When you’re shopping for a new monitor, you’ll be inundated with a lot of technical specs. And while things like the screen size and resolution are fairly obvious, there’s another important factor that isn’t: response time. H…
PC gamers drop big bucks to feel immersed in their games. But some new smarthome tech is enabling amazingly immersive effects with just a few lights. Take this Philips Hue plugin for Minecraft as an example….
The future of game streaming is an open road. But we already have some markets we can use to draw a map: online video streaming services. If we’re not careful, game streaming will hit the same speed bumps….
Chrome has the useful ability to open a website as a window that doesn’t show the browser interface or open external links in a new tab. Or, rather, it did: in a late 2018 update, Google disabled this functionality on Window…
Pour one out for Google+, the latest Google social property to be axed. There aren’t many who care to keep their Google+ history saved—that’s part of why it’s dying!—but if you want yours, here’s how to download it….
Dolby is a trusted name in audio, but its latest product is a little different. “Dolby Dimension Headphones” isn’t an audio standard, like 5.1 Surround or Dolby Atmos, but a new wireless headphone set you can buy….
At CES 2019, NVIDIA announced that it was finally supporting FreeSync. Well, sort of—what the company actually announced was a “G-SYNC Compatible” program. But the rub is this: NVIDIA’s cards and drivers now work with FreeS…
At NVIDIA’s CES 2019 presentation, the company showed off a new technology called DLSS. In demonstrations, it all but eliminates the performance hit taken in games that enable fancy new ray-tracing graphics on RTX cards. But …
MicroSD cards are becoming more widely adopted, on everything from action cameras to phones to video game consoles. But you probably shouldn’t use one in your dedicated camera, at least not if it doesn’t have a MicroSD card s…
Did you know your phone might last longer if you use apps with darker interfaces? It’s true! Well, sometimes—it’s complicated. It depends on the technology in your screen, and whether or not your phone’s software takes adva…
Recently Fortnite publisher Epic made a splash in the world of PC gaming by introducing its own game store, with a competitive 88% share of profits going to developers. Now Discord is going one better with an even more gene…
For the last decade and change, Valve’s Steam has been the de facto standard for digital games on the PC. Want a game? Install Steam and download it. New launchers have risen to challenge Steam lately, but none have been so w…
Sony’s PlayStation Classic mini-console has only twenty games pre-loaded, and there’s no built-in mechanism for adding more. But the system also uses a popular open-source PlayStation emulator to run its ROMs, so an unofficia…
A new version of Windows may have limited features for inexpensive hardware. If that sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone: you could be forgiven thinking this is an article about Windows RT or Windows S. Nope, it’s someth…
Upgrading your desktop PC isn’t nearly as hard as you might think, but one of the harder parts is choosing the right…well, parts. Compatibility conflicts can be intimidating for a $1000 machine. Amazon wants to help with it…
It’s easy enough to superimpose a logo onto something in Photoshop. But what if your base photo isn’t head-on, so a square logo (or any other image) will look skewed? Here’s how to get your top image aligned with the corr…
For many web users, Pandora’s streaming radio was their first taste of algorithmic recommendation engines that adapted to the listener. Pandora has a lot of competition now, but it’s expanding into a new area: podcasts….
Kotaku spotted the open-source license for PCSX ReARMed in a recent hands-on look at the new PlayStation Classic. That’s an ARM (mobile hardware) re-release of the PCSX emulator that PC gamers have been using for almost two d…
OLED screen panels can display black pixels with almost no energy cost. So it follows that using apps with more black would save your phone battery. Google agrees, and it’s designing more of its Android apps with a dark theme…
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 be somethin…
The Switch, ostensibly a portable gaming machine but nominally a Wi-Fi tablet, seems like a perfect platform for smartphone-style apps. But strangely, Hulu has been the only major video service on the Switch so far. Today, Yo…
Dropbox is perhaps the best-known cloud storage platform for consumers, but it’s hoping to become something more. With an upcoming overhaul to its user tools, Dropbox will add more complex editing tools, in addition to what…
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?
Stardew Valley, the one-man passion project and spiritual successor to 16-bit farming simulators like Harvest Moon, is now available on iOS. The game became a surprise hit on the PC and has since spread to every major consol…
Gamers always want the best hardware for the best performance, but sometimes it isn’t necessary. 64 GB of RAM isn’t going to help you get headshots in Counter-Strike. So do you need an expensive gaming-focused Wi-Fi router?…
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