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Some of my favorite tech tools are the ones that I don’t use on a daily basis.

I don’t pry open my laptop too often, for instance, but I’m glad to have the right tools at hand when the need arises. Same goes with various adapters, extension cords, cables, and battery backups.

In the same way that you might have a toolbox for hand

Between tech giants going through layoffs, rising inflation, and the PC market seeing slow sa

Among the most well-known browsers, Chrome’s held out on offering a proper reader mode. Firefox, Edge, and others have long included an official way of displaying webpages as basic, easy-to-read text and and images, but not Chrome. Unless you were willing to dig into its flag settings to activate a hidden Reader Mode, you had to accept exactly what websites ser

For all the ups and downs that have come and gone with Cyberpunk 2077, you can’t deny that it’s a beautiful game set in a stunning world. It’s going to get a little more stunning soon, at least if your PC can handle it,

Want to game on a huge, immersive monitor? An ultrawide monitor should be your next display. Ultrawide offers a larger viewing area than a widescreen alternative and a broader perspective that literally displays more in-game content. Today’s best ultrawide gaming monitors also deliver top-tier motion performance and support for the latest adaptive sync standard

Chromebooks are phenomenal, low-powered machines designed with everyday use in mind. Personally, I use one for work and web browsing and I couldn’t be happier. Good news! Best Buy’s currently selling the

Sony’s The Last of Us franchise was briefly riding high in the early part of the year. Following generally positive buzz from the sequel in 2020 and the PS5 remaster in 2022, it gained cross-media acclaim thanks to a faithfully recreated HBO show starring Pedro “the guy under the Mandalorian helmet” Pascal and Bella “the other kickass

A recent report about hard-disk drive reliability suggests that not only do most HDDs die within three years, but those produced after 2014 can be less reliable, too. For many people, such news may signal ample reason for an accelerated death of the HDD—at least for consumer use. 

With solid-state drives both