How-To Geek

It doesn't take too much digging around on Paramount+ to find a few movies that you might consider favorites—comfort food flicks you could watch again and again, quirky classics anchored around one famous line, or, in the case of my top pick this week, something to pay homage to a star gone too soon.

The 2026 Subaru Forester Hybrid delivers something many hybrid SUVs don't: standard all-wheel drive while keeping most trims below $40,000. With 35 mpg combined fuel economy, a roomy cabin, and a starting price of $34,730, it gives family buyers a rare combination of efficiency, traction, and value.

Even as we barrel down to the last days of what has been an exciting August for movies (The Last House, Don't Say Good Luck, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy among the highlights), Netflix's Top 10 has still been filling up with some solid choices for U.S. subscribers to the service—not to mention The Whisper Man still to come.

The Pixel 11 series’ reception has been less than stellar. Google is taking it on the chin for iterative changes, half-baked ideas, and increased prices. As a long-time Pixel owner, I somewhat agree, but much of the outrage is overblown. These phones are not bad.

Mazda spent years proving that modern car interiors didn't need to revolve around giant touchscreens. The outgoing CX-5 was the perfect example, pairing a neatly integrated display with physical climate controls, a rotary controller, and a cabin that felt far more upscale than its mainstream price suggested. It was modern without being distracting, and technology complemented the driving experience rather than dominating it.

It's the last full week of August, meaning the streamers are running out of time to add new movies to their respective services before the calendar turns to September. The highlight of this week is a crime thriller with a trio of terrific actors, including Robert De Niro. That movie, our top pick in this article, will be on Netflix by the end of the week.

How much are you paying your ISP every month? If you ask me, it's always too much, but I've had some bad luck with mine (one tried to get me to pay them $1,000 to let me leave).

Genesis loaned me a 2026 GV60 Performance AWD for a week here in Detroit recently, a sharp-looking SUV finished in Uyuni White over a Sky Blue and Prussian interior. It's an eye-catching vehicle on the road, with just about every luxury feature you'd expect from an all-electric SUV in this class.

You aren't immune from the wave of streaming service price hikes just because you have a bundle. Disney is raising prices for bundles that include ESPN and Hulu, as well as stand-alone ESPN access.

It's now clearer just when you can expect GrapheneOS' privacy-oriented Android ROM to be available beyond Pixel devices. The GrapheneOS team has finally shared more details on when its software will come to Motorola phones.

In the olden days, everyone taking their hardware seriously also had scratch disks. But they're currently considered to be from a bygone era.

Photoshop is still the photo editor most people know, and there's a reason it has stuck around for so long. But paying for another monthly subscription is harder to justify when GIMP is free and already handles most of the editing work many people actually need. Adobe currently charges $22.99 per month for Photoshop on an annual plan billed monthly, which works out to about $276 a year before you've even added any other Adobe apps.

The 2026 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid is a big three-row SUV, but its size doesn't stop it from going a surprisingly long way between fuel stops. The front-wheel-drive version has an estimated 619-mile range, giving it the kind of road-trip range you'd normally expect from something much smaller.

Foldable phones are having a big moment. Samsung’s two Galaxy Z Fold 8 phones are thinner, lighter, and pushing into brand new form factors. The iPhone Fold is also rumored to be coming this year. Meanwhile, it’s business as usual for the Pixel 11 Pro Fold—but I’m not reviewing it from a typical perspective.

If you shell out some of your hard-earned cash on a PCIe 5 SSD, you certainly expect it to hit five-digit speeds. It's meant to be the fastest it can possibly be in this current generation, after all. But what if testing the drive reveals much slower speeds?

I got tired of doing the same little tasks in Windows over and over: opening the same websites, creating folders, and copying text just to search for it. So I started using AutoHotkey to make those jobs happen with a keystroke or a few characters. Over the course of a week, those tiny shortcuts save me hundreds of clicks and keystrokes.

Over the years, more web browsing has been done on mobile devices than on desktops or laptops. While those devices are still in use, you probably reach for your phone to visit a website before your laptop nowadays.

The Android operating system comes with a Special App Access menu that includes a number of powerful permissions, most of which can grant apps installed on your phone a high level of access to the device.

Smart plugs are often dismissed as little more than a cheap way to remotely control lamps or switch on your coffee maker before you even get out of bed. But they're capable of much more than that, and one of their most useful applications is right there—in your homelab.

A Pi-hole is an incredibly powerful tool, but it’s also a window into every single digital interaction on your network. It sees every domain every device in your house asks for, timestamped and tied to a specific client IP.