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Fitness Gear

The best Fitbits for kids

These full-featured fitness trackers can endure the rigors of childhood.

The best 1080p gaming monitors
PC Gaming

The best 1080p gaming monitors

Desktop and console users alike can enjoy smooth, lagless performance with these affordable 1080p gaming monitors.

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

American hippopotamus ranching almost took off 100 years ago

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

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Tech Hacks

How to make hit Spotify playlists, alone or with your friends

Put together a specific list of tunes to share with the world or keep to yourself.

Get some exercise while you work with one of the best under-desk bikes.
Fitness Gear

The best under-desk bikes

Forget whistling while you work—try cycling while you conference. Here’s what to consider when shopping for the under-desk bike for you.

The Best WiFi boosters of 2022
Home

The best WiFi boosters

In a work-from-anywhere world, you can’t afford a wireless dead zone. Here’s how a WiFi booster can help you avoid slowdowns and dropouts.

Best Laptop Cooling Pads
PC Gaming

The best laptop cooling pads

Keep your lap cool and your laptop cooler with the best laptop cooling pads.

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Peripherals

The best gaming chairs under $100

Finding the best gaming chairs on a budget is about appreciating all the little things you can get for a little money.

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PC Gaming

The best TKL keyboards

Want to nix the numpad? We've got your number.

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Audio

The best synth VSTs

The best virtual synths to make sure your music is fire.

The Marines used a ‘robotic goat’ to fire a rocket-propelled grenade
Navy

The Marines used a ‘robotic goat’ to fire a rocket-propelled grenade

Here's why the US military put a light anti-tank weapon on the back of a robotic quadruped.

AlgaRay robot floating atop water in Antigua
Robots

This seafaring robot ‘eats’ stinky seaweed and dumps it in deep water

The AlgaRay scoops up invasive sargassum seaweed before it washes onto shores. It could even alleviate CO2 pollution in the process.

A kingfisher with blue and yellow feathers and outstretched wings dives through the air.
Birds

How kingfishers pull off breakneck dives without hurting their brains

Studying these bird brains can help scientists better understand traumatic brain injuries and even Alzheimer’s disease.

Orang heat radiates from a reentering space capsule in NASA artwork.
Private Space Flight

Rockets and satellites are shedding metal into the atmosphere

This contamination could change how light bends or ice crystals grow.

A fuzzy yellow and black bumblebee foraging on a green plant.
Bees

Bumblebees carbo-load on the fly

They use their sesame seed-sized brains to prioritize getting the most calories as quickly as possible.

best music production software
Audio

The best music production software

If there’s a sound in your head, music production software can help you capture it.

Chicken feather fibers could help make less toxic hydrogen fuel cells
Engineering

Chicken feather fibers could help make less toxic hydrogen fuel cells

Chicken feathers are a major source of food industry waste, but their keratin may be an alternative to hydrogen fuel cells' 'forever chemicals.'

a collection of woolly mammoth figurines on petri dishes on a blue background to represent Colossal's de-extinction project
Endangered Species

Is de-extinction only a pipette dream? This startup has a big, expensive plan to find out.

Colossal is promising to turn long-dead mammoths, dodos, and thylacines into living hybrids that can be returned to nature. Critics want to see the results.

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Tech Hacks

This Windows feature lets you pin important apps to your screen

Boost your productivity by keeping your most important apps handy.

Some popular Halloween candies will have to change their recipes soon
Food Safety

Some popular Halloween candies will have to change their recipes soon

The California Food Safety Act ban on four popular ingredients takes effect in 2027.