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Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, despite whatever game of whack-a-mole we might try to play with ad blockers, browser plug-ins, or advanced settings. Some Google search users have recently been reminded of this inevitable fact with the sudden emergence of a pop-up screen that asks them to share their precise location for better search results. Screenshot via…

I wanted AirPods from the moment Apple unveiled the true wireless earphones during the iPhone 7 event in 2016. The delayed release that followed and the massive demand meant I wouldn’t get mine until several months later. But little did I know then that the AirPods have a huge flaw waiting to be discovered. Fast-forward to 2023, Apple has released several AirPods generations and variations. But it still hasn’t fixed the AirPods issue that annoys me the most: The ability to replace your batteries once the battery…