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A desk calendar standing on a pale surface, shot from a low angle. Its wire spiral binding runs along the top edge and the month name FEVEREIRO — February in Portuguese — is printed vertically down the left side in white on grey. The date grid beside it is faint and almost empty.

Consumer Tech 9 min

What Is One Month After 31 January?

28 February or 3 March — both are in daily use, and your date calculator probably will not tell you which one it picked....

Amelia Wong

Pub. 16 Aug

People sitting together in a living room, each using a separate device.

Consumer Tech 6 min

How Much Internet Speed Do I Need? Stop Multiplying by People

The usual method — one person's needs times the number of people — assumes a connection gets divided. We measured it: on...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 11 Aug

A green computer memory module photographed against a black background.

Consumer Tech 6 min

How Much RAM Do I Need? Free Memory Is the Wrong Number

On a 17.2 GB laptop running a browser, a container stack and an editor, free memory read 0.06 GB — and nothing was wrong...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 11 Aug

A black home router standing on a white shelf beside a television and a vase of reed diffuser sticks.

Consumer Tech 8 min

Why Is My Wi-Fi Slow? Usually, It Is Not the Wi-Fi

A page load is five separate stages, and the radio is only involved in one of them. Timed across three real sites, the W...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 10 Aug

A dark blue USB memory stick lying on a pale surface with its cap removed beside it.

Consumer Tech 7 min

How to Format a USB Drive (and Which Filesystem to Pick)

Formatting takes thirty seconds; the dropdown decides whether the stick does the job. We built each filesystem as a real...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 9 Aug

An overhead view of a laptop open on a wooden desk showing a web page, beside a notebook, a pen, a phone and a cup of coffee.

Consumer Tech 8 min

How to Clear Your Browser Cache (and When It Will Not Help)

Clearing the cache is the reflex, and it is usually the wrong lever. Measured on one of our own pages: the cached files...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 9 Aug