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With vacation season upon us, it’s time to figure out what to pack for your trip. Limited tech time is great in theory, but you still need a few things to make your life easier, whether it’s gear for the car, accessories that help you connect to your entertainment, or gadgets for backing up all your pics.

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TL;DR: Tough enough for school, work, and clumsy hands, the

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 place in AI data centers, not

I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these things in. It’s not just smartphones, tablets, and laptops that use these, however, but also a long list of gadgets.

We’ve scoure

Cord cutters have long wished for a way to stream local broadcast channels for less than the price of a full-pay TV package. Now it’s finally happening.

DirecTV, which has leaned more into streaming than satellite TV of late, now offers a $40-a-month bundle with all four major broadcast networks—ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC—in five U.S. markets. It offers three o

Samsung has an insanely large 57-inch gaming monitor with impressive specs, and it just dropped to the best price we’ve seen all year. Act fast to score the Odyssey Neo G9 for just $1,500, which is a massive $800 discount down from its crazy-high $2,300 MSRP!

At 57 inches, this beast is wider than many TVs

After more than a month of sporadic outages that left many Sengled smart bulb users struggling to control their lights, Amazon has opted to pull the skill that allowed Sengled users to control their bulbs with Alexa. 

Some Sengled bulbs may still offer Alexa control directly via Zigbee, Matter, or Bluetooth connectivity, thus bypassing the yanked Alexa skil

Lenovo is warning users that several BIOS security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lenovo IdeaCentre and Yoga All-In-One desktops. The support document states that local attackers can execute malicious code in System Management Mode

When you use Windows, the operating system quietly takes note of your habits to help streamline your experience. It customizes the Start menu so you can reach your most used apps and files more quickly. For example, it remembers which programs you’ve recently installed and which files you’ve edited, then surfaces them in the Start menu. However, other users can easil