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Power banks are the easiest gadget to neglect. You charge them, stick them in a drawer and then only pull them out when you need to travel or when the power's out. Which is why it's easy to miss when your power banks are outdated or no longer suitable to have your back when you need them most.

After years of obsessing over SUVs that take up more space and sip more gas, Americans are rediscovering the minivan.

The mid-size SUV world is packed with big names like the CR-V, Highlander, and the sharp-looking Santa Fe, plus solid picks like the Volkswagen Atlas. But while everyone’s been busy checking out the usual favorites, one underrated contender has quietly leveled up.

Have you ever seen "NaN" appear on a badly coded website? Or been perplexed by a persistent bug, only to find out that it's some quirk with the language? The problem is partly to do with your assumptions and probably an incomplete test suite. I will explain what property-based testing (PBT) is and how it solves these problems.

As more AI (artificial intelligence) technologies emerge, competition among them will intensify, and rankings of the best to worst may shift. Currently, the most significant AI models are Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Apple Intelligence.

Let me be upfront: I genuinely love Obsidian. It's an incredible application with all the features you would need for note-taking. But, despite all the amazing things Obsidian offers, it had one big, persistent flaw that created a major roadblock in my daily workflow: the way it handles file navigation.

The more programs set to auto-launch on startup, the longer your computer takes to boot. That's doubly true for machines with older hardware. Allow me to show you different ways to identify and disable startup apps and speed up your PC's boot time.

One of my favorite products of 2025 almost flew under my radar. The Keychron K4 HE is an impressively affordable and fully-featured Hall-effect keyboard, with a signature pillowy feel and a mature design.

Netflix has been saving some of its most exciting releases for the end of the year. With the holiday season in full swing, the platform is giving your watchlist one last makeover before the New Year.

When you think of a Bentley, you probably imagine a car so luxurious it practically whispers “I’m better than you” at traffic lights. I’ve driven my fair share of high-end cars, but collecting the 2026 Bentley Flying Spur Speed from the British automaker's Crewe HQ still felt like stepping into another world.

When it comes to gaming, PC performance falls behind the cutting edge very quickly. A brand-new game can really make it feel like your PC needs an upgrade, but it's not always a new GPU that would make the biggest difference. Some less obvious upgrades can make an even bigger impact.

Home Assistant is closing out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an overhaul to automation building, and a new area for testing preview features. There's a lot here to give you more intuitive control over your smart homes.

Data validation in Microsoft Excel is a great way to limit what can be entered into a cell. However, creating rules using a formula allows you to enforce even more precise parameters—and there are three that I use in most of my spreadsheets.

You're about to see Crucial-branded drives, memory, and other hardware disappear from store shelves. Micron, the company behind Crucial, is leaving the consumer hardware market entirely.

Home Assistant is closing out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an overhaul to automation building, and a brand new area for testing preview features. There's a lot coming that should give users more intuitive control over their smart homes.

Family sedans may not dominate headlines like SUVs, but in 2025 they offer some of the strongest value, comfort, and day-to-day usability on the market. With new models prioritizing quiet cabins, improved ride quality, and the latest driver-assist tech, shoppers who overlook this segment may be missing out on vehicles that deliver far more refinement than their price tags suggest.

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a partial mitigation for the high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability, CVE-2025-9491, which multiple state-sponsored groups and cybercrime gangs have been exploiting as a zero-day. This security flaw lets attackers hide malicious commands inside standard Windows shortcut files.

December on HBO Max will see its fair share of holiday content, but as far as new shows and movies are concerned, we’re venturing deep into documentary territory with a plethora of music stories about Paul Anka, Wizkid, Jeff Buckley, and Counting Crows. We’ll also see the debut of three highly anticipated, long-awaited movie sequels, along with the first comedy special from SNL star Sarah Sherman, and a new Hard Knocks series focused on the NFC East.

Raspberry Pi just announced software updates for its growing suite of AI products. This is coming with full support for the AI HAT+ on the Trixie release of Raspberry Pi OS and a brand new debugging feature for the AI Camera.

For the last month or two, we've been hearing plenty about Samsung's next major software update, One UI 8.5, which will still be based on Android 16 and packed with new features. Now, a big leak revealed all the exciting features that are about to arrive.