TECHNOLOGY

Need new earbuds? You won't want to tune out this deal.

You Can Get Apple AirPods Pro Earbuds for Their Lowest Price of the Year

Crank up the tunes (and save) with this Amazon deal on Apple’s second generation AirPods Pro earbuds.

ELIZA lent a sympathetic ear, though the program pre-dated monitors.

'Please Tell Me Your Problem': Remembering ELIZA, the Pioneering '60s Chatbot

Before ChatGPT, a novel computer program by an MIT professor offered a virtual therapy session.

What’s on Alexander Graham Bell’s Early Audio Recordings? The Mystery Might Finally Be Solved

Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone helped fund his future experiments—some of which have proven tough to decipher.

Instead of keeping you awake, your phone might actually help you sleep.

Trouble Sleeping? Your iPhone Has a White Noise Feature You Probably Didn’t Know About

Instead of staying up doom-scrolling, let your smartphone lull you to sleep.

Prince Hairy and Meghan Bark-le: See What British Royal Family Members Look Like as Dogs

There have never been dog portraits quite like these.

There are a few workarounds to the iPad’s lack of calculator.

Why Don’t Apple iPads Have a Calculator?

Apple’ s iPad is a versatile computing device that has pretty much anything a user could ever want—except a standard calculator. Here’ s why.

This Chatbot Will Argue With Your Cable Company for You—and Might Lower Your Bill

Tired of chatting with customer service bots? Now you can deploy one of your own to haggle a better price.

A 2000 reveler decorates for mutually assured nuclear destruction.

7 Wild Predictions About Y2K

Nuclear war. Prisons unraveling. And using toilet paper for money. People were freaked out about Y2K.

We have better cold weather tires thanks to NASA.

11 NASA Inventions We Use Every Day

From scratch-resistant eyeglass lenses to memory foam, here’s all the tech you should be thanking NASA for.

Did you Google the spaghetti recipe from 'The Bear'?

From Wordle to ‘Wakanda Forever’: Here Are Google’s Top Search Trends of 2022

Betty White was a bigger trending search this year than Queen Elizabeth II.

How to Stop Autocorrect From Sabotaging Your Texts

Changing a few preferences in your iPhone settings is all you have to do to make autocorrect a help instead of a hindrance.

7 Reasons Why It's Finally Time to Get a Robot Vacuum

If you hate spending hours hunched over a mop bucket or stick vacuum each week, a robot vacuum is a no-brainer!

Presented by: Roborock

7 Simple Ways to Keep Your Home Free of Pet Hair

Free yourself from fur-covered floors, furniture, and clothing.

Presented by: Roborock

The Easter-Egg-Filled ‘Roku City’ Screen Saver Has Its Own Fandom

Not since Pandora has a fictional place inspired so much longing.

The entrance to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.

Why Don't We Have World's Fairs Anymore?

Once celebrated by millions, these events were later derided as "architectural beauty pageants" and have largely fallen out of favor. What happened?

Google is making it easier to keep your personal info personal.

Here’s How to Use Google's New Privacy Tool to Scrub Your Personal Info From Search Results

The search engine's new Results About You tool makes it easier to keep your email and physical address from being seen online.

Canceling Netflix doesn't have to be hard.

Streaming Fatigue? Here's How to Quickly and Easily Cancel Your Netflix Subscription

The service wants to hang on to its 220 million subscribers, which is why canceling on a mobile device can be a little tricky. Here's how to do it.

Charging your phone shouldn't land you in the burn ward.

Why Do Phone and Computer Chargers Get So Hot? And Is It Dangerous?

If you can iron your shirt with your cell phone brick, you've got a problem.

Because not all receipts need to be saved forever.

This Handy iPhone Shortcut Lets You Delete All Your Old Screenshots in One Go

Need to declutter your screenshots folder? This iPhone shortcut will do it for you.

This Clever App Tells You What to Build With Your LEGO Pile

Just snap a picture of your random LEGO assortment and Brickit will provide inspiration.

These Amazon devices are wildly popular—and on this page, you can save even more on them.

This Hidden Page on Amazon Has All Kinds of Tech Deals on Kindles, Fire TV Streaming Devices, and More

This Amazon page is tucked away, but you can find major tech deals on refurbished Kindles, Fire TV cubes, and more.

Hold Your Phone Up to the Night Sky and This App Will Identify Stars, Planets, and More

Sky Guide will answer all your burning stargazing questions, from “What am I looking at?” to “What should I be looking at?”

See How the News Covered Video Games in 1980

As is the case with any new technology aimed at kids, parents were concerned.

There Are Only 25 Blimps Left on Earth—Here’s Why

There are 25 blimps left in existence as of 2022, and only half of them are in use.

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