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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Accidents happen. Cracking your iPhone’s ($500 at Best Buy) screen or breaking your Android phone’s charging port is the last thing any of us wants to worry about right now. Especially with most of us under stay-at-home orders, practicing …

Working from home is a great alternative to mingling with other humans during this global pandemic, but a lot of people are finding themselves ill-equipped for telework. After all, not everyone had experience working from home back during normal times, and so you might not have some of the bare essentials for working remotely. Like a laptop. Rather than staying …

Want to raise your TikTok-video game? Add a sky camera to your toolkit in the form of a drone. Like this one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, B&H has the preowned DJI Mavic Mini for $329.95. That’s one of the lowest prices I’ve seen to date. The Mini still sells new for $400 pretty much everywhere. (Consequently, …

For a lot of people, Blu-ray’s day has come and gone. It’s not hard to see why — streaming services have made the concept of inserting a plastic disc in a machine to watch Birds of Prey seem as archaic as my old 400-disc audio CD carousel (and if you’re too young to remember such things, yes, they were real …

There’s a real dearth of budget-priced noise-canceling headphones out there. When we recently wrote about the best noise-canceling headphones of 2020, most of the entries clocked in between $150 and $350 (like the superb Sony WH1000XM3), and only one sub-$100 headset even made the list, the Anker Soundcore Life 2.  But what if you want to spend less than $50? …

Have you been forced to turn your old laptop that was previously used primarily for checking email and watching Netflix into an honest-to-goodness work computer? Is it straining to keep up with its new and expanded role as you work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus? If your laptop sounds like a jet engine when you …

Trying to get work done in a makeshift workspace is hard; trying to replicate your office-based professional workflow during this coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic requires even more finesse. Here’s some gear that might make it go a little more smoothly. Hopefully, you’ve already bought  or own the requisite laptop, desktop or tablet necessary to get your creative work done. Thanks to growing numbers …

Just because you’re stuck at home in self-isolation, that doesn’t mean you may not want a smartwatch. I have barely left my apartment in over three weeks, and yet I still wear my Apple Watch every day, since I still like notifications and fitness information on my wrist. If you’ve been thinking about getting a smartwatch for yourself — and …

With no one traveling anywhere, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before we start to see irresistible deals on flights, hotels and countless other travel offers to coax us out of the house when the pandemic finally runs its course. I haven’t seen much on that front yet, but this comes close. Right now, you can get …

Turntables aren’t obsolete quite yet and may never completely disappear as long as people hang onto their vinyl collection (and musicians like Jack White continue to champion the aging analog format). If you’ve been looking for an excuse to invest in a turntable, here’s a good one. From now till April 15, you can get the Fluance RT81 Elite High …