What Is A Solid-State Battery and Will They Solve Our Battery Life Problems?
Mobile technology is increasing in power exponentially, but battery tech isn’t keeping up. We’re reaching the physical limits of what conventional lithium-ion and lithium-polymer designs can do. The solution might...
Why Do New Games Take Up So Much Hard Drive Space?
Red Dead Redemption 2: 105 GB of storage space required. Shadow of War: 98 GB. Final Fantasy 15: almost 150 GB. Why the hell are these games taking up so much room on your hard drive?
What’s the Difference Between Optical and Digital Image Stabilization?
If you’ve ever tried to take video on your phone while walking, you know keeping the image still is tricky. There’s some neat technology designed to reduce that shaky-cam effect, and there are two different approaches to ...
What Does “Game Mode” On My TV Or Monitor Mean?
If you’ve ever dug around the nooks and crannies of your TV or monitor’s picture adjustment menu, you might have come across something called “game mode.” What does that mean? Let’s break it down...
It’s Finally Safe (And Affordable) To Buy Graphics Cards Again
It’s been a bit of a drag to be a PC gamer over the last year or so. Cryptocurrency miners gobbled up all of the graphics cards in an already somewhat niche market, sending prices for high-end and even mid-range GPUs sk...
