Quick Links While 4K TVs are commonplace, and many PC gamers are moving on to1440p monitorsor higher, there are many reasons why you don’t need to upgrade your 1080p display yet. There’s plenty of life left in “Full HD.” 1080p Is Not a “Low” Resolution While it’s true that 4K offers four times the resolution of 1080p, that doesn’t mean that 1080p is a “low” resolution in absolute terms. After all, it’s still just over two million pixels of detail!...

Living in a digital era has a lot of perks, like having a digital wallet that allows you to store your credit cards, tickets, and IDs. Google Wallet is just that and more. You may have privacy concerns when it comes to digital wallets, but Google has security features to ensure all your private information is protected. The Future is Digital Wallets You need to pick a payment method when you shop, eat at a restaurant, or purchase something online....

Quick Links Android permissions are at the core of managing how apps interact with your device, safeguarding your data and personal information. Understanding these permissions ensures your privacy and helps you prevent apps from overstepping their boundaries. What Are Android Permissions? Android permissions give apps access to specific features or data on your phone. For example, a navigation app like Google Maps or Waze will ask for location access. A photo-editing app might also ask for access to our media storage....

Are you one of the millions of people who have recently migrated from X to Bluesky? If so, let us demystify some of the new terminology you may have encountered. What Is a Skeet? First up, possibly the most awkward and not-very-popular term: “skeet.” A skeet is simply a post, what X used to call a tweet. They’re slightly longer than a post on X — at least, a post you can make for free — at 300 characters rather than 280....

OpenAI has released a ton of improvements for its chatbot, ChatGPT, in recent months, but it’s been a while since we’ve had a core model update. While we await for GPT-5, which OpenAI seems pretty ambitious with, the company has launched a mid-step upgrade in the meantime—GPT-4.5. OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5, its newest and largest language model to date. While not considered a “frontier” model, as per the company itself, GPT-4....

Coinciding with the NFL draft, EA officially announced the next games in their football simulation series: College Football 26 and Madden NFL 26. College Football 26 is slated to hit store shelves August 07, 2025, and Madden NFL 26 arrives a month later on August 14. No cover athletes for either game have been announced yet, but expect them to be revealed as marketing ramps up over the next couple months....

Summary The 2023Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (7630)caught my eye because its specs and price points seemed too good to be true. Does this laptop prove you can buy a performance-focused machine without spending a fortune? That’s what I wanted to find out. After weeks of testing, I found the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (7630) an excellent choice for everyday users, including students, families, and casual business users, even with the minimum specs....

Quick Links Repurposing an old iMac is usually more trouble than it’s worth. But a Mac Mini—that’s a totally different story. The Mac Mini’s tiny footprint lends itself to some genuinely useful projects and can be useful long beyond its support date. Turn Your Old Mac Mini Into a Home Server Are you familiar withnetwork-attached storage(NAS) devices? A decent NAS can replace your cloud storage and media streaming subscriptions, spin up a gaming server, provide local storage for IP security cameras, host virtual machines, and fulfill dozens of other tasks....

Assassin’s Creedis one of the biggest video game series ever. With the release ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows, there are now 15 mainline titles in total if we account forLiberation. The launch of Shadows is the perfect moment to rank everyAssassin’s Creedto date, from worst to best. I’ve playedShadowsfor around 4 hours, and my (very) early impressions are positive. I love the stealth sections, and the combat is simple and pleasantly grisly, but I’ll have to spend at least a couple dozen hours more in Feudal Japan to decide the game’s place among its peers....

Mozilla is now rolling out Firefox 138 across desktop platforms, Android, and iPhone. The update includes updates to profiles, more improvements for tab groups, and other helpful changes. First, Firefox is rolling out names, avatars, and color themes for profiles to help you better organize them. For example, you could have Work and Personal profiles with separate bookmarks and browsing history, then make them color-coded for easy recognition. Firefox has already included a weather indicator on the New Tab page for a few versions, at least in the United States, and now weather is also coming to the address bar....

Summary Radiation is everywhere. You can’t escape it, and there’s always some background radiation we have to contend with. That’s scary, of course, because ionising radiation can make us sick in various ways. So it doesn’t help that some of the technology we have in our homes also produces radiation with potentially harmful effects. These days people are worried about their smartphones and high-frequency radio waves such as those used in5G networksandeven Wi-Fi, but back before mobile phones were even something the average person would have, it was CRT monitors and TVs that had folks worried they’d develop their own green glow....

WD_BLACK 4TB SN7100 NVMe The WD_BLACK SN7700 NVMe SSD boasts 4TB of storage, PCIe Gen4 NVMe connectivity, and read/write speeds up to 7,250/6,900 MB/s (1-2TB models). Its durable design, with high TBW, gives longevity for demanding users. Western Digital’s WD_BLACK NVMe internal gaming SSD is a great choice for anyone needing a lot of storage and extremely fast speeds, especially now that it’s on sale. Right now, the 4TB version of this drive is priced at$249....

Summary Overclocking a new PC can be intimidating. You might wonder if it’s even necessary, but leaving performance on the table feels even worse. Luckily, if you have an AMD Ryzen chip, there’s an easy way to get a performance boost without the hassle. PBO is considered a form of overclocking. If your CPU is damaged as a result of overclocking, AMD’s warranty will not cover the product. Proceed at your own risk....