The Best Underwear to Beat Burn to Bits (2025)
Why should you trust me about chafing? Well, I once ran the equivalent of 67 marathons in 67 days with a 25-pound backpack on. This is my toolkit for anyone trying to avoid pain. Lube up: Anti-chafing products like petroleum jelly or special balms are the best anti-chafe defense. Even if the carefully chosen fabric annoys you, a generous...
How to Use Parental Controls on Google, Apple, and Microsoft Accounts
You can, for example, make sure that only key applications like the Phone app are available after a certain time at night. Screen Time works on Apple computers and mobile devices, so these settings are carried over, and of course you can change them at any time as your children get older.MicrosoftThe Microsoft account you use to sign in...
How to Use Apple’s Genmoji to Create New Types of Emojis
For decades, choosing emojis has been limited to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard. Every year brings a new emoji—I like the "face with bags under the eyes," though that's still rolling out. But there are times when the pre-installed options just aren't specific enough. Luckily, Apple has a solution, and it's called Genmoji. With the help of Apple...
The Best Cookware for Meal Kits (2025), Tested and Reviewed
I have tried every meal kit on the market over the past few years. And while not denying the absolute convenience it offers, there are also a few tips and tricks I've learned to make the experience smoother - namely, the gadgets and gizmos I love every time a new box arrives at my door, full of ingredients for...
Blinkit signals an expensive war ahead in India’s fast trading market
Zomato's e-commerce unit, Blinkit, is slowing expansion and expecting continued losses as competition increases in India's fast delivery market. Blinkit now aims to reach 2,000 dark stores - small warehouses in residential areas that specialize in serving online orders - by December 2025, a year ahead of its previous guidance, after surpassing 1,000 stores at the end of the...
Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta AI language translation
This is today's edition of The Download, a weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's happening in the world of technology. What to expect from Neuralink in 2025 In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced that he would be live streaming from his home for three days straight. It broadcasts in a number of distinctive...
X launches vertical video feed exclusively for US users
Social network X is trying to capitalize on removing ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from US app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed. The company added a video tab to the bottom of the app for users in the US to quickly access video content on the platform. "A new immersive home for video is rolling...
How African VC firm Oui Capital raised its first funding by exiting unicorn Moniepoint
At a recent investor meeting, early-stage African investor Oui Capital told its limited partners that it had raised $4 million in its debut fund after selling some shares in business banking platform Moniepoint. Africa's fintech unicorn has so far proven to be a good investment for five-year-old Oui Capital. At that time the first fund was opened, investing $...
Determine the fate of the “leftover” embryo.
No one knows exactly how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the number is thought to be between 1 million and 10 million in the US. Some of these embryos have been stored for years or decades. In some cases, intended parents deliberately choose this, choosing to pay hundreds of dollars in fees each year. But...
AI isn’t very good at history, finding new papers
AI may excel at certain tasks such as coding or producing podcasts. But the struggle to pass the high-level history exam, a new paper has been found. A team of researchers has created a new benchmark to test three large language models (LLM) - OpenAI's GPT-4, Meta's Llama, and Google's Gemini - on historical questions. The benchmark, Hist-LLM, tests...
