Macs are known for their impressive performance, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t ever experience slowdowns and sluggishness. That kind of sub-par output can be frustrating when it rears its head, but there are plenty of things you may do to getmacOSback up to speed. Difficulty We’ve put together some of the best techniques for putting things right and speeding up your Mac. Read on to see what you can do....

Since Microsoft has owned Skype for nearly a decade now, it’s no surprise thatthe video chat apphas wound up as an integrated part of Windows 10. If you buy Windows 10 today, Skype is included. The problem is that Skype is often set as a startup app (either manually or automatically) that will keep opening and appearing every time you log into Windows. That gets frustratingif you don’t use Skypeand like to keep Windows running efficiently....

No one has played every video game. Not even the experts. In Backlog, Digital Trends’ gaming team goes back to the important games they’ve never played to see what makes them so special… Or not. In the opening minutes of the originalDevil May Cryon PlayStation 2, a skinny blonde woman in black leather corset and sunglasses hurls a motorcycle over her head at protagonist Dante, a demon hunter wearing red leather trenchcoat....

L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a young star called a protostar and the huge outflows of dust and gas that are thrown out as it consumes material from its surrounding cloud....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 needs the Red Dead Redemption 2 treatment Henry’s story is finished inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2but after thesequel’s huge successandglowing reviews, Warhorse Studios would be mad not to make more. The next game’s protagonist is staring us in the face, and he’d be the perfect character to get theRed Dead Redemption 2prequel treatment. I’m talking about Godwin, the star of the first game’s best side quest and a playable character in the sequel....

Human linguistics began with pictograms. At some point, a particularly enterprising Cro-Magnon decided to dip his finger into the ashes of a smoldering fire — ouch! — and wipe it against the cave wall; thus, language was born. Soon, this new form of communication (a step up from the previous method of indecipherable grunts) began to evolve alongside the creatures that had invented it; in Asia and Mesopotamia, crude drawings of animals soon progressed into logograms and hieroglyphs, and eventually into fully realized alphabets....

An affected MacBook screen from the lawsuit case gallery.Apple is under fire from a new class-action lawsuit. This oneisn’t about keyboards, but it is about dust. Many MacBook Pro and iMac users are fed up with the dust that is built up in their systems, in some cases leading to smudges on screens and in others, severe overheating, making laptops and desktops run much slower than they should due to thermal throttling....

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ Laptops with AMD’s Ryzen 4000 chipsseem too good to be true. The specs are outrageously powerful, and they’re cheaper than their Intel counterparts when it comes to some of thebest laptops. Take the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14, for example....

The original Montblanc Summit made headlines not just for its classy style, but also its high price tag. Now, the company is back with a follow-up, the Montblanc Summit 2, which is the first device to feature the newQualcomm Snapdragon 3100and it has an equally high price tag as the original, starting at $995. At launch, little was known about the Montblanc Summit 2, but given that it’s now available, we know a whole lot more....

Netflix “Tagger” explained: Is it a real job? If you’re an avid Netflix viewer, being a “Tagger” sounds like the perfect job; getting paid to watch hours of television of movies… what could be better? Well, here’s what you should know. We all want to earn money for little-to-no effort, if not for doing something you genuinely enjoy – it’s just human nature (and a consequence of capitalism). From time to time, companies put out ads for binge-watchers who’ll earn a payday in the low thousands for something incredibly simple, whether it’s watching the entireMCU, testing horror movies for their scare factor, orwatching an advent calendar’s worth of Christmas movies....

Nightbitch review: Amy Adams doggie drama is all bark, not enough bite Nightbitch is a jet-black comedy that revolves around a sky-high concept, but while the central conceit is strong, the movie gives up on it too early, resulting in a doggie drama that lacks teeth. Teeth also happen to be central to the barking mad premise. As early in proceedings, protagonist Mother – whose name we never learn – thinks she might be growing fangs, even researching if that means she’s turning into a vampire or a hound....

Police try to return rare Pokemon cards after raid uncovers stolen $330K collection Police in the UK have arrested a man after uncovering a stash of stolen Pokemon cards valued at over $300,000. Pokemon cards have becomeextremely lucrativeover the years with some of the rarer cards and original boxes selling for huge amounts at auction. As such, there’s been atsunami of Pokemon-related crimesin recent years withfights breaking outin stores over limited-time releases, collectors being robbed atgunpoint, and evenhigh-speed chasesinvolving stolen cards....

Samsung’s penchant for curves may no longer be limited to itscurrent line of curved display televisions. In fact, it seems Samsung’s curved displays might soon be featured in its future virtual reality headsets, according toa recent design patentthe technology conglomerate filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, filed last year and published last week, mentions a “curved display” paired with a “mounting surface having a curvature” as well....