DC Studio/Shutterstock Given how common 4K computer monitors are these days, it’s easy to think they’re the better option. Yes, this may be true in some cases – after all, many of them offer excellent display quality, wide screens and accurate colors. But Consumer Reports…
It’s frustrating to work on your PC and spot an errant spot on the screen. Once you notice it, you won’t notice it again, so you’ll want to clean it immediately, because proper screen care is essential for the proper care and maintenance of your PC. If you wear glasses, you might have a bottle…
Many more affordable headphones on the market sound great. Most people would settle for a decent pair of headphones that don’t cost an arm and a leg. But if you’re serious about your music and your audiophile life, several fairly expensive headphones don’t quite justify their price. If you’re looking for really good sound quality,…
These days, when you buy a new graphics card (or GPU) for your gaming setup, you can often choose between mounting your new GPU vertically or horizontally. The horizontal method is traditional, but the vertical method lets you show off your new GPU, as long as your side panel is clear. So you might wonder…
YouTube continues to make changes to the user experience. While some of these features have intentionally made watching YouTube worse, others have proven genuinely useful, such as the new Custom YouTube Stream feature. However, one area where YouTube has particularly struggled is with the influx of AI content. Thanks to new features like Reimagine —…
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has seen a surge in demand for its “AI-free” search option following Google’s May 19 I/O announcements. Google has launched a new “smart” search box reinvented with AI. It offers AI suggestions in the form of an upgrade to autocomplete, support for follow-up questions, expanded personal intelligence to connect Gmail and…
Hardware prices are in a really strange place right now. Thanks to the continued rise in demand for RAM and other components driven by the growth of AI, many manufacturers have begun to significantly raise their prices. We’ve already seen price increases on the Steam Deck, as well as in other areas of the industry,…
Android Auto users, a new update is about to make your life a little easier. May brought a wave of updates to the Google UI for Vehicles platform, including one that will completely overhaul your dashboard. The updates also provide widgets for drivers and improvements to Google Maps. However, a new feature now in the…
YouTube is rolling out three new quality-of-life features aimed directly at the more than 1 billion active podcast listeners who use YouTube and YouTube Music each month. Features include improved playback controls, which should make listening to podcasts much easier on the go, as well as an AI feature built right into the YouTube Music…
If you browse enough forums, you can find decades-old conversations that feature many different preferences for frame rates and resolutions in games. The discussion often boils down to better graphics versus better performance, but the ideal balance doesn’t just depend on the number and dimensions of FPS. On the one hand, you will have to…