Early in 2026, a rather ordinary utility app bearing an attention-grabbing moniker reached the top ranks of sold applications in the iPhone App Store of China: Are You Dead? or, in Chinese, Sǐ le ma. The app only briefly turned out to be China's top-selling application, having easily elbowed aside the popular commercial productivity application lineup and video games. Its meteoric rise was not cheered by vigorous marketing or celebrity endorsement, but by pure word of mouth and social media talk. The app was downloaded by many simply out of curiosity through the existence of such a provocative name, only to discover that behind that even more provocative name was a very simple idea targeted toward the increasingly social reality in China.

In 2025, the USA witnessed a major shift in distracted driving law when 31 states, including the District of Columbia, enacted “no touch” or hands-free laws that ban drivers from holding or manually touching their phones while operating a vehicle. This is a sensible evolution from prior laws that amounted to only penalizing texting or phoning, with the emphasis being on the universal danger of any handheld phone use behind the wheel. They aim to reduce distraction by requiring the driver to have their phone on a mount and only interact with it through voice commands or the minimal tap-based input that does not entail removing one’s eyes from the road.

A fridge or freezer is key in any household for keeping food safe and fresh at a cold temperature. There are plenty of issues that can occur when the appliances are much too cold such as spoiled food, increased electricity usage and earlier breakdowns. Noticing the indicators of overcooling speeds up corrective action.

In our daily lives, for private photos, important documents, or company files, it’s increasingly challenging to keep information safe and reachable. Cloud storage and cloud backup services are two popular solutions that address this problem. But what are they, and should you utilize them? Let’s figure it out!

Nintendo’s latest console, Nintendo Switch 2, is a radical upgrade to its predecessor, the initial Switch released way back in 2017, which revolutionized gaming with its hybrid design factor. While the new console retains the highly popular concept of a home console that doubles up as a handheld console, it introduces a whole host of major upgrades and innovations into the game-playing experience that move it to a whole new level.

For gamers, the frame rate is the invisible number that determines whether a game is going to feel fast and reactive or slow and unresponsive. Your hardware may think it’s operating at 60 FPS, but without tracking, that assumption is a false one. Frame rates are always changing and even slight drops impact immersion or competitive play. Fortunately, modern tools and controllers provide a better understanding of what’s truly occurring on your monitor than ever.