TL;DR: Tough enough for school, work, and clumsy hands, the brand-new Dell Chromebook 3100 offers 8GB RAM, an all-day battery, and Chrome OS for just $199.99. Built to take a beating and keep going, the Dell Chromebook 3100 is a rugged, no-nonsense laptop made for real life—whether that means a messy desk or your kid’s snack-covered hands. It’s […]

It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell — the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, and lets aspiring programmers build and publish games

Move over, PCI Express 5.0! Micron has shipped the first PCI Express 6.0 SSD, ramping up read and write speeds to unprecedented levels. The bad news? It’s not for PCs. This week, Micron shipped the Micron 9650 SSD, the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, designed for AI training and inference workloads. Unfortunately, those tasks take

It was a sweltering Sunday in Brooklyn. Instead of being wasteful and spending $10 on a five-minute Uber, I decided to walk the 20 minutes to a cutesy Japanese stationery cafe with an even cutesier name. Despite the 85 percent humidity, my vanity demanded I wear a full face of makeup with a snatched nose

An executive order by President Trump will eliminate the de minimis exemption on tariffs on a worldwide basis, essentially making everything you buy subject to tariffs from the country of origin. The order will take effect on August 29 at midnight, on goods that enter the country or are withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption.

If last year’s Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 was tried and true, this year’s Galaxy Watch 8 is a bit more like tried and fine. This isn’t overtly bad. Most smartwatch newbies will be delighted by the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8 — provided they can stomach the new squircle design. It’s more that if you’ve been

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Wi-Fi connectivity Voice control via Alexa, Google Assistant, and SmartThings Customizable access codes for guests, deliveries, and more Excellent battery life, with emergency power backup Cons No Fingerprint recognition No geofencing support Slight delay on remote unlocking Not Matter certified nor Apple HomeKit compatible Our Verdict It’s neither the

It’s the flip phone paradox: if you want to be more mindful about your mobile device usage, you need more screen, not less. I know. But I swear it’s true: with a bigger cover screen, you get more than just a new way to check notifications. You can actually get shit done. Things that are

Adobe has finally delivered on one of the most requested features in Photoshop: image upscaling, as well as improved abilities to insert and remove objects from photographs and other images. Adobe said Tuesday that the new additions are arriving on the desktop edition of Photoshop as well as the web, though you’ll need an ongoing

Logitech’s MX Master mouse series is probably the most well-regarded on the market, so long as you don’t need any specific gaming features. But they aren’t cheap—in fact, after the latest round of tariffs, Logitech increased the price of the MX Master 3S from $100 to $120. Today, Amazon has it at a big discount,