Author: Awais

As we leave Black Friday behind and head towards Cyber Monday, new deals are popping up all over the place. We’ve even found a new discount on Apple AirTags, one of my favorite tech items for travel. You can pick up a four-pack of them for just $63 from Amazon. That’s a new-low for this many, and it means you’re getting them for just under $16 each — that’s true at Best Buy as well. Apple AirTags are an incredibly handy thing to own, and they’re bound to make a difference to your life, especially if you have a lot…

Amazon is hosting a Black Friday sale that covers many of its ereaders. This includes the Kindle Colorsoft, which has been discounted to $170. This thing usually costs $250, so this is one heck of a deal and a record low price.The model came out earlier this year and we gave it a glowing review, calling it “the missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup.” It’s the first Kindle ereader in color, which makes this thing one of the best ways to read comic books and graphic novels. The pinch-to-zoom feature lets you get closer to details, to make each panel…

I use all sorts of software when I travel: a VPN, streaming music apps, cloud storage, and more. I turned my Raspberry Pi into a one-stop-shop travel router that combines all of those uses into one device, so I don’t have to worry about them individually on my phone, laptop, or console. I always carry a travel router I have a bag of tech gadgets and gizmos that I carry any time I travel. That includes a travel router, which I usually use for the VPN and to reduce the need to connect a million different devices to every hotel’s…

Skip peeling and chopping by using frozen hashbrowns for fast, easy prep.You can blend the soup smooth or keep it chunky to suit your preference.It turns into a fun, customizable meal by letting everyone add their favorite toppings. Potatoes are one of my favorite comfort foods. No matter what I’m feeling, there’s a potato for my mood, from French fries to au gratin. Baked potatoes and potato soup are in a heated race for first place in my heart, so I came up with an easy soup that combines the best of both worlds—warm, creamy potato soup with all the…

I’m a US citizen, and a few months ago I chose to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in Milan, Italy. When I stepped off the plane in my new home country, one of the very first places I went was the universally dreaded Vodafone store to sign up for a home Wi-Fi plan.Why? Because I am a freelancer by trade. I understood that, while I could hop around and work from free cafe Wi-Fi networks, a home internet connection would be the most secure way for me to work from abroad — for myself and my many clients.Experts agree:…

We’ve all stood on a crowded street corner, maybe just stepping out of a subway station, phone in hand, trying to figure out which direction to walk. The map shows a blue dot, of course, but the dot doesn’t always feel as helpful as it should. As someone who loves exploring new cities and wandering unfamiliar neighborhoods on foot, that disorientation is something I’d rather avoid. It’s actually what led me to discover one of Google Maps’ underrated features. If you’ve ever struggled to translate a flat 2D map into the real world around you, Live View might be exactly…

It’s That Simple is our series about recipes so easy, you can make them with your eyes closed. Think tiny ingredient lists, laid-back techniques, and results so delicious you’ll text home about them.There are many takes on mug cakes out there, but this truly pantry-friendly version is one you’ll want to save. It’s egg-free, but that’s a deliberate move. Without an egg, the crumb is loose and delicate, leaving the cake with a pudding-like center that allows the intensity of the cocoa powder to shine through. It delivers all the vibes of chocolate cake—rich, sticky, satisfying—with barely any effort.The culture…

of Green Dashboards Metrics bring order to chaos, or at least, that’s what we assume. They summarise multi-dimensional behaviour into consumable signals, clicks into conversions, latency into availability and impressions into ROI. However, in big data systems, I have discovered that the most deceptive indicators are those that we tend to celebrate most. In one instance, a digital campaign efficiency KPI had a steady positive trend within two quarters. It aligned with our dashboards and was similar to our automated reports. However, as we monitored post-conversion lead quality, we realised that the model had overfitted to interface-level behaviours, such as…

Black Friday is technically a thing of the past, but many of the best deals we told you about yesterday — including deep discounts on the AirPods Pro 3, the Pixel Watch 4, and the latest Kindle Paperwhite — are still kicking for now. In some cases, gadgets are out of stock at certain stores, or certain configurations are tougher to find at this point. You don’t have to worry, though, as we’ve confirmed that every deal below is both in stock and selling at a great price.Below are the results of our weeks spent sifting through deals and continually…

Growing up in Chennai, I felt like I could tell time based on when hot drinks were served in our house. The city is famed for its coffee, blended with chicory root and poured into glasses in dramatic foot-long streams, but ours was a tea household. My parents’ Guzzini mugs would come out promptly at 6:30 a.m. and once more at 4 p.m., the time I, with my mandated mug of milk, looked forward to most of all because it meant an accompanying packet of shortbread wasn’t far away. We’d sit together with our basset hound, Droopy, in the orange-tiled…