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When you're trying to get perfect audio at home, it's really easy to spend a ton of money upgrading your main speakers. You might think that a bigger unit or a higher price tag automatically equals better sound quality. That common assumption is honestly the biggest mistake people make in modern home audio setups.

The average new vehicle price has risen steadily over the last five years, reaching a point where even a six-figure salary may not provide enough room when factoring in other living costs. Gone are the days of ultra-affordable cars, as consumers can expect to pay, on average, $50,000 for a new vehicle today.

You might not realize it, but your 3D printer has a single point of failure that can keep you from printing—the PTFE tube. It seems like an inconsequential part, but after having mine fail, I now keep it on hand so my printers are never down again because of this simple wear part.

You may not know it, but your phone could be dying faster than it should be. Conserving your battery in the short and long term can be extremely important to maintaining device health, but are you doing it right?

Does your Windows PC lack USB-C? Or, maybe you only have a single USB-C port and want more. There are quite a few ways to add the latest connection standard to your desktop or laptop. Here are a few of my favorite ways to add USB-C to any Windows PC.

NASA is already walking back its Friday announcement that it will try to launch to the moon in March, after discovering a new problem with the Artemis II rocket. 

Officials said they're eyeing Tuesday, Feb. 24, to haul the rocket off the launchpad.

During a routine step to restore pressure in the Space Launch System, the team couldn't get helium to flow properly through the rocket. Helium, though not a fuel, is important because it helps protect the engines and keeps the fuel tanks at the right pressure. Though the helium system worked fine during a launch rehearsal that ended Thursday night, engineers are especially troubled knowing a similar pattern cropped up before the Artemis I launch in 2022, which didn't carry astronauts. 

The affected part is the rocket's upper stage, which uses super-cold fuels — liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen — to power the mission once it’s in space. Engineers are looking at several possible causes, including a connection point between the ground equipment and the rocket, a valve in the upper stage, and a filter in the helium line. Fixing any of those issues would require work at the Vehicle Assembly Building, the rocket's enormous hangar about four miles away from the pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Unless NASA suddenly discovers a different cause that can be addressed at the pad, a delay is inevitable. 

"We will begin preparations for rollback, and this will take the March launch window out of consideration," said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman in an X post.

SEE ALSO: NASA admits Starliner failures as it preps for March launch of Artemis 2

Artemis II is a 10-day flight around the moon and back, testing the new Orion spaceship with humans aboard. It's the space agency's first crewed mission beyond Earth orbit since 1972. The test flight sets the stage for a moon landing during Artemis III. The overall Artemis campaign is intended to establish a permanent human presence on the moon in preparation for more challenging missions to Mars.

The four-person crew began quarantining at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday, when a launch on March 6 seemed achievable. The astronauts — Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — were released from their sequester Saturday night. 

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says President Donald Trump wants Artemis to exceed the achievements of the Apollo program. Credit: NASA / Aubrey Gemignani

Acting quickly now could keep an April launch on the table. The windows include April 1, April 3-6, and April 30. NASA has not released future launch window dates to the public, despite requests from reporters. 

At this time, the rocket is safe and using a backup method to maintain stable conditions in the upper stage, according to NASA. The upper stage is critical because it pushes the spacecraft onto its trajectory after liftoff.

NASA studied the Artemis I helium issue and confirmed the system was still working within safe limits before the inaugural launch. But given that Artemis II involves human lives, the bar is much higher on what risks the agency will accept before launching. 

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NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens said the team had been "up all night" from Friday to Saturday, troubleshooting the helium issues at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Officials plan to hold a detailed briefing on the situation later this week. 

Delays are frustrating, but space missions often hit technical setbacks, and fixing issues before a crewed flight is the right move, Isaacman said. 

"The President created Artemis as a program that will far surpass what America achieved during Apollo. We will return in the years ahead, we will build a Moon base, and undertake what should be continuous missions to and from the lunar environment," he wrote. "Where we begin with this architecture and flight rate is not where it will end."

Car depreciation is one of the biggest hidden costs of ownership, quietly eroding a vehicle’s value long after the excitement of buying new wears off. While some models manage to hold onto a large portion of their original price, others lose value at a shocking rate within just a few years. After five years on the road, the gap between the best and worst performers can amount to tens of thousands of dollars.

Spotify aims to provide a consistent listening experience that uses minimal data. As a result, your audio quality might be less than ideal, especially if you’re using a pair of high-fidelity headphones or high-end speakers. Here’s how to fix that.

JSON has become the de facto universal data format, used for everything from local configuration to remote API responses. But the more you depend on JSON, the more you need to deal with any related problems that may occur.

Another day, another hybrid SUV rolls onto the scene—but this one’s called the Starray EM-i, and it comes courtesy of Geely Automotive. Yep, another new name to get your head around.

Time is not kind to electronics. So what if you were to help revive or upcycle a piece of tech history, while learning a thing or two along the way?

There are many things that go into an enterprise SSD that, for better or worse, don't have to go on a consumer SSD. But there is this one thing that I wish we'd see on the stuff we use—or maybe a variant of it.

Elon Musk's SpaceX just got approval from Trump's FCC to double the number of satellites it has in Low Earth Orbit, and to bring them closer to Earth than ever before. Here's what that means for the worsening space junk problem.

Buying a new home is exciting, but once you unpack all the boxes and get settled in, the real work begins. You'll start decorating rooms, changing cabinet hardware, hanging pictures, or worse, something breaks. It's bound to happen, and while you don't need a bunch of fancy pro-grade tools, you'll need the essentials.

When it comes to home media servers, the most popular choice has been Plex for quite some time. I use Plex at the moment, and I even pay for an (optional) Plex Pass. Yet, just because Plex is the most popular option doesn't mean it's the best choice for you.

Most people treat a fresh Linux installation as a clean slate. Usually you install a browser, set your terminal font, run an update, and get on with real work. Over the years, though, I have noticed that my environment only feels usable when a handful of command line tools are present. These tools dramatically reduce friction and make daily tasks more efficient and reliable.

Do you have a garage full of Ryobi power tools and battery packs? If so, you'll be happy to hear that those batteries are useful for all sorts of things aside from powering drills and leaf blowers. You can actually turn your Ryobi battery into a portable phone or laptop charger while camping, in an emergency power outage, and more.

Debian Linux is a tried-and-true choice for getting a Linux device up and running. There are lots of other distros out there that take the Debian Linux experience a step further, and here are my favorites.

For about what you’d spend on a brand-new 2026 Toyota Corolla, the classifieds open the door to something way more interesting. Sitting around $17,000 on Kelley Blue Book, a 2016 Infiniti Q50 Red Sport 400 brings 400 twin-turbocharged horsepower to the party—and that’s where things get fun.

Home Assistant notifications can be helpful, but seeing or hearing the same old thing can make your smart home feel static. Thankfully, you can brighten up your notifications with a bit of personality by integrating a service like Google Gemini into your notifications pipeline.