Get the Hell Off Encryption’s Back

Consumer encryption and privacy protections are under attack, with a number of European governments weakening laws that guarantee anonymity online....

19.11.2025 5

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You Can Upgrade Your Old, Cheap Roku to a Better Remote

Among all the streaming TV devices, Roku makes my favorite remote controls. They’re ergonomic and comfortable to use while you’re staring at the...

19.11.2025 4

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Google Figured Out Each State’s Ideal Time to Do Your Holiday Shopping

Procrastinators hate this time of year. Or if it doesn’t color their entire year, it at least colors their view of shopping for gifts. I know...

19.11.2025 3

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Google Awards the 10 Best Android Apps of 2025

Another year nearly gone as we head into the tail end of November. Everybody’s attention has turned toward that annual holiday, the most American of...

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