First, your battery went dead, and now your car stereo is dead, and it’s really shaping up to be just one of those days. So you drive the rest of the way to work in silence, and you hope that the next step isn’t going to be buying a brand new car stereo. And it probably isn’t. In most cases, fixing a car stereo that quit working after the battery died is a lot simpler than that....
The three companies hit an impasse after pricing negotiations fell through and the portable platforms proceeded to delist Fortnite from their respective app stores, revoking access players had to important Fortnite updates. “A lot of the mobile players that I have seen in our community seem to be rallying to the #FreeFortnite cause … and as a player, understandably so,” podcast host and tech enthusiast NerdBomber told Lifewire over the phone....
Freemake Video Converter Pros and Cons This freeware video converter is one of the best of its kind: What Freemake Video Converter Does It’s simple: it converts nearly any video file to popular formats while supporting a massive amount of input file formats. It can convert videos directly to a DVD or Blu-ray disc, and it provides an option to make a DVD menu when burning files to a disc It can convert files and automatically upload them to YouTube....
We’ve rounded up funny things to ask her, our favorit fun tricks she can do, and a flock of Easter Eggs you might not know about. Funny Things to Ask Alexa We’ll start with some of the funniest answers to questions. We’ve already asked Siri where to bury a body and to divide one by zero, so what are some funny questions to ask Alexa? Alexa, are you a robot?...
The company has made it easier for consumers to try out the highest-tier of their cloud-gaming service, GeForce Now RTX 3080. You can now subscribe on a monthly basis at $20 per month, as announced in an official blog post. Prior to this, RTX 3080 was only available in six-month chunks for $100. That option still remains and comes with a free month for new subscribers. Why choose the RTX 3080 tier over other GeForce Now options?...
However, if the thought of using your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to control your home accessories interests you, and your digital life rotates around Apple, then you may have found an excellent solution with HomeKit. Building Your New Smart Home To get started, you will need to purchase HomeKit compatible accessories; these include an array of home devices including lights, switches, outlets, thermostats, fans, speakers, doorbells, cameras, and more....
First reported by Axios, the 50-page report, titled GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), alleges that Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok, in particular, are not doing enough to prevent hate speech on their platforms. The report includes problems on the platforms like “inadequate content moderation, polarizing algorithms, and discriminatory AI which disproportionately impacts LGBTQ users and other marginalized communities who are uniquely vulnerable to hate and harassment and discrimination....
The devices are part of a major refresh for the Nest line Google announced earlier this year. The company released an indoor/outdoor battery-powered Nest camera in August, along with a battery-powered Nest doorbell. They were the first Nest products to come out since the Hello doorbell in 2018. The new Google Nest Cam with Floodlight costs $280 and can replace an existing exterior light or wiring. The LED floodlight uses both 180-degree motion sensors and the camera’s smart technology to determine when and what it lights up....
The new update to Google Meet is intended to make it easier for you to identify and deal with the source of echoing audio if Meet is unable to automatically prevent it. In the event that Google Meet’s own audio control functions aren’t up to the task, it will notify the culprit directly. Echos during video calls are usually caused by your device’s speakers projecting audio loud enough for your microphone to catch it....
The company is now sending out invites for its big fall hardware showcase, named Made by Google. This is both an in-person and live-streaming event, to be held in Brooklyn on October 6 at 10 AM EST. What’s on the agenda? Thankfully, Google is being fairly transparent regarding the specifics of the upcoming showcase. It will formally reveal the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro smartphones and unveil the Google Pixel Watch....
The two phones look nearly identical and don’t differ much on the inside either. They both have an extra wide-angle camera and run Android 11. The $699 Pixel 5 does have a few more features going for it including more RAM, a slightly larger battery, and wireless charging. But the 4a is no slouch and costs less at $499. There’s a lot to like with both phones. They both sport the distinctive Pixel design that sets the standard for elegant minimalism....
These Google Collections let users access their saved images at a later date on any other device that they’re logged in on. Here’s how to use Google’s Collections to save images. How to Save Google Image Search Pictures Google’s Collections can be accessed on all computers, tablets, and smartphones via any web browser such as Google Chrome, Brave, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Microsoft Edge. Collections are completely free to use....
Reddit user Leopeva64 spotted the change tucked away in the latest developer build of Canary. If you use Canary, you can enable Send Tab to Self 2.0 by typing or pasting chrome://flags/#send-tab-to-self-v2 into the bar at the top, then setting it to Enabled. This changes the way tabs are shared across platforms, replacing system notifications with a small icon that will appear next to the address bar. As Android Police points out, the move away from notifications is far less intrusive as it takes system pop-ups out of the process entirely....
Both Android and iOS users have reported strange happenings in Google Maps, with the app’s voice changing on its own. Many have shared accounts of the voice giving them directions suddenly shifting to a deep-voiced man with a slight accent. It seems the app will start by randomly swapping between this voice and the user’s selected one a few times before eventually settling on this new one. While this is obviously some sort of bizarre bug, there is still some mystery behind it....
Overall Findings Both GoToMeeting and Cisco WebEx Meetings are popular online meeting tools with similar functionality that allow users to meet at any time, from anywhere. Both offer an impressive array of features and are reliable, safe, and easy to use. Each offers iPhone and iPad apps for on-the-go meetings, and both services have a variety of paid plans. Cisco WebEx Meetings has more features than GoToMeeting, making it a better choice for those who want to host advanced web meetings....
What to Know About Grey Screens for Projectors Grey projector screens are newer technology; they first entered the market in 2001. The main advantage of a grey screen over a white one is that the darker color absorbs more light. This feature maintains a better contrast (the difference between white and black) in the picture. Black projected onto gray will also be less bright than on white, which makes the darks darker and can create a better image under most circumstances....
Wireless earbuds have become much more than the curiosity that was Bluetooth headsets back in the flip phone days. As with most consumer technologies, what began as an expensive extravagance has become a bit more affordable and far more commonplace. For example, noise cancellation used to be a big deal for wireless earbuds, but now it’s almost as expected as not having wires. This is what makes the steady development of more advanced features so promising....
Josh Dzime-Assison is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of the tech company Vendoo, developer of a software platform that helps business owners manage reselling their merchandise online. Dzime-Assison helped launch the company in 2017 after working in the reselling industry for a decade and realizing the challenges people in this field face. “As I grew in this business, I realized that I was a one-person show. It was me that was managing all the different aspects of my reseller business,” Dzime-Assison told Lifewire in a phone interview....
Meta has begun testing user monetization tools within Horizon Worlds, the company announced recently. Selected creators can already begin creating digital items and effects they can then sell directly within the virtual social space. It’s part of a rush to commercialize the metaverse. “The online video games market has already proven that people will spend real money, think many billions, for virtual goods and abilities to engage more deeply,” Amit Shah, the chief strategy officer of the digital commerce platform VTEX told Lifewire in an email interview....
According to rumors, the next iPad Pro will arrive in April and will offer a brighter, higher-contrast miniLED display, Thunderbolt connectivity, faster CPUs that will perform similarly to those in the M1 Macs, and better cameras. But will these be enough to set it apart from the already amazing iPad Air? And what’s the point of Thunderbolt anyway? “USB-C is capable of delivering display signals up to 4K. Thunderbolt would allow 5K,” musician “Krassman” replied in an Audiobus forum thread started by Lifewire....
