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I’ve been covering smart home and security products for years, and I’ve written about and reviewed scores of smart devices. Yet I can count on one hand (plus an extra finger or two) the number of smart devices that my family and I actually depend on. 

Sure, I have plenty of smart gadgets in my house that are nice-to-haves. I like the air quality monitor in

Some days, like today, I just can’t believe how cheap mini PCs have gotten. Right now, you can snag this Acemagician AM06 Pro for just $249 on Amazon, the lowest price we’ve ever seen for it. (This is a Prime-only deal, but if you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can still sco

The USB port on your router is often unused and yet it offers practical functions that can make everyday life easier. You can do things like saving and sharing files, mobile charging, or even an automatic backup of your data. We’ll tell you exactly how this works and what else you can do with your router’s USB port below.

This might be one of the dorkiest articles I’ve ever conceived. My editor even made fun of me for it! But it’s true and I’m not afraid or ashamed to say it — I actually do have a favorite hard drive from 20 years ago that taught me about tweaking and optimizing my PC.

I’m not talking about frames per second or CPU clock rates or sensor temperatures or wirel

I’m a standing desk evangelist. I believe in standing desks so much that if you and I were to meet and get talking and I were to find out you work at a desk, I’d try to convince you to stand at it instead.

I stand almost all day, swaying and rocking on my two feet like a silly person to keep my posture upright and to keep my deep veins from thrombo

The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error message on a blue background and is only ready for use again after a restart.

Unsaved data is lost. After the restart, Windows runs for a while until the error occurs again. In some instances, the BSOD

Artificial intelligence has changed the way we write, create, work, and plan—and with the 2025 ChatGPT Skills & Creativity Bundle, you’ll be at the forefront of this revolution. For a limited time, you can access five expert-led courses that teach you how to

The passage of time is hard on computer parts. Sometimes it’s about how much they wear down over time; other times, it’s the fact that older parts get set aside and forgotten, only to be left behind by time.

For instance, it may seem like PCIe 4.0 just arrived to supercharge NVMe SSD speeds, but that was in 2018! We’ve already moved on to PCIe 5.0, with PCI