The best ad blocker out there now works on Safari. You can download uBlock Origin Lite from the App Store on Mac, iPhone, and iPad right now. The new ad blocker, from uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill, blocks ads on YouTube without any difficulty, something that many Safari ad blockers have struggled with lately. It […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Garmin dominates the running watch market, even as runners have an increasing number of other options to choose from, including Suunto and Coros. I’ve long been a faithful Garmin user, but I wanted to give one of these competitors a fair shake, so for about […]

When ChatGPT officially launched in late 2022, it kicked off a historic AI race we’re still living through today. The following year saw most of the biggest tech companies launching their own AI products: Google released Bard (now Gemini), Microsoft debuted Copilot, and Anthropic dropped Claude, even as OpenAI only continued to iterate on ChatGPT. […]

I was poking around on Poshmark last night like I always do, looking to see if I could make offers to interested buyers or find other ways to promote my listings, when I saw a button on my profile I had never tapped before. That isn’t the first time I’ve run across an unknown button, […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you’ve noticed your Fitbit sleep score taking a nosedive recently, don’t panic—and definitely don’t assume you’ve unknowingly developed insomnia. It seems Fitbit has quietly rolled out improvements to its sleep tracking technology. And while your numbers might look worse at a glance, you’re actually […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. If you’re looking to host more epic parties, you can get an unopened Sony SRS-XV800 Party Speaker for just under $400, which is less expensive than the Amazon price tag but has all the […]

For years, URL shorteners have been an easy way to share lengthy links on the internet. Rather than typing out a web address that is both ugly and seemingly endless, you can put it through a shortener to produce a neat, tidy, and tiny URL. There have been many different services to accomplish this over […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Buying a new piece of fitness equipment is exciting (if you know what to look for), but then comes the real challenge: actually working out. So, you’ve got your stair stepper all set up—now what? How do you get a workout from this thing that […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Stranger Things, which is ending for good this fall, debuted back in 2016. Given the pace of life these days, the end of the Obama administration feels, somehow, as distant as the series’ nostalgic 1980s setting. The show solidified Netflix as the streamer to beat […]

If your daily routine involves frequently chatting with ChatGPT, you might be surprised to see a new pop-up this week. After a lengthy conversation, you might be presented with a “Just checking in” window, with a message reading: “You’ve been chatting a while—is this a good time for a break?” The pop-up gives you the […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. For a lot of folks, Microsoft Office still sits at the center of everyday productivity. If you’re working on a Windows machine and don’t want to pay a recurring fee for Microsoft 365, this […]

If you’re like me, your phone is always on silent, which makes it easy to miss calls. That in itself isn’t a problem, at least until you forget to return those missed calls. Luckily, the redesigned Phone app in iOS 26 comes with an unexpected new feature that might actually be more useful than either […]

For the past few weeks, the internet has been obsessed with the strange case of Julian Brown—a 21-year-old inventor from Georgia who supposedly unlocked a secret Big Oil doesn’t want us to know. According to this post on X (and many others like it), Brown figured out how to turn plastic into gasoline. In his […]

Impersonation scams have come for something many of us dread both attending and missing: jury duty. Fraudsters pretending to be law enforcement officers are contacting people claiming that they’ve missed a summons and need to pay up or risk arrest. The Federal Trade Commission first warned of this scheme back in March, when bad actors […]

The AI agent era is here: ChatGPT is no longer just for answering your queries with a confident-sounding, often wildly incorrect response synthesized from masses of data scraped from other sources. It’ll now hook into your apps to carry out real actions for you: booking tickets, looking up prices, checking your calendar, creating slideshows, and […]