Like Mom, Dad's given up a lot of life-respawning time to spawn little humans, as well as playing Fortnite with them when he's more of a Forza Horizon 4 guy. Thank him for the sacrifices by helping him get back into his own gaming groove - or feed his Battle Royale addiction now that you've created that monster.

At a loss as to what will ...Read more

Does it work? That's a critical question when thinking about a waterproof case for any electronic device. There's no second chance. It must work on the first and every try.

So cautiously I tried a few Catalyst waterproof case for several of the latest iPhones. Before I put the phones in the cases, the cases felt solid, yet not bulky. Catalyst...Read more

After years of hype and a bumpy first year of launches, carrier 5G networks are here. The technology is supposed to change your life with its revolutionary speed and responsiveness. But before we get into that, it's important to understand what the technology is, when and how it will affect you, and how to distinguish between (the still ...Read more

One thing that remote work and online schooling made clear over the last several weeks of coronavirus shutdowns is the importance of good quality Wi-Fi.

Last week, Qualcomm announced a series of new Wi-Fi chips aimed at boosting speeds and capacity for both home and business Wi-Fi networks.

Tapping the latest Wi-Fi 6 technology and airwave ...Read more

No matter if it's "Jaws," "The Meg" or "Deep Blue Sea," we secretly root for the sharks. Sure the humans are the heroes who eventually slay the primal creatures, but it's the monsters of the deep that catch our eye.

All teeth and muscle, they fascinate us. The fins knifing along the water grabs our attention like a train horn. Their breaching...Read more

AT&T's long-anticipated streaming service, HBO Max, officially launches Wednesday, thrusting the longtime wireless and pay TV provider into a crowded streaming market, perhaps forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic.

The service will launch with 10,000 hours of programming, including new original titles like "Love Life," a scripted comedy...Read more

I've had a few reader queries about how to get better Wi-Fi signals at home.

The Wi-Fi router that comes with your internet service may not be up to the task of covering all the corners of your house. Almost every house has dead spots where the Wi-Fi signal (and internet speed) slows to a crawl or is lost all together.

Depending on placement...Read more

Even with the lockdown starting to lift, our hours at home are more than ever, so what better time to turn some of those great, priceless photos you have stored on your iPhone into a coffee table photo book. Think of vacations, graduations, birthdays, anniversaries or just a selected period of time. Any group of images will work.

Storing ...Read more

2020 will be a graduation season like no other, with virtual commencement addresses, Zoom graduation parties and drive-in ceremonies with social distancing guidelines in effect. Suffice it to say, it's not going to be very fun or familiar. But that's why it's doubly important for you to step up with a good gift for anyone you know who's ...Read more

Now that many of us are working from home, it's so easy to get distracted by pretty much everything.

Though we can't control things like kids asking us about multiplication, a partner's conference call or needy pets, we can try to control our time management. To help with that, we tested a few productivity applications to keep us on task ...Read more

One of the most important accessories to pick up with a Nintendo Switch or a Nintendo Switch Lite is a memory card. The popular console has 32GB of internal memory, but as players will discover, that isn't nearly enough if they plan on buying games.

More space will be needed if they plan on picking up titles such as "NBA 2K20." (That eats up ...Read more

Hollywood knows plenty about remakes. The industry has been doing it for decades as the website Film School Rejects noted: With every technological leap, the push to retell a previous film follows. The advent of sound led to a new "Count of Monte Cristo" movie and the introduction of computer-generated images produced an unending slew of live-...Read more

I received an email from a subscriber: "Have you done any research on effective and appropriate ways to clean a mobile phone so as to prevent the phone from being a way to transmit COVID-19?

"I have an iPhone XS covered with an Otter Box and screen."

Well, first, thanks for being a subscriber. Newspapers need all the support we can get. I ...Read more