Quick Links Summary The NVIDIA app has been updated to include a new feature called Automatic Tuning. This allows you to automaticallyoverclocksyour NVIDIA GPU while ensuring that your GPU’s thermal management system is not overburdened. It’s a safe, one-click overclock that doesn’t affect your warranty. How to Automatically Overclock Your GPU in the NVIDIA App First, you’ll need to download the latest version of the NVIDIA App. At the time of writing the app is still in beta, but it will eventually be released as a stable tool....

Summary In case you didn’t know, every Chromebook has an AUE orAuto Update Expirationdate. After this date, your Chromebook will keep working, but it will no longer receive software support or updates. That’s not a great situation when it comes to online security, and we don’t recommend you use a Chromebook that’s not getting security updates as is, so what can you do? Check for Extended Updates For Chromebooks from 2024 and onward, Google offers a 10-year update window from release....

Quick Links Summary To restart an app on a Samsung Galaxy phone, press the three vertical bar button, swipe up on the app to close, then relaunch that app from the app drawer or home screen. On Pixel phones, swipe up from the bottom, swipe up on the app to close, then reopen that app from the app drawer or home screen. Restarting an app on your Android phone allows you to fix frozen apps and other app issues as well as bring your changes in the app into effect....

Quick Links You can schedule emails on your iPhone using the default Mail app without the need for third-party services. Plus, it works with any email address you want to add to your phone. We’ll show you how to schedule your emails here. How to Schedule Emails with the Mail App on iPhone To schedule an email, launch the Mail app and tap the “Compose” button to start writing a new message....

Quick Links Summary It’s no secret that smart TVs are a goldmine for tracking activity and sharing it with advertisers. Roku has some of the most popular streaming devices on the market, and the company makes hundreds of millions each year from advertising alone. I don’t like being a part of that—you don’t have to, either. Disable Personalized Ads While it’s not possible tocompletely get rid of all the ads on your Roku, you can limit what it knows about you....

Summary I’ve been playing around with apps like ChatGPT’s advanced voice modes, and although the tech is incredibly impressive, I do find that the software mishears me. Most of the time, it does a good job, but when I hook up one of my good mics, things definitely improve. So, if you like using the voice function of an AI assistant, you might want to consider using a better microphone than the one built into your computer or headset....

Rumors suggest that Apple will announce a major iOS, iPadOS, and macOS software design overhaul at WWDC 2025. If true, this will be the biggest iOS UI revamp since 2013, and it will replace a lot of the iPhone-like design elements that invaded macOS in 2020. Apple hasn’t commented on the rumors, which were first published byMark Gurman atBloomberg. Gurman is a well-known Apple analyst and fairly reliable leaker who sources information from Apple employees, partners, distributors....

How we use laptops has remained largely the same for decades. You open the lid, type on the keyboard, and move the cursor using the built-in trackpad or a mouse. The core interaction has remained largely the same, except for one vital feature: the touchscreen. A Touchscreen Has Completely Changed How I Use My Laptop Touchscreens have revolutionized how we interact with the world. From ordering food at kiosks and buying public transport tickets to signing packages and endlessly scrolling through our phones, touch input has become second nature....

Summary The12th-gen Paperwhite Signature Edition (SE)is Amazon’s latest Kindle e-reader, but is it the greatest to date? The three weeks I’ve just spent with it strongly suggest that yes, yes it is. I read constantly, continually, and (according to medical professionals) borderline obsessively. That’s not an exaggeration. If I’m not actively working pieces like this, you are guaranteed to find my nose buried in a book, namely, because I live so far out in the sticks that Amazon Prime takes five days to arrive, and local TV service availability is wholly predicated on how clear the skies overhead are....

Regular expressions are a powerful way to detect and modify data strings, but Microsoft Excel has never natively supported them. That’s finally changing, with the introduction of regular expression functions in Excel. Regular expressions, also known as “regex” or “regexp,” are strings used to match patterns in data strings. For example, the regular expression “\b[aA]\w*\b” could match every word in a string that starts with the letter “A,” or you could use “\b-?...

Microsoft WordPadis the basic word processor that ships with every version of Windows, intended for editing that text documents with formatting that Notepad can’t handle. However, after years of neglect — even as Notepad has received update after update — Microsoft is officially done working on WordPad and will remove it in a future Windows update. Microsoft has announced that as of September 1st, 2023, WordPad is officially a deprecated app....

Summary Delayed and canceled flights, delayed packages, and missed work hours. You’d think I’m describing a Gen Z horror movie, but it’s actually happening in real time.CrowdStrike’s failed cybersecurity update has caused a global outage of Windows systems, exposing the fragility of our modern infrastructure. Forced Updates Are Disruptive Microsoft loves to force auto-updates, and there’s no easyway to disable them. These updates are incredibly disruptive even when they go completely smoothly, as they can prevent your system from shutting down and turning on without installing the update....

Quick Links Summary What Is Prime Reading? As you might expect from the name,Prime Readingis a service that’s included for free with an Amazon Prime subscription. It’s one of themany perks that Amazon throws in alongside free shipping, but not as well known asPrime VideoorAmazon Music Prime. With Prime Reading, you can borrow up to 10 eBooks, comics, magazine issues, and audiobooks at a time. You can access these titles from theKindle appon iPhone, iPad, Android,Fire tablets, and on Kindle eReaders....