Importance Markers Each email has an importance marker immediately to the left of the sender’s name in the Inbox list. It looks like a flag or arrow. When Gmail identifies a particular email as being important based on its criteria, the importance marker is yellow. When it is not recognized as being important, it is just the empty outline of the shape. At any time, you can click the importance marker and change its status manually....

A new essay argues that programs can be used to understand bot or spam behavior in email text sent by a machine posing as a human. The software can understand the internal structure of the email itself to identify patterns of spammers and the types of messages they send. “As machine learning improves, and especially as its grasp of language improves, phishing emails will become a thing of the past,” cybersecurity analyst Eric Florence told Lifewire in an email interview....

Google is bringing its Live Caption technology to any website with the new version of Chrome. The feature tries to turn any audio source on the web into text displayed on your screen. For some users, the captions are more than a convenience. “Many people with ADHD and other neuro divergences use captions in order to assist with processing language and information, myself included,” Catie Osborn, a TikTok user with more than 400,000 followers, said in an email interview....

Vollebak recently released its Titan collection, which includes a puffer jacket, trousers, and a hat. The clothes are made from space parachute fabric developed by NASA, military materials developed for the British Special Forces, and insulation made from recycled plastic bottles. “The lining of the Titan Puffer is one of the most technically innovative fabrics we’ve ever worked with: a super-strong but extremely lightweight polyamide that NASA spent 15 years developing for use in its space parachutes,” Steve Tidball, the CEO of Vollebak told Lifewire in an email interview....

Spain just passed a law that mandates a three-year warranty for all products and requires manufacturers to keep spare parts on hand for a decade. Germany already decrees a two-year warranty on all goods. This is obviously good news for consumers, but how might it change the way manufacturers design their gadgets? Or how retailers sell them? “The obvious impact of longer warranties is that consumers will need to buy products less often,” Rex Freiberger, CEO of Gadget Review, told Lifewire via email....

The move is most likely in conjunction with Apple’s push for app developers to make you aware of any tracking that happens when using their apps. You can still stop TikTok from tracking you outside of the app, but from now on, the way you use TikTok will determine what kind of ads you see on your “For You” page. This move takes the choice out of users’ hands, something that experts say never should happen....

Add Yahoo Mail to Outlook.com Follow these steps to set up Outlook.com to access your Yahoo Mail inbox. The message import process may take a while if you have a lot of Yahoo Mail messages. Because this occurs server to server, you can close your browser and turn off your computer. When the import is finished, your Yahoo Mail messages should appear on Outlook.com. Manage Your Connected Accounts If you want to make changes to your Yahoo Mail account, go to Settings > View all Outlook settings > Mail > Sync mail....

Prepare Your Yahoo Account Set up your Yahoo account so that it allows Outlook to connect. This initial step depends on whether you have two-step verification enabled on your Yahoo account. Two-Step Verification Enabled? Generate an App Password If your Yahoo account is secured with two-step verification, generate a third-party app password. You’ll use this in place of your Yahoo Mail sign-in password when you configure Outlook. No Two-Step Verification? If you don’t use two-step verification to secure your Yahoo Mail account (and you don’t want to enable it), set your account to allow email clients to access it using your Yahoo account sign-in password....

Insert Audio Into Google Slides Using a Music Streaming Service If you found a sound file on the web you want to use in your presentation, insert a link to the file on the slide you want the audio to play. You’ll find links to sound files on music streaming services such as YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Music. When playing audio from a music streaming service, you’ll need to start and stop the audio during your presentation, and the computer you use must be connected to the internet....

How to Add Bots to Discord Before you can add bots, you must create a Discord server. If you plan to add a bot to a server that’s not yours, confirm that you’ve been granted permission to manage the server. These permissions are automatically in place for any server that you create. Other Discord Bot Websites DiscordBots.com org isn’t the only place where you can add bots to your server. Other bot websites you can use include:...

How Do I Bookmark All Open Tabs in the Android Version of Chrome? The Chrome browser in Android allows you to save individual tabs as bookmarks. But unlike Chrome on desktop, there’s no feature yet to bookmark all open tabs in one step. The steps below guide you through a workaround which can help you save multiple tabs as bookmarks, but you’ll need access to the desktop version of Chrome....

Is There a Way to Calibrate Google Maps? Google Maps uses your smartphone’s built-in GPS (among other features) to figure out where you are and how to get you where you want to go. You may need to calibrate that compass to help Google Maps get the best location data from time to time. Luckily, do that is easy. How to Calibrate Google Maps on iPhone To calibrate the compass that Google Maps uses on an iPhone, follow these steps:...

How to Cancel a Subscription on iPhone and Other iOS Devices You must cancel a subscription at least 24 hours before the renewal time. Just like you can subscribe directly on your iPhone, you can cancel subscriptions there, too. To do that, though, you don’t use the app you’re trying to cancel. Instead, follow these steps: You can also access the Subscriptions settings by tapping the App Store app on the iPhone Home screen....

Mirror Your Laptop Zoom Meeting With Chromecast One of the easiest ways to cast a zoom meeting to your TV is using a Chromecast device. They’re inexpensive, and the cast feature comes included with every Google browser as well as the Google Home app on your Android or iOS device. Whether you’re using a Windows 10 or a Mac laptop, so long as you’re using the Chrome browser you can enable Zoom screen casting....

How to Cast to Roku For supported apps and streaming channels, the steps to cast content are simple. There’s no complete list of supported services for casting, but Netflix and YouTube are among those that allow casting via Roku. First, ensure the streaming channel you want to cast is installed on your Roku device. Using the corresponding app on your mobile device, look for the casting icon (a small rectangle with three curved lines in the bottom-left corner)....

How to Get Custom App Icons on Android One of the best features of Android is the option to customize nearly anything you want, from the wallpaper and lock shortcuts to the way the icons look and feel. What’s more, there are many ways to apply custom icons. You can even create your own! Before you can change app icons, you’ll need to download and install custom icon sets. You can find them at the Google Play Store....

How Do You Change the Color of Your Username in the Twitch App? Here’s how to change the color of your username if you’re using the Twitch app. Just go to any chat and follow these steps: How Do You Change Your Username Color in a Twitch Chat? There’s an easy chat command for changing your name color, too. Just type /color followed by the color you want to use. You can also use a hex code....

Which Windows Sounds Can Be Customized In Windows 10? Windows 10 allows you to set custom sounds for system notifications (like low battery alerts) and sound effects for actions such as closing a program or emptying the recycle bin. To help you navigate the many different kinds of system sounds, the sound settings menu divides them up into the following categories: Windows (system): Includes sounds for things like battery notifications and instant messages....

How Do I Change My Wi-Fi Modem Password and Name? Changing your Wi-Fi network’s name and password isn’t done by logging into your internet service provider’s website or app. Instead, you can update this information at any time by accessing your modem or modem/router hybrid device directly by using a specific IP address and login information. How Do I Change My Modem Name and Password? You can change both the name and password for the Wi-Fi internet connection created by your modem by following the steps above....

How to Check for Android Updates Following these steps will also tell you which version of Android your smartphone is running. How Android Updates Work Google periodically pushes upgrades to the firmware on an Android phone by sending the updated information through a cellular or Wi-Fi connection. When the phone is turned on, notification of the available update appears on the screen. These updates are rolled out in waves by device makers and carriers, so updates aren’t available to everyone at once....