How to prevent screen flickering when playing games
“Variable Refresh Rate” (VRR) technology like G-Sync and FreeSync dynamically adjusts the refresh rate of your monitor to the frame rate of the game, but they can sometimes cause undesirable…
ISPs must offer cheaper internet to low income households after trying to prevent it
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR New York’s law that requires ISPs to offer cheap internet plans to low-income households goes into effect on January 15. To comply, New York-based…
Former basketball hopeful wants to prevent ACL tears with airbags for knees
You’ve heard of car airbags deploying within milliseconds to protect passengers. How about an airbag for your knee? That’s what former basketball hopeful Kylin Shaw is working on with his…
Nick Folk’s 25-yard field goal in OT helps Titans edge the Patriots, prevent Maye magic
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nick Folk kicked a 25-yard field goal with 2:32 left in overtime and the Tennessee Titans beat the New England Patriots 20-17 Sunday, giving coach Brian Callahan…
How to prevent Windows Defender from ruining your gaming performance
Microsoft Windows Defender is the default security feature on every Windows 11 PC. It’s one of the OS’s most useful features because it works continuously in the background to detect…
California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley. Today, California lawmakers bent slightly to that pressure, adding in several amendments…
California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
Outside of sci-fi films, there’s no precedent for AI systems killing people or being used in cyberattacks. However, some lawmakers want to implement safeguards before bad actors make that dystopian…
OnePlus offers display panel upgrade to prevent green line issues
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus is offering a free screen upgrade to users of the OnePlus 8 Pro, OnePlus 8T, OnePlus 9, and OnePlus 9R to prevent the…
How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike released a relatively minor patch on Friday, and somehow it wreaked havoc on large swaths of the IT world running Microsoft Windows, bringing down airports, healthcare facilities and 911…
These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs
Windows users around the globe woke up on Friday morning to “blue screens of death” thanks to a faulty software update from CrowdStrike. The bug caused outages around the world,…