A smart speaker makes an easy first step into smart home technology. Before you kit out your house with thousands of dollars of lighting and security upgrades, you can familiarize yourself with voice-assistant technology while enjoying music, podcasts, and news in a hands-free home environment.
Here are our top picks in several categories. If you want infor
How fast can you assemble a PC? I’ve seen The Full Nerd crew do two pretty hairy SFF builds in three hours, and I don’t think I’ve ever done one in less than four. But Newegg found some speed demons at MegaCon Orlando over the weekend. The fastest time, a
Microsoft’s biggest apps — Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad!
After WordPad was killed last year, Microsoft paid a little
Dang it, OLED monitors, stop tempting me with lower prices. I can’t resist those vibrant colors and perfect black levels forever!
Take today’s deal, for example: a brand-new Acer Predator 27-inch OLED for a new low price of just $499.99. That’s $100 less than last
Nvidia’s latest graphics cards sold out almost immediately, which means tons of people are still clamoring to get their hands on one. But with recent issues rearing their heads, you might want to hold off.
It’s a bad time to be in the market for… well, pretty much anything, if you’re an American. The Trump administration’s tariffs on China are driving up prices on basically all goods, but electronics are being hit especially hard. While buyers have enjoyed plunging prices on monitors for the last few years, display makers are now reportedly stockpiling to try and keep
Thunderbolt docking stations are awesome, but they can get fairly expensive… and rightfully so, considering all the perks.
Well, it just so happens that this Anker Thunderbolt 4 dock is on sale for $200 on Amazon, a cool $100 off its MSRP. (You’ll need Prime for
For tech-heads, Framework’s modular laptop designs are some of the most exciting out there, offering the kind of desktop-style flexibility and upgrade options we’ve been craving for decades. So far, the company has only made one 13-inch laptop and a bigger 16-incher with
When my 12-year-old daughter plunks onto the sofa for TV time, she might dial up Netflix to binge-watch Gossip Girl or switch on the PS5 for a little Hogwarts Legacy. But when she really wants to veg out, she goes for YouTube.
After dinner, during those precious minutes when Mom and Dad are still doing the dishes, our teen will r
In a few months, Windows 10 will take its final bow. That means folks will have to start paying for security updates, which has many people thinking about buying a new computer.
One alternative to Windows 11 computers are Chromebooks, a laptop that exclusively runs Google’s Chrome OS