Happy new year, or almost new year, or just… whatever time it is when you’re reading this. For me, it’s the very tail end of 2025, and what better time to take…
Month: January 2026
Best external drives: Top picks in portable storage
External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also…
SteelSeries Apex Pro Gen 3 review: A gaming keyboard built for speed
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent workmanship and high-quality materials Individually adjustable OmniPoint 3.0 switches Rapid Trigger and Dual Action for fast response times Quiet typing noise thanks to integrated damping…
How to build your own air quality meter with a Raspberry Pi and CO2 sensor
A reliable indicator of the air quality in offices, classrooms, or living rooms is the CO2 content. In fresh air, the concentration of carbon dioxide is around 400 ppm. This stands for…
Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments
Can you name one single, solitary, success Microsoft had in 2025? Think hard. It sure ain’t easy. In the years that PCWorld has catalogued Microsoft’s wins, failures, and head-scratching “WTF” moments, there’s…
The best smart home products of 2025-26
How is it possible that we’re already looking at the end of 2025? The smart home market continued to expand and become ever more mainstream this year, as manufacturers introduced new products…
Set a resolution to learn something new every day with this $40 sale on Headway
TL;DR: Start 2026 strong! Get a Headway Premium lifetime subscription for $39.99 with code SUMMARY20 and learn something new every day with 2,000+ nonfiction book summaries (MSRP $299.95). The New Year always kicks off with big ambitions—learn…