The problem: the most important device in your house is the one you ignore Every phone, laptop, television, and smart gadget in your home reaches the internet through a single box: your router. It runs around the clock, it is the front door to everything on your network, and most families set it up once … Read more
Start at the top of the picture. A drawer of cables, half of them for devices the family no longer owns. Passwords on a sticky note under the keyboard, or in the memory of the one person who set everything up. A filing cabinet nobody has opened since the move. An insurance policy that lives … Read more
The day arrives earlier than you planned. Your child is walking to a friend’s house or riding home with someone else’s parent, and you want a first phone that lets them reach you and find the way home but keeps the whole internet out. If that feels like overprotection, it is not — it is … Read more
Most of us still picture a television that goes dark and becomes furniture when the button is pressed. In September, the hardware-testing channel Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent security researchers, published a long investigation arguing that on at least one line of LG’s OLED televisions, including the current G5, that model is wrong … Read more
On Monday, September 14, every iPhone back to the iPhone 11 gets iOS 27. Underneath the headline features is the largest overhaul of Apple’s parental controls in years, and it comes with a quiet catch: much of it is per-child and opt-in, and none of it reaches a phone that does not know it belongs … Read more