Mophie Juice Pack offers a well-designed case that extends phone battery life by roughly 50%. The case is sturdy, slim, and maintains iPhone features, with LED indicators for battery life. Consider a power bank instead of the Juice Pack due to annual phone design changes and lower cost for more...

I Loved the Original Mophie Juice Pack, but the iPhone Battery Case Era Is Over

Amazon has discontinued one of its Echo smart speakers. It's time to say goodbye to the fifth-generation Echo Dot with Clock, released in 2022 featuring an eye-turning dot-matrix display. The speaker is delisted on Amazon, though you might be able to find refurbished models or purchase the device from select...

Say Goodbye to the Echo Dot With Clock

Carefully check the source and destination folders, restore temporarily deleted files from the recycle bin, and contact the IT team if you lose data on an office device. If you have a backup in the cloud, recover your data from there. If File History is enabled, you can recover earlier versions of the files you lost.

Accidentally Lost Data While Moving Files on Windows? Here Are Your Recovery Options.

For the longest time, my headphones would often break within a year. First, I blamed the manufacturers, but I took a hard look at my habits and realized the problem—me! So I changed my ways and replaced my bad habits with good ones, which have significantly elongated the life of my audio devices.

7 Tricks That Will Protect Your Headphones for Years

Track weight in Apple Health easily with a custom Shortcut, rather than doing it manually in the Health app. Build the Shortcut by adding and customizing the "Log Health Sample" action in Shortcuts. Access your Shortcut quickly using Siri or by placing it on the iPhone widget screen or a...

This iPhone Shortcut Makes It Much Easier to Track Your Weight

Whether you are a movie buff looking for a cinematic experience, a gamer demanding responsive gameplay, or someone needing a TV for general entertainment, there is a wide array of excellent TVs on the market. What to Look For in a TV in 2024. A TV purchase can be tricky...

The Best TVs of 2024

Right now, you can save $600 when you buy the Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 2000 Plus in the post-Amazon Prime Day deals, bringing this incredible unit down to just $2.399 (with Amazon Prime membership). You'll save even more when you bundle additional solar panels. Also: The best Prime Day...

This portable battery station can power your home for 2 weeks, and it's still $600 off

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Claudia Lamascolo

Here is a cookie from my childhood that Mom always had in the cookie jar. Peanut butter cookies were an easy favorite, and we just loved helping her make them they were super easy.

4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Remember that scene in War Games when the code monkeys explain the concept of backdoors (i.e., secret pathways planted by programmers) to aspiring hacker Matthew Broderick? Well, as it turns out, that's actually a thing. Coders have a storied tradition of creating back doors in programs (or sometimes just fun...

12 Secret Codes That Unlock Hidden Features on Your Phone

Samsung’s first Android 15 and One UI 7 beta is set to get a release as soon as July 29, according to Max Jambor, a reliable Samsung tipster. What’s notable about the Android 15 beta is just how big it is. According to rumors, we’re expecting several UI and feature changes, including new icons, home screen and lock screen changes, a revamped camera UI, and a version of the iPhone’s Dynamic Island.

Your Samsung phone could get a huge update on July 29

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Midrange phones are more competitive than ever, and their performance and battery life make us wonder why we spend $1,000+ on flagship devices. Phones under $500 used to include drab displays, awful build quality, and hardly any software support. But recently, even budget devices have featured OLED displays and years of software support. With so many high-quality options close in price, even a small discount can make a big difference.

Samsung drops one of its latest phones to just $300 for Prime Day

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Since phones became smart, people have been buying ‘dumb phones’ to take a digital holiday from the super-connected online world. More and more, the tranquil, low-tech world of the ‘dumb phone’ seems like a lovely getaway, especially if you’ve spent far too long in the social metropolis of a smartphone.‘Dumb phones’ – which were previously known as ‘feature phones’ until Gen Z rediscovered (and renamed) them – are essentially low-tech mobile devices that resemble the earliest portable mini-phones (think the Nokia 3310, Sony Ericsson W58oi and LG Chocolate). In recent years, they've been reimagined as digital detox tools, and industry...

I used a ‘dumb phone’ for a week – here are 5 things I loved and 5 things I missed

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A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

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We just tested the Dell XPS 13 (2024), and it's now the longest-lasting consumer laptops we've ever tested.

This new Windows laptop has the longest battery life we’ve ever tested — and it blows away the MacBook Air M3

After a spate of controversial price increases, T-Mobile is now facing a class action lawsuit. Plaintiffs allege that they were deceived by T-Mobile's highly publicized lifetime price guarantee, which contained major loopholes that were not made obvious to potential customers or active subscribers. The plaintiffs, who filed their complaint to...

T-Mobile's "Price Guarantee" Is a Lie, Says Class-Action Suit

The release of Google’s Android 15 is getting closer, so Samsung is understandably also nearing the release of One UI 7 for its mobile devices. According to reliable tipster Ice Universe, beta testing for One UI 7 could start in just a few days. They explain that testing will commence before the end of July or in early August.

Here’s when you can expect One UI 7 to arrive on your Samsung phone

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SAMSUNG users are urged not to break the ‘20% rule’ – or risk impacting battery performance forever. It was once common advice to let your phone’s battery run out completely before charging it again. However, completely discharging the lithium-ion battery on newer devices is almost guaranteed to reduce its lifespan. For this reason, it’s best […]

Every Samsung owner told never to break ‘20% rule’ or risk running battery life forever – best way to charge your phone

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Wow, that's a tough situation for UKG employees in Florida. Imagine gearing up for a holiday weekend and then getting blindsided with news of massive layoffs. It's not just the number—2,200 employees, which is 14% of their workforce—but also how abruptly it was done, right before the Fourth of July.

Thousands of workers in Florida laid off by a major company

As we ready ourselves for the launch of the iPhone 16 in September, the first iPhone 17 rumors are starting to emerge – and the latest leak may be enough to persuade you to wait until 2025 for your next iPhone upgrade.The leak comes from the usually reliable Ice Universe on Chinese social media site Weibo (via MacRumors), and covers the four handsets we're expecting next year.One of the rumors we've heard is that the Plus model is set to be replaced by a new Slim flagship, and that's the first reason you might want to skip the iPhone 16...

A huge iPhone 17 leak just gave you 5 potential reasons to skip the iPhone 16

Over the last few years, Apple has released some exciting new products. Who can forget the always-useful AirTag or the controversial but awesome-looking Apple Vision Pro?. Then, of course, there’s the Apple Car, which, unfortunately, died before it was even born. However, it seems Apple already has its eye on a different product — and a new market it can be part of.

Everything We Know About the Apple Ring

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5 Great Reasons to Unplug Your Computer Overnight

While it's tempting to simply leave your computer on overnight, or have it running in sleep mode, there are a few legitimate reasons why you might...

5 Great Reasons to Unplug Your Computer Overnight

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