Google’s annual budget phone refresh is here, this time making the Pixel 8 just a little more affordable. Today the company announced the Pixel 8a, which has almost all of the features included in the standard Pixel 8, but at a discount. As with past Pixel a-series phones, the Pixel 8a can be considered an almost pound-for-pound replacement for the...

Robot lawn mower designs vary wildly, as they're optimized for different benefits, and for every feature, a weakness is exposed. Light and fast robots are easy to turn over. Heavy robots are slow and get stuck. Every single robot lawn mower I test seems to be built differently, optimized for stability or tight turns or longevity or agility, but never...

When I think of the perfect diner breakfast, there are always over-easy eggs and hash browns involved. Rare is the diner that makes hash browns (I usually see home fries), and rarer still are they made the way I like them best—super crunchy on the outside. I get i: Diner service is hectic and the potatoes come out quickly. So when I make them at home,...

The U.S. is a wildly diverse landscape. Consider how different the northern landscapes of Michigan and Minnesota are from the deserts of Texas and New Mexico, or the dense forests of the Northeast or Northwest. While it’s common sense that these different landscapes wouldn’t support the same plant life, it doesn’t stop people from trying to grow cactus...

As much as other search engines try, Google simply dominates search. Search is the company's bread and butter (and it spends billions to keep it that way). But the future of search is all but certain, and other companies want in—including some big names in AI.As the rumors have it, OpenAI may be about to roll out a search engine of its own. One Redditor...

When you’re cleaning your kitchen sink, or deep cleaning your bathroom, there’s an often-overlooked place you might be forgetting. Your kitchen and bathroom faucets can become a breeding ground for mold, bacteria, and damaging mineral build-up. How often you should clean your faucet headThe faucet head on your sink should be cleaned once to twice a...