Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Required minimum distributions (RMDs) begin the year you turn 73. Failing to take RMDs will result in a penalty of 25% of the amount you failed to withdraw. The penalty for failing to take an RMD can ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Given the crippling expense of paying college athletes, the University of California system’s investment manager has offered the Big Ten athletic conference $2.4 billion upfront in exchange for 10% of ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...

Laptops forever changed where and how we work, and as great as they are at giving us that freedom, it’s still incredibly useful to plug into a larger monitor (or two) when at my desk. As I get older ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. EA's new Skate game, the first entry in the series in 15 years, launched this week and reached more than two million players in the first 24 hours.

U.S. Congressional District maps are displayed as the Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting meets at the Texas State Capitol on August 6, 2025 in Austin, Texas. President Donald ...

If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola ...

Fix the broken battery charge indicator on your Switch 2, and you won’t have to worry so much about battery life anymore — because that worry might not be informed by accurate readouts. As of this ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has the Virtual Game Card system, which lets you share your games with friends. (To be clear, the original Nintendo Switch has this too, but you may have seen a notice about it ...

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