When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Anker's 20,000mAh power bank with built-in cable is now $38 at Amazon The Anker Zolo 20,000mAh power bank is on sale for $38 at Amazon, just a few dollars off its lowest price ever recorded. I absolutely love my Anker Zolo 20,000mAh power bank for two reasons: it packs enough charging capacity for all-day peace of mind, and it has a built-in USB-C cable that doubles as a carrying strap. That's what elevates it above most other power banks I've tried. I've had this power bank for a while now and it's still my go-to option when I'm out and about for a day.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Adam and Alex let loose some magma-hot takes on the little metal bits that connect and power all our gadgets. I have a visceral hatred of MicroUSB. Back when I was writing about Android phones, there was a needlessly long transition from Micro to the far, superior USB-C, that made me resent it every time I saw it. And yet even now, I need to keep one MicroUSB cable around for my microphone and camera charger. For context, Adam and Alex are talking specifically about connection formats, not generational standards -- USB 3.0 is obviously better than 2.0.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. PC hardware prices are brutal, so I'm upgrading everything else If upgrading the PC itself is a financial horror show, there's still plenty of fun to be had around it. The 2020s have been brutal for PC gamers, as the furious rise of AI sent graphics card prices skyrocketing. In 2026, AI's insatiable hunger has affected seemingly everything with a microchip, as the cost for memory, storage, and even CPUs are making even the laptops and phones you buy more expensive, to say nothing of desktops. So what's a PC enthusiast with upgrade eyes bigger than their budget supposed to do?

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI watermarks are a good idea. Provisions in the EU AI Act for watermarking AI-generated text will likely struggle to keep AI slop purveyors in check. Starting soon, all text that's either generated or "processed" by Claude will bear invisible AI watermarks that can be detected with the right tools, a move made in response to new European Union regulations regarding the disclosure of AI-generated content. Anthropic's wide-ranging pledge to watermark Claude-generated text (including code generated by Claude Code) goes above and beyond the mandates in the EU AI Act, which took effect earlier this month.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. ActivityWatch is a free app that tracks your computer use while keeping all of your data locally on your device. Have you ever reached the end of a day spent on your computer and asked, "Where did all that time go?" Between work, surfing the web, and playing games, it's easy to lose track. ActivityWatch is a free, open-source app that shows how you use your computer. It can help you spot what keeps you on task and what pulls you away.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This Logitech mouse is rarely discounted, but it's $20 off now The Logitech MX Master 3S (Bluetooth Edition) is $20 off at Amazon, a rare discount for this near-silent productivity mouse we love using daily. The Logitech MX Master 3S released back in June 2022, but it's still one of our favorite productivity mice. It's so popular that it rarely goes on sale, and when it does, the discounts are modest--so it being available for $80 on Amazon right now is a great deal. It has only dipped below this price once before, and even then only for a short bit.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3. Firefox recently announced via Bluesky post: "Our support for uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere." The moment comes in response to news that Microsoft Edge is soon going to lock out uBlock Origin and other ad-blocking extensions that run on Manifest V2 architecture. Once Microsoft Edge moves to Manifest V3, ad-blocking extensions won't have access to the functions needed to properly identify and block ads that occur while browsing websites and watching videos.