When I was growing up, putting a PC to sleep wasn't even an option for the longest time, yet now it's de facto behavior for many users -- it's even baked into laptops as an automatic function when you ...

From simple enhancements to hallucinated facial features, modern phones choose how our memories will look. You might love the results, but they could alter how we see the world.

Abstract: Inter-turn short-circuit (ITSC) fault can pose a significant risk in multiphase induction machine drives, potentially leading to severe faults such as phase-to-phase or phase-to-ground ...

They don’t hurt anyone, but taken together, they’re better off gone.

Mozilla is adding a new AI kill switch to Firefox that lets you turn off all AI features at once, giving users more control ...

Windows runs more in the background than it ever tells you.

Graphics settings that can be safely disabled without ruining a game's visuals include chromatic aberration, depth of field, and film grain.

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Windows 11 shutdown issues caught many users off guard after a routine January 2026 security update, triggering widespread PC troubleshooting across affected systems. Instead of powering off, impacted ...

WTF?! Remember the days of inserting a quarter (or several) to play a few minutes of an arcade game? A YouTube channel took on the challenge of moving this transactional system to a gaming PC, ...

Just like smartphones, notebooks (and even PCs) also support an airplane mode, or sometimes known as flight mode, in which all wireless connections are cut off. Originally, this mode was intended to ...

You can spend money on third-party PC optimization tools to improve performance, but Microsoft PC Manager claims to deliver the same benefits for free. I put it to the test. I've been testing PC and ...