The best alternatives to Amazon for e-books and audiobooks
You have great choices if you want to skip Kindle and Audible for holiday gifts (or all year).
By Shira Ovide
The 2024 Help Desk Gift Guide: Tech we tested and recommend
The Post’s personal tech team tries out loads of gadgets, apps and services every year. These are worth gifting.
By Washington Post staff
Five annoying tech things to turn off right now
You can put a stop to Apple’s bonkers AI summaries and the clickety sounds as you type on your phone.
By Shira Ovide
Will AI kill Google? Past predictions of doom were totally wrong.
Past technology revolutions made Google even stronger rather than weaker, as many tech dudes predicted. So what about AI?
By Shira Ovide
3 ways TikTok might survive a ban, with or without Trump’s help
Donald Trump or the Supreme Court could be TikTok’s best hopes for survival. But there’s no guarantee.
By Shira Ovide
iPhones and AirPods now come with hearing health tools. Here’s how they work.
Apple’s $249 wireless earbuds may now help some hear the world better, not just block it out.
By Chris Velazco
Love buying cheap stuff online? Thank a law that avoids Trump’s tariffs.
A tax-free law used by American tourists also turbocharged bargain apps like Temu and Shein. The next White House could change everything.
By Shira Ovide
How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
By Tatum Hunter
So you want to ride a self-driving taxi? How Waymo compares in our tests.
Robotaxi services are slowly expanding to new cities — so we put one to the test.
By Chris Velazco, Andrea Jimenez and Danielle Abril
Location-sharing is making us miserable. It’s time to say ‘no.’
Location-sharing is eroding our trust and privacy. Is it too late to opt out?
By Tatum Hunter
The Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing match shows streaming is just cable now
Netflix shunned live sports and events for most of its history. Advertising money changed everything.
By Shira Ovide
What next? Activists on how to move past the grief of defeat.
If the elections didn’t work out the way that you had hoped, you may feel depressed and lost. We asked longtime activists how they move forward.
By Heather Kelly
Could your iPhone cost $300 more in the Trump administration?
Apple avoided tariffs on most of its products during the first Trump presidency. No one knows what happens with Trump 2.0.
By Shira Ovide
How Harris won at TikTok but lost the election
The Harris campaign grabbed headlines for going viral on TikTok. It didn’t translate to a win.
By Tatum Hunter
Windows 10 has a ‘best by’ date. Here’s what you can do about it.
Your Windows 10 PC won’t magically stop working, but it’s time to start thinking about your options.
By Chris Velazco
The sane human’s guide to ‘panic responsibly’ on Election Day
Feeling election anxiety? Know what to expect, including days of vote counting and garbage information online, and how to put it in perspective.
By Shira Ovide
Make election week less stressful, without putting down your phone
If you can’t find time to meditate, or even put your phone down for more than 10 minutes, there are still ways to dissociate during the most stressful days of the year. Here are our tech recommendations to keep calm and carry on.
By Heather Kelly
They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out.
Face search websites can help protect your privacy, but they can also be abused. Try these steps to protect yourself.
By Shira Ovide
Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters.
Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is seeing a second life on TikTok, where young voters are hearing it for the first time.
By Tatum Hunter
How to use AI to help plan your vote
Lengthy ballots have become adult homework. Here are some ways to use AI to help you decide who and what to vote for.
By Heather Kelly