10 Google Wallet features you should be using
How-To Geekby Gaurav Shukla·2 Sept 2026
After years of jumping between Google Pay and Google Wallet, the company finally settled on Google Wallet as its one-stop destination for everything from contactless payments to digital IDs.
My $750 graphics card developed a huge hotspot problem—here's what I should've checked
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic·2 Sept 2026
A lot of gamers are understandably concerned when they first boot up their new gaming PC and discover that their expensive graphics card is hitting temperatures north of 80°C.
These 5 movies prove Netflix is the king of thrillers
How-To Geekby Vishwamoorthy Ramakrishnan·2 Sept 2026
Most of us sit on our couches to watch movies or shows, just to get out of our routine lives bound by work, household chores, tasks, and duties.
These 4 Windows tools helped me regain 16.1GB of storage without deleting a single file
How-To Geekby Viraj Gawde·2 Sept 2026
Running out of storage usually means one thing—hovering over the downloads folder with increasingly desperate intent and looking for anything you can move to an external drive.
Cheap smart LEDs look tacky, here's 3 easy ways to give them more ambient elegance
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes·2 Sept 2026
LED strip lighting is all the rage, and for good reason. It’s cheap, versatile, easily integrates with smart home platforms, and it’s easier than ever to make your own.
10 anime series for people who don't like anime
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler·2 Sept 2026
Me? I'm a hardcore anime fan. You've probably never even heard of the anime I like. You? I guess you're not really into this anime stuff. It's all spiky hair, big swords, and too much fan service.
My Pixel phone's camera is hallucinating, and sometimes that's exactly what I want
How-To Geekby Goran Damnjanovic·2 Sept 2026
Modern phones process the photos they take; that's a fact of life, with the computational photography algorithms being especially busy in photos taken by Pixel phones.
Why these 3 drills from Milwaukee, DeWALT, and Bosch might be the only tools you need
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther·2 Sept 2026
We all own a few cordless power tools that are quite versatile. Whether that be a drill and driver, oscillating multi-tool, or one of the hundreds offered by Milwaukee, DeWALT, and others.
These 3 open-source apps do what Windows should have built into the OS years ago
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic·2 Sept 2026
Microsoft has kept Windows on a steady path for years. Most updates focus on refining and upgrading existing features instead of drastically changing core OS functionality.
I traveled the world to visit an SSD factory and learned why they keep getting more expensive
How-To Geekby Arol Wright·2 Sept 2026
As a tech journalist, it's easy for me to go ahead and criticize RAM and SSD makers for price hikes, and ignore the reasons as to why that might be happening.
Your Android Auto launcher is a mess, but these 4 tweaks fix it
How-To Geekby Andy Betts·2 Sept 2026
Android Auto can be frustrating if you don't want it to do anything more than the basics. It quickly fills up with apps, it bombards you with notifications, and generally feels bloated and...
"Torture tests" used to be everything in 3D printing, here's why you don't hear about them anymore
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes·2 Sept 2026
As the popularity of 3D printing has grown, the prevalence of so-called “torture tests” for 3D printers has waned.
The 14S is Dell's next answer to the MacBook Neo—and it should be more affordable, too
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas·2 Sept 2026
Dell has another answer to the MacBook Neo just months after unveiling the redesigned XPS 13. The PC maker has introduced a new, overhauled 14S laptop that it claims is a better pick than Apple's...
I let my Galaxy Watch control my day—this feature did the heavy lifting
How-To Geekby Bertel King·1 Sept 2026
I wear a smartwatch so that I almost never have to hear my phone. My watch tells me when someone's calling, when someone's texting, and other important things.
This BIOS setting has been throttling your RAM since day one
How-To Geekby Monica J. White·1 Sept 2026
It's 2026. Who on earth is buying RAM right now? Well, you might be tempted to buy some if yours is underperforming, but I'm here to tell you to hold on to those RAM kits a little longer.
Claude forgets that my ESP32 isn't a full computer. Here are my 4 fixes
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis·1 Sept 2026
Most of the vibe coding projects I encounter are written in high-level languages like C, C++, or Python. However, Claude can also write decent MicroPython—you just need to be a little careful.
I changed one Pixel Watch setting, and notifications finally make sense
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa·1 Sept 2026
I don’t know about you, but the main reason why I wear a smartwatch is for notifications. It allows me to pull out my phone less often, which is always a good thing.
The 5 best documentaries of August 2026—on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and more
How-To Geekby Derek Malcolm·1 Sept 2026
August is kind of the year's runt of the litter when it comes to streaming—it's often a slow stretch between summer tentpoles and the wave of new and exciting programming coming in the fall.
Eero's silent cloud syncs are turning your router into yet another tracking device
How-To Geekby Monica J. White·1 Sept 2026
Your internet router has a very specific job, and it's perfectly reasonable to assume that all it's doing is that job and nothing else. The reality, however, is never that simple.
3 Linux phones you can actually buy and use right now (and why you probably shouldn't)
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas·1 Sept 2026
Linux phones have come a long way from the days when that meant installing rough software and hoping for the best.
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