My work used to involve waiting for raw files, opening them one by one, copying the data, pasting it into a master sheet, fixing column names and formats, removing junk […]

For years, I figured the tiny “i” next to my network name in Settings > Wi-Fi on my iPhone was for looking up details, not fixing anything. You tap it […]

I stumbled across a website recently that looked vaguely like Google Earth after somebody had turned the globe into a giant radio dial. Google Earth has become its own rabbit […]

A recent US prosecution dragged one of GrapheneOS’s most interesting privacy features into public discourse. Instead of unlocking a phone, a separate duress PIN or password, when entered, makes its […]

Removable smartphone batteries were once the norm. Every single smartphone had one, until a period between 2012 and 2016 when it was suddenly decided that no one wanted removable batteries […]

I’ve had an old Android phone sitting in a drawer for over a year, and every time I saw it, I felt a small pang of guilt about all that […]

Windows isn’t a free OS, and yet Microsoft still finds it perfectly justifiable to show ads. They typically show up in three places — the Start menu, the lock screen, […]

I put a genuine Debian Linux install on my Pixel 9, and once it was running, I started working through everything it could actually do. Google’s Linux Terminal app isn’t […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. We expect fitness wearables to count our steps—an idea that Fitbit borrowed from pedometers forever ago. In recent years even […]

Google Photos doesn’t have to be one of those things that you set up and forget. Despite its initial simplicity, Google Photos is full of settings and features you can […]