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If you’d rather spend your weekend playing cool VR games than paying attention to the... everything happening on the internet right now, I suggest trying out SideQuest, an app that lets you sideload content onto the Meta Quest.

Android 13’s Bedtime mode can help you to put your phone away if Twitter, TikTok, or Minecraft is keeping you up past 2AM. Here’s how to use the feature to stop scrolling and get enough sleep.

It’s actually not that hard to quit Twitter, and you have 30 days to change your mind and reclaim your account. Here are directions on how to wave bye-bye to the social network if you’re so inclined.

iOS 16 introduced the ability to personalize spatial audio so that the sound profile is tuned for your ears and head shape. It only takes an awkward minute or two to capture images of your ears with your iPhone, but the payoff can make the immersion feel even more convincing.

Google’s new smartwatch has a proprietary strap mount that looks great, but can be a little tricky to navigate when you want to switch out bands. So we thought we’d offer some advice on the easiest way to deal with it.

As with laptops, phones, and other tech, you need to clean your watch throughly so that all traces of your personal info is gone before you give it away, trade it away, or recycle it. It’s not hard — here’s how.

The fabric exteriors on smart speakers and other home tech looks great, but it can attract dust, hair, and other dirt — and can be nearly impossible to clean. Here’s some advice on how to keep your home tech reasonably tidy.

The cause of slow download speeds on your Steam Deck might not be due to your internet, but rather to how your microSD card was formatted. Cameron Faulkner explains how to reformat your microSD card so that, just maybe, you can download games at a speedier pace.

But you don’t need breadcrumbs to find your way around. Here are some strategies for organizing your Slack conversations — especially if you’re lucky enough to have a paid version.

iOS 16 now lets you monitor the status of your battery, either in the status bar or via a lock screen widget. Of course, that means the next time you suddenly realize you’re totally out of power, you’ll have nobody to blame but yourself...

If you want to share your goings-on with a friend or family member, no need to reach for your phone — this can easily be done from a Mac. It takes like, three clicks. Just be prepared, because they will receive an invitation the instant you press enter.

Turns out there’s a setting to increase contrast in the iPhone’s messages app. It changes green bubbles from a bright neon green to a much calmer forest green. It’s nice!

The Verge smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy describes how she makes her home into a truly fantastic horror house to impress the local trick-or-treaters, and tells you how you can do it too.

If you’re hiking out in the wilderness, or even wandering around in an unfamiliar city, your Apple Watch (Series 6 or later) now has a Backtrack feature that can get you back home safely. But only if you know how to use it.

Tab groups can help organize your dozens of Chrome tabs, and you can now save those groups for later use — although it’s awkward. Google seems to be experimenting with the best way to do it; we’ve updated this how-to to reflect some of the latest changes.

Because of legal repercussions, Apple doesn’t allow you to directly record a phone call on your iPhone. But there are ways to record a conversation anyway — and one of these methods involves a Google app.

Believe me, as time goes by, some of those names are going to fade in your memory — unless you identify them in your photos. Google Photos has an AI feature that puts names on the faces in your photos, but you have to help. Here’s how to identify the people in Google Photos so you can find them later.