Summary Amazon will design its own chips for Kindle, Fire TV, Echo and other devices, moving away from external processors. The primary goal appears to be cost-cutting, not a major […]

There are only so many hours in the day, so why would you want to spend any of them bored? Sure, there is a time and a place for some […]

I don’t know about you, but I get a ton of notifications on my Android phone, and they’re not always important. I’m constantly swiping them away, fast, to get to […]

My Home Assistant setup didn’t begin with lofty ambitions. I just wanted to stop fumbling around in half a dozen smart home apps and wanted a unified dashboard where I […]

I have a simple test for navigation apps now: what happens when my phone stops pretending mobile data is a human right? A lot of maps are brilliant until the […]

When I moved into my new house, I didn’t give much thought to where the Wi-Fi router should go. I simply left it where the previous owners had kept it: […]

Smartphones have been evolving over the years, becoming more powerful. They have built-in cameras that rival DSLRs, integrated AI, amped-up processors, and larger, more efficient batteries in slimmer designs. But […]

My 4Runner carries a small pile of gear I genuinely hope to never use: a window breaker on the keychain, a dash cam quietly recording, a tire inflator riding in […]

From sci-fi shows to crime dramas to documentaries, there’s something for everyone on Netflix, and new shows and movies are being added all the time. If you’re looking for a […]

A lot of my work lives in Excel (and Sheets), and for a long time one repetitive chore took up more of my week than anything else: joining a handful […]