From the beginning, I’ve been skeptical about robot lawn mowers. I imagined a robot mowing down my flower beds, and wondered why someone wouldn’t just pluck the robot off the lawn and keep walking. Heck, I don’t even think you should grow a lawn, so it’d be a leap for me to recommend a lawn mower. However, there is no denying that robot mowers are here...

Twitter—er, sorry, X (formerly Twitter), is down. At least intermittently. I started writing this piece once I noticed the issue on my end: I tried loading the site in Chrome, and after a few moments, I got a blank screen. I tried refreshing again, and again, the site returned no results. I swapped to my phone, and lo and behold, the site was working....

Searching for music on the Sonos interface has always been a little frustrating, involving a lot of subpanels and too much back and forth. Today, Sonos is promising to alleviate some of that pain with a new home screen interface across the Sonos app and desktop experience. News of the upcoming changes leaked earlier this month, but now we’re able to...

Sharing your wifi password is a process that's probably better off being automated—especially if you have people coming over frequently, it's pretty annoying to keep telling everyone what the wifi password is. You can either print your wifi password and tape it to your fridge or use these clever ways to tell all your guests how to use your wifi. If...

We're now much more used to checking emails inside a browser tab, or loading up a mobile app, but for years everyone used desktop clients to get their email and try and get their inboxes into some kind of order—and since way back in 2003, Mozilla Thunderbird has been one of the best programs for the job.A desktop application like Thunderbird offers...

In 2011, on a flight to Portland, Ore., I saw physicist Michio Kaku doing long hand calculations with a pencil and notepad. I was like, “Damn, I just occupied the same space as Michio Kaku doing physics.” Later that evening, our paths crossed again at the world-famous Powell’s Books where Kaku was signing his latest. Why was the day so memorable to...