Most long-time Windows users have at some point used the "Battery Saver" feature (or Energy Saver as it's called on the latest iteration) on Windows, but very few know what it actually does. The common understanding is that battery saver lowers the display brightness and disables a bunch of non-critical services and apps to conserve battery. Other than that, it disables transparency effects, background apps, and non-critical updates, telemetry, and scheduled tasks.

Linux dominates the home lab conversation for good reasons. Containers, lightweight services, network appliances, and cost-efficient virtualization stacks are all areas where Linux feels like the natural default. But not every home lab is built around Docker and YAML files.

A defiant Brendan Carr testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in his first public appearance before lawmakers since threatening broadcasters who aired comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show. Over the course of nearly three hours, the Federal Communications Commission chairman ping-ponged between heated exchanges with Democrats and largely muted questions from Republicans. But at least some members of both parties expressed concern about regulators bending the First Amendment - though there's little sign it will have much impact on Carr.Taking center stage were comments Carr made in September in the wake of the public killing o …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC.Isaacman, the founder and CEO of a payments platform called Shift4, has flown to space twice through private missions with Elon Musk's SpaceX. After choosing Isaacman as head of NASA in December 2024, Trump pulled his nomination in May, later saying in a Truth Social post that he thought it would be "inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA."Isaacman attemp …Read the full story at The Verge.

Black Ops 7 seems to be in a really strange position right now. There's no doubt that the game is selling, with people clocking hours into the FPS as is tradition with Call of Duty titles. However, we've also seen potential evidence that, while the game definitely moved units, it didn't move as many units as the upper management liked.

There were a ton of great announcements and reveals during The Game Awards 2025. New trailers for beloved franchises and fresh original ideas had everyone talking. Although many of the big surprises during the show most likely won't be arriving in 2026, the future of gaming is looking very bright. However, gamers who watched The Game Awards noticed a few missing games that had no presence whatsoever.

My home network hasn't always used quality networking equipment. For many years, I used whatever the ISP provided as my only network appliance, since I didn't need anything beyond Wi-Fi and a few wired ports. Then I found out about custom router firmware like DD-WRT, and I upgraded to the legendary WRT54G, and spent no time at all flashing it with Tomato.

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology debuted this year with the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we're getting our first FlexConnect soundbar thanks to LG. The new H7 soundbar - which runs on the same Alpha 11 Gen 3 chip as LG's OLEDs and new Micro RGB LED - is a part of the LG Sound Suite, a modular home audio system the company will debut at CES 2026. In addition to the soundbar, the Sound Suite will include the M5 and M7 surround speakers and the W7 subwoofer. All of the speakers feature Peerless Audio components.The two main drawbacks of TCL's Dolby FlexConnect implementation were the limitation of only allowing four connected speakers, includ …Read the full story at The Verge.

There were a ton of great announcements and reveals during The Game Awards 2025. New trailers for beloved franchises and fresh original ideas had everyone talking. Although many of the big surprises during the show most likely won't be arriving in 2026, the future of gaming is looking very bright. However, gamers who watched The Game Awards noticed a few missing games that had no presence whatsoever.

Sometimes, you record a video (or download it) and as great as it is, you wish you could cut certain parts out. It sounds like a simple task, but it's not always as easy as you might expect. Not every operating system includes a tool for trimming and splitting videos, and when they do, you might have to deal with lower-quality output due to the encoder used by those built-in tools.

At first glance, Apple didn't change very much about the Apple TV 4K with the release of tvOS 26 this past fall. This isn't exactly surprising given the set-top box and its OS feel like they've become Apple's forgotten platform over the last few years.

Snap just launched a new Quick Cut video editing tool right inside Snapchat that "helps Snapchatters turn their favorite Memories into beat-synced, ready-to-share videos in seconds."With Quick Cut, you can select multiple photos or clips and then "instantly preview a rendered video," and the feature is accessible from multiple places in the app, including from Memories and your camera roll. When you're making a video, Quick Cut also automatically adds music and syncs it to the clips you're putting together, though you can change the track if you'd like, and you can add lenses to your Quick Cut video, too. If you want to do more detailed ed …Read the full story at The Verge.