This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. This holiday season, we’ve seen plenty of all-time lows when it comes to streaming devices, including the best price yet on the Roku Express 4K Plus. While most of these deals hover around the $25 to $50 range, Amazon is upping …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Holiday shoppers might run into a few obstacles this season in a quest to stuff stockings. Even with stores launching early Black Friday deals, supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19. Online shopping skyrocketed from the 2020 year with more people being at home, and manufacturers, …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Whether it’s family Zoom calls or entire offices going remote, more of our lives than ever are taking place in the online world. While that offers plenty of benefits, it brings its share of risks as well. Even if you use a secure browser and …

Verizon offered an early glimpse Thursday of the improvements coming to its 5G network next year, although the number of devices able to tap into those higher speeds will be limited at first.  The nation’s largest wireless carrier hooked up the LA Live entertainment complex in Los Angeles with its C-band radio airwaves, a set of wireless spectrum it acquired …

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TikTok is making tweaks to how it recommends videos on the app in attempt to make sure it doesn’t inadvertently reinforcing negative experiences. On Thursday, the popular social video app said it’s testing changes to avoid showing people too much of one type of content that when viewed as a single video might be fine but that could be “problematic …

The wireless carriers took scrappy to a whole new level this year. A shift in the industry’s landscape, transformed by last year’s merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, meant competition in 2021 was more intense than it had been in years.  That competitive dynamic was a boon to consumers, who saw aggressive promotional offers and streaming freebies designed to keep people …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Moment was born on Kickstarter in 2013 as a brand dedicated to making phone accessories, and has since evolved into a more general-purpose online store for creatives. It now offers a wide range of products, including cameras, phone accessories and lenses. Now’s a great time …

TikTok shared a handful of new features Thursday, including the option to use GIFs within its green screen effect. That means you can virtually project a GIF, instead of just a still image, behind you while shooting a video. Other updates include a visual enhancement tool to improve exposure and incorporate color correction, higher quality uploads and new musical and …

There’s a potential shakeup building in who’s supplying the brains of the latest and greatest Android smartphones.  While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are the de facto gold standard in high-performance handsets, Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek said that Chinese phone giant Oppo will be employing its new 5G-capable Dimension 9000 chipset for its flagship Find X-series phones. The Dimension 9000 is MediaTek’s best …

It’s a tough year for gift-giving, with so many items either out of stock or held up by shipping delays. Fortunately, we have plenty of tech for making our own gifts, not that you needed another reason to fire up your 3D printer or laser cutter.  All the maker-culture tech out there is inspiring, and I’ve used these devices to …

The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE offered a balanced combination of helpful features for a reasonable $699 starting price, but when will its successor, the rumored Galaxy S21 FE, make its debut? Some say we could see the company’s affordable smartphone in January. Although Samsung is set to hold a CES preshow keynote on Jan. 4, we’ll have to wait and …