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If you’re an avid runner and a dog parent, the idea of hitching your four-legged friend up to his leash and pounding the pavement together might sound like a lot of fun. And it can be! Plus, it’s a good way for you both to get some exercise and stay fit – whi…

Many of us know how to tip when we’re in a restaurant, coffee shop, or hair salon. What about when we’re traveling? Aside from the taxi and rideshare drivers, who else gets a tip? Are we inadvertently neglecting any of the service workers that make our trip r…

This one is the tiniest of tiny hacks, but if you’ve ever been bothered by the run-on stream of text that is your Twitter profile, the company has enabled a little unannounced change that you can use to make it a lot prettier. Read more...

Some early adopters have run into a pretty problematic bug with Android 10 on their Pixels. It’s unclear what specifically triggers the bug, but bumping up to Android 10 has, for some users, killed the sensors in their Pixel devices. And as of the time of thi…

Constantly force closing apps is a bad habit many of us have formed over the years. We were told it helps improve battery life and makes our phones run faster. But the truth is, it can actually have the opposite effect. In the video above, I explain why we sh…

Many of gaming’s biggest companies are betting that cloud gaming—playing games streamed from a server, rather than downloaded and run on individual PCs—is where the games industry is going. Electronic Arts—maker of Madden, FIFA, and super-popular battle royal…

A recent study by Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst found that every major carrier in the United States has artificially slowed down videos from places like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. Read more...

Anyone with a cell phone can tell you that sometimes you have a great data connection, and sometimes you’re not sure you’re going to be able to load a Google search page. Read more...

People who go to the gym every day tend to be happy with their habit—that’s why they keep coming back. But plenty of folks aspire to do that, and haven’t quite figured out how. Since I am one of those people (I even work out on vacation, sorry) I’d like to he…

I’m terrible at Fortnite—so much so, that even using some kind of aimbot or other hack to “improve” my matches would probably only make me as decent as a regular Fortnite player. Still, I won’t be trying out any Fortnite hacks I find online, especially the la…

Time is one of those things that we can all probably use more of. Read more...

The phrase “PowerToys” probably doesn’t send you running to your Windows computer, but just because Microsoft’s little suite of quirky utilities isn’t sexy doesn’t mean that it’s not worth slapping on your system. The company announced earlier this year that …

On a busy travel day, often the last thing I want to do is add another preparatory task. But in an interview, the founder of Allbirds revealed that his best travel tip is to exercise before flying. And his logic is sound: Read more...

A crucial part of hosting a large get-together is providing enough ice. Tepid beverages are no fun, and parties should be fun. The most fun ice, of course, is crunchy, chewable pellet ice, also known as “nugget ice” and “the good ice.” This ice can be found i…

This year Amazon is once again making some Thursday Night Football available for Prime members to stream through Prime Video at no additional cost beyond having a Prime membership. Read more...

Windows has a propensity to accrue digital dust and grime that can bog down the system, and reinstalling the operating system is a nice catch-all cure for anything that ails it. Read more...

The Force only be with you if you go to sleep right now. Read more...

Long before we were talking to AI assistants on smart devices, we had Clippy—the cheery, animated paperclip mascot of Microsoft Office, who’s definitely-not-at-all-annoying tips and contextual actions “helped” users navigate Word, Excel, and the rest of the O…

Some TV shows have too many jokes to catch with just one watch: Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Bojack Horseman, The Simpsons, Community. Some use foreshadowing and thematic hints: Lost, Breaking Bad, The 100. And some just have interesting mistakes, or small …

If you have a One Plus 7 device, you can now get early access to Android 10. Read more...