I learned how to lift in college when I was running track, and I fell in love with the feeling of a heavy dead lift, squat, and clean. I’ve been lifting for the last decade, but it’s never been the same since I lost access to my elite college weightContinue Reading
Ideal coffee brewing temps are even more finicky, whether we’re talking Aeropress, French press, or pour-over. The ideal temp might depend on the bean, or it might depend on which YouTube channels you watch. Anyway, the MoonKettle makes this modulation pretty easy, without a wacky control panel full of buttons.Continue Reading
The HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 and Haste 2 Pro use the latest and greatest sensor, the same as all of their competitors, capable of up to 26,000 dots per inch. That means far greater sensitivity (or resolution) than the previous model. While that might be this mouse’s most important upgradeContinue Reading
A password manager makes creating strong passwords—and remembering them!—easy. Good password managers will generate strong passwords for you, store them in a secure vault and log you into websites, all without you doing anything. There are dozens of cloud-based password managers on the market, but in my testing one consistentlyContinue Reading
On the plus side, the finishes are very nice. It looks and feels sturdy. The faint scent of cedar in the air when you step inside is lovely. As my daughter and the neighborhood kids can attest, it is a beautiful, cozy little nook in which to curl up andContinue Reading
That said, the performance is still admirable compared to most travel shavers, provided you don’t let your hair grow out too long. Like a lot of foil shavers, the Arc 5 does not like to cut hairs longer than a few millimeters. Shaving longer whiskers takes a great number ofContinue Reading
Babies get everything: free food, lots of attention, near-universal acclaim. And now, they get a feature I’ve been looking for from space heaters ever since I started testing them. Most space heaters have a problem so obvious it should feel embarrassing to everyone involved. Cashiers should say, “I’m sorry,” asContinue Reading
The M4 also gives the MacBook Air its AI boost with Apple Intelligence. The 38 TOPS of local AI processing through the faster 16-core Neural Engine makes the M4 MacBook Air closer to the 48 TOPS on Intel’s Lunar Lake chips and 45 TOPS of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips. ThisContinue Reading
My masterpiece! Photograph: Adrienne So The process of deciding what to make can be overwhelming (especially if you’re 7), so let me offer a few guiding principles. It’s not a blender, so it’s not designed to chop hard, loose ingredients, like ice cubes or straight frozen berries. Also, in ourContinue Reading
It feels like it was just yesterday that Apple launched the M2-powered iPad Air. In fact, it’s been 10 months, but that’s still far too soon for a new version in my book. Yet here we are, with a new iPad Air—this time with an M3 chip. The tablet deliversContinue Reading
