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Google doesn't care if you're pitch-perfect.

Hoping to Identify a Song Just by Humming? Google’s Hum-to-Search Feature Can Help

To search a song by humming, you don’t need perfect pitch—but you do need the Google app or Google Assistant.

How to Make Sure Your iPhone Isn’t Giving Your Apps Access to Photos and Other Personal Data

If you don't want your apps knowing your exact location or accessing every photo in your library, you can edit their permissions on your iPhone.

How to Silence Emergency Alerts on Your iPhone

Your iPhone’s weather alerts (and other emergency notifications) are trying to keep you safe, but there is a way to make them do it more quietly.

Save Money on Tech and Furniture With Amazon's Outlet Store Sale

Discover Amazon's Outlet store and all the sales on big-ticket items like tech and furniture so you can save more money.

The Simple Way to Share Your Real-Time ETA Using Your iPhone

Skip all those “What’s your ETA?” questions by sharing your location through Apple Maps or the Find My app.

OK, you probably don't need an app for this one.

Want to Know What Kind of Mood Your Cat Is In? There’s an AI App for That

Signs of pain in cats aren’t always obvious—this new app makes it much easier to tell how your cat is feeling.

A Former NASA Engineer Set a New World Record With His Domino-Laying Robot

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober designed a robot to do one thing: Set up as many dominos as possible as quickly as possible.

Clippy—Microsoft’s Most Hated Helper—Is Ready to Make a Comeback (Sort Of)

Your least favorite anthropomorphic paper clip is back. And this time, he’ll keep his mouth shut if it looks like you’re writing a letter.

20 Epic Fails From the History of Pop Culture

From Hitler sitcoms to digital fur technology, here are 20 pop culture projects that didn’t work out so well.

For when you're finally ready to leave your high school crush in the past.

How to Deactivate (or Delete) Your Facebook Account

Here’s a handy how-to for deactivating Facebook, deleting Facebook, and understanding the difference.

In 1989, This Old House Made a Pretty Spot-On Prediction About What the "House of the Future" Would Look Like

‘This Old House’ host Steve Thomas once bore witness to some pretty good predictions for the future (and also some bad ones).

Heading to the Beach? Here's How to Protect Your Phone from Water, Sun, and Sand

If you bring your smartphone to the beach this summer, take these steps to keep it dry, cool, and sand-free.

Your iPhone does a lot when you're not looking—Low Power Mode makes it do less.

What Does Your iPhone’s Low Power Mode Really Do?

Sure, you know it’s a great way to save the battery on your iPhone, but do you know how it actually works?

All Out of Cloud Storage? Here’s How to Make More Room

Whether you use iCloud or Dropbox, this is what you need to do to free up digital storage space in the cloud.

Amazon Wants to Share Your Wi-Fi With Your Neighbors—Here’s How to Opt Out

On June 8, Amazon Sidewalk will start connecting your smart devices to outside WiFi networks. Here's how to opt out of it.

What Do iPhone Ringtones Sound Like A Cappella? This Group Recreates Those and Other Iconic Tech Noises

The ‘crunch’ you hear when you toss a file into your trash folder in Microsoft Windows? Just as satisfying a cappella.

This Chrome Extension Makes Cluttered Webpages Print-Friendly

A free Google Chrome extension called PrintFriendly is designed to make cluttered webpages clean and printable.

Automate Your Green Thumb With an Indoor Planter That Does the Hard Work for You

The Pico Max, now available to back on Kickstarter, is an automated planter that takes the hard work out of growing a garden indoors.

6 of the Most Popular Fitness Trackers on Amazon

Discover six of the most popular fitness trackers on Amazon from brands like Fitbit, Samsung, and Garmin.

Save Hundreds of Dollars on Tech With Amazon’s Renewed Page

Amazon’s Renewed page is a treasure trove of refurbished, pre-owned, and open-box products ranging from pricey computers and home entertainment systems to kitchen blenders and gaming consoles.

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen or Spring Garden by Vincent van Gogh, stolen from the Singer Laren museum in March 2020.

Interpol’s New App Allows Anyone to Help Track Down Stolen Art

The next time you come across a portrait stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you can alert Interpol without making a single phone call.

The face of a person who's just set their default font to Garamond.

Don’t Love Calibri? Here’s How to Change the Default Font in Microsoft Word

Customize Word’s font settings to your liking, whether you’re a Times New Roman traditionalist or totally fluent in Wingdings.

How many of your tweets were sent from the toilet?

Warning: A Lot of People Are Texting You From the Toilet (and Making Other Bad Smartphone Choices)

See how your smartphone screen time measures up against the average—and stop feeling guilty about tweeting from the toilet.

Poop, Boob, and Other Terms Apple Won’t Engrave on Your New AirTags

Apple AirTags will help you keep track of your stuff, but they won’t help you convey how funny you find the word ‘boob.’

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