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The best headphones for running are going to give you great sound, while also being lightweight and sweatproof, and keeping you aware of your surroundings. Isolation is important when you’re kicking back to some tunes on the couch, but when you’re out there in the world among traffic and pedestrians, you need to make sure you can still hear everything around you. Additionally, your headphones need to have great battery life and be wireless....

The Ascent is an action RPG that is being talked about quite a bit these days. Players are also searching for The Ascent cheats that could give them in-game advantages and boosts. Do any console commands exist and if yes, how to use them? Here’s all you need to know. The Ascent Cheats & Console Commands You can use cheats and console commands in The Ascent for with a software. There is no way in-game to bring up a console and enter and enable cheats....

Action cameras are the perfect solution for anyone looking to capture their adventures in the moment. GoPro makes some of the best quality action cameras on the market; however, they command a steep price tag. At the time of this writing Go Pro’s flagship model, the Hero7 Black, can easily run you over $300. Fortunately, since action cameras have experienced a sharp rise in popularity, there are a number of GoPro alternatives that won’t break the bank....

Students have swapped their video games for laptops as they head back into the classroom. Now that the academic season is underway, we’ve stopped updating this post with back-to-school sales and can’t promise the ones below are still available. Check back next year for updated deals. But when is the best time to shop? “Back-to-school sales tend to fall right in between two other major shopping holidays: July 4th and Labor Day,” says Julie Ramhold, Consumer Analyst with DealNews....

When putting together a great home theater system, a subwoofer is a necessary purchase. The subwoofer is a specialized speaker that is designed to reproduce extremely low frequencies. For music, that means that acoustic or electric bass, and more movies that means the rumbling of a train running down railroad tracks, cannon fire and explosions, and the big test: the deep rumbling of an earthquake. However, before you can enjoy it all, you have to integrate the subwoofer with the rest of your system, and how you connect a subwoofer to the rest of your home theater setup depends on whether it is Powered or Passive....

Your phone is nothing without contacts. Just several years ago, switching or upgrading phones meant entering each contact one by one into the new handset. This is no longer the case as each modern smartphone has access to a cloud that syncs, not only contacts, but apps, bookmarks, preferences and even messages among all your devices. Apple’s iPhone allows you to sync your contacts with iCloud, and formerly MobileMe. Adding a new entry into the Contacts app on your Macbook will automatically be transferred to any iOS device you own, and vice versa, as long as you’re logged on into the same account....

It seems that Microsoft is finally cutting its losses and ending production of at least two devices, including Lumia phones and Microsoft Band devices. According to a number of reports, the software giant is preparing to stop selling Lumia phones as soon as before the end of the year. This shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone, as we have been hearing for a while that Microsoft is planning to launch a new Surface branded phone....

Practical quantum computers may be a step closer to reality thanks to new research inspired by simple mechanical devices. Simple mechanical devices inspired a recent advance in quantum computing. Stanford researchers invented a computing technique using acoustic devices that harness motion. Quantum computing has made significant progress in recent years, most notably with the demonstration of so-called quantum supremacy. Stanford University researchers claim to have developed a critical experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies....

Ever wondered what it would be like to be able to transfer big files over the Internet right from your Linux terminal? With Transfer.sh, you can quite easily. Let’s be clear here: uploading and transferring files in the terminal with curl or otherwise is not a new thing. However, finding a mainstream file sharing service that goes this route is rare. So, how do you use this tool on Linux? Read on in this guide and find out!...

How big is a space? Not space, the final frontier. We’re talking about much smaller spaces you type on your keyboard. It’s the space you create with the space bar as well as specific lengths of space that require special keystrokes and may vary by the font you use. Not all spaces are created equal. And spaces between words and sentences differ among the many written languages of the world. For the purposes of this spaced-out article, we’ll stick with the English language primarily and spaces most used in typesetting....

Microsoft recently introduced a new version of Surface RT, which now is simply called “Surface 2”. The tablet isn’t just an upgrade, but it’s a revamp from the previous version; the Surface team has done an incredible job making the device thinner, lighter, and a lot faster (for the full tech specifications, check out this article). And even though the Windows RT 8.1 tablet has improved dramatically, let’s not make the same mistake twice and let’s clarify what this device is and what is not....

Valheim has given us one of the most beautiful procedural-generated maps in recent history. It has different vast biomes, including an Ocean biome. Part of your game is to explore your biomes, by sailing through the Ocean. Now as we know there are Serpents diving in this deep waters we need to have something better than a Raft, at least a Karve or a Longship. You might have started hunting & farming Serpents for their skin and meat now, but if unfortunately you killed it in shallow water before pulling it to the land and all the loot went down in water, don’t worry....

These days more and more people are moving to a standing desk for improved health and productivity. If you agree with these sentiments, like I do, and want a quality desk with a lot of customization options, the VertDesk is for you. This well-crafted product from BTOD (Beyond The Office Door) may be a bit pricey, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for! This is the third version of VertDesk and, without a doubt, the best version so far....

Victoria 3 is the latest grand strategy game from well renowned Paradox Development Studio. It has taken the best elements of Crusader Kings, Stellaris, Hearts of Iron, Imperator & Europa Universalis, to create what might be the best game of this scale the devs ever made. And just like the ‘commands’ available in other games, Victoria 3 has a lot of options for you to fiddle with. So here are all the Victoria 3 console commands & cheats....

Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is a multiplayer action game produced by Games Workshop. In this game, multiple players unite as a squad to take on waves of zombies. The game is super fun and tough to play as plague creatures appear out of nowhere when you least expect it. Often, players experience server issues making them unable to access the game. Moreover, such games work on huge servers that require constant monitoring....

This week on Pureinfotech: Microsoft finally begins the gradual rollout of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) for everyone running version 1909 and 1903 (initially). You can learn about all the new features and changes in this comprehensive guide. In addition, this guide highlights the top new features. Although the latest version is considered stable to install on your primary machine, the company warns about several known issues with version 2004 that can cause Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), problems with graphics cards and Bluetooth devices and more....

A car radio code is a short string of numbers associated with a security feature found in some head units. Its purpose is to prevent theft by rendering a stolen head unit useless when it’s disconnected from the battery. However, ​this feature also kicks in if your battery dies. In either case, you must enter the code to get the head unit working again. The typical radio will flash “CODE” to indicate this....

MoCA (short for Multimedia over Coax Alliance, the trade group that manages the standard) networks are devices that use coaxial cable to transmit data to and from the wider internet. What Are MoCA Networks? If you’ve ever streamed a TV show from your cable box or used a cloud-based DVR provided by your cable company to watch something you’ve recorded, you’ve already seen how a MoCA network works. The devices wire your router into your home’s coaxial networks....

Chronemics is the study of how time is used in communication. Anthropologists focusing on chronemics look at cultural norms regarding time and the way cultures vary and converge around them. Chronemics branches out into other disciplines, too, such as the study of organizational behavior. Does Chronemics Matter in Tech? Technology is often associated with efficiency, allowing users to maximize the work done in a given period. Time is an important variable and currency for agile startups and large technology firms....

Also known as Versatile Video Coding (VVC) and MPEG-I Part 3, H.266 is a video compression standard designed for the newest generations of high-resolution video. It’s a successor to the widely-used H.265 codec (also called MPEG-H Part 2) and offers some major improvements over that now-aging compression scheme. H.266 was developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a group of video coding experts that started working on the compression standard back in 2010....