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This year has been a continuation of learning and understanding about how AI impacts our industry. It’s been less about the chaos of the initial disruption and more about “how do we leverage this?” My belief is that SEO is a practice that needs to be adaptable to the end goal and not fixed to any predetermined notions centered around Google, ranking, or keywords. The foundation of SEO is about making yourself visible online wherever your audience can find you. “S’ is for “search engine,” but one of my favorite phrases from the year is from Ashley Liddell, who said…

If you don’t know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail.Or if you’re on the other side of the budget spectrum and just need…

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back at the hardware, gadgets, and tech that defined our year. But instead of sharing a boring list all at once, we’re counting down to the holidays in style. Welcome to How-To Geek Wrapped 2025. Check back every morning in December as we unveil a new product, hand-picked by one of our editors, to add to the growing list below. From our daily drivers to game-changing upgrades and hidden gems, join us as we reveal our 24 absolute favorite tech picks of 2025. Subscribe to our newsletter to…

Simply Recipes / Shilpa Iyer “When my children were small, this sopas was a creative way to make them eat vegetables. I added cooked green beans in small pieces, corn kernels, green peas, cabbage strips, or shredded greens like bok choy, spinach, or kale. Add your favorites if you’d like to amp up the vegetable content.” —Elizabeth Ann Quirino, Recipe Developer

The best travel routers are super portable, user-friendly, and offer reliable wireless and wired connectivity when you’re on the road. Whether you’re a frequent or regular traveler, our research and testing led us to these picks from GL.iNet and TP-Link. Note: Prices are subject to change. Credit: Amazon TL;DR: This pocket-sized router is feature-packed and fairly priced for everything you get. Why We Recommend It If you’re looking for an ultra-compact travel router with an extensive feature list, the GL.iNet AXT1800 is worth considering. This dual-band router offers Wi-Fi support, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a WAN port—handy when connecting…

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers quickly adopted general-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, most specialized consumer GenAI applications have yet to resonate. “A lot of early AI applications around video, audio, and photo were super cool,” said Chi-Hua Chien, co-founder and managing partner at Goodwater Capital, onstage at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in early December. “But then Sora and Nano Banana came out, and the Chinese open sourced their video models. And so, a lot of those opportunities disappeared.” Chien compares some of…

2025 is nearly over and we’re ready to call the hits and misses of the year in TV, starting with the misses. A lot of high-profile shows aired in 2025, both old favorites returning for another season and brand new series out to prove themselves. In this article, we’ll talk about the ones that didn’t. We’ll talk about the shows that returned but didn’t meet expectations. We’re not saying all of these shows are terrible or even that bad, just that they let us down for one reason or another. IT: Welcome to Derry IT? More like… IT: Welcome to…

For the Platonic ideal grilled cheese sandwich recipe, you don’t need much. The supplies are simple, the prep time is minimal, and the technique is straightforward. This version—crispy on the outside, gooey in the middle, and deeply comforting, especially when served alongside a steaming bowl of tomato soup—doesn’t try to reinvent the comfort-food classic; it simply guides you toward the ultimate expression of it. That means white sandwich bread, sliced mild yellow cheese, a brush of mayo (yes, mayo!) on the outside, and a flash of butter in the skillet. There’s a time and place for fancy grilled cheese—Dijon, smoked…

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters…

With NASA’s first launch toward the moon in five decades potentially only a few months away, the space agency has just released the first episode of a new show that focuses on the highly anticipated mission. Moonbound — Charting the Course runs for 22 minutes and offers a deep dive into the preparations being made for the 10-day Artemis II flight, which will see four astronauts fly around the moon and back again. NASA is using the mission as the first crewed test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, paving the way for the crewed Artemis…