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It shouldn’t surprise anyone that home fitness surged in popularity in 2020. Exercise equipment went out of stock as soon as the lockdowns started here in the US, and a flurry of fitness apps and videos flooded our feeds. How should consumers decide…

Coincidentally, home audio and smart speaker company Sonos launched its first foray into original content, Sonos Radio, just as the pandemic took hold in the US. It forced people indoors, and Sonos owners had the chance to use their speakers more tha…

Visa has abandoned its $5.3 billion bid to acquire fintech startup Plaid. In an announcement on Tuesday, the US Department of Justice said the two companies have agreed to call off their merger. The agency filed a lawsuit to block the deal last Novem…

Sports leagues are the most public face of the struggle to balance every day comforts with the realities of COVID-19, and the NBA is no exception. The league’s last season finished with an abbreviated slate of regular season and playoff games that ha…

Now that we’ve got new NVIDIA RTX 30-series GPUs and AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips on the way, it’s a great time to be in the market for a gaming laptop. To see where ASUS ROG is headed, we chatted with Jeff Kampman, part of the company’s technical marketin…

AMD's CES presentation was largely about its Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. It announced laptop versions of the chips with major claims about their performance — AMD is promising upwards of 20 hours of battery life in some use cases. Also on the docket was…

Despite passing with a wide 58 to 42 percent margin in November, California’s Proposition 22, which sought to keep gig-economy workers in the state classified as independent contractors, hasn’t become any less controversial. In a filing with the stat…

NVIDIA had plenty of news to share at its CES keynote and to save you watching the entire thing, we've crammed all the biggest announcements into a 10-minute video. Along with new G-Sync displays, the company revealed that laptops with RTX 30 series…

Now that we’ve announced our Best of CES finalists, it is time for you, the people, to choose your favorite gadgets from the show. Head on over to this link to pick your top three from our list of finalists. You have until 3PM ET tomorrow, January 13…

We’ll admit, we weren’t entirely sure what to expect when we agreed to judge the annual Best of CES Awards without an in-person show. How many companies would show up to an online-only show? What would we lose without being able to wander the halls o…

Plenty of new toys are being announced across all kinds of categories at CES 2021, including a number of accessibility-focused products. But it isn’t just within niche areas that companies should be thinking about accessibility; inclusive design shou…

With some eight days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th, Airbnb is implementing additional measures to prevent anyone who took part in the US Capitol riot on January 6th or is otherwise associated with a hate group from u…

The Mozilla VPN has at last landed on Mac and Linux. Following a Private Network extension it brought to Firefox in 2019 and a closed beta, Mozilla rolled out a Windows and Android VPN in July. It later introduced an iOS version. The VPN is currently…

Weber enlisted June, the company behind the June smart ovens, to help it build Weber Connect. That platform powers both the Weber Connect Smart Grilling Hub and the connected features on the SmokeFire pellet grills. Both of those devices run on JuneO…

Razer has a knack for unveiling lofty concept devices at CES that never actually ship — remember the laptop dock for the Razer phone, or the three-screen laptop? The company admits these fantastical projects are basically design exercises, but you c…