The best PC games offer something unique that keeps you coming back for more. Yakuza: Like a Dragon takes the standard Yakuza formula and stands it on its head, moving the fighting system from real-time to turn-based and making this entry to the series feel like a true JRPG. I played Yakuza: Like a Dragon on PC to find out if these changes make this game better or worse. Should you play the new Yakuza or skip it?...
The company announced its new Ryzen 6000 mobile processors at CES 2022. While the CPU cores receive a modest update, the real news is the upgrade to Ryzen’s integrated graphics. Ryzen 6000 chips will use the RDNA 2 architecture found in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X game consoles. “The transition to RDNA 2 effectively increases every graphics resource by 50 to 100 percent. The net of that is that in gaming graphics, RDNA 2 is twice as fast,” Robert Hallock, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, said in a video call....
Lensa AI reportedly tops both Apple’s and Google’s app charts. The app uses artificial intelligence to touch up or entirely change your looks. Some experts take issue with Lensa’s terms of use which gives broad rights to license images. “Such apps use AI models trained on images scraped from the internet, uploaded by people who never considered, let alone intended, that their photos be processed in this way,” Irina Raicu, the director of internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University told Lifewire in an email interview....
Loop Hero is a pixel-art genre-bender that combines elements from RPGs, roguelikes, auto-battlers, card games, and real-time strategy games. You’re put in charge of a single adventurer with no weapons and a death wish, and are challenged with building up both him and the dungeon simultaneously, without making the dungeon too difficult for him to survive. It’s more complicated than it sounds. You die a lot in Loop Hero, but somehow, it’s rarely frustrating....
Multitask With Picture in Picture When you want to take notes while on a Facetime call or monitor your email as you watch a video, Picture in Picture is ready. Scale down a FaceTime screen or video by pressing the Home button (on models that have them) or the reduce screen size icon. The video scales down to a corner of the iPad screen. You can see the Home screen and open any other app....
Apple products are often reliable. The company also has excellent customer support. An old, used Mac likely won’t have a warranty remaining, but you can visit an Apple store for help and pay for repairs if necessary. Still, you should be cautious. This list will help you avoid common problems. You’ll want at least 4GB of RAM. It’s enough for everyday tasks like web browsing, document editing, basic games, and streaming video....
A benefit to using a 2.1 channel home theater system is that it is great for enjoying movies and music without the need for surround or center channel speakers. You can also enjoy less clutter from running additional wires. On top of all that, 2.1 channel systems are a step up from the basic sound produced by the small speakers built into most televisions. 2.1 vs. 5.1 Channel Sound Most TV shows and DVD or Blu-ray movies are produced in surround sound, intended to be enjoyed on a 5....
Piriform provides both installable and portable versions of their free registry cleaner. If you’re set on using an automated tool to fix an issue you have that’s caused by a registry problem, we highly recommend you use Piriform’s CCleaner freeware registry cleaner tool. We tested CCleaner v6 in Windows 11 using both their portable and installable versions. It can also clean the registry in Windows 10, 8, and 7. Some big pluses for Wise’s free registry cleaner include fast registry scans, scheduled scans, in place updates, and a clear separation between normal issues and those that are “unsafe,” a feature we loved....
There are lots of error messages you could see while connected to the internet, but below are some of the more common ones most people run into. You might see them when your device isn’t connected to the internet at all, or if a web page is down or not responding properly. Use this list to decipher what’s going on, and be sure to follow the links to the full troubleshooting guides for more information....
Plastic gets a bad rap, and often for a good reason. But it is also superior to metal and glass in many ways. According to a report from the absurdly well-sourced Apple journalist Mark Gurman, Apple was considering a plastic iPad with a matching keyboard for under $500 but abandoned the idea. The draw here, for Apple, was presumably price. But anyone who has suffered a crack in their glass-backed Phone or had an iPhone Pro drag their summer shorts down will know that metals and glass aren’t always best....
A startup called Spectrum Labs provides artificial intelligence technology to platform providers to detect and shut down toxic exchanges in real-time. But experts say that AI monitoring also raises privacy issues. “AI monitoring often requires looking at patterns over time, which necessitates retaining the data,” David Moody, a senior associate at Schellman, a security and privacy compliance assessment company, told Lifewire in an email interview. “This data may include data that laws have flagged as privacy data (personally identifiable information or PII)....
Overall Findings Choosing between passive polarized and active shutter mostly comes down to how much you’re willing to spend. Passive polarized glasses are fairly low-tech; they look and feel like cheap sunglasses and don’t require a power source. Active shutter glasses are pricier and more high-tech, requiring batteries and a transmitter that syncs with on-screen refresh rates. Still, they provide a crisper, higher-resolution image. Image Quality: Active Shutters Win Out Active shutter glasses provide a crisper, higher-resolution image....
The iOS 15 betas are in full swing, getting ready for a fall release, but iOS 14 still has some life left. The latest iOS 14.7 update for iPhone comes with watchOS 7.6, and an update for the HomePod. Let’s take a look. “I think one of the coolest features is the new MagSafe battery pack support,” Neil Parker, co-founder and chief technology officer of the Lovecast video streaming service, told Lifewire via email....
Prime Gaming provides a selection of games that changes each month. The Retro Channel makes classic games available for a monthly fee. The Jackbox Games Channel includes all of the Party Packs from the creators of the You Don’t Know Jack trivia series; additional games include Quiplash, Drawful, and Trivia Murder Party. The Jackbox Channel is also available for a monthly fee. In addition to the basic subscription price, you can expect a number of add-ons that bring in additional games for an additional monthly fee....
Granted, I hardly know anything about game development, and I’m sure changing font sizes can create problems like broken text boxes or worse. I do understand this, and I sympathize, but at the same time, I can adjust the default font sizes on my iPhone—so why do I still have to squint at some of my games? My open plea to mobile game developers is to please consider designing your games around slightly larger default text sizes....
Apple tried to make it very difficult for independent repair shops to replace the iPhone 13’s screen without disabling FaceID. Thanks to a microcontroller chip paired with the screen, only Apple can make a swap easily. Well, Apple, an Apple Independent Repair Provider (IRP), or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (ASP). Other repair shops (or individuals) will have to perform a much more laborious process that involves carefully transferring the current chip to the new screen....
Cisco Routers for Home From 2003 to 2013, Cisco Systems owned the Linksys business and brand name. Linksys wired and wireless router models became an extremely popular choice for home networking during this period. In 2010, Cisco also produced its Valet line of home network routers. Since Cisco discontinued Valet and Linksys sold to Belkin, Cisco does not directly market any of its newer routers to homeowners. Some of their older products remain available through secondhand auction or resale outlets....
The Bose Wave SoundTouch IV is a luxury home stereo system, but it isn’t without its problems. Bose is known for its high-quality audio and signature tone, and when you’re cranking the tunes, this stereo doesn’t disappoint in that department. It’s getting to your tunes that’s the problem. We’ve worked with hundreds of home and professional audio systems, and we’ve never been so frustrated with a home audio system—it has never taken us so long to get music out of our speakers....
What Kinds of Car Food Warmers Are out There? There are three main types of car food warmers: microwaves, combination warmer/coolers, and dedicated cookers that use some type of heating element. The one feature most of these devices have in common is that they run off 12v power. You can usually plug them into your car’s cigarette lighter without popping a fuse. In other cases, you may need to use an accessory socket or install an accessory circuit with its own fuse....
In doing so, the fuse takes a figurative bullet for a valuable, complex, or indispensable component or device, such as a car stereo or amplifier. This often results in a temporary loss of functionality. Fuses, however, are cheap and usually easy to replace. Repeated failures of a fuse on the same circuit often reveals an underlying problem. All Car Fuses Aren’t the Same Automotive fuses differ in design type and current rating, but they’re all based on the standard ATO and ATC blade type fuses that Littelfuse patented in the 1970s....
