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With a focus on privacy, you might not want those you’re communicating with on Signal to know you’ve looked at their text message. Fortunately, you can turn off read receipts and disable the indicator that shows that you have seen their communication. Read receipts, a popular feature on other messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage, appear as white indicator bubbles on messages that you send in Signal. If you turn off read receipts and block the person on the other end from seeing that you’ve read their message, you lose the ability to see if they’ve read your message....

The Power of sed The sed command is a bit like chess: it takes an hour to learn the basics and a lifetime to master them (or, at least a lot of practice). We’ll show you a selection of opening gambits in each of the main categories of sed functionality. sed is a stream editor that works on piped input or files of text. It doesn’t have an interactive text editor interface, however....

Virtual desktops, which Google calls Virtual Desks, let you separate the desktop into multiple workspaces where you can organize applications and windows. Chrome OS enables you to have up to four Desks at the same time that you can quickly switch between. After you update your Chromebook to the most recent version of Chrome OS, all you have to do is press the “Overview” key ([]]]) to see the option in the top-right corner to start using Virtual Desks....

RELATED: What Is EXIF Data, and How Can I Remove It From My Photos? How to View EXIF Data on Android If you want to view your pictures’ EXIF metadata in its simplest form, you take the simplest approach to do so. We’ll be using Google Photos to take a look at this info since it’s ubiquitous on Android devices at this point. If you’ve never used Google Photos before, you’ll have to run through a brief setup process....

Apple Music is the way to listen to music on Apple’s devices, and while there are alternatives, the integration is second to none. There are some pretty great features, too—like being able to follow along with song lyrics. Apple Music isn’t the only music streaming service available on Apple’s platforms, but even though Spotify and others are more than capable, there’s something about using software designed specifically for a platform and Apple Music is a great example of that....

You can make this happen with the Netflix Party Chrome extension. It allows you to create an online chatroom with your friends in which you can all watch the same movie or show simultaneously. You can send messages in the chatroom, skip parts of the movie, or skip to the next episode of a show. In fact, if you watch a TV show, you can watch multiple episodes in the same chatroom....

As a bonus, the USB-IF is tweaking USB 3.0 to reduce some of the confusion around “SuperSpeed.” If everything goes according to plan, all those cables advertising support for “USB 3.2 Gen 2×2” will vanish from the market. What Is USB4? USB4 is the next version of USB, and it offers many improvements and advantages. It will use the reversible Type C plug that’s quickly becoming more popular and double the top bandwidth of USB 3....

Today, Windows 10’s Start menu only searches for files in your libraries and on your desktop. In the next version of Windows, it will search everywhere on your PC. This uses the existing Windows search index. This change is coming in Windows 10’s next update, codenamed 19H1 and scheduled for release around April 2019. It’s available today to Windows Insiders—in other words, beta testers—as part of Insider preview build 18267....

According to Waverly Labs, “Worn over-the-ear, the prosumer device offers a highly accurate and natural interpretation experience allowing multiple users to engage in free-flowing conversations.” The Ambassador Interpritor 2.0 features a far-field microphone array combined with speech recognition neural networks to capture speech and translate quickly, so you can converse with others almost as smoothly as you would if you were both speaking the same language. There are three different modes—Listen, Lecture, and Converse and each offers different translation functionality based on the setting....

“Whatever” “W/E” stands for “whatever.” It’s used in online chats and conversations when you want to convey a looseness or lack of urgency. It’s almost always written in the lowercase “w/e” instead of the uppercase, which to many, makes it look even more lazy or uncaring. It’s one of the few online acronyms that’s often written with a slash in the middle—you would type it as “w/e” instead of “we.” This is done to minimize confusion with the pronoun “we....

With so many “PlayStation” product and service names out there, it’s easy to get confused about PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now. Both are subscription services for PS4, PS5, and PC, but with key differences. We’ll explain. Main Differences: Multiplayer vs. Streaming, and More PlayStation Plus is similar to Xbox Live Gold. It allows online multiplayer gaming for the majority of PlayStation titles. It also lets you download free games, provides cloud save functionality, and enables Share Play....

Android Sees AirPods as Standard Bluetooth Headphones All models of AirPods operate as standard Bluetooth headphones, which can be used by just about any device with Bluetooth audio functionality. All you need to do to use them wirelessly with your Android smartphone or tablet is to pair them manually. This is a bit different from how pairing works on an iPhone or iPad, where you simply open your AirPods case and tap connect....

If you’ve been using Instagram for a while, you probably already know what a great place it is to find inspiration. But to see the best content, ditch following users and start looking at hashtags instead. Following hashtags on Instagram isn’t a new feature, but it’s one you shouldn’t overlook—its hard to overstate their value. In my opinion, this is one of the best parts of the entire network. Why?...

Well, maybe not “anyone.” It’s hard for the average person to go viral. And as a result, it’s hard for most people to get wonderful customer service that comes with a viral complaint. The Beginning of Social Media Damage Control Businesses spend a ton of time and money building up a good reputation. Whether they sell quality products at a low price, give back to their local communities, or hire celebrity spokespeople, the goal is to gain the trust and recognition of consumers....

Dark themes are becoming more and more popular. On some devices, they can even save battery power. It all depends on what type of display your device have—only devices with OLED displays can reap the power-saving benefits. Devices With OLED Displays Only You’ve probably heard of OLED displays, especially if you’ve been on the market for a new TV in the last year or so. OLED screens differ from LCD and LED displays typically found in electronics in that OLEDs don’t have a backlight layer: each pixel is individually illuminated....

As with any new technology, there are downsides to facial recognition. These downsides are becoming more apparent as the military, the police, advertisers, and deepfake creators, find devious new ways to take advantage of facial recognition software. Now, more than ever, it’s essential for people to understand how facial recognition works. It’s also important to know the limitations of facial recognition and how it will develop in the future....

Alexa can be super useful thanks to the Echo’s always-listening capabilities that keep it ready for action at a moment’s notice. But how much electricity is that convenience costing you? I have five Echo devices sprawled across my house in rooms where they’re super convenient to have, and I use them for all kinds of stuff: music, timers, alarms, listening to the news, and more. However, just like with some of the other devices and appliances in your home, your Echos are constantly sipping electricity....

The Wallet app on the iPhone lets you store all of your loyalty cards, boarding passes, movie tickets, and more right on your device. Unfortunately, it only officially supports a handful of stores and brands. Thankfully, there’s a way to add anything with a barcode to these apps, whether it’s officially supported or not. RELATED: How to Set up Apple Pay and Google Wallet on Your Phone The Wallet app works by having you download an officially-supported app (like Fandango, American Airlines, or Walgreens)....

Raspberry Pis can be fickle. If you’ve ever gotten a corrupt SD card from a power outage, bad cable, overclocking, or other issue, you know how annoying it can be to start from scratch. But we can fix that. How This Works I’ve had this happen all too often, and I eventually figured out a good solution. Once I set up my Pi project exactly how I want it, I just use Win32 Disk Imager on Windows to clone an image of its SD card onto my PC....

A combo chart in Excel displays two chart types (such as column and line) on the same chart. They are used to show different types of information on a single chart, such as actuals against a target. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to make a combo chart that follows the same axis and one that displays mixed types of data in a single chart on a different axis....