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Update: Nothing has removed Nothing Chats from the Play Store and has delayed its launch due to “several bugs." However, Sunbird itself sent a notification to its users citing security concerns—the app isn't end-to-end encrypted as the company claimed. Having predominantly used Android phones, I am far too familiar with …

Sonos makes some of our favorite speakers and soundbars—we've tested all of them and have yet to find one we dislike. These devices are expensive, but the good news is that Black Friday Sonos deals launched earlier this week and they're still going strong through Cyber Monday. You can snag …

Remember how it felt the first time you played Dungeons & Dragons? The first time you felt that creative spark of being part of a collective storytelling experience? You and your friends were each equal parts author and reader of a living, breathing story that existed only at that table, …

Earlier this week Amanda McCellon, a city government worker and community organizer in the greater Oklahoma City metropolitical area, finally decided to pray to the algorithm. “Dear Algorithm,” began her post on Threads, Meta’s newish Twitter clone. From there, McCellon asked to be connected with 10 topics and like-minded folks …

As a professional product reviewer, I’m skeptical of every product on the internet. So many companies invent a problem that nobody has ever had, just so they can sell you something to solve it. Have you ever tried to blend gallons of liquid with the lid off, or tried to …

I have an unreasonable obsession with finding the ideal forms and locations for convenient phone charging. But most charging stations can't meet my impossibly high standards. I want to be able to charge my phone without getting tangled in a mess of cables. That's it. Wireless charging is one answer. …

“Cyber” is such a quaint word these days, a throwback to the ‘90s when we’d surf the world wide web and hang out in chat rooms trading X-Files theories. Don't let the phrasing throw you off. When we say there are some seriously good Home Depot Cyber Monday deals for …

In October 2016, a malware tool named Mirai took down some of the biggest sites and services on the web, including Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, and Slack. The blackout affected most of the East Coast of the United States, and the size and scope of the outage alarmed the cybersecurity …

Good news is coming to your group chat. Today, Apple said it will add support for the RCS messaging standard to the iPhone. The website 9to5Mac broke the news that Apple will release a software update some time next year that will bring support to iOS for the messaging standard, …

In the world of audio, drivers aren’t people behind steering wheels, they’re the tiny objects that physically produce sound. These tiny speakers come in many forms, from piston-like dynamic drivers you’d recognize as miniature speaker cones to more advanced forms of, essentially, magnetically moving a diaphragm in the air to …