Summary AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an open standard that enables upscaling and frame generation, and now it can be added to previously unsupported games on Steam Deck thanks to a mod. Here’s what you need to know. How the FSR 3 Frame Gen Mod Works Frame generation works by using software to generate new frames that fill in the gaps between frames, improving perceived performance in games. It is used tomake high frame rates more attainable, with both AMD and NVIDIA having their own implementations....

Quick Links Summary One of the main things holding back EVs from true innovation is trying to be “just like a regular car.” They can do and be so much more if they throw off the mold of what came before. Electric vehicles have made great strides in recent years, both in terms of technology and uptake. They’ve gone from being an impractical niche to a regular sight on our roads and highways....

Quick Links Your Mac comes packed with a long list of accessibility features that support your vision, mobility, hearing, and speech. Accessibility benefits everyone, and I’ve found that this rings true with these top features that make the Mac feel like a dream to use. 1Customize the Font Size Have you ever felt that the font size on your Mac’s apps and elements is just too small? If you want to increase this without wanting to zoom in, there’s an easy fix....

Quick Links The all-new Samsung Galaxy S25 comes with a deeper Galaxy AI integration and a more powerful chipset than its predecessor. However, does it offer enough upside for Galaxy S24 to upgrade? Let’s find out. Price and Availability The Samsung Galaxy S25 (128GB) is available for $799.99. Pre-orders for the smartphone begin today, with general availability starting on July 30, 2025. The one-year-oldGalaxy S24 also debuted at the same price....

Google has announced that Chromebook Plus laptops are getting a new systemwide text summarization feature, dubbed “Help me read.” With Help me read, you can instantly summarize long text with a right click. Just select a PDF file, a document, or a webpage, and Help me read will summarize it with key takeaways. Note that Help me read is different fromChrome’s Reader Mode. At any rate, this feature sounds quite similar to how theCopilot sidebar in Edgecan access the contents of the open page....

Summary Having guests for the holidays can pose a challenge for smart home owners. You need to make simple things like turning on lights easy, while also ensuring they don’t mess up your smart functionality by inadvertently messing things up! Brief Guests in Advance Configuring a smart home isn’t a quick or easy process. You’ve likely taken a lot of time to think through the devices you want, programming automations, creating scenes involving multiple devices, and ensuring that you have convenient control over everything using voice commands and smart switches....

Quick Links Summary If you own aSteam Deckand agaming PC, you can use the latter tostream gameslocally to the former. You can also use cloud game streaming services on your Deck. Here’s how. Option 1: Stream Locally With Steam Remote Play Steam Remote Playis the most straightforward way tostream video gamesto your Steam Deck locally. You don’t need any additional software, only your Deck and PC connected to the same network and the game you plan to stream to your Deck installed on your PC....

Summary With its Magic Editor feature, your Google Pixel 9 makes it easier for you to edit your photos smartly on your device. I’ll explain to you what this feature is and how you’re able to use it even to reimagine objects in your photos. What Is Magic Editor? Magic Editor isn’t a standalone app. It’s a feature built into the pre-installed Google Photos app on Pixel smartphones. With this feature, you canedit your photos using AI....

Quick Links Microsoft Excel’s CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS functions are a game-changer if you want to quickly extract specific columns or rows from your data without nesting several functions in your formula. What’s more, they’re dynamic functions, meaning they adapt to changes in your dataset. At the time of writing (May 2025), only people working with Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac or Excel for the web can use these functions....

For a long time, I carried a minimalist wallet with four card slots and a cash sleeve. But even the thinnest wallet is yet another thing to carry along with your phone and keys. So, I bought a MagSafe phone wallet to slim down my EDC for certain occasions, and something unexpected happened: it became my primary wallet. All My Essentials in One Pocket My “real” wallet is a far cry fromGeorge Constanza’s situation—aHerschel Charliewith just four cards and some cash....

Quick Links Most people’s first thought for buying an ebook is to go to Amazon. Bookshop.org is trying to combat that notion with its own ebook store that will give money back to your local bookstore. While its new ebook experience is okay, there are still things you should know before dumping your Kindle. How Bookshop’s eBooks Work For those not familiar with Bookshop.org in general, the online retailer sells books and then gives a portion of the sales to local bookstores....

Quick Links Summary Privacy is one of the driving forces that dictate our use of the Incognito mode or VPN on our devices. However, there are significant differences in how private these tools can make our imprints in the digital world. What Is Incognito Mode? Incognito mode, or private browsing, is a built-in feature in web browsers that deletes your browsing history, items in cache, andcookiesas soon as you close yourprivate windows....

In case you haven’t visited a hardware store lately, there is a shortage of NVIDIA’s RTX 5000 cards. The circumstances are not the exact same as the big shortage of GPUs back in 2021, but the whole situation is playing out in a similar way. So similar, in fact, that we now even have “waitlists” to buy NVIDIA’s GPUs. NVIDIA has announceda “Verified Priority Access” program, offering select gamers a chance to purchase the highly sought-after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPUs directly from the company....