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HBO Max is setting the tone for October with its hearty new schedule, which boasts a host of HBO Originals. From the debut of new series, such as IT: Welcome to Derry, and a comedy special from Adam Pally to the premieres of emotion-evoking documentaries and hit films, such as The Substance, you won't want to skip these titles, or this lineup.

HDMI-CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) is a feature of HDMI that allows devices to talk to and control one another. So, for example, your Blu-ray player can switch your TV to the correct input as soon as you turn it on, or you can adjust the volume of an HDMI-connected soundbar with your TV remote.

Those crafty marketers are always thinking of ways to make existing technology appeal to people in new ways. Which is why you may have seen advertising for "laser TVs", which admittedly sound very sci-fi and futuristic.

If you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, we have some good news. Your subscription just got even better, for free, as the company announced several exciting new features and benefits in more places. Get ready for HQ audio, faster playback speeds, and more of what you love on YouTube Music inside the regular YouTube app.

What started as a niche hobbyist experiment in the early 2000s turned into a wave of mainstream adoption, fueled by the rise of affordable all-in-one (AIO) units and the growing cultural obsession with flashy gaming PCs.

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) are free if you use a Microsoft account, but there’s been a major catch added. Now, you have to keep signing in to it every 60 days, or the updates will expire, and you'll be out of luck if you're not able to re-enroll.

Google Messages has been on a roll this year, constantly getting updates packed with new features or design changes, and two more could be coming soon. It looks like Google's about to finally fix a frustrating bug with group chat icons, along with overhauling links and link previews in conversations.

NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSDs are the fastest type of drive you can buy for a PC (or console) today, with the fastest drives hitting almost 15GB/s! Yet, for some reason, video games don't seem to load any differently on a drive a third of that speed, or even much slower SATA drives.

For me, every night is movie night. I love nothing more than settling down, dimming the lights, and relaxing with a good film. The only tough part is choosing what to watch.

Samsung's new foldables are really, really good, but in typical foldable fashion, they are also insanely expensive, to the point that it's out of many people's budget. That's not a problem in itself, but now, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 is heavily discounted in one of its most popular storage options.

The Toyota RAV4 has been unstoppable in the U.S. car market. In 2024, it even ended the Ford F-150’s 40-year reign as the nation’s top seller, and the hybrid version played a huge role in that win.

I'll be honest with you, I've never really bothered with "real" cable management when building any of my PCs over the years. I started to care a little more when computer cases got side windows, but even then my "management" is nothing compared to the obsessive lengths some people go to.

Apple has quietly slipped in a great new feature into iOS 26 that makes receiving photos in the Messages app much faster. Your recipient can now get a smaller-sized preview of an image almost instantly, well before the full-resolution file even finishes sending.

Smart displays are the perfect centerpiece for anyone's smart home setup. Amazon’s Echo Hub is one of the best ones so far, and now, it's back to its lowest price.

I was recently staring at my boxes of keyboard switches and keycaps and wondered what would happen if I mixed them all on one board. With a hot-swappable keyboard, it was easy enough to try, so I went ahead and gave my Frankenstein keyboard a spin.

Android’s openness has always been its strength, but that freedom is about to face some resistance. Starting next year, unverified developers will be blocked from distributing apps even from outside the Play Store. Open-source app store F-Droid has some serious concerns about this.

Have you been patiently waiting for the big Samsung Galaxy Android 16 (One UI 8) update to hit your device? If so, we have more good news. This weekend, Samsung started rolling out the stable One UI 8 update for the Galaxy S23 series, Galaxy Tab S10, and more.

Linux kernel version 6.17 was released over the weekend, bringing with it several performance improvements and enhancements to benefit Linux folks. In particular, some cutting-edge GPUs and CPUs are getting support.

Are you trying to become more efficient when using ChromeOS? Well, these five keyboard shortcuts are worth memorizing on your Chromebook to boost your productivity.

MAME has officially released MAME 0.281, and the biggest news this time around is the addition of full support for Windows on ARM. If you’ve been running MAME on newer ARM-based laptops or mini-PCs, you can now expect binary packages specifically for 64-bit ARM versions of Windows 10 or later.