Mark your calendars. On Jan. 7, 2026, CNET Group will announce the most comprehensive and compelling class of official Best of CES award winners yet. In 2025, we came together for the first time as a family of tech media brands to announce 11 Best of CES winners, hand-selected by the journalists at CNET, PCMag, Mashable, …
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Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a real challenge. That purple category wants you to hunt out something related in four different words, and it’s a …
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Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Wordle puzzle came together pretty quickly for me this time. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of …
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Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle could be tough. Some of the answers are quite long and difficult to unscramble, so if you need …
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Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has one of those purple categories where you need to hunt for words inside of other words. Read …
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Fake videos used to stand out immediately to me. Nowadays? I’m far worse at identifying them. And thanks to the fine folks over at NPR, I have the quiz results to prove it. (Oof.) The short, four-question test asks you to identify AI versus human-made video. The scenarios vary between serious, unexpected, and cute. All …
I failed at spotting AI slop videos. Can you do better? Read More »
A little before Thanksgiving, my colleague Mark Hachman sent me a Threads link. It showed a cute little animated cat running on your taskbar. The add-on from GitHub claims to show your CPU load, with the feline running faster the harder your processor works. The comments on the thread run the gamut of wary to …
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Image: Pexels: Andrea Piacquadio If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could manually search for it and type it out in Microsoft Excel, but that would be very laborious. Instead, you could use Excel’s data types to call in the information you …
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TL;DR: Use code PRO to get a SwifDoo Lifetime License for $24.97 (reg. $129). Dealing with PDFs gets frustrating fast when the tools you need are locked behind monthly fees. It is even worse when you only want to clean up a form or convert a document, and your editor keeps pushing you into a subscription. A one-time …
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TL;DR: Get lifetime licenses to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 and Windows 11 Pro for $39.97 (MSRP $418.99). A lot of people unwrap a brand-new computer on Christmas morning only to realize it is missing the software they actually need. Most new PCs no longer include Microsoft Office, and many budget models ship with limited Windows builds or older …
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