Here in sunny Mountain View, California, I am sequestered in a teeny-tiny box. Outside, there’s a long line of tech journalists, and we are all here for one thing: to try out Project Moohan and Google’s Android XR smart glasses prototypes. (The Project Mariner booth is maybe 10 feet away and remarkably empty.) While nothing […]

This might be the best deal I’ve seen all year on a budget laptop. Right now, Acer—by way of eBay—is selling a refurbished Aspire 15.6-inch laptop with 16GB of RAM, a touchscreen display, and an AMD Ryzen 5 processor for just $287.99. For a laptop that’s normally $500 retail, that’s a certified banger of a

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones have arrived three years after their popular predecessors. That’s a longer gap than usual for the lineup, but don’t expect any earth-shattering changes. Whereas the 1000XM4 to 1000XM5 upgrade brought a significant design overhaul, this time Sony is mostly focusing on sound, noise cancellation, and quality-of-life hardware refinements, rather than messing

Gaming keyboard or ergonomic keyboard? You typically have to choose. But in the wise words of Old El Paso Tacos, “Por qué no los dos?” That’s the thinking behind the Asus ROG Falcata, a wireless gaming board that splits apart and connects over a USB-C bridge. Adam Patrick Murray went hands-on with it at Computex. By the way, Asus

For most of my life, I’ve relied on a paper map when I go outdoors. Then, in March, I joined my friend Rusty on the Appalachian Trail for two weeks. He told me to download FarOut. FarOut was my introduction to the world of app-based navigation. It’s focused on thru-hikers, and has useful details, including

Big things come in small packages, or so they say. That maybe isn’t always the case, but it sure is with the Samsung Fit Plus! This super-fast, super-tiny USB flash drive is smaller than your thumb, and the price for it is equally miniscule right now: get 128GB for just $15 on Amazon, or 256GB

Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: you shouldn’t buy Huawei’s trifold phone, the Mate XT. And that’s alright, because you probably couldn’t if you wanted to — while it’s no longer exclusive to China, it’s only on sale in a handful of countries, and not in the US or Europe. Besides, I

Roku is spending $185 million to get into a business that most other streaming platforms have avoided. In early May, the company announced that it will acquire Frndly TV, the cheapest of all the live TV streaming services. For $9 per month, Frndly TV offers a bundle of channels you’d typically find in a cable

One morning last month, I walked into my kitchen to get a glass of water, but my smart faucet was out of battery. I went to sit down in my front room, and the shade was still shut — it was out of battery. I walked down the hall and found a beached robot vacuum

A VPN is a powerful tool to browse securely and protect your information. But the service will really only be safe when it is decentralized, and no data can be traced back to you. This is what makes NymVPN unique in the market. Where many other VPNs ask you to provide email address and pay