Remember the good old days of dial-up internet access? Where you’d connect your Mac (or PC) to a modem, then the phone line, and your computer would then dial into a number to connect to the ...

Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because 3/14 contains the first three digits of pi. And hey, pi deserves a day. By definition, it’s ...

If you're just interested in such an Hotspot but are not into DIY, check-out Kiwix's Website. A Kiwix Hotspot is a mini-computer exposing a WiFi network that anyone (or those with its password) can ...

Your phone's hotspot feature can help you get your laptop or tablet online, but sometimes it takes some settings fixes to make it work. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the ...

Turning on your Android phone's hotspot in a sticky situation can be an absolute lifesaver, such as when working on a project in a public setting where Wi-Fi isn't completely secure (or potentially ...

Usually, we’re stuck with the crowded 2.4GHz or 5GHz bands for hotspots, which are fine but not exactly speed demons. Now, Google is unlocking the 6GHz band – the super-fast lane used by Wi-Fi 6E and ...

While everyone’s asking ChatGPT to write their grocery lists, I’ve been finding the AI tricks that actually save you hours of work. The prompts that make you sound smarter in meetings. The tools that ...

The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus has been launched, offering a Raspberry Pi computer inside a mechanical keyboard. Other upgrades include RGB lighting, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD via an M.2 slot. The ...

Android Auto turned ten years old this year, and most automakers have adopted it by now. But unless you drive a car from the past couple of years, chances are that it does not support wireless Android ...

Multitasking on a phone has never been a great experience. While modern mobile operating systems offers tools for quickly switching between apps or even viewing multiple apps in a split-screen mode, ...

Android announced a new set of cross-device services last year, and both have been made available for the company’s Pixel lineup. Nearly a year later, Google has updated support for cross-device ...

Last year, Android 15 brought some of the neat features to its users, one of which is Instant Hotspot. Although support for the feature wasn’t initially available on Samsung devices, that’s going to ...