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Fire up the meme engines: Succession is coming back to HBO Max on March 26 for what we now know is its final season of corporate and familial back-stabbery. I don’t watch it because I find it too depressing, but I’m happy for everyone who…

Smartphones these days are powerful. Some can take 8K video, while others rival the speed and performance of desktop computers. However, all that advanced computational power is no match for the formidable force of...a single YouTube…

What if you could create your own personal streaming service? It isn’t a pipe dream: You can actually build your own streaming network that hosts all the shows, movies, and music you already own—all you need to enter the world of media…

Not everyone has a green thumb (although there there are apps for that), and you may never want to be bothered by keeping real plants alive. Fake ones look fine and are way less effort (though you still need to dust them as you would their…

Scrivener 3 is giving their lifetime subscription for 50% off until March 2—both Mac and Windows user can get the program for $30. If you haven’t heard of Scrivener before, it’s a popular writing software that makes writing a lot more…

In the State of the Union earlier this month, President Joe Biden called out the service industry’s practice of charging “junk fees.” Read more...

Barney’s coming back, y’all, with Mattel announcing a new, animated update to Barney & Friends, the slightly unnerving 1992–2010 series. It’s a shocking thought, but kids who watched Barney back in the day might reasonably have kids at…

Cleaning a toaster is more involved than you might think, but one of the most important steps is just getting all the crumbs out. But there’s an easier way to clean out toaster crumbs than turning it upside down or reaching inside to rustle…

Star Trek content has long dominated Paramount+, but March shifts its focus towards a whole bunch of Academy Award nominees and winners ahead of the Oscars ceremony on March 12. Releases include 12 Years A Slave, Life of Pi, Sunset…

Most collaborations between unlikely musicians are weightless one-offs, buried in the middle of albums. They’re easily-forgotten, desperate bids for relevance—like novelty-songs that aren’t funny, like this Taylor Swift/T-Pain mash-up, or…