The world of car diagnostics has changed a lot over the last 50 years. Back in the '70s and earlier, a mechanic's most valuable diagnostic tools were usually their eyes and ears. You could figure out ...

At PCMag, my focus is on printers and scanners. I started out way back in 1988 at Compute!, which still had a section of the magazine devoted to type-in programs. Since then, I’ve written more than ...

Finding the right stocks to trade at the right time can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. With thousands of securities moving every second, how can you consistently find winning trades ...

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

The Ricoh fi-8170 document scanner combines ease of use on the front end with powerful administrative tools for managing an entire fleet. Document scanning is a critical activity for many K–12 school ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Department of Health established radiation exposure limits in January, limiting the allowable dosage to 0.25 millisieverts. Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders says the ...

There comes a time when all great apps must die, especially if Microsoft owns them. Redmond has taken many tools away from me, from Sunrise Calendar to Wunderlist, and now it’s hooking Microsoft Lens ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

You have been warned — do not scan here. An “impossible” to detect smartphone threat is now surging, with a new warning that more than 4 million attacks were observed “in the first half of 2025 alone.

If you watch Local 10 with an over-the-air antenna, you lost our signal on July 28 at 10 a.m. But don’t worry, it’s an easy fix to get us back. All you need to do is re-scan your television to ...

Car rental giant Hertz is facing some blowback as customers report that its “AI-powered” vehicle scanner charges them hundreds of dollars for tiny cosmetic dings. Earlier this summer, a Hertz customer ...

A couple of years ago, I decided to invest in a high-quality scanner. The idea was to digitize and archive dozens of old photo albums from my childhood that were scattered around in boxes. You know ...