Author: Amelia Scott

The iPad mini 7, with its high-end specs packed into a compact body, can be a great choice for buyers looking for a powerful tablet that isn’t too heavy or bulky. It is Apple’s smallest tablet, occupying the top two positions in Consumer Reports’ rankings for tablets with screens around eight inches. In third place in Consumer Reports’ ranking is another powerful tablet with a small footprint, which is not made by Apple. The Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 is the device in question, a tablet launching in January 2025, a few months after Apple introduced the iPad mini 7.…

Setting aside how many data points you’ll get after testing, you’ll actually see them on Superpower’s website, on the app, and through the company’s AI service. The website is well designed and easy to navigate. Once your results are available, you’ll see general results, like your “superpower score” and your “biological age.” You’ll then be able to dive into the results individually and navigate different tabs for things like seeing all the data together, taking a look at your “protocol,” and purchasing recommended supplements and other products. The “protocol” is essentially Superpower’s plan for your health, based on the goals…

KirillovIgor/Shutterstock There are different colors of possible USB ports that you can find on computers. These can vary from white, black, red, teal, blue and even yellow. Each color has a different meaning, and while there is no industry-wide standard requiring manufacturers to follow these color conventions, most do. Fortunately, when manufacturers deviate from the usual color scheme, there may be other indicators around the port to help you determine its type, such as the letters SS, SS+, or labels like USB 3.2 next to it. Ultimately, the best way…

While cheap headphones can be reliable, you often get what you pay for, which means you’ll have to compromise on audio quality. While a nice pair can dramatically improve your sound experience, how much is too much? Whether you opt for fancy studio-quality over-ear models or high-quality wired headphones, Consumer Reports (CR) gives the Grado RS2x a high rating in the non-noise-canceling headphones category. Considering this pair costs around $550, it certainly checks all the luxury boxes available. But are these Grado cans worth it? Are you paying for the sheer prestige of an…

Urbano Creative/Shutterstock Amazon Alexa remains synonymous with voice assistants and has undeniably reserved its place in pop culture. While it remains a popular piece of software (over 600 million Amazon Echos have been sold in total), cracks have been appearing for some time. In fact, many users are fed up with Amazon’s advertising practices and are considering finally getting rid of the old Alexa. Besides lack of trust in Amazon’s data security service, what are the main reasons why people abandon Amazon Alexa devices? Some believe the explosion of LLMs…

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images While retailers like Best Buy and Walmart continue to drive healthy brick-and-mortar activity, online shopping hasn’t been so kind to dearly departed tech bastions like Circuit City, Radio Shack and a once-lauded computer supermarket: CompUSA. Throughout its heyday in the 1990s, CompUSA was THE place to buy everything from desktop and laptop computers to circuit boards, RAM, peripherals, software and much more. CompUSA’s humble origins date back to 1984, when the first store (then known as Soft Warehouse) opened in Dallas, Texas. Renamed CompUSA in 1991…

Photoschmidt/Shutterstock While smartphone buyers can easily find iPhone models that can last five years, they may not have the same luck with the AirPods models they pair with those iPhones. A review of various threads about the lifespan of AirPods and AirPods Pro models sold by Apple over the past few years shows that the wireless earbuds probably won’t last that long. Average lifespan is 2 to 3 years with regular use. Taking good care of AirPods, which may involve regular cleaning of the wireless earbuds and case, can extend…

DC Studio/Shutterstock Given how common 4K computer monitors are these days, it’s easy to think they’re the better option. Yes, this may be true in some cases – after all, many of them offer excellent display quality, wide screens and accurate colors. But Consumer Reports says otherwise. According to the CR rankings, the best computer monitor isn’t 4K and actually comes from one of the underrated monitor brands that can compete with Samsung and Dell; Asus. The top-ranked monitor is the Asus ProArt PA248QV. It is a 24.1″ IPS monitor,…

It’s frustrating to work on your PC and spot an errant spot on the screen. Once you notice it, you won’t notice it again, so you’ll want to clean it immediately, because proper screen care is essential for the proper care and maintenance of your PC. If you wear glasses, you might have a bottle of spray lens cleaner on hand that you’d be tempted to try, but if you spray it on your computer screen, you’re more likely to cause permanent damage than to clean it. There’s some logic to using lens cleaner on a monitor, but while it…

Many more affordable headphones on the market sound great. Most people would settle for a decent pair of headphones that don’t cost an arm and a leg. But if you’re serious about your music and your audiophile life, several fairly expensive headphones don’t quite justify their price. If you’re looking for really good sound quality, you might think that paying more means getting better sound quality. This isn’t always the case, and many expensive headphones from well-known brands don’t meet true audiophile standards. We’ve ranked 11 top audiophile headphones in the past, and none of these brands are on this…