The best Roman drama ever made isn't Gladiator — and it got cancelled for being too expensive
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe23 Aug 2026
Every few months someone asks me for a Roman epic recommendation, and my answer's always the same. Skip the movies.
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top 61%Hulu's best post-apocalyptic series barely cares about the apocalypse
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud23 Aug 2026
Post-apocalyptic shows are a dime a dozen nowadays. From the remaining The Walking Dead spin-offs to The Last of Us, Fallout, Silo, and others, the concept of the end of the world and some massive...
I checked whether Windows was maintaining my external SSD, and the enclosure got in the way
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu23 Aug 2026
Projects that outgrow my laptop go into an external SSD. However, I assumed Windows maintains external and internal drives the same way.
I disabled DNS encryption on my router and got faster speeds across my whole network
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam23 Aug 2026
A flaky home network is far from rare. Many people live with unpredictable Wi-Fi or slow connectivity.
Your laptop has one real USB-C port, and you're probably using the wrong one
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar23 Aug 2026
Your laptop probably has two or three USB-C ports, and they all look exactly alike. Plug a cable into any of them, equally.
I turned my Android phone into a retro gaming console for free
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan23 Aug 2026
As a kid, the first set of gadgets that truly drew me to technology were gaming consoles. While growing up, the PlayStation Portable was my favorite portable gaming console.
There's a free remote-desktop tool already sitting inside Chrome, and almost nobody uses it for the one job it's actually built for
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu23 Aug 2026
Remote desktop tools are very common. However, when they need one, most people look for a new tool to download, even though they already have Google Chrome installed.
5 things Bluetooth's new LE Audio finally fixes that regular Bluetooth never could
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder23 Aug 2026
It might be hard to believe, but the original version of Bluetooth — officially known as Bluetooth Classic Audio — is over two decades old.
Netflix best sci-fi clone thriller starts weird, gets completely unhinged, and somehow keeps working
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe23 Aug 2026
I keep coming back to Orphan Black, and every time I try to explain why, I end up sounding like I’m describing three different shows stapled together. That’s the point.
The Galaxy S26 camera hides 4 upgrades behind switches most people miss
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah23 Aug 2026
Camera upgrades on phones aren’t always about the hardware. Sure, a larger sensor helps, but it’s the software where most of the magic happens these days.
Your old PC can keep running long after the hardware is gone
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef23 Aug 2026
When you upgrade to a new PC, you may choose to sell or trade in your old one. The hardware is gone, but what happens to all the apps and installers you may not have license keys for?
The man who invented the web could have owned it, but he gave it away instead
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre23 Aug 2026
Tim Berners-Lee invented the tech underlying every website you visit, and in the more than 30 years since, neither he nor CERN (the European physics research lab based near Geneva, Switzerland...
The best ESP32 board for any project isn't the original one
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi23 Aug 2026
Buying an ESP32 board seems simple until you realize there are dozens of variants floating around the internet, and not all of them are the same.
I turned off location history on my Android — it freed 6GB of wasted storage and stopped Google's tracking
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood23 Aug 2026
“Your storage is full” is one of the scariest pop-ups you can see on your phone. I got hit with it on my Android a few days ago, and my first thought was, not again.
Samsung Internet has 5 features Chrome on Android still can’t match
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah23 Aug 2026
Samsung Internet isn’t talked about enough, which is a bit odd since it’s also available on non-Galaxy phones and now has a PC version too.
Netflix's best Stephen King series isn't horror — it's an 8-episode time-travel thriller
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke23 Aug 2026
Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors of all time. Whether the adaptations are actually better than the source material (The Shining, The Mist) or worse (Cujo, The Dark Tower), you don't...
A year with an eGPU taught me exactly who should buy one
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha23 Aug 2026
External GPUs have always been a kind of niche, and 2026 did not change that in the slightest. The concept is novel and almost perfect-sounding — letting a relatively modest, lightweight machine...
I stopped Chrome from running in the background and gained almost an hour of battery life
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile23 Aug 2026
Chrome is one of the most resource-intensive consumer apps and the most-used desktop browser in the world. Two things can be true at the same time.
Free beachside ebooks from bestselling authors are waiting — but only for a limited time
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage23 Aug 2026
Summary - Best Beachside Reads offers free indie novels, novellas, short stories and excerpts—available until Sept 30 2026.
4 Linux distros that are better at gaming than SteamOS
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha23 Aug 2026
When SteamOS launched in 2013, it was quite undercooked. It used a Debian base and was much slower to update.