Jeramy is proud to help Keep Austin Weird and loves hiking in the hill country of central Texas with a breakfast taco in each hand. When he's not writing about smart home gadgets and wearables, he's defending his relationship with his smart voice assistants to his family. You can follow him on Twitter at @jeramyutgw.
Due to strains on its global supply chain and reduced buying power thanks to the global pandemic, reports are that Amazon will be pushing its annual Prime Day event back from the summer to October. No official announcements have been made by the company at this time.
Amazon Alexa is filled with tons of great features, including the ability to entertain you and control your connected home. Our guide covers everything you need to know!
Chromebooks support picture-in-picture capability, making it easy for you to keep an eye on that cat video while "working" on other projects. There are a couple of easy ways to enable this feature, and we'll show you how to get started!
Looking to make your home smarter? Check out these smart locks. They secure your home by making it tougher for would-be thieves to get in but also make you feel like a spy since you can often unlock with your fingerprints or phone!
With the latest update to Google Photos, users can now more easily find their favorite pictures by where they were taken. We'll show you how to access the new places feature so that you can call up old memories just by looking at a map.
Google Photos has always been good about suggesting tweaks and improvements to your photo library, and now it's going even further to surface what it thinks are the best photos from your recent shoots. We'll show you how to access these Recent Highlights in Google Photos and revisit those recent, fond memories.
This may sound blasphemous to Android faithful, but I stand by my position that rear fingerprint sensors are just unnatural and uncomfortable. Heck, I'd take a side-mounted sensor over a rear-mounted one any day!
If you're looking for a great office chair under $200, look no further. We've found six of our favorite chairs in various categories that will be a great fit for any sedentary office environment.
Color preference is one of the most personal purchase choices we have, but unfortunately, many tech companies don't often give us many options. Not so with Amazon's Fire tablets.
The Jumbo Privacy app has been available to Android users for over nine months now, and the company continues to add features and tools for users to take control of their personal data. It has announced new feature tiers and a big new investment to help it continue to grow and support its user base.
With Ring in the news more and more these days, many are looking for smart home security alternatives. Makers of acclaimed smart locks, August, also have a solid video doorbell product, but will it be enough to beat Ring at their own game?
We've all got things on our phone that we'd rather other people not see. We'll show you how to enable secure folders on your Samsung Galaxy phone to protect your sensitive files from prying eyes.
We've long accused Google of neglecting Wear OS, and now we've seen Apple raise the stakes yet again. Here are seven features that Google could steal from watchOS 7 to make Wear OS better, and more competitive.
With numerous privacy and data security scandals hitting the news every week, many consumers are understandably nervous about storing their security footage in the cloud. Thankfully, we've found a number of options for those of you who want to keep your video doorbell recordings away from the cloud.
Ring makes some of the best video doorbells around. Choosing the right one can be a challenge, but the good news is that there really isn't a bad option.
One of the most annoying things about having guests over is trying to dig out your Wi-Fi password each time one of them wants to connect to your network. Thankfully, Samsung has given us an easier way to share Wi-Fi info. We'll show you how!
Just about everyone knows that you can cast content from your phone to a second screen, but were you aware that you could do the same from a Chromebook? Now you can share that funny YouTube clip on the big screen with your friends and family.
Chromebooks are built for the cloud, but they still have their feet planted on the ground. With on-device storage options ranging from 32GB to 256GB not counting microSD expansion, there is plenty of room to manage local files. We'll show you how with the Chrome OS Files app.
Google's tried its hand at social media before with limited success. This time it hopes that it's Pinterest clone Keen will have more staying power.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 was announced in 2019 promising a ton of impressive health features, but not all were available at launch time. Now after nine whole months, users are finally getting the blood pressure tracking feature turned on.