Epson Printer Not Printing? 7 Proven Ways to Fix It

Your Epson printer can stop printing for several reasons. Most of the time, it happens when the printer is offline. The offline printer can not establish a connection with the PC and refuses to accept your requests. Similarly, the printer can reject the requests if there is not enough room for the new print jobs in its memory. In such a case, you won’t get a printout until the older print jobs are completed....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 649 words · Sabrina Johnson

EU preps Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen semiconductor industry after original program reportedly flopped

A group of European countries led by the Netherlands is setting the groundwork for the European Chips Act 2.0 after the original one failed to achieve its goal of strengthening the European semiconductor industry, reportsReuters. The group aims to deliver concrete proposals by summer to work closely with the European Commission. The politicians indicated their work after producers of chips and chipmaking tools asked the EC to launch a follow-up for the2023 Chips Act....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Carl Bean

Fix: Please Wait for the GPSVC

If you’re getting the “Please wait for the gpsvc” error, it means the Group Policy Client service istaking too long to start. You may wait for some time until the necessary components that start the service get loaded, and you’re logged into Windows. However, most users seem to be stuck in the blue loading screen and sometimes even followed by the “Windows could not connect to the GPSVC service” error. This can happen due to several reasons—corrupted/deleted dedicated DLL files, registry values, system files, group policy settings, or other startup issues....

July 21, 2025 · 5 min · 950 words · Don Hernandez

Fix: “Out Of Range” Error In Monitor

Your monitor has a range of resolutions and refresh rates that it supports. If you try to set a value outside of this range, you’ll usually encounter a blue or black screen followed by the Out of Range error message. While this is what leads to this error in most cases, your monitor can also display out of range due to a few other reasons. The troubleshooting steps will vary accordingly too, as we’ve detailed in the sections below....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 597 words · Sean Russo

Fixed: A Connection to The Remote Computer Cannot Be Established Error While Using a VPN

Windows uses virtual adapters called WAN Miniports for various types of network connections. For instance, WAN Miniport (IKEv2) is necessary for establishing a VPN connection to an IKEv2 VPN server. Often, when these adapters are bound incorrectly on a system, they show no obvious signs (e.g., no warnings in Device Manager). However, when you perform tasks that actually require these adapters, such as establishing a VPN connection, the connection will fail....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 398 words · Steven Freeman

Fractal Design Mood fabric covered tower ITX case launched — comes in black or gray to match your living room

Fractal Design has launched its fabric-covered PC case, dubbed theMood, to provide a more aesthetically pleasing option for living rooms. This design could easily be mistaken for a mini single tower speaker. Fractal Design showcased this compact Mini ITX chassis duringComputex 2024along with other products but we now have more technical details about the case. To access the internals of your Mood build, the casing slides up easily, with its fabrics wrapped on all three sides and a large dust filter behind to allow ample airflow....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 536 words · Laura Robbins

G.Skill introduces CL26 DDR5-6000 for AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs — world's tightest timings for a DDR5-6000 memory kit

G.Skill has introduced a pair of new DDR5 memorytiming variantsfeaturing the lowest set of primary timings the DRAM manufacturer has released since DDR5 first debuted. G.Skill’s Trident Z5 Neo RGB, M5 RGB Neo, and Z5 Royal Neo series can now be purchased in a DDR5-6000 CL26-36-36-96 configuration in 32GB and 64GB kits and a CL28-36-36-96 config in 48GB and 96GB kits. The CL26-36-36-96 configuration is the tightest configuration G.Skill currently makes....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Robin Garza

Gamepad keyboard input comes to Windows 11 Release Preview, aimed at handheld users and sofa surfers

At long last,Windows 11is finally receiving up-to-date support for gamepad users, particularly handheld PC users, as ofWindows 11 Preview Build 22631, which is adding a new Gamepad keyboard functionality to Windows 11. This Gamepad keyboard provides a new layout for Windows 11’s on-screen keyboard, making it easier to type with sticks and buttons, alongside supplemental touch controls and a vertically-aligned design that takes up about a fifth of the screen real estate....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Tiffany Fowler

GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility

GlobalFoundries announced that it will build an advanced packaging and testing facility at its Malta, New York fab to support the growing demand for silicon built entirely within the United States.GlobalFoundriessaid that this extension will also provide assembly and testing for silicon photonics, a tech that combines optical and electrical components to deliver better efficiency and performance than chips that rely just on silicon and copper. This facility is projected to cost $575 million to construct, and GlobalFoundries needs another $186 million for research and development costs over the next decade....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 393 words · Kelly Gonzalez

Grab 5TB for cheap with this WD Elements Portable and more — here are some of the best external storage savings this Prime Day

If you’re in need of masses of storage space that you can take with you wherever you want, this Prime Day has you covered. TheWDElements Portable External Hard Drive is heavily discounted, giving you up to5TB of storage for a mere $116. Check out all the best external storage deals in Amazon’s Prime Day Sale That’s less than $25 per terabyte and almost 20% off its standard asking price. It’s available in larger and smaller capacities, too, though the 5TB model offers the best bang for buck at the time of writing....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 668 words · Dustin Rivera

How to Connect PC to TV

Connecting the PC to your TV is relatively easy. Insert one end of the display cable into your TV’s video input port and the other into your PC. But before that, you need a suitable display cable that matches the port on both TV and PC. Then, once you have the right cables, connect the display cables to specific ports on your PC. And even after connecting the PC and TV,you may not get video output on the screenif you have not set the correct TV configurations....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 683 words · Sarah White

How to Copy and Paste Without a Mouse

Using a mouse to copy and paste content is very old school. What if there was a techie way to do so? What if your mouse is broken and you need a different method to delay the switch? In situations like these, your keyboard can come handy. Rather than switching from keyboard to mouse or even touch pad to copy-paste, you may solely rely on this peripheral. You canemploy certain keyboard shortcutsthat assist you in selecting, copying, and pasting anything you want....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Jean Harris

How to Enable or Disable CSM on ASUS?

The CSM feature on ASUS motherboards and laptops enables legacy BIOS comptability. It allows your ASUS system to boot and install older operating systems that do not natively support UEFI. However, there’s acertain trade-offas launching it may deactivate certain UEFI-based security features. While the process seems easy, the setting was unconfigurable on myNX580VDlaptop. If something like that happens to you, I advisedisabling the Secure Bootoption first, which is exactly how I was able to solve my problem....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 541 words · Christopher Jones