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Wavlink Thunderbolt 4 Dock (UTD45) review: Lovely yet quirky

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent hardware design, with labels and a manual Terrific power delivery Absolutely stable once it’s up and running Aggressive price Three displays! Cons Can be a bit glitchy after resuming from sleep Surprisingly poor storage performance Driver update actually hurt performance Ethernet stopped working, once Our Verdict Wavlink’s Thunderbolt … Read more

7 best sci-fi movies of the 2020s so far, ranked

Table of Contents Table of Contents 7. Dune (2021) 6. Prey (2022) 5. Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (2021) 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 2. Dune: Part Two (2024) 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) Science fiction continues to be a popular and profitable … Read more

Feast Your Eyes on What the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus Cameras Can Do

When I’m reviewing a phone, the part that’s most fun is testing out the camera, and that’s been the case with the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus. I’ve spent a few days snapping pictures of friends, gardens, mansions and teacups (born to live in the world of Downton Abbey, forced to live in the modern day), … Read more

The Best Gadgets of January 2025

January has come and gone, and we’re already exhausted by 2025 for several big reasons. CES normally brings out enough off-the-wall tech to fill our baskets. This year’s big tech showcase included a few surprise products that seemed honestly great, from earbuds to e-bikes to AR glasses. After the festivities died down, the best gadgets … Read more

What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.

TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order of the ban was only a temporary reprieve for the company. While ByteDance was once resistant to the idea of selling TikTok’s US business, that seems to have changed since Trump took … Read more

The developer of SerenityOS is challenging the browser duopoly

There are a handful of challenges that many developers like to tackle as something of a rite of passage to prove their coding worth. One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages ​​​​translates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands. Another and far more ambitious challenge is building … Read more

Stablecoins are finding product-market fit in emerging markets

Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to more than 100 countries. But as Starlink scaled, it faced a major hurdle: accepting payments in developing markets, where traditional banking infrastructure is unreliable, slow, and prone to blocking transactions. Many local banks across Africa, Latin America, and … Read more

14 Useful Ways to Reuse an Old Router (Don’t Throw It Away!)

If you’re buying a new router or your internet service provider is sending a new one, you’re faced with a problem: what do you do with your old router? It might be in a box, cluttering a drawer, or lost at the back of a wardrobe. Whatever the case, your old WI-Fi router or combined … Read more