With powerful multi-core CPUs and advanced gaming optimization features, the best gaming routers will make sure you have ultrafast lag-free performance, so you won’t find things freezing up just as you’re about to lead your troops into battle or make that critical kill shot. Further, advanced QoS features keep your games running fast and smooth even when other folks in your home are streaming Netflix or hanging out on FaceTime....

How: Some couldn’t load the App Store. Others could not download. Why Do You Care: The App Store is your primary avenue to new apps, app updates, and in-app purchases. If it’s offline, none of that’s available to you. BTW: We’re pretty sure it’s all back now. One of the advantages of having such a deep well of articles about technology here at Lifewire is the ability to see what’s happening in the world based on which of our articles starts to get unusually high traffic....

Genre: Animation, Short, Drama Director: Frank E. Abney III Motion Picture Rating: G Runtime: 9 minutes Genre: Animated, Action, Adventure Starring: Kotono Mitsuishi, Stephanie Sheh (English version), Kate Higgins (English version) Director: Chiaki Kon Motion Picture Rating: TV-14 Runtime: 2 hours, 40 minutes Genre: Comedy, Sports Starring: Kevin James, Taylor Lautner Director: Charles Francis Kinnane, Daniel Kinnane Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, James Marsden, Vanessa Hudgens Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Starring: Isla Fisher, Guy Pearce, Tim Minchin Director: Harry Cripps, Clare Knight Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Genre: Animation Starring: David Tennant, Grey Griffin, Michelle Gomez Motion Picture Rating: TV-Y7 Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes Genre: Fantasy, Horror Starring: Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett Director: David Yarovesky Motion Picture Rating: TV-PG Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama Starring: Rebecca Hall, Daniel Dae Kim, John Cho Director: Mamoru Hosoda Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Genre: Animated, Adventure Starring: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph Director: Michael Rianda Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Genre: Interactive, Comedy Starring: Bruce Campbell, Charles Demers, Brian Drummond Director: Steve Rolston Motion Picture Rating: TV-Y7 Runtime: 27 minutes Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Starring: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ynairaly Simo, Zoe Saldana Motion Picture Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Genre: Animated, Action, Adventure Starring: Emile Hirsch, Nick Offerman, Steven Yeun Director: Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz-Velasco, Andrew L....

Background and Beginning Not to be confused with specialized athletic watches for runners, swimmers, and cyclists, sensor-equipped wearable activity trackers have emerged in the last few years as useful accessories for both serious and casual exercisers. Using an accelerometer, these clip-on or wristband-style gadgets can track your activity. The popularity of activity trackers has inspired many users to aim for at least 10,000 steps per day. Moreover, many people use trackers as motivational tools — many devices offer complementary mobile apps that let you compare stats with your friends, for example....

Using the Bcc Field in macOS Mail To send a message to Bcc recipients in macOS Mail: When each of the Bcc recipients receives the email, it displays “Undisclosed Recipients” followed by their address in the To field, along with any names you entered in the To field when you sent the email. The other names entered into the Bcc field don’t show, although the presence of Undisclosed Recipients in the To field indicates there are other recipients....

For months, rumors and leaks that Nintendo would release a Switch Pro with support for 60FPS, 4K resolution, and more valuable features have been making the rounds. Earlier this week, though, Nintendo put it all to rest when it announced the Switch OLED Model. The new Switch is exactly what it sounds like, but instead of the LCD panel found on the current model, it features an OLED screen. That’s a handy update, but something that many have found disappointing is the lack of any upgrade to its resolution output....

The Right Naming System There’s no right or wrong way to name files, and naming systems vary from user to user. Find a method that makes sense to you and apply it consistently. Here are some examples of information to include in the file name to make it quick and easy to find files: The date the document was composed: Add a date to the file name of most documents, especially with correspondence....

“Hang on,” I said a second later, when I realized that I hadn’t quite dialed in the ideal way to place the Ekster Trackable Smart Wallet into my pocket so I could activate its single, prominent button in one fluid motion. I’m a regular at this gas station, and the cashiers recognize and accept this level of nonsense from me. The Ekster Trackable Smart Wallet was now in my hand, and my finger was on the button....

What Is a TS File? A file with the .TS file extension is a Video Transport Stream file used to store MPEG-2-compressed video data. They’re often seen on DVDs in a sequence of multiple .TS files. TypeScript is another file format that uses the .TS file extension. These are text files used to make JavaScript applications and are in fact similar to JavaScript (.JS) files, but include code in the TypeScript programming language....

The event is called 2 Weeks of Light and will see many Twitch livestreamers go through a series of challenges and dares to get the audience actively involved. The goal is to reach $50,000 for the computer labs. The donations page opened ahead of the event, and money is already rolling in. Currently, 2 Weeks of Light has raised a little over $4,000. To sweeten the deal for viewers, the event is holding a giveaway where you can win a gaming chair or some Elgato streaming equipment....

Ultra HD resolution provides four times as much resolution as full HD, and HDR content offers enhanced brightness, contrast, and color performance. A separate set of specifications unveiled by the UHD Alliance in 2016 takes these specs a bit further. It’s called Ultra HD Premium. What Is Ultra HD Premium? Developed by the Ultra High Definition Alliance (UHDA), a working group of more than 30 industry brands, Ultra HD Premium is a badge or logo that is meant to tell consumers which TVs, displays, or video content are designed to deliver a more robust HDR and UHD experience....

Devices that adhere to the USB 2.0 standard have the ability to transmit data at a maximum speed of 480 Mbps. This is faster than the older USB 1.1 standard and much slower than the newer USB4 standard. USB 1.1 was released in August 1998, USB 2.0 in April 2000, USB 3.0 in November 2008, and USB4 in August 2019. USB 2.0 Connectors USB Type A: These connectors are technically called USB 2....

Overall Findings USB-C and Lightning (not to be confused with Thunderbolt) are protocols used for connection, communication, and power supply. Although both cable types are primarily for charging devices like smartphones and tablets, you can also use them for digital transfer tasks such as uploading or downloading movies, music, photos, and more. USB-C is considered by many to be the current standard for charging and transferring data. However, every iPhone and iPad since September 2012 has come with a Lightning cable....

What Is USB4? Since USB4 is based on the Thunderbolt 3 standard, it’s twice as fast as the USB version before it, and it includes the video bandwidth of DisplayPort 2.0. USB4 devices and cables won’t look any different from your typical USB 3 device, but behind the scenes are a few improvements that catapult it over previous versions, things you’ll especially care about if you’re an avid gamer. Devices began hitting the shelves in 2021....

A good example of these differences can be seen when comparing an OEM and a retail hard drive. The retail version is often referred to as a kit because it includes the drive cables, installation instructions, warranty cards, and software packages that configure or run the drive. The OEM version of the drive only includes the hard drive in a sealed anti-static bag with no other materials. Sometimes it’s referred to as a bare drive....

A lot of displays support VRR, which is primarily used to deter unwanted visual issues like flickering or creating what looks like tears on the screen. It’s a fairly common feature these days, but up until now, it hasn’t had an industry-standard number to aim for—unlike, say, screen resolutions. What VESA is doing is providing that standard by way of a series of tests it’s calling “Adaptive-Sync Display Compliance Test Specification” (Adaptive-Sync Display CTS)....

How: The Byte app is available for iOS and Android. Simply shoot or upload a short video to the service and browse other videos from creators all over. Why Do You Care: The evolution of a video format begun by Vine and continued (more successfully) by TikTok is just beginning. Now Vine’s co-creator Dom Hoffman is back with Byte, a (you guessed it) 6-second video app you use pretty much like Vine and TikTok....

How: You can watch them on YouTube and other sites without waiting for the weekend. Why Do You Care: If you’re not a sports fan, it can be fun to see what ads will make history. It’s not just beer and car companies who advertise during the show, either. This year, tech giants like Microsoft and Google have dropped their ads almost a week before the Super Bowl itself. So have smaller companies, like Squarespace, who have had an ad presence during the game for years....

One of the most exciting things to come out of the Apple Silicon transition is the parity of features between the Mac and iOS. Now that both platforms run on the same chips, Apple treats its computers as one big system with different hardware features. Just like the Mac has desktops and laptops, and iOS has long had phones, tablets, a watch, and so on, now it’s more like there’s one big Apple OS, with various devices within it....

Snapseed is a Google acquisition acquired to beef up Google’s photo capabilities. Now it’s a Google app with powerful photo-editing filters you can use on your smartphone or tablet. Some see Snapseed as a response to Instagram, but it is intended to be part of a continuing effort by Google to improve its photo-editing and to share software in general. Nik Software — the company that initially made Snapseed — developed a wide range of photo filters and plug-in products, specializing in high dynamic range (HDR) filters....