2025-07-26

Surfshark VPN review: A fast VPN for casual users

Surfshark is one of the youngest major VPNs, but it's grown rapidly over the last seven years. Since 2018, it's expanded its network to 100 countries, added a suite of apps to its Surfshark [...]

2025-03-05

Algorithms from the 1980s power today's AI breakthroughs, earn Turing Award for researchers

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for developing key technologies that power modern artificial intelligence, including recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. [...]

2025-10-06

OpenAI announces Apps SDK allowing ChatGPT to launch and run third party apps like Zillow, Canva, Spotify

OpenAI's annual conference for third-party developers, DevDay, kicked off with a bang today as co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced a new "Apps SDK" that makes it "possible to b [...]

2025-05-30

How we test VPNs

VPN users have an unbelievable amount of choice in the market, but lots of those choices are bad. Upwards of 180 virtual private networks are available for commercial users alone. For the casual user [...]

2025-06-27

NordVPN Review 2025: Innovative features, a few missteps

When we say that NordVPN is a good VPN that's not quite great, it's important to put that in perspective. Building a good VPN is hard, as evidenced by all the shovelware VPNs flooding the ma [...]

2025-08-13

Norton VPN review: A VPN that fails to meet Norton's standards

One thing I need to make clear right from the start: this is a review of Norton VPN (formerly Norton Secure VPN, and briefly Norton Ultra VPN) as a standalone app, not of the VPN feature in the Norton [...]

2025-01-14

How to talk to ChatGPT on your phone

ChatGPT has had support for voice conversations since the end of 2023, but if you’re new to OpenAI’s chatbot, figuring out how to converse with it can be tricky since there are a couple of ways to [...]

2025-05-29

The best microSD cards in 2025

Most microSD cards are fast enough for boosting storage space and making simple file transfers, but some provide a little more value than others. If you’ve got a device that still accepts microSD ca [...]

2025-06-12

Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

Proton VPN stands out for two main reasons: it's one of the only virtual private networks (VPNs) to include a free plan with no data limits, and it's one of the few services majority-owned b [...]