We’re accustomed to piano-style keyboards that sense how hard you hit them and how long you hold down the keys. MPE, or MIDI Polyphonic Expression, is the next step. It lets musicians control sounds through aftertouch, by sliding their fingers over the keys, and—in the case of this new ROLI Seaboard—by smushing your fingers into its soft surface. The difference is incredible. “MPE is honestly one of the most exciting things that has happened to instrumental gear in the last decade,” musician, songwriter, and producer Andre Yaniv told Lifewire via email....

If you look at a business person’s iPhone, you’ll see a little VPN icon in its status bar. A VPN is a Virtual Private Network, like a secure pipe that protects your data as it travels. This tunnel secures a connection to a corporate network, it may hide the content and destination of web traffic and messages for dissidents in hostile regimes, or it may just be a way to get American Netflix from outside the US....

Story: Solving wasteland mysteries The first step to starting your adventure in Wasteland 2 is building your team. You can start by using a premade team, or you can build the team yourself, picking, and choosing your characters. You can even change their looks and names. Once you pick your team, you’ll be asked what difficulty you want to play at (which thankfully can be changed at any time if things feel too hard)....

What Is a THEMEPACK File? A file with the THEMEPACK file extension is a Windows theme pack file. They’re created by Windows 7 to apply similarly themed desktop backgrounds, window colors, sounds, icons, cursors, and screensavers. How to Open a THEMEPACK File THEMEPACK files do open in Windows 11, 10, and 8, just as they can in Windows 7. This is done by just double-clicking or double-tapping the file; another program or install utility isn’t necessary for the files to run....

The company just unveiled these snazzy cans, and they are filled with all kinds of high-tech upgrades that put them in the same ultra-premium category as Apple’s popular—and expensive—AirPods Max. The Px8 includes new 40mm carbon cone audio drivers, which the company says gives these headphones “the best sound quality” and makes them the “new reference standard for sound.” The new components offer a major uptick in detail and resolution, with the drive units placed at an angle to allow sound to travel a consistent distance across the surface and to the listener’s ears....

Like many reasonable people, I was reluctant to spend $549 for a pair of headphones. I had been using a pair of Anker Q20 Bluetooth headphones with active noise canceling for several years. I realized that I needed to step up my headphone game last year after spending months in quarantine with my family. Headphones were no longer a luxury to enjoy some music or a movie. Instead, they were the only thing keeping me from losing it while I tried to work with a lot of people and noise around....

Resistive Divider One of the most common circuits used in electronics is the humble resistive divider. The resistive divider is a great way to drop the voltage of a signal to the desired range. Resistive dividers offer the benefits of low cost, ease of design, and few components, and they take up little space on a board. However, resistive dividers can significantly load down a signal, which changes the signal significantly....

How Routing Protocols Work Every network routing protocol performs three basic functions: Discovery: Identify other routers on the network.Route management: Keep track of the possible destinations (for network messages) along with some data describing the pathway of each.Path determination: Make dynamic decisions for where to send each network message. A few routing protocols (called link-state protocols) enable a router to build and track a full map of all network links in a region while others (called distance-vector protocols) allow routers to work with less information about the network area....

Mscoree.dll Errors There are several ways these errors can show up on your computer. Here are some of the more common messages: Mscoree.dll Not FoundThis application failed to start because mscoree.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.Cannot find [PATH]\mscoree.dllThe file mscoree.dll is missing.Cannot start [APPLICATION]. A required component is missing: mscoree.dll. Please install [APPLICATION] again. Mscoree.dll error messages might appear while using or installing certain programs, when Windows starts or shuts down, or maybe even during a Windows installation....

There are actually two different “speeds” at which a USB 1.1 device can run at: Low Bandwidth at 1.5 Mbps or Full Bandwidth at 12 Mbps. This is considerably slower than USB 2.0’s 480 Mbps and USB 3.0’s 5,120 Mbps maximum transfer rates. USB 1.1 Connectors USB Type A: These plugs and receptacles are officially referred to as Series A connectors and are the commonly seen, perfectly rectangular USB connectors....

Locate a Song or Album in the iOS Music App Navigating the Music app can be a little confusing, but once you are proficient with it, it’s easy to browse your music library until you find the song, album, or playlist you want to listen to and tap it to play. Play a Selection To play music from the Music app: How the Controls Work The controls available while a song is playing are familiar to most people and easy to pick up even if they aren’t familiar....

Anyone who’s active on Vine should know that video-making trends go viral across the platform all the time. Every few weeks or so, some lucky user’s new video quickly becomes a meme or trend almost overnight, inspiring all sorts of Vine users to create and post their own versions. The My Name Is Jeff sound clip from the movie 22 Jump Street is one example of a trend that went wildly viral on Vine....

VR headsets were used during the inquest into the death of a Hong Kong student who fell at a multi-story car park. It’s part of a small but growing movement to present evidence through VR. Experts say that virtual reality could bring new ways of presenting evidence to juries. “There’s no doubt that virtual reality could help to explain details of a case to jurors in a way which allows them to immerse themselves in the crime scene,” Jack Zmudzinski, a senior associate at software company Future Processing, said in an email interview....

DDNS serves a similar purpose to the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) in that DDNS lets anyone who hosts a web or FTP server advertise a public name to prospective users. However, unlike DNS, which only works with static IP addresses, DDNS is also designed to support dynamic (changing) IP addresses, such as those assigned by a DHCP server. That makes DDNS a good fit for home networks, which normally receive dynamic public IP addresses from an internet service provider....

Internet Backbone Technology Nearly all web browsing, video streaming, and other common online traffic flows through internet backbones. They consist of network routers and switches connected mainly by fiber optic cables. Each fiber link on the backbone normally provides 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. Computers rarely connect to a backbone directly. Instead, the networks of internet service providers or large organizations connect to these backbones and computers access the backbone indirectly....

Computer sticks feature mobile processors, graphics processors, flash memory storage, RAM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, operating systems, and an HDMI connector. Some computer sticks also offer microSD card slots, micro USB, and/or USB 2.0/3.0 ports for storage expansion. How to Use a Computer Stick Computer sticks are simple to set up and use as long as you have the necessary equipment. To get started, you’ll need: A free HDMI port on a television, monitor screen, or desktop or laptop PC....

It converts the alternating current from your wall outlet into a continuous form of power called direct current that the computer components require. It also regulates overheating by controlling voltage, which might change automatically or manually depending on the power supply. The power supply is a crucial piece because, without it, the rest of the internal hardware can’t function. Motherboards, cases, and power supplies all come in different sizes called form factors....

What is an Unlocked Phone? An unlocked smartphone is a phone that can work with any cell phone carrier. Some phones are not unlocked and so they can only be used on one provider like Verizon, or with just AT&T, or T-Mobile, etc. An unlocked phone doesn’t have that limitation. However, a phone’s compatibility with a network is only relevant for cell phone carriers, not wireless networks like Wi-Fi; any phone, as long as Wi-Fi is working, can connect to a Wi-Fi network regardless of whether or not the phone is unlocked or locked....

What Are the Advantages of a Liquid-Cooled Computer? Over the years, CPU (central processing unit) and graphics card speeds have increased. To generate the new speeds, CPUs employ more transistors, draw more power, run at higher clock rates, and thus generate more heat than ever before. Liquid cooling is more efficient than traditional heatsink technology at moving heat away from components. In turn, this technology allows processors to run at higher speeds by keeping the CPU and graphics cards running within the manufacturer’s temperature specifications....

How Mail Merge Works Mail merge works by linking a database to your document. The database contains the unique elements (Sue, Jack, Peggy, etc.) and the document is your letter, invoice, label set, or another file. Mail merge saves you time and effort because it automates the process of entering one unique piece of data into a document. For example, say you want to write a holiday letter and send it to 20 people....