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First released in 1992 by IBM, and purchased by Lenovo in 2005, ThinkPad has a particularly loyal fanbase. Lenovo encourages this following with premium laptops that target hardcore enthusiasts, and the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is the latest. This 2-in-1’s headline feature is in the name. It’s constructed partially from titanium, a material rarely found on a laptop (Apple’s PowerBook G4 was the last to use it). The X1 Titanium Yoga is also the thinnest ThinkPad ever at just 0....

Verify Your Router Address Before you can limit bandwidth on your router, you’ll need to know the Internet Protocol address of your home router. This address is called the default gateway. Each router has its own menu system, but the general principle remains the same. Use the IP address or MAC address of each device to control the maximum bandwidth it can use. In most routers, this feature is called Quality of Service....

Here’s what you need to know about sleep mode on your Mac. Types of Sleep Mode in Macs Apple supports three main types of sleep modes for desktops and portables. The three modes are Sleep, Hibernation, and Safe Sleep, and they each work slightly differently. In Sleep, the Mac’s RAM stays on while it’s sleeping. The Mac can wake up quickly because there’s no need to load anything from the hard drive....

CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a handful of VR devices, each designed to improve an element of VR. The goal, Zuckerberg said, is for future headsets to pass a so-called “visual Turing test,” in reference to a test of artificial intelligence. “The new prototypes are built to explore improvements to different, specific aspects of VR optics and technology that, when combined together, are key to the experience, sense of presence, and enabling of use cases that, at the moment, may be hard to achieve,” Lucas San Pedro, chief technology officer at virtual reality platform provider Immerse, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Loop—and Notion—do away with the concept of individual documents in favor of a “flexible canvas.” If you want to create a table to work out the cost of your vacation, or a sales project, you don’t need to fire up Excel. Instead, you drop in a portable “component” right on your canvas. These components, like informational Legos, stay in sync and can be reused in different contexts. And of course, you can share everything....

To spawn an untamed skeleton horse use: /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~1 ~0 {Type: 4}To spawn a tamed skeleton horse use: /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~1 ~0 {Type:4, Tame: 1}To spawn an untamed undead horse use: /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~1 ~0 {Type: 3}To spawn a tamed undead horse use: /summon EntityHorse ~0 ~1 ~0 {Type: 3, Tame: 1} To tame a horse, it’s as simple as sitting on the horse multiple times. The horse will throw you off a few times, but soon enough, he will become tamed....

Windows 11 is finally here, but Windows 10 isn’t going away anytime soon. For a lot of people, the changes made to the interface in Windows 11 might feel like a lot, and it might be tempting to sit back and just stick with what you know. But, if you’re someone who does a lot of multitasking, or relies heavily on accessibility features to help you get around your computer, then it just might be worth updating to Windows 11 sooner rather than later....

Here’s what you should do to troubleshoot an iPad green screen. Reboot Your iPad The first step in troubleshooting most iPad problems is to reboot the device. When you suspend the iPad by clicking the Sleep/Wake button at the top of the device or by closing the Smart Cover, you aren’t actually turning off the iPad. To power down, hold the Sleep/Wake button down for several seconds (or the power button and volume up button on recent iPad models), releasing it only when the iPad prompts you to slide an on-screen button to power down....

Netgear offers a shockingly large number of Wi-Fi extenders across every price range and level of performance—and the Nighthawk X6S Tri-Band Wi-Fi Mesh Extender (EX8000) is definitely on the higher end of both of those scales. It’s built for top-end performance, accommodating up to 3Gbps in speed with tri-band Wi-Fi capabilities and up to 2,800 square feet of additional coverage for your home. It also has four Ethernet ports on the back, making this an ideal extender to place next to your entertainment center for hooking up multiple game consoles and streaming devices....

Researchers have created “5D” data storage technology that could allow 500 terabytes of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc. It’s part of a growing revolution in vast and inexpensive data storage methods using new technologies that could power everything from driverless cars to innovative virtual reality experiences. “Data is like the crude oil of old days,” Hang Liu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Facebook revealed a new web page with details about VirtuClear Lens Inserts for the Oculus Quest 2, starting at $80. Using eyeglasses with VR headsets can be a literal pain, but these special VR lenses may alleviate the problem. “As a prescription lens wearer, a consistent point of concern when using any headset is the fit of the device,” Dr. Warren Wiechmann, associate dean of clinical science education and educational technology at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, said in an email interview....

Reset Picture Settings This option resets your color, brightness, contrast, and other picture related settings back to the factory defaults. This comes in handy if you’ve made manual adjustments to the picture, but don’t like the result and can’t get the settings back to where you started. A picture settings reset does not change any other TV settings. To reset the picture, select Settings > the Picture Settings icon > Expert Settings > Reset Picture....

Home security is extremely important to me, and while I’ve yet to invest in any previous Ring devices, I have been eyeing them for quite a while. With the recent reveal of the Floodlight Cam Wired Pro, I think I’m finally ready to pull the trigger. On top of that, the features the Floodlight Cam Wired Pro offers are exceptional, and give me tons of new ways to keep an eye on everything happening around my home....

Samsung Smart TVs include a full web-browser. Select 2019 models going forward also include Remote Access, which allows you to operate a network-connected PC or Laptop from the TV. In addition to the video, streaming, and PC control features, Samsung has added another bonus: Smart home control with SmartThings. Home Control with Your TV and SmartThings Ordinarily, home control is something that requires a separate physical and operating infrastructure (in many cases it can be expensive), but Samsung adds its twist to the fast-growing market of simpler and affordable alternatives, such as Alexa and Google Home-based systems by way of its SmartThings platform....

Anyone who’s shopped around for hard drives in the last two decades will be familiar with Seagate, perhaps for not-so-good reasons. While the company has had some pretty staggering reliability issues over the years in this market, Seagate has done a lot to improve things in recent years, and trust is slowly coming around for their products. Enter the FireCuda SSHD, a hybrid drive that seeks to bridge the gap between older HDD tech and modern SSDs....

Overall Findings You’ll probably want a laptop if you can only afford one device. Budget laptops cost the same as mid-tier tablets and can do much more. Tablets are primarily for browsing the web, reading ebooks, playing games, listening to music, and other passive activities. On the other hand, laptops are for productivity, creating documents, sending emails, and using powerful software. There are also hybrids, or convertible laptops, which you can use in tablet mode to have the best of both worlds....

While smartphone cameras do a pretty neat job in most circumstances, their small sensors often fail in extreme conditions, either adding noise to low-light images or blowing out the brightly lit ones. “Dynamic range has been a real problem for smaller sensors in phones. I hope to see [the] new sensor technology improve [the] raw file quality of phone photos and to give more natural tone photos instead of HDR effect,” Finnish professional photographer Mikko Suhonen shared with Lifewire over email....

On December 12, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres urged world leaders at the Climate Ambition Summit to declare a state of climate emergency in hopes of getting key countries to adopt more comprehensive strategies. He cited the increase in carbon dioxide-intensive sectors by G20 countries in stimulus packages adopted to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. In step with scientific research, Guterres recommends prominent governments commit to efforts to counteract climate change including social reforms....

You’ve probably heard most of the terms before, but do you know what they mean? How many gigabytes are in a terabyte? What does one terabyte actually mean in the real world? These are all things you need to know before you buy a hard drive or memory card, choose a tablet based on the memory it has, etc. Fortunately, as confusing as it all might seem at first glance, all of these units of measurement are easily convertible from one to another and are simple concepts to grasp thanks to the examples we’ve provided below....

All of the same rules for buying a PC apply here, a solid CPU and a good amount of RAM are a must for multi-tasking. and If you plan to do any gaming, you’ll want a good GPU as well. Form factor is also something to pay attention to, if real estate is at a premium you may want to invest in an AIO. If you’re buying one of these workstations for a newly established home office, make sure to add our guide to home office layout ideas to your reading list before taking a look at our picks for the best $400 to $1000 desktops....