Category: Technology

Beyond the Alphabet (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) Beyond the Alphabet is a weekly column that focuses on the tech world both inside and out of the confines of Mountain View. When it comes to finding the best Black Friday deals, it sure feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. But…

I’ve been using smartphones since the iPhone 3G and writing about them for almost as long, and it was in large part their apps and games that first got me excited about their potential. Of course, not all apps are worth celebrating – there are plenty of low-quality ones, and others I’d just rather limit…

For many PC enthusiasts around the world, XP was their first operating system. Some of you may have started with earlier or later iterations of the OS, but XP was a very special time in Windows’ history. It was when PCs still felt personal, when the built-in tools had charm, and when third-party apps blended…

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Russia’s government is tightening its internet control, with widespread outages and restrictions already defining 2025 for its citizens. These pervasive measures are impacting daily life, from public transport to…

Black Friday is here again, which means it’s time to consider any major purchases you want to make for the upcoming year while the discounts are plentiful. We, on the Business Insider Reviews team, have been closely following the rollout of Apple’s latest batch of iPhones since they were launched back in September, so a…

Ridofranz/Getty Images When shopping for a new laptop, there’s a lot of focus on hardware specs, like the CPU and GPU, but once it’s in your hands, there are a few apps you need to download immediately. Otherwise, you’re leaving functionality on the table.  The apps you…

Showing up every day seems simple. But sometimes life reminds you that it isn’t. Most of us move through our routines on autopilot. So, we don’t think too much about it until something inside us shuts down. You usually don’t notice it happening until you’re sitting in front of your own mind, and you’re completely…

Google’s NotebookLM is easily the most exciting research tool of the year, but out of the box, it has a major flaw. You have to manually feed it everything, and once it generates those brilliant insights, they often die inside the chat window. To turn NotebookLM from a fun toy into a serious productivity engine,…