Category: Technology

Kaitlin had been living in the Village of Oak Creek for over two years when she received the notice. It was June 2022 and her landlord had decided to raise the rent on her three-bedroom house by $800 to $3,000, an increase of 36 percent. For Kaitlin, who had been living alone since her sons […]

I am a wine slob. That is not a typo; I enjoy wine in only the most chaotic, uncivilized of settings. The problem is that I have never been much of a wine person. The posh decorum associated with wine culture has always left a bitter taste in my mouth. (With notes of baking spices.) […]

You can have the key shortcut or the onscreen button or both, so pick whatever options you’re most comfortable using. If you tap More options next to the accessibility button checkbox, you can customize how it appears on screen, with settings for the size and the transparency of the button. Reading mode can also be […]

In gaming circles, “GOTY” is a well-recognized acronym. It’s the crown jewel of gaming accomplishments, the proclamation that something is the Game of the Year. Most people who play video games use it as a shorthand to identify our favorite titles. And I usually lose countless hours sweating out my pick at the end of […]

A mouse is running on a treadmill embedded in a virtual reality corridor. In its mind’s eye, it sees itself scurrying down a tunnel with a distinctive pattern of lights ahead. Through training, the mouse has learned that if it stops at the lights and holds that position for 1.5 seconds, it will receive a […]

GoPro portable cameras are so popular that the GoPro look has become its own aesthetic on YouTube, but they’re not the only company on the block. The Zoom Q2n ($190), for example, is an excellent little 4K recorder that’s not super expensive, and you can pretty easily put it on a selfie stick or a […]

As a certified Halloween girlie, I have always spent the stressful days leading up to Christmas mourning the loss of the spooky spirit. But I have found one thing that helps ease me into the jolly holly season: an Advent calendar. When I spend just a moment, every single day, with a special little treat […]

This weekend, the photo-editing app Lensa flooded social media with celestial, iridescent, and anime-inspired “magic avatars.” As is typical in our milkshake-duck internet news cycle, arguments as to why using the app was problematic proliferated at a speed second only to that of the proliferation of the avatars themselves. I’ve already been lectured about the […]

The magnetic attachment is shockingly strong—you could throw an (empty) tumbler from 10 feet away and have it snap upright into place. You also don’t have to buy into any of its magnetic attachments at all—we customized ours by just using webbing and carabiners to tie drugstore floaties and stand-up paddleboards to the side.  Once […]

Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital, claims that crypto miners participating in demand response schemes have helped to stave off blackouts in Texas this year. Mining facilities acted “like a capacitor,” he says, echoing the battery metaphor, allowing the grid to remain on an even keel. Enthusiasm for the plan from Abbott and other crypto […]