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Lower cost doesn’t always mean lower quality. Poetra.RH/Shutterstock Using a popular postpaid plan with one of the three major phone carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon) isn’t cheap. Most of them cost at least $50 per month and can get close to $100/month for a single person. You have to join the priciest plans to take advantage of many “on us” phone deals, and they frequently inflate the cost with bundled extras you might not even use. Thankfully, these carriers aren’t your only option. There’s a whole fleet of low-cost mobile providers, known as mobile virtual network…

When the eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI arrived, it was praised for its responsive handling and everyday practicality. Still, even beloved icons have room for improvement. Owners on enthusiast forums like VW Vortex and GolfMK7.com voiced their frustrations, particularly with the car’s touch-sensitive steering wheel controls and a sluggish, overly complex infotainment system. Instead of ignoring these complaints, Volkswagen took the feedback seriously. The result? The Golf 8.5 GTI facelift, a car that addresses its predecessor’s shortcomings while preserving all the qualities that have made the GTI a benchmark in the hot hatch segment. Here are ten ways Volkswagen proved it…

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Alongside the massive Amazon Labor Day Sale that is live, we’re closing out this week’s Green Deals with an early-bird launch deal on Jackery’s latest HomePower 1000 Plus V2 Portable Power Station + bundles starting from $619, as well as the brand’s Member Event Sale lineup. Right behind that, we have an exclusive deal for Heybike’s upgraded 1,000W Mars 2.0 Folding Fat Tire e-bike at a new $749 low, and the ECOVACS LiDAR PRO Robot Lawn Mowers starting from a $999 low. There’s also a 2026 low on EGO’s 670 CFM leaf blower, an ongoing deal for Greenworks’ 24V 22-inch…

Nobody, and we mean nobody, likes to step outside and find their car has been damaged. That goes for auto enthusiasts as well as everyday folks who simply rely on their car for daily transportation. Few things are as infuriating as finding splattered eggs or key marks on your old $3,000 Honda Civic, never mind a cracked fascia or scuff marks on your $30,000 Miata from a careless parking-lot encounter. Imagine, then, the feeling of walking outside and finding your $3 million Koenigsegg Gemera – a vehicle you just got a few weeks prior – with busted glass all over…

Google has finally removed the paywall on one of its more interesting Labs experiments. Dreambeans, the AI app that builds you a personalized daily feed of stories, is now free to test for any Google Account holdern in the US (via 9to5Google). How the Dreambeans AI app builds your daily feed Google Labs / YouTube Think of it as a highly personal version of Google Discover. With your permission, Dreambeans taps into Gmail, Google Photos, Calendar, Search history, and YouTube to figure out what you’re into, and here’s how each piece plays its part: Workspace supplies real-world context like receipts…

Buying a used Genesis GV60 – a luxury EV – can be cheaper than picking up a brand-new Chevrolet Trax, an SUV that is considerably less luxurious, not to mention less powerful. Bearing that in mind, it seems the humble Genesis may be poised as one of the best used car bargains on the market today. Across the world, EV adoption has been on the rise. That is, except in the United States. A few years ago, dropping $60,000 on a luxury electric vehicle would net you something that was genuinely exotic, well-equipped, and adequately powerful. Such is the case…

If you think about “luxury cars,” concepts like “expensive repair bills” and “heaps of maintenance” may come to mind. Vehicles on the high-end market are not exactly known for being bulletproof. However, there are exceptions to every rule, and the family of vehicles from the Mercedes-Benz W124 model series is definitely one of them. An ancestor of what we now know as the E-Class, the iconic W124 was in production for a decade and has distinguished itself as one of Mercedes’ most reliable and iconic cars from the end of the 20th century. Here was how it became a symbol…

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing, a final order of removal was issued ​on July 22.The British national made a name for himself as an editor at Steve Bannon’s Breitbart and an early supporter of Donald Trump’s. He has had a long history of controversial statements and associations, including reportedly helping…

Chances are there’s a connection issue between your phone and car if Android auto isn’t working. Gabriel Nica/Shutterstock Android Auto is a neat way to extend your smartphone to your car’s infotainment screen. Maps, messages and more are all accessible once you’ve hooked up your phone up to your car. The experience is designed to be seamless, so long as your phone and car are actually compatible. What happens if Android Auto isn’t working, though? Well, assuming a rare bug isn’t the cause, fixing a faulty Android Auto hookup to your car is a pretty easy…