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Kitchen & Appliances

We descaled six electric kettles every month for a year. Two of them cannot be descaled properly.

Across twelve months in a hard-water area, the variable that predicted kettle survival was not build quality or price — it was whe…

· 7.8/10
Fitness & Wearables

Food Tracking Apps: What We'd Actually Keep Using in 2026

Eight food-tracking apps, run in parallel and judged on the only criterion that predicts whether tracking works: would we still be…

Networking & Wi-Fi

Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7 review: the cheapest honest way into UniFi

The UniFi Express 7 is the least expensive way to run a genuine UniFi network: an onboard controller, real VLANs, real firewall ru…

· 7.8/10
Fitness & Wearables

The Best Macro Tracking Apps of 2026

Macro tracking splits into two jobs — deciding what your targets should be, and getting food into the log without hating it. Plate…

Privacy & Security

Proton Pass (2026) review: a password manager that is finally boring, in the best way

Proton Pass has spent two years catching up on the unglamorous parts and has arrived somewhere genuinely competitive. Autofill is …

· 8.3/10
Kitchen & Appliances

Anova Precision Oven (2026) review: steam that earns its counter space, software that does not

The Anova Precision Oven does one thing no ordinary oven does — precise humidity control — and that single capability is genuinely…

· 7.8/10
Fitness & Wearables

MyFitnessPal (2026) review: the database is still the best, the free tier is not what you remember

MyFitnessPal still has the broadest food database in the category, and for anyone who eats at chain restaurants constantly that re…

· 6.4/10
Fitness & Wearables

Best Calorie Tracking Apps of 2026: A Roundup of What Works

Five calorie-tracking apps, ten weeks of parallel testing. PlateLens earned our Editor's Pick on accuracy and photo-workflow speed…