Default motion smoothing causes the unnatural "soap opera effect." Experts recommend turning off motion smoothing for most movies and shows. Motion smoothing improves fast-paced action like sports and ...

Your smart TV is taking screenshots every few seconds of what you’re watching, then selling the info. It’s called ACR (automatic content recognition), and every brand hides these settings differently.

Although only iPhone Pro owners can change its brighness, the flashlight on iPhones is a very handy feature. You can set it up to be accessed in a few ways, including on the lock screen or in control ...

To stop YouTube auto-dub and hear the original audio, manually switch the Audio track to the original language via the settings gear on each video or Shorts. On ...

The threat actor known as Storm-0249 is likely shifting from its role as an initial access broker to adopt a combination of more advanced tactics like domain spoofing, DLL side-loading, and fileless ...

Meta AI is now embedded across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, powering search suggestions, comment summaries, and chatbot interactions. If you've noticed a little blue-and-purple ring icon in your ...

If Apple was trying to make a splash with its Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26, it succeeded—just maybe not in the way it had hoped to. In case you haven’t been keeping tabs on Apple’s ongoing iOS ...

You can choose to disable BitLocker on your Windows 11 or 10 PC from the Control Panel or Windows Settings. Besides that, you can turn off BitLocker aka Device Encryption using command-line tools like ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Lorraine Whitmarsh receives funding from UKRI. Sam Hampton receives funding from UKRI and the Askehave Climate Foundation. Saving energy isn’t just about keeping bills down. A new analysis of 100 ...

For the first year or two after the launch of ChatGPT, it felt like AI was all you ever heard about. Today, it’s everywhere you look, too. Apple and Samsung have added AI to their phones. Meta ...

There are so many new settings and features baked into modern Android smartphones that it's really easy to overlook some of them — even when they're active. Sure, they might show a notification in the ...