From PC World: In an unwelcome surprise, the FCC has placed all foreign-made routers on the so-called Covered List, effectively banning new products from sale within the United States.
The decision follows the FCC’s National Security Determination, which concluded that routers used by homes and...
From CNET: Smart-ring company Ultrahuman made its grand return to the US market on Tuesday, following a patent dispute with rival Oura that locked it out of the country since late 2025. Now, US Customs and Border Protection has cleared the company to operate in the US, and its newly announced Ring...
From The Verge: Samsung is bringing AirDrop support to the Quick Share feature on Galaxy devices, starting with the S26 series. The new AirDrop feature will begin rolling out in Korea starting today, according to Samsung, with US devices seeing the option sometime later this week. It will arrive in...
From PC World: Update on March 23, 2026: Over the weekend, Microsoft released an emergency update that addresses app login issues in Windows 11. The update (KB5085516) is now available for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 and is designed to ensure that the presence of an internet connection is correctly...
From CNET: In the Windows Insider Blog on Friday, Microsoft outlined some of the upcoming changes that its Insiders -- beta testers -- should expect in the next few months. Among them are less intrusive Windows Update operations, improvements to Copilot integration, streamlining of the start menu...
About a decade ago, in my introduction for the QNAP TVS-463 review, I talked about how my friend said the three basic needs of humans are "food, electricity, and internet". Since it has been over a decade since I asked someone university-age that question, I asked a bunch of university students the same question. Surprisingly, they all got "food, clothing, and shelter" correctly. But exactly how wrong is saying "food, electricity, and internet"...
Amidst my preparations for Japan trip later this year, I realize I enjoy planning in general. One event I have organized many times for different groups is a scavenger hunt. I enjoy thinking of the logistics of these activities. For me, I think about what sort of narrative you are telling when you run through an event like this. You need to consider different constraints participants will have, whether it is time, capability, or feasibility. The...
From PC Mag: Messaging apps like iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp have offered live location sharing since 2017, and now Android phones running Google Messages can finally do the same.
It’s unclear why Google took so long to offer real-time location tracking, but the feature is now beginning to...
From PC World: Valve’s Steam Machine might be the most anticipated gaming hardware this year… if it even comes this year. Amid the RAM crisis, the console-ish Linux-powered PC has been delayed, and Valve can only hope to get it out sometime in 2026. But on the software side, SteamOS is preparing to...
From CNET: Monitoring your health has never been easier thanks to wrist- and finger-worn fitness trackers. But analyzing the collected data has largely been left to the user. Until recent years, that is, when some of the tech companies that make these wearables launched their own AI health coaches....
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