There's nothing quite like the feeling of a clean, fast machine. No matter if you're running Windows or macOS, if you just unboxed a new laptop, built a fresh desktop, or wiped the slate clean with a ...

I just finished a group video call with my siblings in an utterly dark cabin surrounded by pine trees. And for the first time, I didn’t hear a complaint that goes something like “please turn up the ...

What if you could take total control of your macOS system, managing packages, configurations, and even App Store installations, all from a single, unified tool? Bold claim? Perhaps. But that’s exactly ...

Apple released the macOS Tahoe 26.2 beta 3 earlier this week and it has a couple of new features that will be of interest to AI developers. The first was actually introduced in the 26.2 beta 2 a few ...

Maintaining your MacBook Air's battery health is essential for keeping your device running efficiently. Over time, the battery naturally loses capacity, affecting how long your MacBook can operate ...

Apple has retired the Mac’s Launchpad, a feature that displayed all your apps and let you quickly pick the one you want to open. You can recreate the app launcher using these alternatives. Now, to be ...

Once considered fairly immune to security threats, macOS in the past decade or so has become a major target for attackers. Still, it remains understudied by security researchers, and often defenders ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

For a really long time, if you wanted to use Microsoft Office tools like MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you needed to purchase a license for the software. Or you could subscribe to Microsoft 365. But ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

With the release of macOS Monterey back in 2021, Apple introduced a change that proved to be pretty controversial. In Safari, the company added an optional "compact" tagging alongside the option to ...

Have you played around with the new iOS 26 yet? Here's how to download it on your iPhone if you haven't yet — once you do, you'll notice several new changes, including a clear design called Liquid ...