Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

As we learned last week, it’s fairly easy to fix a noisy overheated laptop: Open an underside panel, (carefully) blow out the dust, then enjoy the praise your wife lavishes on you for fixing her ...

It’s been a while since the last time I came up with some good laptop tips, so when a Hassle-Free PC reader named Shawn wrote in with his problem I thought I’d better get back to notebooks. Here’s ...

Connection checks, restarts, driver updates, and other easy troubleshooting steps that could save you money ...

Since Apple introduced its butterfly keyboard design in 2015, the problems with it have been very well documented—and they’re problems that I’ve experienced as well, with a 2018 MacBook Pro (the one ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After months of stonewalling an unhappy owner base, Apple has finally chosen 5PM on a Friday to acknowledge an issue with some ...

Responding to customer complaints, Apple makes changes to the butterfly switch keyboard in its laptops -- including new 2019 MacBook Pro models. Shara Tibken Former managing editor Shara Tibken was a ...

The keys of the "butterfly" keyboard in the 2016 MacBook Pro get stuck very easily. It's possible that's true of the 2018 models too. Editor’s note: There’s good evidence that the new MacBook Pro ...

Even though Apple won’t publicly advertise that its quieter third-generation keyboard contains a fix for the sticky key issues plaguing older MacBook Pro models, the company’s support documents say ...