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More than steps, more than active minutes, I’ve been focused on making sure I get enough decent sleep each day. That’s been an issue working from home for so much of 2020-2021. Apple’s latest watch and WatchOS software focused, among other things, on adding sleep tracking that could help make bedtime schedules more regular. It …

You can make a strong case that the trophy for best noise-canceling headphones could just as well go to the Sony WH-1000XM4 or Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 — they’re both such good performers that it’s almost a toss-up. Recently, CNET’s Rick Broida tried a refurbished pair of the Sony 1000XM4’s and deemed them indistinguishable from the full-price retail version. …

If a genie granted me three wishes, my first wish would be for infinite wealth. At one time, my second wish would have been for a notebook that never ran out of pages, but now that I have a Rocketbook, I can change that wish to immortality. Rocketbook makes smart reusable notebooks that are completely erasable when you wipe them …

I’ve been at the cheapskate game for over 13 years, and in that time I’ve tested hundreds of products and written about thousands more. Along the way, I’ve identified a select few that really stand out, that offer an unbeatable blend of performance and value. Every so often, I find myself thinking, “This is really a hall-of-fame deal.” And that’s …

As regular Cheapskate readers know, Amazon gear goes on sale all the time. The Fire 7 tablet, for example, has been discounted on no fewer than seven occasions in the past 12 months. So this deal isn’t super-special. Except, in a way, it is. The Fire 7 was among the first inductees into the new Cheapskate Hall of Fame, and …

Amazon Prime may have over 150 million subscribers, but if it lost its magic for you one way or another — including after a free trial — you can cancel your subscription and close out your account. You might even get a prorated refund for the amount of time left on your Prime subscription. Amazon may not make it immediately simple …

Some people like to stock up on stuff — you know, like giant containers of mayonnaise, tins of popcorn and a garage freezer full of chicken breast. Prepaying for cellular service is sort of like stocking up, and today I have a deal that’s sort of like pouring cellular into Mason jars in the pantry. Tello is offering a prepaid …

The Mi 11 is Xiaomi’s inaugural global flagship for this year. Launched in February, it’s advertised as a phone for a “new generation of movie lovers,” whatever that means. The Mi 11 has a 6.5-inch OLED display, and houses Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 888 chipset, and with a 120 Hz display that features a peak brightness of 1,500 nits. It might …

I remember the introduction of Siri on the iPhone 4S way back when. This was going to be a magic Apple feature that no one could ever catch up to. Instead of having to dig through settings and apps, you could just talk to your iPhone. Competitors, however, soon popped up. Who could forget S Voice, the forgettable voice assistant …

Far too many people overpay for their phone service out of an overabundance of caution. You might think you need unlimited text or data “just in case,” but if you spend most of your time soaking in Wi-Fi and don’t text a whole lot, you can get by with less — a lot less. For example, right now Red Pocket …