Windows 11 comes with several features and settings that can make your PC more useful, even though some of these features also collect or use information about your PC use. […]
Microsoft made the best controller of the generation and completely forgot about it
Last year, I took a massive gamble and bought the Xbox Elite Series 2. This gamble ultimately paid off, as I think the Series 2 is currently the best PC […]
I benchmarked Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 against Apple’s A20 Pro and Google’s Tensor G6, and one clearly loses
Qualcomm’s new flagship chip is here — well, chips. The company announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 at Snapdragon Summit, but it also threw a curveball by revealing a […]
Windows told me my drive was full, but this free tool showed me what was actually eating it
My laptop comes with a 512GB SSD, and it gets filled up pretty fast. I download a bunch of apps and files that I use once and never touch again, […]
The Elder Scrolls II just became an MMO, and it only took three decades
Community developers have adapted The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall into a persistent online multiplayer MMORPG project. Coinciding with the classic RPG’s 30th anniversary, a new JavaScript-based port called Daggerfall Enhanced […]
Turning on Android buttons unlocked four features I didn’t know I was missing
For years I’ve defaulted to the gesture-based navigation on Android that puts a little navigation pill at the bottom of the screen. Until I revisited the other option—on-screen buttons—I thought […]
I turned off 2G and my phone’s battery lasted way longer
I turned off 2G on my Galaxy S24 Ultra for a pretty mundane reason. My carrier already gives me newer network coverage everywhere I normally go, and keeping a decades-old […]
I changed one detail about my car in Google Maps, and suddenly its route recommendations made more sense
When I need to go somewhere, I set the destination and tap Start without questioning whether Google Maps’ route is the best one. Using it on autopilot cost me something […]
The Raspberry Pi just got priced out of its own mission
There was a time when telling someone the price of a Raspberry Pi was a punchline about how cheap computing had become. That time is over. The 16GB Raspberry Pi […]
After a month with the Pixel 11, these are the 3 upgrades I notice every day
It’s been a little over a month since Google launched the Pixel 11 series, and I’ve been using the Pixel 11 pretty much every day since. Spending this much time […]