There are many things about owning a cat that are easy and stress-free. Cats are solitary creatures, and don’t generally require the same levels of constant attention and emotional support as dogs. They’re wanderers whose nocturnal sleep cycles give them obscene bursts of energy very late at night. They poop in a box… Read more…
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The T-Mobile variant of the OnePlus 7T is on sale at B&H for $300, undercutting OnePlus’s own sale at $350. This matches the lowest price the phone has ever been, so if you’ve been looking for a flagship-specced phone at a budget price, this deal may be worth
Read MoreThere are about to be way, way, way more DC movies — and some will be released as HBO Max exclusives. Following the release of Wonder Woman 1984 last week, DC Films president Walter Hamada sat down with the New York Times to talk about the studio’s more aggressive release strategy. Starting in 2022, DC
Read MoreWe pity the civil servants involved in the negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, because after tense meetings until almost the Eleventh Hour, they’ve had to cobble together the text of a post-Brexit trade agreement in next-to-no time. In the usual manner of such international agreements both sides are claiming some kind
Read MoreEmma Court / Bloomberg: Los Angeles County partners with Healthvana to allow COVID-19 vaccine recipients to be able to show their vaccination status in services like Apple Wallet — – Key is getting people their second dose, official says — Longer-term, the software will be a way to verify vaccinations Los Angeles County partners with
Read MoreIf you’re one of the growing number of people choosing to not enroll in college, you might be wondering about alternative options for spending your 529 fund. Can you use 529s for less-expensive trade schools, coding bootcamps, or even to pay down existing student loans? Here’s a look at 529-qualified expenses. Read more… Can You
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are three moments this year that determined the scale of the COVID-19 catastrophe in the United States, argues New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright in a sweeping, searing look at the country’s year spent fighting (and failing) against COVID-19. The magazine is devoting an entire double-issue to
Read MoreImage: Xaomi Xiaomi has announced their new flagship for 2021: the Mi 11. The Chinese variant of the phone sports a modified design and upgraded specs that give a good look at the kind of high-end features top Android phones will ship with in the coming year, according to AnandTech. There’s bound to be some
Read MoreEarlier this year, my neighbors and I all had some weird quarantine-induced scheme where we decided we would all gift each other gaming chairs. The idea was that we’d all be in lockdown working from home, so we might as well upgrade our chairs with some lumbar support. We kept describing this as a “Gift
Read MoreWhether you have a brand-new Windows laptop or you’re giving your PC a little TLC in the form of a new reinstallation of Windows 10, setting up your operating system correctly is easy. There are a bunch of variables you might not know about, sure, but this isn’t rocket science. It doesn’t take very long
Read MoreThis was a year of many “firsts,” as it seems an isolating pandemic has a way of spurring us on to try new things, to find little glimpses of joy wherever we can. (Remember all that bread we baked in March?) For many families, being stuck at home for the holidays was the perfect excuse
Read MoreCreality, makers of the Ender series of 3D printers, have released a product called Wi-Fi Box meant to control printers over a network and I ordered one for today’s teardown. Let’s get something very clear from the start. If you’re looking to control your 3D printer over the network, get yourself a Raspberry Pi and
Read MoreJesper Starn / Bloomberg: A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada — – Wet and mild weather pushed up output from hydro power plants — Lower input costs for making Bitcoin coincided with price rise A huge drop
Read MoreI don’t know about your cat, but mine is all about trash. She loves eating trash. She loves playing with trash. She loves being trash. No matter how many cute, not-cheap cat toys I purchase for her with my hard-earned money, she will always have a preference for bits of refuse that fall to floor.
Read MoreResolutions are overrated, and we all know it. Even if you enjoy making lofty goals for the new year, simply declaring a resolution is not the same as making a plan to get there. But you know what? You don’t have to do that, either. This year, make a resolution that is small and boring
Read MorePhoto by Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images AT&T says its services have mostly recovered from a bombing that caused multi-state internet outages on Christmas. The explosion of an RV in Nashville injured three people and destroyed a section of the city’s downtown, including “significant damage” to a key AT&T transmission facility. This brought down wireless and wired
Read MoreThe online encyclopedia’s year was a lot like everyone else’s. COVID-19, presidential election top Wikipedia's most-read articles in 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYay! Another videoconference call is in the books, so that must mean that it’s time to fumble around awkwardly for the hang-up button with a fading smile. [lanewinfield] knew there had to be a better way, and looked to the pull chain switch for salvation. Sure, this could just as easily be a button, but
Read MorePodcasts used to define my commute. But now that I don’t have a commute anymore, I have to fit them in where I can. This means I have sadly been forced to ditch many of the shows I used to listen to regularly and focus on only the best of them—the ones I simply can’t
Read MorePhoto: Vizio You can pick up Vizio’s 65-inch M-series (model M65Q7-H1) 4K TV for just $580 at Best Buy when you’re signed in with a free My Best Buy account. Otherwise, it’s $600. This model regularly costs $700, and today’s offer is a good one considering its size and specs. Not many TVs at this
Read MoreBox office numbers for the latest superhero flick apparently show promise. Wonder Woman 1984 may have saved movie theaters too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Surface Laptop 2 and a Baby Yoda holiday tumbler lead Monday’s best deals. Read more… Monday's Best Deals: Surface Laptop 2, Baby Yoda Holiday Tumbler, Switch GameCube Controllers, Sleep Philosophy Weighted Blanket, White Mountain Booties, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe recall affects about 190,000 Hampton Bay ceiling fans sold in the US and Canada between April and October. Ceiling fans sold at Home Depot recalled after reports of blades flying off – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSamsung’s next flagship phone hasn’t officially been announced, but you can snag a preorder spot now. Samsung opens preorder reservations for Galaxy S21 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAndrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Xiaomi announces Mi 11, its new flagship, with 6.81″ 120Hz display, Snapdragon 888, Android 11, and up to 256GB storage, available in China for ~$611 on Jan. 1 — Today Xiaomi held the Chinese launch announcement of the new Mi 11 – the company’s new mainstream flagship phone for 2021. Xiaomi
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