Rear Projection TVs Were Terrible, But We All Wanted One

TV Size Has Always Mattered There are two reasons to want a big TV. The first is that you just love TV and want the best experience when watching movies or shows. The second is that you want to show people that you have a big TV. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek It’s a status symbol that’s still relevant today. InFriendsChandler and Joey prize their big-screen TV and leather recliners....

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 210 words · Meagan White

Save 50% on This Arlo Security Bundle This Weekend

Not a bad deal, all things considered. For this weekend only, get a four-pack of the fantastic Arlo Essential cameras for half off! Arlo For this weekend only, get a four-pack of the fantastic Arlo Essential cameras for half off! For this weekend only, get a four-pack of the fantastic Arlo Essential cameras for half off!

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 56 words · Hannah Rodriguez

The PlayStation 2 Had More 60FPS Games Than Consoles Do Now. What Happened?

Why did hitting that magic 60fps mark become so difficult and rare? The HD Era The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 heralded the era of 720p and 1080p games. Taking advantage of a new generation of TVs, the amount of detail in games shot up dramatically. Sony Offering frame rates in the 20s, for the most “cinematic” gaming experience possible. However, the weak CPU problem really came to the fore in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One generation....

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 144 words · Brent Rodriguez

Today's NYT Connections Hints and Answer for June 15 (#370)

It sounds easy, but it isn’tConnections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered. What Is Connections? Connections is a game from the New York Times. The objective is simple: sort 16 words into groups of 4. Each group of words will be connected by some common idea or theme. That common element could be anything....

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 199 words · Traci Torres

Want to Do Your Own PC Repair? Make Sure You Have These 7 Tools

iFixitis a reputable brand known for offering high-quality precision screw sets. These components can only tolerate specific voltage and current levels, and exceeding them can seriously damage them. Canned Air Dust accumulation is often the primary culprit behind numerous PC issues. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek |Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock Hence, the first thing to do when repairing a PC is toget rid of this dust buildup. For this job, you need canned air....

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 205 words · Lisa Morales

Why Did the PlayStation 1 Have Wobbly Graphics?

Summary Call me biased, but the original PlayStation is still my favorite console of all time. While the games might look a little rough now, they’re still as good to play as ever. The PlayStation’s graphics processor had zero FLOPs, because it lacked an FPU or Floating Point Unit. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek Instead, it uses fixed-point integers to calculate the positions of vertices. A “vertice” is a point where two or more lines meet....

June 15, 2024 · 1 min · 177 words · Lee Clark

AI Search Isn't the Silver Bullet Google Thinks It Is, Here's Why

However, there are a couple of reasons why that won’t work. However, the feature that stole the show was AI Overviews. It will pull the most important information from the top Google results and give you a neat summary. Every time Google improves its algorithms, these spammers find new ways to exploit them. However, in late 2022, something changed that shifted the balance of power. This might also explain why the ever-present sentiment that “Google is dying” has intensified in recent months....

June 14, 2024 · 3 min · 446 words · Jackie Hoover

Are Mechanical Keyboards a Good Idea for Mac Users? Here's What I Learned

Summary Has your Magic Keyboard lost its sparkle? Perhaps its time for you to move up in the world and try a mechanical keyboard instead. Thats exactly what I did after nearly two decades of tapping away on a MacBook. Tim Brookes / How-To Geek Here are my findings. Why Bother With a Mechanical Keyboard? Mechanical Keyboards have an almost cult-like following in some circles, which can be intimidating. Tim Brookes / How-To Geek...

June 14, 2024 · 4 min · 700 words · Amanda Cole

How Your Printer Leaves Invisible Tracking Codes on Every Page

Summary Printers embed hidden yellow dots on pages, revealing who printed what and when. This tracking tech, existing for over 20 years, aids in preventing counterfeiting but raises privacy concerns. Tracking codes are typically created by the printer firmware and embedded in the document as it is being printed. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek |FabrikaSimf/ Shutterstock This process is automatic and does not require any user intervention. In fact, most users don’t even know their printers are printing information that can track them....

June 14, 2024 · 2 min · 390 words · William Edwards

Is an 8GB GPU Enough in 2024? It Depends What You're Playing

I’ve got an 8GB GPU, and here’s what I’ve learned. 8GB ofvideo memoryisnt thebottleneckhere. This even includes notorious system hogs such asCyberpunk 2077. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek |Zachary Hoover/ Shutterstock The game runs fine for me at 1440p ultrawide with details on max and theDLSSQuality preset. But I haven’t let that stop me. In this instance, the game would just crash after it had filled my RTX 3070s memory buffer....

June 14, 2024 · 1 min · 188 words · Lisa Lopez

Not Every Olympic Event Is Broadcast Over the Air, Here's Where to Watch Them

Thankfully, Peacock will provide full live coverage and additional content for all Paris Olympic events. Final games and the Closing Ceremony are scheduled for August 11th. Here’s the problem: the only streaming service with full Paris Olympics coverage is the NBCUniversal-owned Peacock. Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek |Sergii Figurnyi/ Shutterstock Some websites, including the officialNBC Olympics page, are incorrectly listing the old price. Cable and satellite customers can also log into the NBC or NBC Olympics apps for extensive Paris Olympics coverage....

June 14, 2024 · 1 min · 196 words · Penny Hall

Perplexity vs ChatGPT: I Let AI Plan a Vacation and Here's How It Went

I put these claims to the test as these bots help me plan a big multi-generational family vacation. ChatGPT, on the other hand, might be the best all-around AI in my opinion. It’s certainly the most popular, and this has spawned a growing number ofcustomized GPTsfor specific purposes. There are at least three different travel-themed custom GPTs available in the “Explore GPTs” section. I experimented with a few of them, and their performance was poor and inconsistent....

June 14, 2024 · 3 min · 619 words · Andres Davis

TCL’s New Flip Phone Has USB-C and 4G LTE

TCL just released a new option running KaiOS: the TCL Flip 3. This isnt a folding smartphone in a flip phone shape, like theGalaxy Z Flip 5orMoto Razr. Its a basic flip phone with real physical buttons and an affordable price tag of $80. TCL Theres not much to talk about in the hardware department. It supports 4G LTE, but not 5G, as well as Wi-Fi 4 (802.11 b/g/n). It takes around 2....

June 14, 2024 · 1 min · 91 words · Christopher Rodriguez