Choosing the right sound card for your system can be a daunting task, since there are dozens of them out there. To help you out, we’ve detailed some of the finest PC sound cards/amplifiers in the market. Among these are PCIe-based options (best suited for desktops) such as ASUS Essence STX II, as well as USB-powered models (ideal for laptops, and even gaming consoles) like Creative Sound BlasterX G6. Read all about them, and make an informed decision!...

Any person buying a new camera should critique each model based on these three top factors: durability, video quality, and battery life. Durability will dictate the environment where you can record. Video quality will affect the final produced video. Battery life will determine how long you’re able to record your videos. Whether the video camera is capable of 1080p or 4K filming may be the most significant component you will need to consider in today’s world....

Most modern smartphones have “easy modes” or accessibility features that can be turned on. Generally, the best phones for seniors will have large buttons, a large bright display for easy viewing, wireless charging—meaning no fumbling with cables—and long battery life. Another thing to consider is budget. Many of our seniors are living on a fixed income, so it’s important to find options that will fit within those budgetary constraints. We’ve rounded up the best feature phones and smartphones on the market....

While many cameras have Wi-Fi, we selected options that give you a reason to carry or use them rather than just sticking with your phone. Whether you want to create and share professional-looking images or you’re a video blogger, here are our recommendations for the best Wi-Fi cameras. At its core, an enormous sensor powers the X100V. This sensor can deliver pro-grade images captured through its 35mm equivalent lens (a common and versatile size)....

If you’re not worried about specs and just need to boost your Wi-Fi, we think you should just buy the Eero Pro — it performed well in our tests and was by far the easiest to set up and use. Unlike many other mesh Wi-Fi systems, Eero also lets you mix-and-match between three different types of units. Powerful Eero Pro stations support three network for the fastest home broadband connections (i....

Baddie Selfie Captions As the saying goes, “If you’ve got it, flaunt it.” Or at least when you’re able to carefully curate your life through a series of carefully shot and selected photos you can at least act like you do. Nobody will be able to tell the difference, right? “I may be bad, but I feel good.”“It’s an ode to joy. Joy is me. I’m joy.”“My camera can’t get enough of me....

Genre: Drama Starring: Sibongokuhle Nkosi, Mandisa Vilakazi Director: Bonie Sithebe TV Rating: TV-MA Running Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes The Valley of a Thousand Hills takes its name from the region in South Africa where the movie was filmed and takes place. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family Starring: Marco Simon Puccioni, Luca De Bei, Gianluca Bernardini Director: Marco Simon Puccioni TV Rating: TV-MA Running Time: 1 hour, 49 minutes The Invisible Thread (Il Filo Invisibile) is an Italian drama with a positive message and a few laughs....

The new Galaxy starts at $699 and offers new colors options, powerful cameras, and a 6.5-inch, 120Hz display that can make video look smoother. It’s meant to target consumers shopping for a phone that’s better than a cheap Android or iPhone, but are cautious about overspending at a time when the economy is in a downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic. “If you’re an Android user looking to upgrade your old phone, but don’t want to break the bank, the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE’s feature set makes it an excellent option,” Chris Hauk, consumer privacy champion at Pixel Privacy, said in an email interview....

The phone (1), launching this month in Europe, is a much-hyped and quite amazing-looking phone, with some genuinely neat features—like that crazy lighting rig around back. But there’s a problem. The phone (1) seems to be aimed at Apple users, which, as we shall see, is an almost impossible task. “It is increasingly hard for new vendors to enter the Smartphone market for the simple reason that Apple, and Google to an extent, have gone to great lengths to ensure that the iPhone is an integral part of your wider ecosystem of tech,” Lee Essex, of U....

Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field is a tiny, portable, battery-powered music studio. It’s also just about the most fun you can have making and recording music. It’s an update to the decade-old OP-1, bringing refinements more than anything new, but these changes take the OP-1 Field from quirky to essential. In short, the OP-1 Field makes music fun again. “For me, it gives me a portable take-on-the-train all-in-one production device that I can also use at home in the house with an acoustic piano or Nord Grand, and lets me stay in a musical frame of mind rather than a computer frame of mind,” said OP-1 F user and musician Rowan Pope (aka darwiniandude) on a forum thread participated in by Lifewire....

Smart locks, in concert with smart doorbell cameras, will unlock your front door automatically when you arrive home, let you check whether you left the door unlocked (and lock it again if you did), and even let you check who just rang the doorbell. But they can be hacked, and there are all kinds of unintended consequences, like alerting homeowners to pending FBI raids. Yes, you read that right. “The most serious risk, I think,” John Brownlee, editor of health magazine Folks, told Lifewire via Twitter, “isn’t hackers or thieves—there [are] easier ways to break-in....

What Are Snapchat Emojis? The Snapchat app tracks your messaging habits with your friends and assigns Friend emojis to represent the current status of your level of interaction with other users. As you continue to send and receive messages, the emojis will change over time. Likewise, if you stop messaging someone for a while, the emoji may disappear completely. Your Friend emojis are not public; they are only visible to you....

This year, CES is online, and there’s no giant screen to see. But there are still plenty of weird displays, from LG’s “smallest” OLED to Mercedes’ 55-inch dashboard-shaped “hyperscreen.” Let’s take a look at the screens of CES. When you think of screens, cars may not be the first place you look. CES has always had a massive car component, and this year we have a great crossover between cars and screens....

Some dashcam apps compare more favorably to hardware types of dashboard cameras than others, and some apps provide functionality you can’t get from a physical device. For example, some dashcam apps can tie into an OBD2 Bluetooth scanner for a different experience from anything you can get out of a hardware dashcam. While these apps aren’t as convenient as a hardware device, they are the most useful dash camera alternatives available....

Which Version of Disk Utility Is Right for You? Disk Utility has evolved, gaining new features with each new version of OS X. For the most part, Apple added features and capabilities to the original Disk Utility core app. However, when Apple released OS X El Capitan, it created a new version of Disk Utility. While it retains the same name, its user interface underwent a dramatic makeover. Therefore, there are two separate workflows for using Disk Utility’s First Aid feature....

Kat VR plans to release a gaming treadmill that works with VR headsets. The company claims the device will provide 360° of movement in VR from a single spot at your home. “An omnidirectional treadmill is tuned to your body, so while you’re running, they’re doing calculations to make sure you’re not going to run off the treadmill (there’s also safety harnesses),” Jake Maymar, the vice president of innovation at the VR company The Glimpse Group told Lifewire in an email interview....

No matter what you’re doing with your generator, from running an air conditioning unit to powering construction tools, simplicity is key. Essentially, you’ll want to get as close to plug-and-play as possible, and that’s where the Westinghouse iGen2500 excels. With an easy-start design, smart LED data center, and lightweight construction, the Westinghouse iGen2500 seems to be the ideal mid-range portable generator. In order to find out if it’s as promising as it appears on paper, we put the iGen2500 through 18 hours of testing under different loads....

If a backup program doesn’t support backup sets, it just means that everything marked for backup follows the same rules for how often backing up occurs. How Backup Sets Work A backup set is just a specific schedule for a specific set of files and folders. In most cases, you’d give a new backup set a name, include the files and folders you want to have in it, and then set up specific backup rules for that collection....

Ringtones were originally built into the very first cellphones to enable the user to personalize the sound that their phone made with an incoming call. However, these factory preset sounds were limited in number and there were no alternative sounds commercially available at the time that users could buy. The first time ringtone files were available for people to import into their phones began in 1998 when Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen had the vision to set up a ringtone business; users could now access many more alternative sounds to replace the factory preset ones on their phone....

With 3D printing, you create a 3D digital design in a 3D modeling program, known as CAD software, and then use a 3D printer to produce layers of material to form the finished object. Businesses, researchers, medical professionals, hobbyists, and more use 3D printing for a range of applications. Here’s a look at how 3D printing came to be, how it works, what it’s used for, and what the future holds for this technology....