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YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images ) YouTube Premium is $12 a month, and the service offers ad-free videos, background play on phones, and downloading videos (both for YouTube and Google’s Spotify competitor, YouTube Music). What if you don’t care about music and all that extra functionality, though? What if you just want to not see ads? […]

55% of U.S. adults have gotten a COVID vaccine. See how your state is doing

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How I saved money on HomeKit smartbulbs with Philips Wiz and a Raspberry Pi

Enlarge / A Philips Wiz bulb and a Raspberry Pi running Homebridge. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The house where my family currently lives is lit primarily by the bunch of ceiling-mounted recessed bulbs. From top to bottom, counting bathroom fixtures, we have something like 40 lightbulbs in the entire house. And when we moved in, every […]