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Google Photos does more than you think. Lately, I use it as a personal knowledge base that I can query at any time and from any device. I do this […]

Chrome extensions are ridiculously easy to trust. You find one that fixes a small annoyance, click Add to Chrome, approve whatever prompt appears, and probably never think about it again. […]

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PowerToys gets a lot of attention for its big-ticket features. Some of them are so useful that they’ve even made popular third-party Windows apps redundant. But those headline features also […]

Vibe coding might be extremely popular, but it comes with some serious security concerns, including exposed databases, leaked APIs, remotely orchestrated prompt injection attacks, and AI scraping. It’s enough to […]

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Black Mirror debuted in 2011, and in the 15 years since, the real world has been racing to outpace its […]

Getting (and staying) online while flying has gotten way better over the years, but at the end of the day, you’re still trying to connect to the planet while you’re […]

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. If your time on macOS is solely spent switching between the well-known apps that everyone uses—your web browser, Notes, Apple […]