With remote work now more normalized than ever, speakerphones like the AnkerWork S600 can be a solid way to improve the quality of audio calls no matter your environment.…
I may have cooled off on my Pop-Tart coverage lately, but that doesn’t mean the jam-filled breakfast pastry has been sleeping.…
I still listen to radio at my desk, like an absolute freak. Yes, I know that streaming apps exist—I also use Spotify every day.…
Cardio is incredibly important for all of us. It’s the bedrock of the physical activity guidelines for health, and if you already strength train, adding in cardio will make you healthier in general and better at the stuff in the gym that you care about.…
ChatGPT Plugins were a great addition to the ChatGPT Plus plan: They acted like browser extensions for ChatGPT, adding third-party functionality to the chatbot that OpenAI didn't build in itself.…
Busy airports and flight delays are expected parts of traveling, and both can cause major headaches. Apps can help you work around some of these issues, but if you use iMessage, you actually don’t need an airline app, a flight tracking app, or even the ability to Google to figure out if your flight is running behind schedule.…
Apple Notes is a great app for jotting your thoughts down. It ships with your iPhone, reliably syncs across Apple devices, has great features like sharing, and best of all—it's free.…
Hotels can be stingy about what guests are allowed to do with their TVs. If you try to plug your own device into your room’s TV to watch your own content, odds are good that nothing will happen.…
Notetaking Jedis know the power of organization. Creating a system for your Google Keep notes isn't any different, even if the sticky notes app doesn't have an obvious tier of folders and sub-folders.…
If you want to get a movie or TV show up on a big screen, or beam music wirelessly to a speaker, then the Chromecast standard is one of the best ways to go about it: It couldn't be much simpler to use, it works across a host of devices and apps, and you can even use it to mirror browser tabs and Android screens.…
It may not come as a surprise that there’s yet another scrumptious morsel you can easily whip up with the help of boxed pancake mix.…
Between shows like Finding Your Roots on PBS and the proliferation of companies like 23andMe, conversations about genealogy and family history have become mainstream—trendy, even.…
Anthropic is freeing its AI chatbot, Claude, from your desktop. The highly successful ChatGPT competitor has now made the jump to iOS, launching its first-ever official chatbot app for the iPhone.…
If you have limited space in your garden, you have to make hard decisions each year about what you’ll grow. The most important factor in choosing what to grow is what you like to eat.…
Gardeners always know their planting zone, and the local lore around the date it’s safe to plant outside. Around my parts, that’s Mothers Day.…
For traders looking to profit from a declining market, shorting exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and investing in inverse ETFs are two popular strategies.…
They're small, expensive, and hurt when stepped on. Yes, I am talking about LEGO, the construction set that, for 75 years, has sparked creativity in children and those who refuse to grow up—but you may not realize that LEGO isn't the only game in town.…
Of all the smart speakers made by Amazon, which are already relatively low priced, the Amazon Echo Pop is the most affordable.…
For years, the media has been warning me that artificial intelligence will soon take over my job. Several years later, I'm somehow still out here making a living as a writer, perhaps because AI can't always be trusted to do the job well.…
According to the rumor mill, Apple is poised to announce new iPads any day now, which often means it's the best time to pick up an older model.…
Unlike other smartphones from companies like Apple and Samsung, Google doesn't let you control the flashlight intensity of your Pixel. While that might mean the torch is a bit brighter than you may like in some cases, at least it's always as bright as can be, right?…
Coming soon to an Android phone call near you: a fart button.
As first reported by 9to5Google, Android users on the beta update channel are noticing a new menu in calls made with the Google Phone app.…
Tech-interested people and early adopters have been extremely hyped for portable/wearable AI assistants since the Humane AI pin was announced in 2023.…
Perhaps one of my biggest pet peeves about gaming laptops is how over-the-top they can look and feel. I get it.…
Once a simple social network for posting resumes and job listings and networking with peers, then a blog platform, and more recently an AI service, LinkedIn is now following in the footsteps of The New York Times in launching three new Wordle style daily puzzle games, which it no doubt fervently hopes will keep you coming back to the site at least that often.…
Telegram is one of the world's most popular messaging apps, but many of its privacy features, like end-to-end encrypted chats, aren't actually enabled by default.…
I get some recipe inspiration from food blogs and bizarre social media trends, but I have a particular fondness for poring through culinary magazines from other countries.…
If I seem to yap about the Pareto principle a lot, it’s only because it’s so widely applicable. Also known as the 80/20 rule, the principle essentially says that 80% of results come from 20% of your effort, which is valuable to keep in mind when planning your to-do list or studying for a test.…
We humans go to a lot of trouble to keep our plants healthy indoors. And while some of us often jokingly think of greenery as our “plant-babies,” plants and humans are very different organisms.…
You can get these Mezzo bone-conduction headphones on sale for $39.96 right now (reg. $69.95) using the promo code MEZZO. They rest over your ears while bone-conduction technology sends sound waves to your inner ear, allowing you to stay aware of your surroundings without disturbing anyone around you.…