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Smart Canvas is a collaboration tool within Google Workspace with various new features that Google said will roll out throughout the rest of this year. Javier Soltero, the general manager and vice president of Google Workspace, said during Google I/O that Smart Canvas would “bring the voices and faces of your team directly into the collaboration experience.” “As smart canvas drives the next era of collaboration in Google Workspace, we remain committed to providing a solution that’s flexible, helpful, and that fuels innovation for organizations in every industry,” Google wrote in its blog post announcing the feature....

Chromebooks sit in a precarious position in the laptop marketplace. Chrome OS might be able to handle the needs of a lot of users, but they can’t handle every task a Windows or Mac OS laptop can. Chromebooks have also been priced appropriately for most of their history, consistently finding themselves in the sub-$500 range. Here’s Google’s problem, though. It wants everyone to see Chromebooks as beautiful, capable devices, so it has taken matters into its own hands in the past few years and started creating its own devices....

Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds a huge layer of safety to your logins, but only if it’s switched on. By the end of 2021, Google plans to switch over 150 million Google users, and force 2 million YouTubers to enable the setting. 2FA has been available through Google for years, but in 2018, only 10% of accounts were using it. People just don’t seem to bother with anything that isn’t on by default....

Various conditions can affect the TTFF, including the environment and whether the GPS device is inside or outside. GPS navigators need to be mostly free of obstructions between the device antenna and the orbital satellites. A GPS must have three sets of data before it can provide accurate position: GPS satellite signals, almanac data, and ephemeris data. TTFF Conditions There are usually three categories that TTFF is split up into:...

How to Host a Disney Plus Watch Party Here’s how to watch Disney Plus with friends in just a few short taps or clicks. Join and Watch Disney Plus in a Party Joining a GroupWatch party is even easier than hosting it. All you need to do is make sure you have Disney Plus account, and if you’re on a mobile device or console, have the app installed. If you’re on a PC, you can instead use the browser to GroupWatch with your friends and family....

Bluetooth in a Camcorder Bluetooth is a wireless technology that is very common in mobile phones and digital music players, usually as a means to wirelessly send music or voice calls from the device to a headset or earphones. In fact, many current cellphones no longer offer the auxiliary ports needed for wired connections, relying completely on Bluetooth for connection to external devices. Bluetooth performs well over short ranges between 10 and 30 feet or so....

Overall Findings The above findings, as well as those in the below sections, are largely hypothetical. In practice, if you’re new to HBO streaming services, you’ll almost certainly need to go with HBO Max (but, as shown in the Final Verdict below, this isn’t a bad thing). HBO Go was discontinued as a standalone service in July 2020, instead re-branded to simply “HBO.” The only way you can use the HBO app (previously HBO Go) now is if you were an existing customer, and/or you’re using a device or service provider that doesn’t support HBO Max yet....

The Federal Communications Commission recently has started pushing for users to provide information about their internet data speeds, even going so far as to release an app that you can use to measure your home internet connection. Much of this move, experts say, is fueled by the FCC’s desperate attempts to provide more open and transparent information about the current broadband performance throughout the United States. “The FCC has resorted to crowdsourcing broadband speed data out of complete desperation,” Tom Paton, founder of BroadbandSavvy, told Lifewire in an email....

A new AI tool could allow scientists to more accurately forecast Arctic sea ice months into the future. IceNet is almost 95% accurate in predicting whether sea ice will be present two months ahead, researchers say. It’s one of a growing number of uses for AI in predicting climate change. “AI has significantly improved the efficiency of running complex climate models that historically have been computationally intensive,” Daniel Intolubbe-Chmil, an analyst at Harbor Research,, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The Google project called Play a Kandinsky lets you hear what Kandinsky might have heard as he looked at color. The interactive tool enables you to experience his abstract 1925 masterpiece Yellow Red Blue through sound by clicking around the artwork to listen to a seven-movement composition that travels through colors and moods as Kandinsky described them. “Google has taught an artificial neural network the correspondence of colors and shapes to sounds and emotions,” Sergey Burukin, head of decision intelligence at web development company Greenice, said in an email interview....

AirTags are Apple’s hotly anticipated tracker tiles, little tags that will show up in the Find My app on your phone, letting you find lost keys or keep your checked luggage safe. But are AirTags private? Might they leak private information and let other people find you? Probably not. “I will use them if they’re not too expensive,” iOS app developer Graham Bower told Lifewire via direct message. “It can’t be worse than an Apple Watch....

Streaming services often cater more towards pop and other genres than classical music, but Apple recently announced it has acquired Primephonic, a classical music streaming service that offers innovative features. Experts say the move could bring more options to classical music listeners. “Apple is aware of the consumer demands for classical music, and Apple has publicly stated that they are committed to providing dedicated features specific to classical music,” Brandon Elliott, a music professor at Moorpark College, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Block Known Contacts When you block a contact on WhatsApp, you stop receiving messages, calls, or status updates from them. The blocked user won’t be able to view your status updates or other information. Block a Contact on WhatsApp for iPhone Block a Contact on WhatsApp for Android Block an Unknown Number Blocking an unknown number is a simple process, as well. Block an Unknown Number on WhatsApp for iPhone If this is the first time a phone number has contacted you, open the chat and tap Block > Block....

Twitter and T.co Twitter limits tweets to fewer than 280 characters. In the past, users relied on link-shortening websites to shorten URLs before posting to Twitter. These ensured that URLs did not take up much space within a tweet. Before long, Twitter introduced its own link shortener—t.co—to minimize character counts. When you paste a URL into the tweet field in Twitter, it is altered by the t.co service to 23 characters, no matter the length of the original URL....

Toys like the new VTech KidiZoom PrintCam look awesome. Kids can snap photos and see the results right away. But can they understand how it works? Inside, it’s just another opaque computer, like the one you’re using to read this article. Almost all toys and gadgets are computerized, and while we and our kids might become adept at using them, we cannot understand them. “Today’s kids are born with tech, but that doesn’t mean they are naturally tech savvier,” Mark Coster, owner and editor of STEM Toy Expert, told Lifewire via email....

What Should Be the Distance Between Projector and Screen? Since every projector is different, and every projector user tends to have a different screen size, the precise distance for your setup will likely be very different from someone else’s. If you have a short-throw projector, you may be able to place your projector just a few feet from the screen, whereas someone with a more traditional ceiling-mounted projector may have to put it ten or more feet from the screen....

After high school, the women who go on to work in the tech industry are unfortunately a small number compared to other fields: women hold only 26% of computing jobs, and only 12% of engineers at Silicon Valley tech startups are women. The four-day international tech conference, known as GirlCon, is hoping to change this narrative and help girls’ interest in tech eventually blossom into a successful career. “GirlCon was sort of what fueled my passion for technology,” Vidya Bharadwaj, co-director of GirlCon and incoming high school senior, told Lifewire over the phone....

Nokia and NewCore Wireless recently began bringing 5G wireless networking and 4.9G/LTE service to underserved communities. The move is part of a growing effort to bring broadband to places where laying fiber optic cables would be prohibitively expensive. “The reality is that broadband access and wireless service are essential for leading a productive life,” Ed Cholerton, a senior vice president at Nokia, said in an email interview. “Whether it is for work, school, health care, public safety, or just general communications, modern communications technology has become as fundamental to our lives as electricity, water service, and other essential utilities....

Social media platforms that fail to stop sexist and racist content could receive heavy fines under a recently proposed bill. Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites must also give users the option of avoiding content that is considered harmful. The move comes as Twitter and other websites come under increasing scrutiny for hosting racist comments. “We need policies in place by social media companies that have a no-tolerance policy around racist comments and that can decipher less egregious forms of racism,” diversity consultant Kim Crowder told Lifewire in an email interview....

How to Use the Photo Filters Built Into the iPhone Camera App The filters pre-loaded on iOS devices are a great place to start. If you want to take a new photo using one of these filters, follow these steps: How to​ Apply Filters to Old Photos​ To add a filter to an existing photo that you took without a filter, retroactively add a filter to the image: How to Remove a Filter From an iPhone Photo When you apply a filter to a photo and tap Done, the original photo is changed to include the new filter....