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Your phone is the guardian of your digital life. It has that video of your child’s first words, the heart-warming message from your significant other that never fails to cheer you up, and the latest save from your favorite mobile game. You have invested time in getting it just the …

Many of our favorite TVs and monitors today boast displays with high refresh rates that promise smoother onscreen action and a sharper picture. Many of the best Android phones and all of Apple's iPhone Pro models (from the 13 Pro on) can reach a 120-Hz refresh rate. High refresh rates …

Going to college is expensive. Between tuition, textbooks, and beer, there isn’t always a lot of wiggle room in the budget. Tack on the skyrocketing cost of living, and you might be wondering just how you’re supposed to manage your money. One way to stretch those dollars further is by …

The Summer Olympics are back! After a thoroughly weird 2020 Tokyo Games—which actually took place in 2021 and largely happened without crowds of spectators because of Covid-related restrictions—we're returning to the relative normalcy of the hyped up, enormously crowded, in-person spectacles of Olympics past. The 2024 Summer Olympics are taking …

Buying a laptop is an exercise in confusion. Even if you know what everything means and know exactly what you want, finding it can be difficult. Heck, just navigating the manufacturers' websites to locate the model you want is frustrating. We hope this guide will help you navigate the morass …

It fell in the toilet. Your clumsy partner knocked a glass of water onto it. You forgot it was in your pocket when you jumped into the pool. That's just a few of the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid. Now what? Well, definitely …

Backing up your emails, no matter what provider you use, is important because access to your digital collection of messages is less permanent than you might initially think. There are multiple points of failure to consider—what happens if something in the cloud breaks, or your connection to the internet does? …

We think of our homes as refuges from the outdoors. Sequestered away from the wildfire smoke and the pollution outside, we tailor our indoor environments right down to the degree as if we were all weather forecasters with magic wands. But homes leak an incredible amount of air. All that …

Gaming is starting to look more and more like Netflix: Instead of buying a disc at the store and popping it in at home, you have a bevy of services from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nvidia, and even Netflix itself. Services provide access to tons of games for a monthly price, …

If Electric bikes are still in their infancy, then the laws that govern them are downright fetal. Most US states have lagged far behind the public's understanding of an ebike versus a moped or electric motorcycle. Efforts to codify these differences started with simple yet initially unanswerable questions: Are ebikes …