Technology Explained

If technology has you confused, this is the place to be. We break down complex and trending topics to convey them in a way everyone can understand.

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A hand holding an HDMI cable showing the pins
HDMI 2.2 is here to sell you a cable your TV can’t use

Ultra96 isn't lying; you just can't really do anything with it yet.

WinAmp running on WIndows 11 laptop with phone app.
Winamp survived long enough to become something nobody asked for

Winamp once whipped a llama's ass. Now it's just tired.

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A Google Pixel phone held up to the sky searching for satellites.
Your phone can text without a cell tower, and you may already have the feature

You generally need a cell phone tower and active cellular signal in order to send and receive texts, but there is another way around that.

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HP Envy 6055e home printer
HP once updated millions of printers to reject ink they already owned, and it worked

Three people got $5,000 each. HP's ink business made billions anyway.

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corning ware logo
A glass company shelved this invention for 40 years — then Steve Jobs called

Corning's journey to making its revolutionary Gorilla Glass wasn't easy.

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The Pantone wood back of the Motorola Razr Ultra 2026.
There are two Motorolas, and the one you know is the small one

You've probably used the big one countless times without realizing.

Photo of OpenTrack running on Windows 11.
I added head tracking to my games with a webcam and free software

My webcam learned a new trick.

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OpenPrinter sample kept on a desk.
This open-source printer wants to get rid of cartridge DRM for good

Ink cartridges shouldn't need authentication.

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Xerox Alto with mouse and keyboard
The real story behind Jobs' 1979 PARC visit is way stranger than the theft narrative

Xerox got $1 million. Steve Jobs got the next 40 years of computing.

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Ugreen Nexode 20000mAh Power Bank 02
Your 20,000mAh power bank is lying to you, but not how you think

The number on the box is real, provided you never ask how much power actually reaches your phone.

Codex window open on a laptop with a poster in the background.
Your Codex logs might have already killed your SSD without showing a single warning sign

AI wrote more logs than code.

Raspberry Pi3 with microSD card
Your Raspberry Pi is shredding its microSD card, and two free changes stop it

It's time to give that card a rest.

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Windows file system
I checked my old files and found corruption silently destroying them before I ever got a warning

A healthy-looking file may already be falling apart.

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The Nothing Phone 3a connected to 5G on an unsupported AT&T network.
This US carrier has the fastest download speeds and it's not close

One 5G network is unlike the others.

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memory context restore option in msi bios.
This one BIOS setting can cut your PC's boot time nearly in half — and no, it isn't Fast Boot

Every time you turn on your PC, it re-trains your RAM and adds to your boot time — here’s how to stop it.

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