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We're only midway through September, but as the final days of summer count down, Netflix is just getting ramped up. I cannot wait for the arrival of Party Down on September 22—it's the best comedy show you've never seen; it stars the brilliant Ken Marino, a pre-Severance Adam Scott, and other faces you'll recognize.

The first game with official DLSS 5 support, NBA 2K27, came out recently, and modders quickly took the DLSS 5 DLL file from the game and made it available to gamers around the world who own a newer NVIDIA GPU, allowing them to use DLSS 5 in a bunch of PC games with tools such as OptiScaler and DLSS 5 Swapper. While only the RTX 50 series is officially supported, at least for now, the two aforementioned utilities allow you to use DLSS 5 on older NVIDIA graphics cards as well.

From React Native to Kotlin Multiplatform, cross-platform frameworks are popular for their promise of “write once, run everywhere” software. Google’s Flutter is another such framework, with a few key differences.

Are you also dealing with a particular kind of Android frustration I know too well? You find out your phone can do something, get excited to try it, and then find the feature nowhere. You check Settings, Google it, follow the instructions step by step, and still come up empty-handed. No setting. No toggle. Nothing.

If you use Linux, you'll eventually want to get comfortable with the terminal. It streamlines your workflow and opens up a whole new way of computing that graphical apps simply can't match. This includes writing Bash scripts for system management and automation or administering a remote machine over SSH.

One of the best things you can do with your 3D printer is create items that improve spaces, tools, and pastimes. The best prints don’t just make life easier; they make it more comfortable too.

eReaders are particularly great gadgets because they tend to stay perfectly usable for a long time. However, there will eventually come a time when you want to upgrade. So what should you do with the old one? We have some ideas for you.

When shopping for HDDs, it's all too easy to focus on the price and nothing else. Sure, the biggest drives tend to have eye-watering price tags, and not everyone needs 20+ terabytes of storage anyway ... but a recent study, based on a massive sample size, reveals that those drives might be well worth the added cost.

Netflix’s award-winning catalog has picked up a few interesting additions lately, including two dramas that had strong runs at this year’s awards and an older blockbuster that still holds its charm. If you usually end up circling the same handful of decorated movies, this week’s picks give you a little more variety.

I've always liked the fact that older versions of Excel had hidden games tucked away inside them. Microsoft stopped doing that years ago, but Excel users never completely stopped having fun with spreadsheets. I recently found an open-source Space Invaders-style game that runs entirely inside Excel.

Whenever I noticed an Android Auto feature missing in my car, I’d always blame my phone, Android Auto, or even the car’s software. I know these all matter too, but not in my case. I’d look up a feature, follow the exact steps, and still couldn’t find the option on my screen. Finally, I found the real culprit: my car’s small display.

Windows 11's Low Latency Profile promises snappier menus and faster launches through short CPU bursts. But does Microsoft's shell-level fix actually rival NVIDIA Reflex, the standard for cutting in-game input lag? Here's how the two really compare.

There’s something satisfying about physical controls, whether that’s a clicky button, chunky dial, or smooth fader. It feels like motorized faders are having a moment in the ESP32 hobbyist community, so today we’re going to look at how you can put them to use.

You could soon see more mobile games on Steam. Valve has released Lepton, an open-source tool that brings Android games to Linux and, of course, Steam.

Apple discontinued the last iPad with a Lightning port in 2024, so if you've bought a new iPad after that point, it will come with a lovely USB-C port, which is the only way to charge the tablet, given it lacks wireless charging features.

Do you like using Facebook Marketplace? I'll be honest with you: I don't. You're so often left to deal with scammers and/or bots that finding an actual person who will sell or buy the exact same thing they said they would is like finding a unicorn. But when you do find that unicorn deal, it can be so good, which is what keeps me coming back.

Fans of documentaries know that Netflix has a knack for delivering weekend viewing that sparks conversation come Monday. And the fact that the chilling series Death of a Pastor's Wife is still perched at No. 1 on the streamer's U.S. Top 10 also says a lot about viewers' appetite for true crime.

Your Galaxy phone now shares photos with the cloud service you're most likely to use. Samsung has confirmed that Gallery is starting to sync with Google Photos instead of Microsoft's OneDrive,

You want an iPhone case that protects your phone and has a functional, sophisticated style. But so many ultra-protective cases on the market are too bulky, overshadowing your iPhone’s design, so all that’s noticeable is that brick of a case.

Many people buy a NAS with a single goal in mind: building a private Plex media server for all their movies and TV shows. But Plex itself requires surprisingly few resources to run, meaning the processor and RAM in your NAS can spend most of their time sitting around, doing basically nothing.