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A great portable Bluetooth speaker is the easiest, most affordable way to spread tunes across a room, backyard, or beach blanket. After our latest round of testing, we have a brand-new top pick: a small, round speaker that has a great sound and an incredibly rugged design. It’s essentially identical to our previous top pick, but with one critical upgrade: USB-C charging. (Finally!)

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To remedy those pizza blues, she has been using our top-pick oven to host her own weekly pizza parties in Brooklyn. She’s accumulated a few other key pieces of gear, including pie-cutting scissors and the best drizzling olive oil, to whip up great pizzas of her own.

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