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How to Use iCloud+ Private Relay on a Mac
Apple first made its Private Relay anonymizing service available on iPhone and iPad with iOS and iPadOS 15. With the release of macOS Monterey, Mac users can use it, too. The feature isn’t on by default, so here’s how to enable it—and why you might want to. What...
Apple’s $19 Polishing Cloth Review: Seriously, What The Heck?
Rating: 3/10 ? 1 - Absolute Hot Garbage 2 - Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 - Strongly Flawed Design 4 - Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 - Acceptably Imperfect 6 - Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 - Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 - Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 - Shut Up And Take...
Smart Flower Pot Build Is All About That Base
For some reason, it seems like most of the plant monitoring setups we see separate the plant and the monitoring system. This makes sense in a don’t-own-a-waterbed-and-a-cat kind of way, but it also doesn’t from an aestheitc standpoint. This build by [Jorge Enrique...
Valve’s Systems Crumbled Under the Onslaught of Steam Deck Pre-Orders
Valve unveiled its new handheld gaming console—the Steam Deck—this week. Interest in it is so high that when it went up for pre-order earlier today, Valve’s servers were instantly overloaded. Users were served up a frustrating slew of errors...
Tech You Can Upgrade Your Kid’s Room with
Upgrading your kid’s room with certain tech can make everyone’s life easier. They can wake up easier with smart bulb schedules and techy alarm clocks. And learning might even become more fun for them with products like tablets, smart speakers, and...
What We’re Watching: Adam Savage’s ‘Tested’ Blends Engineering and Pop Culture
Anyone who ever watched the edutainment series Mythbusters is still probably trying to find a new show to fill the void that the nerdy and, admittedly, charismatic series left after it ceased in 2018. Fortunately, one of the hosts, Adam Savage, started Tested—a...
