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Routines For Weather, Traffic, Lights, and Snoozing If you’re like a lot of people, you wake up (eventually), try to catch some news, check your email, get dressed, figure out weather and traffic conditions, and get coffee (maybe even breakfast!) before leaving for work. It’s a lot to get done, and it probably doesn’t help that you hit the snooze button three or four times—even though you swore yesterday was the last time you would ever do that again....

Comparing Electric vs. Gas Lawn Mowers Nobody wants to waste money on a product that doesn’t fit their needs, especially one as bulky and expensive as a lawn mower. Despite their soaring popularity, however, many people are understandably unfamiliar with electric lawnmowers. Let’s break it down and look at some of the things that will factor into picking an electric mower over a gasoline mower or vice versa. For the purposes of comparison, we’ll be talking about gas-powered mowers and battery-powered electric mowers....

“The sky is falling; uninstall VLC right now!” That’s the advice some websites are providing. But the purported VLC flaw is overblown—and, according to VLC’s developers, may not even be a real risk. This commotion all started with the publication of CVE-2019-13615, which is marked as a “critical” vulnerability with a score of 9.8 out of 10. VLC’s developers aren’t happy they weren’t even contacted before the publishing of this flaw....

Health Tracking on an Island Smart devices have allowed us to easily track things that would previously have required specialized medical equipment. You can walk into Best Buy and spend $100 or less on a device that can record your heart rate every second of the day. That’s pretty amazing. Heart rate, of course, is just one of many things we can now track with phones and wearables. You can also track your sleep, daily steps, water consumption, diet, calories, workouts, body composition, weight, and more....

What to Look for in an iPad Case in 2022 Picking a case for your iPad can be a daunting experience. You need to know what you want the case to do, as well as your budget. A Magic Keyboard might be a great keyboard case many turn to, but given its price, it may not be the best option for you if you don’t plan on using your iPad like a laptop a lot....

The “Lenovo Smart Clock Essential 4″ with Google Assistant,” as it’s called, is a small smart speaker with a 4-inch screen. It has all the features you would expect from an Assistant speaker, like the ability to stream music, control smart home devices, set reminders, and more. The front display is a non-touch LED screen, giving you the current time, weather, and other data at a glance. Lenovo has also added a few features to make it more useful as an alarm clock, compared to most smart speakers....

Microsoft revealed in a support article that Office.com, the Office mobile app on Android and iPhone/iPad, and the Office app for Windows will have a new name: Microsoft 365. There will also be a new icon, seen above, a hexagon with blue and purple colors. The company says you won’t have to do anything to maintain access to your apps and features, and the standalone apps on desktop (like Word and Excel) aren’t affected at all....

Load balancers are infrastructure components which distribute incoming network traffic between multiple backend servers. They improve capacity and add redundancy by keeping services accessible if one of your servers fails. Load balancers act as the public gateway to your application. They’re specialized in their role so they can be highly optimized to maximize traffic throughput. Load balancers are usually configurable with several kinds of routing algorithm to match your application’s requirements....

In photography, we strive to take “sharp” photos. Generally, this means that you want the subject to be in focus with clear lines, crisp details, and no (unintended) blurring. It’s a combination of accurate focus, a static camera, and the properties of the lens you’re using. One thing to note is that there are two kinds of sharpness: there’s an official optical measure (it’s called acutance) that gets all kinds of complicated fast, and there’s perceived sharpness, which is what photographers mostly want....

RELATED: How to Stream Every Harry Potter Movie in 2022 Jurassic Park Play Video The franchise began with this adaptation of Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel, a sci-fi thriller about a rich mogul (Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond) who creates an island attraction filled with cloned dinosaurs. Director Steven Spielberg gives the movie a sense of grand adventure, balancing the human element via scientist characters played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum with the spectacle of attacking dinosaurs....

How to Find the Model Name This information is easily accessible in the Fire Tablet’s settings screen. To open it, pull down from the top of the screen, and then tap the gear icon. Under the Device section on the Settings screen, tap the “Device Options” entry. Look for the “Device Model” field. This displays the name (and generation) of your Fire Tablet. How to Find Your Tablet’s Specifications How Much Storage Do You Have?...

You installed a new hard drive in your computer and, to your dismay, it’s nowhere to be found. Don’t panic, you just need to give Windows a little nudge to bring it online. The Most Common Reason Your Disk Is Missing You grabbed a nice big hard disk on sale, you cracked open your computer case, plugged the drive into the motherboard and power supply with the appropriate cables (no?...

Can I Still Use Windows 7? Windows 7 will keep working normally, just like Windows XP does. If you have a PC running Windows 7 or Windows XP, you can use it on January 15, 2020, just as you could on January 13, 2020. Microsoft won’t stop you from using your PC. You may see some nags informing you that “Your Windows 7 PC is out of support,” but that’s it....

It’s a timely question. Yes, there are significant changes in medical technology afoot—implantable devices can now communicate wirelessly, and the coming medical Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing with it various wearable devices to keep healthcare providers and patients more connected. But a major medical device manufacturer has made headlines with not one, but two critical security vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities Highlight Hacking Risks This past March, the Department of Homeland Security warned that hackers could wirelessly access implanted pacemakers made by Medtronic....

The past 24 hours have been filled with some interesting tidbits with rumors of a Walmart game streaming service and Facebook’s improper storage of passwords, but that’s just the beginning. Here’s a look at the biggest stories for March 22, 2019. Apple News: AirPower…Maybe It’s been a surprisingly busy week for Apple, with new iPad, new iMacs, and new AirPods all hitting the scene ahead of the company’s big announcement on Monday....

You may have seen piles of video editing tools, but here we’ll show you a different one – VideoProc, developed by Digiarty Software, Inc. It is not a “standard” video editing program. Some consider VideoProc a complete toolbox also for video transcoding, but some insist that it a video converter with vivid video editing features. No matter what, it is definitely a less CPU-consuming video processing software application with the ultimate utilization of Intel, AMD or Nvidia GPU power for acceleration....

Windows 10 has a hidden function that allows you to right-click a file and either move or copy it to a specific location of your choosing. This little registry hack will have you copying and moving your files with ease. We have to preface this with a standard warning, however. The Registry Editor is a powerful tool and, if it’s misused, it can render your system unstable or even inoperable....

The Great Outdoors Can Be Smarter Too Once you have your home’s smart devices set up, voice assistants trained, and automation created there’s still more you can do. Your smarthome doesn’t have to stay outside—it can expand into your yard, whether you’re playing in the backyard, hosting a cookout, or putting up Christmas decorations. With plugs, lights, and battery add-ons, your outdoors can be just as smart as the inside of your home....

Personalizing your computer with a new wallpaper or fresh theme is one of the first things people do when they initially set it up, and Chrome OS is no different. Here’s how to customize the background and theme on your Chromebook. How to Change Your Wallpaper When choosing a wallpaper to use on your Chromebook, you can select from a wide range of pre-installed images or any of the images saved to your computer using the Wallpaper app....

If you want access to all the features of your HomeKit powered smart home when you’re away from home sweet home, you can–as long as you have an Apple TV or iPad sitting in your house. Read on as we show you how. How the Apple TV and iPad Can Act as HomeKit Hubs Apple’s HomeKit system allows you to control your smart home from your iOS device using applications, widgets, and, most futuristic-of-all, your voice via Siri-integration....