ASUS TUF-BE6500 Review: A Good Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router

The TUF Gaming BE6500 Wi-Fi 7 router (model TUF-BE6500) is the fourth dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router from ASUS, and the first officially designated as a gaming router. In a way,…

Network Switches 101: The Variety and Quick Shopping Tips

When you look to expand your home network, especially for wired clients, you will likely need a couple of network switches. This post will explain in simple terms what they…

Instagram rolls out custom icons…but only for teens

Some Instagram users are feeling cheated out of a new feature, as the photo and video sharing app on Wednesday announced the launch of custom icons — but only for…

Rivian spinoff Also reveals a high-end modular e-bike for $4,500

Several years ago, as a skunkworks team of engineers inside Rivian set out to develop an electric micromobility vehicle, one question loomed. “What do we build in-house?” Rivian founder and…

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie 

Dating app giant Tinder announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its facial verification feature to more users in the U.S.  The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new…

The first e-bike from Rivian spinoff Also has a virtual drivetrain

Ever since Rivian spun off its “micromobility business” into a standalone startup called Also earlier this year, there’s been much speculation about what kind of vehicles the company is working…

Pikmin 4 is getting a free update with hard mode, Decor Pikmin and a camera to snap field photos

Nintendo has announced a free update for Pikmin 4 that could remedy one of fans’ biggest complaints about the game. (Yes, free. From Nintendo. We’re shocked too, but we’ll take…

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around…

Amazon will buy thousands of pedal-assist cargo vehicles from Rivian spinoff Also

Also, the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian, has landed a commercial deal with Amazon to supply the e-commerce company with thousands of its new pedal-assist cargo quad vehicles that…

Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer from the App Store

Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and TeaOnHer, have been pulled from the Apple App Store. The apps’ removal was first spotted by the app store intelligence provider Appfigures, which told…