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Do you wish you could browse a massive collection of retro games from your couch, without having to connect a bunch of systems or cobble together various emulators? RetroArch makes it possible. This all-in-one emulation station can run almost any retro game imaginable, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. RetroArch is awesome, but it’s a little tricky to set up. Don’t panic, though, because it’s far from impossible....

Satellite View is a feature that has been in Google Maps since the service was first released. It can be handy to see a real-world top-down view of any location. We’ll show you how to start in this view by default on Android and iPhone. Before we enable Satellite View by default, you should know that it will use more data than the minimalist “Map” view. Satellite View will also be enabled during turn-by-turn navigation....

You can disable the feature completely, but you also have a few other options to make it less noisy. You can instead reduce the number of notifications your iPhone reads or have it only read notifications while you’re driving. Here’s how. Turn Off “Announce Notifications” in Settings When enabled, this feature will make use of Siri to announce incoming notifications, including messages and calendar appointments. You can also choose to announce notifications from third-party apps....

RELATED: The 10 Best Tom Cruise Movies to Stream in 2022 The Taken series Play Video When Neeson was cast as former CIA agent and Green Beret Bryan Mills, it seemed like an odd choice. But he proved to be perfect for the role of the ruthless man who will stop at nothing to rescue his teenage daughter from kidnappers. Bryan’s adventures in the two Taken sequels are less effective, but the trilogy has become a defining moment in Neeson’s career....

If you play games, watch movies, listen to music, or consume other kinds of entertainment on your Mac or PC, you can sync up your Philips Hue lights to whatever you’re playing or watching. Here’s how to make it happen. To accomplish this, you’ll obviously need some Hue lights (only colored bulbs allow syncing), as well as the Hue Sync app installed on your PC. First, though, you’ll need to set up an Entertainment Area in the Hue app on your phone....

Setting up a new surround sound configuration can be daunting with so many speakers to position properly. Luckily, Windows 10 includes a small built-in test program that can help you set it up. Here’s how to access it. First, right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar and select “Sounds” from the menu that pops up. (You can also open the Control Panel and click Hardware and Sound > Sound.)...

Instagram comments can be a blessing or a curse. If things aren’t going well, you can disable commenting altogether, hiding current comments and preventing new ones. Here’s how to turn comments off on Instagram. How to Turn off Comments for a Live Instagram Post Sadly, there’s no blanket feature to disable comments on all of your Instagram posts at once. The closest option you have is to make your profile private....

Disable Walkie Talkie from the Control Center The easiest way to turn off Walkie Talkie is directly from the Apple Watch’s Control Center. Access the menu by swiping up from the watch’s home screen. Next, find the Walkie Talkie icon. If the feature is currently turned on, the button will be bright yellow. Tapping the icon will gray out the button and turn off Walkie Talkie. RELATED: How to Fix Apple Watch Not Vibrating for Alarms and Notifications...

Power On a PS4 Without a Controller A quick and easy way to turn on a PS4 is to press a button on the console itself. To use this method, press the physical Power button on your PS4. The button will feature a power icon. Your console’s power indicator light will blink blue and then white, indicating that your machine has turned on. And that’s it. You can now start gaming!...

Instagram is probably our favorite social network here at How-To Geek. We always want our photos to look their best, so I did the research. Here’s how to make your images look as good as possible on Instagram. RELATED: Why Your Facebook Photos Look So Bad (And What You Can Do About It) Instagram, like Facebook, resizes and compresses your images to match their guidelines. While the algorithms seem less aggressive than with Facebook (which makes sense because Instagram is primarily a photo sharing network), it’s still better to do as much resizing and cropping as possible yourself—blunt algorithms tend to be a bit heavy handed....

iOS 9 brought a useful new feature you may not have noticed yet. Known as “Facedown detection”, your iPhone can detect when it’s placed face down and won’t turn the screen on when notifications arrive. This can save a lot of battery power if you regularly receive notifications. How Facedown Detection Works RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Improving Your iPhone’s Battery Life While the technology involved is a little more complex, the tip is simple....

For many people, reading is less of a hobby and more of a passion. Here are some of the best websites for the book lover in all of us. Goodreads: Connect with Other Book Lovers People often describe Goodreads as a social network for book lovers, but that’s selling it a bit short. With close to 80 million members, you can certainly find other people to connect with to discuss your favorite books, read their reviews, follow what they’re reading, and so on....

Everyone’s talking about “AI” these days. But, whether you’re looking at Siri, Alexa, or just the autocorrect features found in your smartphone keyboard, we aren’t creating general purpose artificial intelligence. We’re creating programs that can perform specific, narrow tasks. Computers Can’t “Think” Whenever a company says it’s coming out with a new “AI” feature, it generally means that the company is using machine learning to build a neural network. “Machine learning” is a technique that lets a machine “learn” how to better perform on a specific task....

The Specification Is Ready That Thunderbolt comparison isn’t a coincidence. Intel contributed the Thunderbolt protocol specification to the USB Promoter Group. (The Promoter Group is an industry organization charged with developing USB specifications, while the USB-IF advocates for the advancement and adoption of USB technology.) When USB4 ports start showing up in laptops and elsewhere, it promises maximum speeds of 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps). That’s double the maximum of current USB 3....

What Is Neighbor Spoofing? This behavior is part of a wider technique known as “neighbor spoofing,” which is designed to trick people into answering the phone. Neighbor spoofing involves impersonating part or all of a number so that the target sees a partly recognizable number that they’re more likely to trust. It’s used to impersonate companies in a bid to extract information or funds from customers, and it can also be used to impersonate individuals by spoofing their phone number in its entirety....

To the surprise of Windows watchers, the latest Windows 7 “security-only” update includes telemetry. The telemetry in question is Microsoft’s “Compatibility Appraiser,” which checks PCs for problems that could prevent upgrading to Windows 10. As Woody Leonhard points out on Computerworld, this is pretty odd on Microsoft’s part—the telemetry code was previously available and is probably installed on your system already if you use Windows 7. But, it was restricted to the normal “cumulative” update rollups....

In other headlines, YouTube’s questionable video suggestion algorithm comes under heavy fire, Apple wins a seven-year battle for the “iPad” trademark, and Skrillex may save you from mosquitoes this summer. Let’s talk some news, shall we? Apple News: News+ is a Hit It looks like Apple News+ is on its way to success—it garnered more than 200,000 subscriptions in the first 48 hours. Apple also won a battle for the “iPad” trademark, Clips got a nice little update, and more....

You’ve probably heard Microsoft will base its Edge browser on Chromium, the open-source project that forms the basis for Google Chrome. That won’t just make Edge better—Microsoft contributing to Chromium means Microsoft’s efforts will make Chrome better, too. All Browser Engines Are Now Open Source Many people are wringing their hands about Microsoft partnering with Google to gain control over the Internet. But Microsoft abandoning the EdgeHTML browser engine is awesome news....

The iPhone stores the cache for websites your visit to load them quickly whenever you open them again. A similar thing applies to apps that fetch fresh updates. But if the cache becomes too old, it stops matching the new website data, and the load times for web pages and apps slow. So clearing that cache frees up storage and delivers a smoother overall performance. How to Clear Browser Cache on iPhone Removing old temporary files from your browser is good for resetting the page load speeds back to normal and making room for newer cache files....

Creating forms with Microsoft Word is easy, but the challenge comes in when you decide to create fillable forms with options that you can send to people and have them fill out digitally. Whether you need a form for gathering information about people or if you are trying to take a survey to test out user response to software or a new product, Word has the solution for you....