The market for 17-inch laptops might not be massive, but the LG Gram 17 certainly makes a compelling argument in their favor. Traditionally the two largest drawbacks to 17-inch laptops are the physical footprint, and the weight, both of which make these large laptops less than portable. The LG Gram does away with both of these problems with its 2.95 pound body and thin bezels, packing a 17-inch screen in a 15-inch body....

Logitech is known for creating high-quality and reasonably priced peripherals like mice, keyboards, and headsets. The Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset is the successor to the company’s well-known G930 headset. Designed for PC gamers, the G533 is engineered with DTS Headphone:X for virtual 7.1 surround sound and Pro-G audio drivers. It has a 15-hour battery life, and a wireless range of almost 50 feet. I tested the G533 for a week, playing console and PC titles, listening to music, and even using the headset in work meetings to see how well it performs in the real world....

If you’re ready to invest in your wireless mouse, the Logitech MX Master 3 could be right for you. This dual Bluetooth and 2.4Ghz wireless mouse does the basics and so much more that characterizes the Logitech MX Master Series, which is catered to creatives and coders. It’s even compatible with other series-specific peripherals including a coding-centric wireless keyboard. This advanced mouse is jam-packed with customization options while still offering a gentle learning curve....

Marantz has also positioned the NR1200 in a sensible price tier, where it has no problem competing against the nearby competition. Sure, you can spend a lot less money and get a much simpler receiver, but you’d miss out on a host of functionality and flexibility offered by the NR1200. And yes, you can easily spend more money and get a better sounding receiver, but the prices of receivers jump from the $600 range to the $1,500-$2,500 range in the blink of an eye....

Of the steps involved in configuring security on a Wi-Fi network, the management of wireless keys is the most important. A wireless network security key is a digital password that users of devices on a network must enter to connect to the network and with each other. All devices on a local Wi-Fi network share a common key. Wi-Fi Keys: Types and Options Setting up security on a Wi-Fi network router, wireless hotspot, or client device involves choosing from a list of security options, then entering a key string that the device stores....

Meta has announced a research project to create translation software that works for “everyone in the world.” It’s part of a growing effort to serve the approximately 20 percent of the world’s population who do not speak languages covered by current translation systems. “Communicating properly speaking the same language is hard enough; trying to capture and understand the universal nuances of different languages is a whole other ballgame,” Scott Mann, the co-CEO of Flawless AI, a neural net film lab, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Microsoft seems to have missed the memo, as a recent update troubled some people and caused all sorts of issues, such as app crashes. Microsoft’s workaround? It asked affected people to uninstall the update, then invalidated the problematic update altogether by delivering a fix. As if installing an update wasn’t jarring enough already, people now had to go out of their way once again to rollback the update. Shouldn’t Microsoft do a better job of testing its software before pushing them to people?...

MIT researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that understands the underlying relationships between objects in a scene. This work could be applied in situations where robots must perform complex tasks, like assembling appliances. It also moves the field one step closer to making machines that can learn from and interact with their environments like humans do. “Humanoid robots designed with AI technology, perform a number of human tasks and carry out the roles of receptionists, personal assistants, front desk officers, and more in numerous sectors,” AI expert Sameer Maskey, a computer science professor and CEO at Fusemachines, told Lifewire in an email interview....

All 2DS and 3DS systems support the full library of 3DS and original Nintendo DS games. However, there are a few titles that are exclusively available for the New 3DS and New 2DS models. The XL versions of the 2DS and 3DS have larger screens, but these models play the same games. The screens of the 2DS and 3DS are approximately the same size: 3.53 inches (top screen, diagonally) and 3....

In Miitopia, you’ve got a quest, a hero, a kingdom, and a bunch of monsters to pummel, in the most deliberately generic storyline this side of Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. The hook is that you can recast all of the human characters, from your hero to the ultimate villain, via Nintendo’s Mii character creator. It comes pre-loaded with an assortment of copyright-infringing, user-created avatars, but there’s a lot of fun to be had with making your own and throwing them into (in)appropriate positions in the kingdom....

You can also install Mountain Lion on a range of devices, including your startup drive, an internal partition or volume, or most any external drive you may have. Another option is to create bootable copies of the installer that can run on a DVD, USB flash drive, or another storage device. This choice lets you keep a version handy in case you need to reinstall the operating system. Minimum Requirements for OS X Mountain Lion OS X Mountain Lion has a few special needs that prevent it from running on some older Intel Macs....

The clean method of installing OS X Yosemite wipes all the data from the destination drive and replaces it with the fresh, never-before-used data from the OS X Yosemite installer. All your user data and any applications that you installed will be gone. While the clean install option may not sound like a friendly way to update a Mac to OS X Yosemite, it offers advantages that make it the preferred update path for some Mac users....

Keep reading to see our review of Popcornflix—for our thoughts on the quality of the videos, the advertisements, the mobile app, and more. Movies Are Easy to Find… Sort Of Using the Popcornflix website is really easy. The menu, if you can call it that, is just three buttons along the top of the page. Homepage, Movies, and Series. Selecting Movies reveals all the categories you can look through to find your next film....

Removable Media Sony is a fan of proprietary formats for removable storage media on its devices, and the PS Vita is no exception. It takes not one, but two different Vita-only card types. PS Vita Memory Card Where the PlayStation Portable used the Sony Memory Stick Duo and Pro Duo formats for storage, the PS Vita uses the PS Vita Memory Card. Memory sticks like those used in the PSP do not work with the PS Vita, nor do other common formats like SD cards or the memory stick micro used in the PSPgo....

RedPhone is made by Open Whisper Systems, a group that provides three privacy tools in communication: RedPhone, TextSecure, and Signal. TextSecure ensures privacy in text messaging, while Signal is a private calling app solely for iOS. RedPhone is available for both iOS and Android, making it quite restrictive in terms of the platforms it runs on. How It Works The operation of RedPhone is simple. It encrypts your voice calls end to end, and the encryption is done in such a way that even they do not have access to call information....

A new study published by a group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looks at how robots can become more social and how we define social interactions as a whole. The study’s findings will make it possible for a future where robots are more helpful and understand humans, which will prove crucial as robots play more of a role in our daily lives. “Robots will increasingly become part of our lives, and although they are robots, they need to understand our language,” Boris Katz, principal research scientist and head of the InfoLab Group in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and a member of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM), told Lifewire in a video call....

Which Types of Disks Are Best Suited for APFS? Because APFS was originally designed for use with SSDs and flash-based storage, it would seem that the new file system would be at home on these newest and fastest storage systems. APFS works with most storage systems, but there are specific usages that can make APFS a poor choice, or at least a less than optimal choice. Let’s take a look at how suitable APFS is for common disk types and usage....

Overall Findings Both Skype and Viber are free to download and install on both desktop and mobile platforms. Both let you call other people for free as long as they’re also using the app. Calls to a mobile number or landline are possible but require a subscription or fee. While Skype uses more data than Viber, it also allows you to buy a unique Skype phone number for receiving calls and texts....

The FBI recently put out a warning informing Americans of a new scam in which scammers first bait victims by sending fake “bank fraud” alert messages and then calling them from a number that resembles the financial institution’s legitimate 1-800 support number. “This is a common tactic we see across a number of scams, with hackers using data scraped from the dark web and other data leak sources to legitimize conversations with victims,” Adrien Gendre, Chief Tech & Product Officer at Vade told Lifewire over email....

While the movie focuses on the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), as he comes to grips with his new powers, it’s also a celebration of many different versions of the character thanks to the multiverse storyline. The action is solid and the script hilarious, but Miles’ familial relationships are the movie’s beating heart and should connect with parents and kids alike. Into the Spider-Verse was met with universal acclaim from critics and became the first non-Disney/Pixar film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature since Rango (2011)....