David Murphy's posts

Chrome 90 is here, and a number of fun features you’re getting are all automatic—no action needed on your part.…

Does this sound familiar? You’ve taken such good care of your older MacBook that Tim Cook himself wouldn’t be able…

The Oculus Quest 2 is perhaps the first of all the virtual reality headsets I’ve used over the years that’s been…

When you can’t hear anything from your YouTube videos—either nothing at all, or that which was once loud is now way…

Though the result is more annoying than dangerous, a newly exploited quirk of WhatsApp’s two-factor authentication…

Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could browse the web without having to worry about your actions and activities being…

You don’t need a fancy app to shut down your computer at a certain time in Windows 10, but having one on hand…

Thanks to Clubhouse, and every service now making a clone/competitor to Clubhouse, it might feel a little lonely to…

If you have one of three different models of an Ellipsis Jetpack hotspot—the same Jetpack hotspot you would have…

Wireless networking is one of life’s great mysteries. You’ve probably run into plenty of frustrating questions with y…

In what is becoming a recurring ritual, Google has removed a scammy Android malware app from the Google Play Store.…

Gazelle used to be a household name for phone trade-ins, but then a lot of companies sprang up to nibble at the…

You know you shouldn’t open unsolicited file attachments. The rule holds true whether you get them in an email, as a…

Nothing against Windows 10, but if you want to simplify it a bit by giving it the Chromebook treatment—tweaking…

If you’re the proud owner of a Google Pixel smartphone, you owe it to yourself to grab the brand-new April update…

If you’re looking to make a video and don’t like speaking off the cuff, there’s a free Teleprompter utility to help…

An old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it when it…

Lifehacker’s Tech 911 column has a simple purpose: to answer your tech questions no matter big, small, or chaotic…

Nothing says fun like a company describing its own data breach as “catastrophic.” That’s a “c” word you definitely…

Apple is changing up how Siri works in iOS 14.5. She’s still the same ol’ virtual assistant you can use to do all…