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The World Cup kicked off this week, instantly sorting Netflix subscribers into two camps—those ignoring everything else on the planet for soccer and those dodging the sport entirely—no judgment either way, but we've got a list of soccer shows and movies for people who don't like soccer for anyone on the fence.

With the vacation season in full swing, it's worth taking a few minutes to get your phone ready before you travel. While modern Android devices already come packed with helpful features for traveling, there are still numerous useful travel settings that need to be enabled or configured manually. If you want your phone to be properly prepared for the trip ahead and avoid running into avoidable issues along the way, here are some things you can do to make your phone travel-ready.

Did you know that NASA has a stacked repository of 3D printing files that you can download and print for free? This includes some of the agency’s most iconic equipment, plus terrain maps and asteroids.

Look on any Home Assistant forum, and you're likely to find a ton of posts from people showing off their intricately detailed dashboards. While many of these dashboards look incredible, packed with controls and graphs, they're not something that I really want. There's only one dashboard that I enjoy using.

USB-C was supposed to be the last cable standard you'd ever need to think about, and the connector itself mostly delivered on that promise. However, what’s wired inside varies wildly from cable to cable, turning simple tasks like fast charging, high-speed data transfers, and video output into a frustrating guessing game.

While television boasts plenty of brilliantly entertaining shows to watch, comedies have a unique way of capturing the chaos of everyday life from wildly different angles. In addition to making them funny and entertaining, that quality of capturing everyday chaos is also what makes them relatable.

You might not have heard of Nothing before, but you're about to see a lot more of it. Best Buy is now carrying Nothing phones, earbuds, and headphones in over 500 U.S. stores and online, giving the mobile startup its largest-ever American retail presence.

I'm not a huge fan of the usual Home Assistant dashboards. I don't see the benefit in being able to control your smart home from a wall-mounted panel if you have to walk over to it before you can use it. There are plenty of ways you can use Home Assistant dashboards to do other things.

Samsung assumes that most people want to do some level of health and fitness tracking on their Galaxy Watch. Even if that’s true for you, there are a few lesser-known health settings that could be unnecessarily draining your battery. If you’re not checking the data, it makes sense to disable them.

The first time I ever unboxed and set up a 3D printer was all the way back in 2015. My boss had bought one, but hadn't been brave enough to set it up. This was when 3D printers needed a significant amount of assembly out of the box, so the trepidation was understandable.

Did you know that the ESP32 microcontroller can run full operating systems? There are two relatively user-friendly options that include a graphical user interface (GUI) and installable applications, plus a few others that use command lines and emulation.

Hulu's slate of new shows for June has gotten off to a solid start, with Mindy Kaling's new Workplace/friends dramedy, Not Suitable for Work, making the rounds, and we still have the series finale of The Bear to look forward to closer to the end of the month.

If you commute to work, that daily drive often uses up 30 to 60 minutes of your day. I've always found that I have a lot of compelling ideas while driving, but I can't really write them down—driving doesn't lend itself to busting out the notepad and pen.

Any command you run in a Linux terminal will behave the same on all systems, right? Wrong. Although Linux commands are often highly portable, there can be exceptions.

If you're tired of closed-source smart home ecosystems like Alexa and Google Home, then Home Assistant can give you far more freedom. If you miss voice commands, you can use the native Assist voice assistant in Home Assistant. While hooking it up to an LLM can give Assist natural language understanding, there's a lot more you can do with the default version of Assist than you might think.

June is chugging along nicely, as World Cup fever prepares to dominate everyone's algorithms for the next six weeks. But if you're not exactly a fan of the football, there are definitely some great movies you can check out to get you in the mood, or you can just steer clear of it altogether with a good show on Netflix.

Your Android phone is filled with a wealth of features meant to make your life easier and more efficient. However, many of these highly helpful tools often go unnoticed, staying hidden in plain sight, but if you knew how much more convenient your phone could be, you’d be shocked.

Most of the shows that premiered last week, including Apple TV's Cape Fear, were new to their respective streaming services. This week, three returning shows highlight the top shows to watch this weekend. Two of the returning shows will conclude after their fifth seasons. The other show, streaming on Netflix, has not been renewed just yet.

A quiet afternoon is the perfect excuse to build practical Excel tools that organize your hobbies, bills, and budget. These three guided projects show how a handful of formulas, tables, and formatting rules can transform a blank worksheet into practical tools that fit around your lifestyle.

Working in a developer environment shouldn't feel like talking to a chatbot. When Google released Antigravity 2.0, it replaced the entire workspace with a chat-first window that hides your file tree, strips out the terminal panels, and boots you straight into an agent dashboard most developers never asked for. This is not the interface I ditched VS Code for, and it bothers me.