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Okay, so you're sitting there and your phone's battery is dying by 2 p.m. on a day you barely touched it. Or a call sounded like …

The moment happens to almost everyone eventually. You mention something out loud, a hobby or a brand or a trip you're quietly planning, and within a …

You're standing at the kitchen counter telling your partner about the grill you keep eyeing, and two days later an ad for that same grill is …

Okay, so let's set the scene. My desk has, for the last year or so, been a graveyard for charging bricks. A squat 65W unit for …

There was a time when the biggest graphics leaps were obvious the second they hit the screen. A demo would flip over and your jaw would …

Every gamer has that drawer. The one stuffed with novelty mugs, a mousepad that doesn't match anything, and maybe a game they already own. I've spent …

I was at a pub in the UK a while back, having a drink, when a stranger walked up unprompted. He was a gamer, he told …

I'm lining up a clean shot in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 when I feel my wife lean over from the other end of the …