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Apple Mac Mini (M1, 256GB) | $649 | AmazonApple Mac Mini (M1, 512GB) | $849 | AmazonApple MacBook Air (M1, 256GB) | $990 | AmazonApple MacBook Air (M1, 512GB) | $1,176 | AmazonApple MacBook Pro (M1, 256GB) | $1,219 | AmazonApple MacBook Pro (M1, 512GB) | $1,399 | AmazonRead more...

It’s probably the first thing you try when your computer is acting up: turn it off and back on again. But should you restart or shut down? Well that actually depends on what kind of computer you are using. Shutting down your computer will close out of all the programs you’ve been running and clear the cache, so that…Read more...

There are lots of ways to pass the time right now. You could read more books. Watch more TV. Take longer family walks after dinner. Or—or—you could build paper models of the computers you grew up with so your kids can see (and appreciate, dammit!) how far technology has come and how lucky they are, what with their…Read more...

Few tech disasters can send your stomach into free fall quite like realizing you’ve deleted something important from your laptop or phone, with no obvious way to bring it back. Luckily, if you find yourself scrambling to restore your deleted files, there’s still hope. Free tools and apps are widely available to help…Read more...

When you plug stuff into the back of your monitor, computer, or TV, you have a few options, all annoying. You can go fumble blindly with your hand. You can bend under the monitor and bump your head. Or you can pull the whole thing away from the wall. But tech reporter Marques Brownlee has a trick: Use your phone’s…Read more...

When I was a kid, I couldn’t have imagined learning to code, build a website or create an app or a game. (Okay, I still can’t imagine doing those things, but I can’t even properly work my son’s Kindle Fire, so I’m a bit of a mess when it comes to technology.) Our digital native children, however, eat this stuff up. Read more...

I live across the country from my family, which amongst other things, has made my ability to provide tech support for my parents and miscellaneous friends a bit complicated. A few years ago I started recording my screen to explain how to do some more complicated tasks. This week I came across a tool that makes…Read more...