Smart sprinkler controllers are a great way to cut down on home water usage, sparing both your wallet and the planet. But they have one key limitation that prevents them from being used by most ...

A couple of surprisingly simple apps are using timers in smart ways to help cut down on distractions.

If you are working on your laptop and have to move away for a while, you should put it to sleep ideally. This way you can pick up your work from where you left it, also, it saves electricity and your ...

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For something as simple as setting a timer, the built-in apps on our computers can be awfully fiddly. Usually you have to open a Clock app first, then navigate to a separate tab for timers. After that ...

When your workday is an amorphous blob of equally important to-do items, it can be challenging to pick one task and focus on it effectively long enough to get it done. But if you commit yourself to ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google’s handy timer and stopwatch that you can use right from Search have ...

Attention span? No thanks, haven’t seen it in years. Let’s blame phones and screens, though I guess I could blame my unwillingness to do anything about it. Until now. In an attempt to reclaim my focus ...

My twin daughters, like most kids, have zero concept of time. I envy their ability to stop and savor life at their own pace — to be totally within the moment, and to not let worry of the future cloud ...