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A 48-hour indie book bonanza starts on September 1, featuring psychological thrillers, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and atmospheric horror.
Changing this display setting is the easiest battery win on Windows laptops
One buried Windows setting can buy your laptop an extra hour of battery.
You can 3D-print NASA’s spacecraft at home for free
Over a hundred free, print-ready 3D models, straight from NASA.
This is your last chance to save auto-deleted private channels on Teams — here’s what you must do
Admins can locate at-risk channels using PowerShell and must reassign an in-tenant owner before the 30-day window ends.
Microsoft will delete three Copilot features tomorrow — back up your files immediately
A sudden Copilot reshuffle leaves podcast episodes and shared group files vulnerable, prompting urgent downloads.
I spent two weeks on a $200 Android and realized what flagships actually charge for
The budget phone passed every test except the ones nobody talks about.
Brushless is worth paying for — but not on these power tools
Here are the tools I'd buy brushless if I were starting my tool collection from scratch.
I turned off YouTube's worst features and my feed actually became useful again
I finally took back control of my YouTube feed.
I reclaimed 11 GB on my Windows PC without deleting a single file
Windows was spending gigabytes on old recovery history.
Samsung's Tizen and LG's webOS both claim the best smart TV — a third one beats both
Samsung's Tizen and LG's webOS are both fantastic smart TV operating systems, but there's a third option that bests them both.
6 paid subscriptions your student email can get you for free (or ridiculously cheap)
Maybe graduating is overrated
I gave up on Phone Link years ago — trying it again in 2026 shocked me
Phone Link finally does what it should have done from the start.
These free apps have the Windows features Microsoft forgot to build
They're too good to be free.
8GB of RAM on Windows 11 works — but only if you're willing to cripple your PC
Microsoft says 8GB is enough for Windows 11, so I tested it and found the truth.
Cat5e is much faster than most people give it credit for
I tested the worst Cat5e cables I own, and only one failed gigabit.
I changed one Google setting, and my Android finally held a charge
Every percentage matters.
I reclaimed 18GB with Windows' built-in compression, and the benchmarks surprised me
The 18GB I freed came with almost no slowdown.