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Never in my life did I think I'd own a home, but I was fortunate enough to close on my first house last fall. Yet as I moved into my new space—after nearly a decade of renting in New York City—I was overwhelmed with anxiety. Anything and everything that went …

Spring is in the air, and that means the fresh crop of 2024 TVs are getting ready to make their way out of the lab and into living rooms. In anticipation, Samsung offered reviewers like me an early look at some of its biggest models ahead of official release, including …

Should you fancy a wristwatch with Snoopy on it, you’re hardly short of options. Timex has an entire collection dedicated to the Peanuts gang, Seiko recently issued a breezy duo of Snoopy-adorned tickers, and Bamford London, a UK luxury watch brand, has a £1,700 ($2,240) GMT made as a collab …

Last week, the Biden administration made it official: American cars are really going electric. The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule, long in the works, that will require automakers selling in the United States to dramatically boost the number of battery-powered vehicles sold this decade, putting a serious dent …

After much teasing, yet landing earlier than suggested in Swatch’s print ads featuring the cartoon pooch’s paw print on the lunar surface, the much-awaited Snoopy MoonSwatch has dropped. Swatch is calling this latest collaboration with Omega the Mission to Moonphase. The new model is all white, to celebrate the full …

“The Neue Klasse is much more than just a car or a specific concept,” BMW chairman Oliver Zipse says. “It is redefining the BMW brand—and, at the same time, will be more BMW than ever.” Bear that in mind as you take in the Vision Neue Klasse X, a crisply …

Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration is aimed at content creators who want to collect videos of themselves driving. These systems typically enable one-click filming of a moving vehicle, with the action viewable live on the car's interior display as …

For the first time ever, Walmart is selling Apple MacBooks in stores. The mega-retailer isn't selling the fastest models but rather the MacBook Air with an M1 chip, which was originally released in the fall of 2020. The laptop is listed for the reasonable price of $699. That’s a $300 …

What the hell is going on up there in the sky? The incidents feel like they started in January, when a door plug blew out of a midair Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft operated by Alaska Airlines. Ensuing investigations have led to a series of revelations about a faltering safety …

We’ve been able to design and 3D-print plastic phone cases and toys at home for a decade now. For almost every other consumer product made in a factory, the robots have taken over the heavy lifting. But fashion is still stuck in the 20th century. Take a typical pair of …