You might remember that I reviewed the Boox Palma 2 a while back: a tiny Android-powered device with a 6.13-inch e-paper display. The Palma series is the smallest e-reader I've tested. I… Read the rest of the article: New Boox e-reader adds 5G but sacrifices screen quality for color

Pre-shredded cheese is one of the greatest first-world pleasures to emerge from the 20th century. Having a bag in your fridge means instant cheddar gratification is only an unzipping away.… Read the rest of the article: Massive cheese recall hits dozens of brands due to listeria contamination. 

Plex is a flexible media platform that lets you organize, catalog, and stream your collection of movies, TV shows, music, and more from a personal server to just about any… Read the rest of the article: Plex ends free remote streaming, forces users to pay or switch

I love Omni magazine. For those too young to remember, it was a lavish, shiny publication dedicated to science, science fiction, futurism, and the people who dabble in such things.… Read the rest of the article: From 1979-1995, Omni featured the best science fiction minds predicting our future

Listening to podcasts is a great way to burn through your commute or help you get through an early morning hour at the gym. It's an absolute pleasure to find… Read the rest of the article: Hackers have a new attack vector: podcasts

I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks… Read the rest of the article: Unpowered solid state drives could kill your data

Tom Waits is a generational talent whose writing, music, and acting will earn him a place in the pantheon of American entertainment gods—his name deserves to be spoken in the… Read the rest of the article: I can't believe I missed this Tom Waits performance

Cheap portable speakers can sound good enough. Pricey hardware can make you feel cheated. The trick, in my opinion, is to find something that's at the top of the range,… Read the rest of the article: The Bose SoundLink Plus: built like a tank but sings like an angel

The Powers-That-Be didn't feel that there was quite enough chaos in the world, so they've taken it upon themselves to poke at our plot with a stick. It seems that… Read the rest of the article: The Slender Man Killer has escaped

Many people in prison did something that landed them there. Many people in prison have been wrongly incarcerated, arrested for the sake of their skin color, the limited options available… Read the rest of the article: You can help bring books to people behind bars

I've been using OnePlus' handsets since the OnePlus 6R came out. OnePlus used to be known for making inexpensive phones that could punch well above their weight. Now, they're known… Read the rest of the article: The OnePlus 15 is an almost perfect smartphone

I've spent over $20,000 on music over the last 30 years. It's not a figure that I'm exceptionally comfortable with. But, when I'm feeling either anxious or sad, which is… Read the rest of the article: We might not love country music but we love Tyler Childers

Wisconsin, Michigan, and several other usual suspects — likely fronting for the federal government — want to strip away your right to freedom of expression and anonymous online movement. The Electronic… Read the rest of the article: New bill would force websites to choose: ban VPNs or remove content

I don't make a secret of the fact that I have PTSD from my old career. I've talked about it here. I'm open about it on social media, and I… Read the rest of the article: After 30 years I finally know what my addiction is called

Classic movies earn their status for good reason. They deliver well-loved lines we know by heart, quips that become part of our vocabulary even if we've never seen the film… Read the rest of the article: Why classic movies feel more "real" than today's digital blockbusters

Everyone has grown accustomed to Elon Musk being a source of constant disappointment. Everything he touches—marriages, the American government, Twitter, Tesla's working conditions, his sad restaurant, and his non-relationship with what,… Read the rest of the article: Forget Mars: SpaceX can't get to the frigging moon

Well, it was nice while it lasted. However, one of our few runs of good luck appears to have run out: the first instance of a human contracting H5N1 avian… Read the rest of the article: Bird flu spreads to unlucky Washington state resident

We've known that the next chapter of Amazon's Fallout streaming series would take place in Nevada. But with this new trailer, we've found out that not only are Cooper and… Read the rest of the article: Amazon's Fallout season 2 promises New Vegas will explode

Considering how most of their recent military innovations and AI-powered robots have performed, I wouldn't sweat it, but according to The War Zone, Russia has a new submarine that can launch nuclear-capable torpedoes. The Khabarovsk… Read the rest of the article: New Russian submarine fires torpedoes designed to create tsunamis

Good news, everyone! According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's EFFector newsletter, Amazon's already invasive Ring security cameras and doorbells may soon be monitoring you so closely that their surveillance will… Read the rest of the article: Ring's new feature turns your doorbell into a biometric spy