The Best (Actually Useful) Tech We Saw at CES 2018

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Read This Article → What is mDNSResponder, And Why Is It Running On My Mac? You’re setting up a Mac firewall, or just checking what’s running using Activity Monitor, when you notice something cryptic is running: mDNSResponder. What is this process, and should you be worried? No: this is a core part of macOS. Read This Article → How to Update Your Graphics Drivers for Maximum Gaming Performance A graphics driver is the software that allow your operating system and programs to use your computer's graphics hardware. If you play PC games, you should keep your computer's graphics drivers updated to get the best performance out of your hardware. Read This Article → How to Find and Delete Google Assistant’s Stored Voice Data Every time you use Google Assistant, a recording of the command is uploaded to Google—that’s how it does what it does. A copy of this recording is also stored on your Google account, unless you manually go in and remove it. Read This Article → How To Quote Someone In WhatsApp If you're part of a WhatsApp group chat, the conversation can move fast. Set your phone down for an hour or two and you can easily come back to 100 messages. Normally this is fine, but if you've an important point to make or need to reply to a question from much earlier, you can't just weigh in without confusing everyone. Enter quoting messages. Read This Article → How to Overclock Your Graphics Card for Better Gaming Performance If you want a little extra oomph out of your PC’s graphics card without spending tons of cash on a new model, overclocking the GPU is a surprisingly simple way to go about it. And it has indeed become simple, on Windows-based PCs at least—while the process is time consuming, it doesn’t require any particular knowledge or advanced skills. Here’s how you go about it. 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