You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
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Searching for a video on YouTube hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years: You launch the site, bypass the algorithmic recommendations, and enter your query. I’ve found this to be a relatively reliable method for finding a video I’m looking for. In my experience, if it doesn’t pop up in a search, that usually […]
T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Earlier this month, T-Mobile started offering free iPhone 17s to new customers (they still are)—and now, they’re offering a $200 prepaid Mastercard for a limited time for anyone who brings their unlocked device and […]
Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
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10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
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Slack is one of the most commonly used business messaging apps—beyond basic communication, the service has plenty of built-in features that can help you be both more productive and less overwhelmed by the volume of messages you receive. These are the top tips and tricks to use Slack efficiently. Create sections to organize your sidebar […]
AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
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These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. This weekend’s London Marathon was a phenomenal event, with not one but two men (Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha) breaking the sub-two-hour barrier that people used to say would never be broken. The women’s winner, Tigst Assefa, also smashed her own world record. So what […]
The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale hit our screens at precisely the right moment—a time when many had Americans begun to wonder if our democracy was as robust as we’d always assumed. It brought Margaret Atwood’s grim vision of a totalitarian, patriarchal, and fanatical future […]
I Tried Claude’s New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
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Claude’s plug-ins for third-party services, known as connectors, have previously covered work-focused apps such as Gmail and Slack. Now, it’s adding a whole host of lifestyle apps to its Connectors catalog, including Spotify, Uber, Tripadvisor, Audible, Instacart, Intuit TurboTax, and AllTrails. There are more connectors on the way as well, Anthropic says, with the aim […]
YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
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If you have your YouTube watch history disabled and you are now being prompted to turn it on if you want to receive recommendations, you’re not alone. Watch history on YouTube is used to generate personalized recommendations on the platform—when it’s disabled, suggested videos and channels are instead pulled from your likes, saves, and subscriptions […]
Apple’s New Subscription Payment Option Isn’t Coming to the US
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I can’t stand when a subscription tells me its “monthly” price, when, in actuality, the plan charges me annually. Sure, when you divide the yearly cost by 12, the price looks better, but if I’m paying all at once for the year, then it’s really not that amount per month. It’s all a way to […]
10 Shows Like ‘For All Mankind’ You Should Watch Next
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Apple TV’s sci-fi series For All Mankind starts with a tantalizing alt-history premise: What if Soviet space pioneer Sergei Korolev hadn’t died prematurely in 1966, but instead helped bring his country’s space program into full bloom, extending the space race indefinitely? If America and the […]
Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
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Windows users contend with a lot of updates. There’s a new update every month on the stable channel, and every week on the Windows Insider channel. But not all updates are created equal. Some are mission-critical, with important security patches you won’t want to miss. On the other hand, some can create issues themselves, introducing […]
This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The Anker Soundcore Nebula P1 portable projector has dropped to $639 from its usual $799, and price-trackers show this is the lowest it has reached so far. Here, the hinge-based body does most of […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2026
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
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Microsoft Edge is one of the most popular browsers on the planet. The spiritual successor to Internet Explorer, Edge is a modern browser based on Google’s Chromium platform. That means you can use it with all modern Chrome extensions, along with a bunch of exclusive features that other browsers may not have. I’ve used Edge […]












