The MacBook Pro Touch Barwas a somewhat controversial feature. While many users thought it added functionality to the laptop, others found it to be an unnecessary and, at times, annoying distraction. If you miss the Touch Bar and want to bring it back into your workflow, a program called Touché makes that possible.

Is your Mac helping you work efficiently or holding you back? A cluttered, disorganized setup can slow you down, making it harder to find files, focus on tasks, and meet deadlines. These small inefficiencies can add up quickly, and before you know it, your device becomes more of a distraction than a productivity tool. Fortunately, you can optimize macOS with minimal effort and a few adjustments to create a faster, more efficient workspace. With that said, here are six tips to optimize your Mac for productivity.

Nvidia's RTX 50 series has been dubbed a "paper launch" by many, in that it's been seemingly impossible for most normal people to actually get their hands on one of the cards. Unfortunately this trend has been going on for quite a while across the tech industry, upwards of twenty years, and it's likely only going to get worse in the future.

SysInternals is a suite of powerful Windows utilities from Microsoft that offers various tools to help optimize, troubleshoot, and monitor your PC. To access these apps, you can opt to download the SysInternals Suite package from the dedicated Microsoft SysInternals Learn page, or you can download each of the tools individually. The suite includes 74 tools, and most of them are mostly useful for troubleshooting purposes, but I picked the ones that will help you optimize your PC.

A week ago, Apple's CEO Tim Cook hinted that something big was on the horizon. Now, the company is ready to reveal what it has been working on. The company has announced the iPhone 16e, and it's shaping up to be a budget-friendly win for Apple fans.

Although most modern graphics cards have a safe temperature limit of 90C, they shouldn't ideally shouldn't exceed 85C when you're gaming. Otherwise, you'll start experiencing problems. While it's a good idea to keep an eye on your GPU temperature with tools like MSI Afterburner while playing games, the overlay—to me, at least—disrupts the immersion. So, I rarely ever use them unless I'm benchmarking a new game for a few minutes.

Volvo says the ES90 will be the “most powerful car” ever created. | Image: VolvoVolvo’s next electric vehicle, the ES90 midsized luxury sedan, sounds like its got some serious computing chops. The new EV will come with a dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it the “most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capacity,” the company claims today. The new supercomputer is included as part of a single tech stack called Superset, which Volvo says will underpin all of its next-gen vehicles going forward. The ES90 will be Volvo’s first vehicle to come with the Nvidia’s system-on-a-chip, enabling it to perform core functions at lightning fast speeds thanks to the computer’s abilities to perform 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This will come handy when managing functionalities such as “AI-based, state-of-the-art active safety features, car sensors and efficient battery management.”508 trillion operations per second Orin system also represents an “eightfold” improvement in processing speeds over the San Jose-based chipmaker’s Xavier computer that featured in the 2018 announcement of a team-up between Volvo and Nvidia on in-car hardware. The increased processing power to enable Volvo to gradually enhance its deep learning model and neural network “from 40 million to 200 million parameters,” the company says. The ES90 will be built on Volvo’s SPA2 architecture and will be the second vehicle, after the EX90, to be based on its Superset tech stack. Superset is a modular engineering platform that the company says will be used to make safer cars, more efficiently, and to improve them over time through over-the-air software updates.Tesla was the first company to introduce the idea of a connected vehicle with updateable software that could improve over timne. Now, the rest of the industry is scrambling to catch up by introducing their own upgradable vehicles. Volvo’s EX90 was intended to be the first major effort, but the electric SUV was delayed by software troubles, and when it eventually arrived it lacked many of its promised features. Volvo says it envisions a future in which features such as driver assist technology and battery range are able to be improved over time thanks to this new tech stack. And improvements for the EX90 will be translatable to the ES90, and vice versa. “The Volvo ES90 is one of the most technically advanced cars on the market today and is designed to be improved further with time,” says Anders Bell, Volvo’s chief engineering and technology officer, in a statement. “Built on our state-of-the-art Superset tech stack, the ES90 puts safety at the forefront.”

Smart homes are convenient, interesting, and wildly insecure. Even if you think you aren't a target, it's still smart to secure your home. In 2024, a man was arrested for distributing video from cameras on wall panels of more than 400,000 homes. The average person likely isn't using a secure enough password or home network, and that can make them vulnerable to bad actors. You can have all the convenience of a smart home with minimal cybersecurity risk as long as you take the right precautions.

A deep dive into my Amazon history shows that in 2011, I paid $50 for a 500GB external HDD, and in 2013, I paid $165 for a 250GB SATA internal SSD. Those prices, and far worse, were the era of storage costs that I grew up in, so suffice it to say that having a ton of storage space with me on the go was never something I adopted into my daily tech repertoire until recently.

There are a lot of different gaming monitors out there, but the Samsung Odyssey Ark is going to be one of the stand-outs, featuring a massive screen that's also coupled with great performance. Not only is this a fantastic gaming monitor, but it can also double as a smart TV as well.

There's no denying that File Explorer is not the best file manager on Windows. It often encounters various issues—like recently, after downloading the KB5051987 patch update for Windows 11, many users noticed that File Explorer became unresponsive whenever they tried to open folders. To ensure you don't have to deal with such issues anymore, you can use File Pilot, which is one of the best alternatives to File Explorer.

Software evolves in both user interface and functionality, or it gets replaced with new technology. Take Microsoft Word, for example. It has undergone countless changes and looks nothing like it did when it first debuted in 1983. The theory of evolution applies not just to us as a species, but also to the things we create. However, some software has seen little to no change since its debut and has still managed to survive. In fact, many applications that are over two decades old remain fully functional on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 11.