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The 8Bitdo 64 Bluetooth Controller is on sale at its lowest price ever, knocking 31% off the price. It's now just $28 on Amazon, down from its usual $40. This controller will remind you of the old days on Nintendo 64 and is great for emulation.

I spent years trying to find the perfect note-taking app and came close with Google Keep. For a while, this app provided everything I was looking for and then some. However, as my needs began to expand, I slowly outgrew it.

Logitech G just revealed two new gaming mice in its PRO Series. The Pro X Superlight 2c is a smaller version of the popular Pro X Superlight 2, while the Pro X2 Superstrike comes with a brand new, industry-first click technology that supposedly will be a game changer for players.

We all have a junk drawer filled with inaccessible cables. Fortunately, you don't need to run out and buy a fancy organizer. The ideal solution may already be lying around in your kitchen.

Nothing just gave everyone a sneak peek at Nothing OS 4.0, the upcoming Android 16 update for its phones. While an exact release date hasn't been given, we can expect the upgrade to come with things like an Extra dark mode, and visual and functional improvements.

Everyone knows that tech companies love to steal ideas from each other. The iPhone has taken inspiration from Android countless times, and Samsung and Google have done the same to Apple. The most recent example is a little more unusual, though.

If you bought a fancy new Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, or Pixel 10 Pro XL, you'll be happy to hear that Google's busy sending out its first big bug-fixing software update to improve your experience. While the phones receive new day-one software out of the box, this new September OTA is the first real update, and it's full of important changes.

Robert Redford has sadly passed away at the age of 89. He left behind a lasting legacy in acting, directing, and political activism. From founding film production companies to taking part in environmentalism, Redford has done so much, but he will perhaps be most remembered for his film roles.

Custom icon packs are not all created equal. Many, sadly, introduce more problems than they solve. But every now and then, I stumble upon an icon pack that feels like a genuine improvement rather than a mere taste of novelty. What sets these themes apart?

Amazon just announced another Big Deals Day sale in October, and you know what that means. This week, we're already seeing several early Prime Day deals on all the hottest tech, from the 512GB Mac Mini, Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge, portable power banks, and much more.

Widgets are still a relatively new feature in macOS, and they probably don’t get the attention they deserve. For example, did you know you can have the same exact widgets from your iPhone on your Mac desktop?

Android 16 is the latest version of the Android operating system. Unfortunately, not every Samsung smartphone will receive the Android 16 update in the form of One UI 8. Here's a list of Samsung Galaxy phones that will not get the update.

The tar command on Linux is often used to create TAR.GZ or TGZ archive files, also called "tarballs." This command has a large number of options, but you just need to remember a few letters to quickly create archives with tar. The tar command can extract the resulting archives, too.

I just got the new phone on the block—the Google Pixel 10. Setting it up was the usual smooth Pixel experience, until I noticed something different: a feature that lets Gemini read your notifications whenever you’ve got headphones on. It sounded helpful, so I thought, why not? I switched it on, figuring if it bugged me, I’d just turn it off later. Simple enough.

If you value using a stylus with a touchscreen, 2025 has been a mixed year. Fortunately, tablets still provide us with options and give reason for hope.

If there's one thing I absolutely hateabout modern streaming app interfaces is the default behavior of auto-playing a preview of the show or movie you've highlighted. No, I don't want you to make noise while I read the synopsis. No, I don't want the movie to actually start yet!

Wearables haven't made quite the splash some people thought they would. Not quite yet anyway, but there are a lot of people out there wearing smartwatches—I used to be one of them!

Mozilla Firefox receives major updates roughly every four weeks, giving the web browser a steady stream of bug fixes, new features, and security enhancements. Firefox 143 is now rolling out with the return of installable websites, improvements to tabs and camera access, and much more.

With the AirPods Pro 3’s new heart rate monitor, Apple focused heavily on fitness benefits during its September event. In doing so, the company marketed the earbuds as a potential replacement for the Apple Watch in fitness tracking, without explicitly saying so.

Dolphin is probably one of the biggest game emulation projects out there. It started years ago, and while the task of emulating most Wii and GameCube games is a hard one, developers have made great progress to the point that most computers and smartphones can play these old, but gold, titles. Now, the latest progress report has shown it's gotten a lot better recently.