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Jason Hiner/ZDNET If you’ve Googled “What are the best earbuds?” you may have stumbled across the Apple AirPods Pro 2 and the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds. Most people will rave about both, making the choice between the two uniquely challenging. You can buy the AirPods Pro 2 with the brand-new USB-C port for $168 on Amazon. These earbuds are … Read more

Plenty of the tech we cover costs less than $50. And some gadgets hovering close enough to that price just need a decent discount to put them in range. Now that Amazon’s Prime Day is coming to a close, we’re surprised to see that many of our picks for the best tech deals under $50 … Read more

Best wine club and subscriptions to gift in 2024 I tried this wine club and have to say the hit rate of solid wines was extremely high for my moderately experienced palate. If you’ve graduated from the Gallos and the Cupcakes and want to include more nuanced, complex and higher-priced premium wine in your life, … Read more

SpaceX started as a company developing reusable rockets in hopes of lowering the cost of entering space. They have been successful at that, and many clients including NASA now rely on SpaceX to send payloads into space for them. It also now operates its own satellite internet service, Starlink. But Starlink has competitors, albeit none that … Read more

My life changed after getting better bedding. I’m sleeping better thanks to sheets that keep me cool at night, and my back pain was erased after getting a more supportive mattress. If you aren’t sleeping well, I’m here to tell you that it can be fixed. It can cost a pretty penny, though, which is … Read more

UPDATE: Oct. 9, 2024, 8:09 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with the latest pricing and availability of Prime Day Kindle book deals. Amazon sales like Prime Big Deal Days are one of the best times to buy a Kindle on the cheap, but they can also be a great time to pick up … Read more

Amazon isn’t known for offering the best deals for laptops, but its ongoing Prime Big Deal Days sales event has a few solid discounts — and there are a bunch more if you factor in Best Buy’s “48-hour Flash Sale” counter-programming. If you’re in the market for a new MacBook, Windows productivity machine (including new … Read more

Russia is banning chat platform Discord, the Washington Post reports. The app joins platforms like Facebook and X, which have also been blocked in the country since the start of its war with Ukraine. The twist is that the Russian military relies on Discord to coordinate communications, since the military doesn’t have its own platforms … Read more

There’s no better time to pick up a new TV deal than during one of Amazon’s Prime Day sales, but you only have a few more hours until the discounts are gone for good.  Place your order before midnight tonight and you’ll get a 40% discount for this 65-inch Hisense Fire TV at Amazon, marking … Read more

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR WHOOP is finally brining step counting to its fitness trackers through an update this week. The company’s trackers don’t offer their own screen, so you access fitness metrics on your phone. What’s the big whoop about step counting? After all, not all steps are created equal, and lazily shuffling … Read more