Hotels can be stingy about what guests are allowed to do with their TVs. If you try to plug your own device into your room’s TV to watch your own content, odds are good that nothing will happen. Hotel TVs are usually plugged into external boxes that track the TVs' activity and control which channels, apps, and TV features can be used by guests. These...

Notetaking Jedis know the power of organization. Creating a system for your Google Keep notes isn't any different, even if the sticky notes app doesn't have an obvious tier of folders and sub-folders. Google Keep is deliberately minimal, but there are enough tips and tricks you can combine to stop yourself from drowning in a sea of digital sticky notes.Seven...

If you want to get a movie or TV show up on a big screen, or beam music wirelessly to a speaker, then the Chromecast standard is one of the best ways to go about it: It couldn't be much simpler to use, it works across a host of devices and apps, and you can even use it to mirror browser tabs and Android screens.Here's everything you need to know about...

It may not come as a surprise that there’s yet another scrumptious morsel you can easily whip up with the help of boxed pancake mix. This malty, self-rising baking mix makes an excellent frying batter for veggies and a perfect dough for apple fritters (among other tempting carb-laden snacks). With both sweet and savory applications, complete pancake...

Between shows like Finding Your Roots on PBS and the proliferation of companies like 23andMe, conversations about genealogy and family history have become mainstream—trendy, even. While not everyone wants to spit in a tube and potentially sign their physical data away, tracing one's ancestors is hardly a new tech trend—genealogy has been a major field...

Anthropic is freeing its AI chatbot, Claude, from your desktop. The highly successful ChatGPT competitor has now made the jump to iOS, launching its first-ever official chatbot app for the iPhone. The new iOS app is available to download right now, and can do everything that Claude on the web can do, including analyzing images and helping you brainstorm....