Save Hundreds on Laptops, Monitors, & More in Amazon's Big Gaming Sale

Quick Links It’s no secret that gaming gear and technology can be pricey, especially laptops and monitors. With these special gaming-themed sales from Amazon, you’ll be able to save large chunks of cash on the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop, Samsung’s 49-Inch Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor, the Razer Kraken Gaming Headset, and much more. ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop For $1,549.99 ($500 Off) – Best Price Ever The winner of several awards and noted for its powerful performance, theASUS ROG Strix Scar 15was one of the top gaming laptops of 2022, so you won’t want to miss out on the opportunity to grab it at a discount....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Michael Carpenter

The PlayStation 2 Had More 60FPS Games Than Consoles Do Now. What Happened?

Summary The PlayStation 2 had no shortage of games that ran at a smooth 60fps, but for the console generations that followed, this performance figure became rather scarce. Why did hitting that magic 60fps mark become so difficult and rare? The HD Era The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 heralded the era of 720p and 1080p games. Taking advantage of a new generation of TVs, the amount of detail in games shot up dramatically....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 819 words · Daniel Carson

Volvo is Using Virtual Reality to Save Lives on the Road

Volvois utilizing AI-generated, life-like virtual worlds to advance the development of its safety software, includingdriver assistance systems (ADAS), with the goal of making its cars even safer. The Swedish automaker can now synthesize incident data collected by the advanced sensors in its new cars, such asemergency braking, sharp steering, or manual intervention. This enables them to probe, reconstruct, and explore these incidents in new ways to understand better how they can be avoided....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Janet Miller

We Need More Small Phones That Don’t Skimp on Features

Quick Links Big phones dominate the flagship market, but let’s be honest—they’re not for everyone. Some of us don’t want a device that stretches our hands and pockets to their limits, and we shouldn’t have to sacrifice features to get it. Devices like thePixel 9 Pro,iPhone 16 Pro, and the China-exclusiveVivo X200 Pro Miniare proving that smaller phones can stand toe-to-toe with their larger counterparts without sacrificing performance, display quality, or camera excellence....

June 30, 2025 · 5 min · 1065 words · John Fuller

Windows 11 Fixed My Biggest Problem With The Taskbar

Summary To close an app on Windows, sometimes it’s not as easy as hitting the Close button—the app might continue sticking around as a background process, or if an app is frozen, hitting the button might not do a thing. Now, Windows 11 is making the taskbar way, way more useful in this regard. Currently, if you right-click an app on your Windows 11 taskbar, you get the classic option to close the window and another one to pin the app to the taskbar....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 579 words · David Mahoney

You Can Now Make Stickers With Microsoft Designer AI

Microsoft has offered AI image generation tools for a while, all of which are powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E technology. There’s now a new tool rolling out: Sticker Creator. Microsoft Designer, the web app for creating images, templates, and other designs, has a newSticker Creator. It uses the same DALL-E image generation technology as the other image creation features in Designer and other Microsoft apps, but Sticker Creator is specifically tuned to create PNG stickers with a transparency layer....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 365 words · David Taylor

You Can Wash Your Motherboard In a Dishwasher (But You Probably Shouldn't)

Quick Links Summary With the right settings and precautions taken, you’re able to indeed wash a motherboard in a dishwasher without damaging it. However, only professional overclockers have any real reason to do it. Until now, you may never have considered sticking yourmotherboardinto the dishwasher, but there are people who do it often: and it works! However, unless you know exactly what you’re doing and accept the risks, it’s a bad idea....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · Mia Nguyen

You Might Not Need a Number Pad on Your Keyboard

Quick Links Number pads are a holdover fromthe era of massive desktop calculators. You might be better off without one – at least, one permanently fixed to your keyboard. You’ve probably seen countless keyboards with integrated number pads, or there might be one on your keyboard right now. They provide a grid layout for quickly entering numbers, which helped make the transition from calculators to desktop computers less painful. Over the years, it has remained a fixture in PC keyboards, even as many people just use the number row....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 603 words · Cassandra Butler

13 Big Games You Won’t Believe Started Out as Flash Games

If you loved flash games, then you might remember a few that ended up on the bigger consoles. Interestingly, this happened more often than people know, and many of our favorite games started out in this nostalgic format. In fact, some of the best games are just bigger and better versions of their flash counterparts. Bloons Tower Defensestarted as a straightforward but very fun Flash game that came out in 2007....

June 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1191 words · Erin Harris

15 Useful iPhone Features You Probably Aren't Using

Quick Links There are so many features built into youriPhonethat it can be easy to overlook some of the more useful ones. But these tricks can make using your iPhone simpler, faster, and more pleasant, so they’re worth a second glance. One Handed Typing You can type one-handed on your iPhone using the standard keyboard, but it’s a lot easier to do so usingthe one-handed keyboard. To activate it, tap and hold the “Emoji” icon in the bottom-left corner (alternatively, tap the “Globe” icon if you have one) then use the bottom row of icons to select a keyboard that’s pinned to the left or right of the screen....

June 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1220 words · Katie Hill

4 Ways a Foldable Phone Changes Your Camera Game

Quick Links Foldables don’t have better cameras than their non-folding flagship peers, but in quite a few ways, they’re still better for taking photos. There are photography options you get from having a phone that folds that a slab phone just can’t replicate. The Galaxy S25 Ultra may have better camera hardware than the aging system in my Galaxy Z Fold 6, but would I trade in my phone for the newer camera?...

June 29, 2025 · 5 min · 1034 words · Jeffery Huff

5 Must-See Movies to Watch on Hulu This Week (July 21)

While being spoiled for choice is never a bad thing, sometimes you just want a handful of solid suggestions from someone whose job it is to dig through that catalog. Here it is, then, my five weekly movie picks that you can watch on Hulu now. 2025 Runtime 1 hour 25 minutes While I can’t necessarily count myself as a fan of the Predator franchise that started in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger, when the trailer for this animated installment dropped a few months ago, I was gobsmacked by the stunning animation and gorgeous worlds, and instantly wanted to see it....

June 29, 2025 · 5 min · 949 words · Robert Black PhD

7 Top Apps to Customize Your Mac Desktop

Quick Links macOS is a stable operating system that many turn to for its dependability, but it’s not known for its robust customization options. If you want to make changes to your Mac, you’ll need to think outside the box with third-party apps. 1.Übersicht macOS might have desktop widgets, but they’re limited to what Apple and third-party app developers provide. If you want to put your desktop to good use, take a look atÜbersicht....

June 29, 2025 · 7 min · 1372 words · Chad Anderson