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More and more people are dying taking selfies. Let’s look at how not to become a statistic far more embarrassing than the worst late night text to your ex. A recent study found selfies were a factor in 259 deaths between October 2011 and November 2018. This number is almost certainly too low as it’s based only on reports of deaths in English language media; it doesn’t include near deaths, serious injuries, deaths reported in non-English media, or deaths where selfies weren’t mentioned even though they might have been a factor, such as car crashes....

Expensive Memory Cards Won’t Improve Performance If you’ve run out of storage on your Switch, it’s important to buy a big enough memory card to avoid having to repeat this process in the future. What’s not important is buying the fastest, most expensive memory card you can find. Buy a UHS-I memory card for your Switch, like the SanDisk 512GB Ultra MicroSDXC. Nintendo specifies a minimum read speed of 60 to 95MB/sec, so don’t waste your money on expensive memory cards for use with your Switch console....

If you’re a fan of the Kanban board method of organization like Trello or MeisterTask, give the board view in Outlook calendar a try. With a click, you can see your schedule, sticky notes, uncompleted tasks, essential files, and more. As of this writing in September 2021, the board view is available only in the calendar on Outlook for the web. With it, you can create different boards, add what you want to each, resize or move items, and see your most important items in one handy spot....

Google Photos offers unlimited storage for your photos and videos, a slick website, and automatic-upload apps for Android, iPhone, Windows, and Mac. It’s a great option for storing your photos. This photo-storage service was previously trapped in Google+, so it was overlooked by many people. It’s no longer part of Google+ and has a new interface — you just need a Google account. You Need a Plan for Storing Your Photos RELATED: Take Control of Your Smartphone’s Automatic Photo Uploads...

Use Picture-in-Picture for Supported Apps on iPhone All of the media apps that already supported picture-in-picture mode on the iPad work out of the box on your iPhone running iOS 14 or higher. And now that the feature is available on the iPhone, we expect to see more media and video conferencing apps to add the feature. RELATED: How to Use Picture in Picture (PiP) Video on an iPad If you’ve used picture-in-picture mode on the iPad, you’ll be familiar with the process....

Whether you’re recording a voice message as a reminder of that million dollar idea or catching a snippet of a new song you know you’ll forget, the iPhone and iPad’s Voice Memos app is the perfect tool. The Voice Memos app is free, and it ships with every iPhone and iPad that Apple sells. That makes it the obvious choice for recording audio. Just like Apple’s other first-party apps, the Voice Memos app has just enough power to get the job done without making things complicated....

As Moore’s Law (an old observation stating that computing power doubles roughly every two years) pushes our computing hardware further, the complexity of the problems being solved increases as well. While supercomputers used to be reasonably small, nowadays they can take up entire warehouses, all filled up with interconnected racks of computers. What Makes a Computer “Super”? The term “Supercomputer” implies one gigantic computer many times more powerful than your simple laptop, but that couldn’t be farther from the case....

You Could Build a PC With Similar Hardware for Less No surprise: By our calculations, you can get the job done for much less, though it’ll still cost you. We weren’t able to make a carbon copy of the Mac Pro, but we did get some advantages that the base model Mac Pro doesn’t have. We also had to give up some features in the process. For this article, we’re focusing on the base model since it’s the only one with a known price at this writing....

The good news is that there are more than a handful of first and third-party accessories available for the AirTag. While Apple has primarily focused on the basics with ways to mount the Bluetooth tracker to your keys or bag, other companies like Moment, Nomad, and Belkin have created unique accessories that fit your every need. Each item in our roundup below has been expertly chosen based on our knowledge of the company manufacturing the accessory and the use case it best fits....

Woofers, mid-range speakers, and tweeters are all types of loudspeakers. Most often, all three types of speakers are mounted in a single enclosure, but you can also find each in discrete enclosures. Let’s take a closer look at how they work. Loudspeakers are a type of electrical transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into sound. The most widely used type of speaker today—the dynamic loudspeaker—was first built in the 1920’s....

New With Tags NWT and BNWT are internet acronyms for “new with tags” and “brand new with tags,” respectively. These terms are used on online marketplace sites to specify that an item, usually an article of clothing, is unused and still has its tags intact. NWT and BNWT are entirely synonymous with each other and can be used interchangeably depending on the scenario. NWT and BNWT share many similarities with NIP, which stands for “new in packaging....

Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” occurs on the second Tuesday of each month. This is the day when, like clockwork, Microsoft releases large update packages for Windows 10, Windows 7, Microsoft Office, and its other software. What Is Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday? Sometimes called “Update Tuesday,” Patch Tuesday is an unofficial term for the day when Microsoft releases update packages for the Windows operating system and other Microsoft software applications, including Microsoft Office....

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) are the primary security algorithms you’ll see when setting up a wireless network. WEP is the oldest and has proven to be vulnerable as more and more security flaws have been discovered. WPA improved security, but is now also considered vulnerable to intrusion. WPA2, while not perfect, is currently the most secure choice. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are the two different types of encryption you’ll see used on networks secured with WPA2....

Network cameras have existed since before the Wyze Cam and Nest Cam. They send their data over your local network rather than relying on a cloud service. Now, Insider builds of Windows 10 20H1 have built-in support for these cameras. These are also known as IP-based cameras, as they send video data over your local area network (LAN) using the Internet Protocol (IP.) Traditionally, you had to use a third-party software package or access a web server running on the camera to access these cameras....

Enable Two-Factor Authentication Let’s start with security. Your doorbell is likely at the main entry point to your home, so make sure not just anyone can get into your account and peep at it. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an absolute must. To enable 2FA on your Ring account, open the mobile app and tap the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines) in the top left. Go to Account Settings > Two-Step Verification....

In the early days of electric vehicles (EVs), you couldn’t go as far on a single charge as on a tank of gas. However, improvements in battery and drivetrain technology mean the electric cars on the road today get as many miles as a gasoline vehicle from a fully charged battery — sometimes more. This list of the longest-range electric vehicles available right now spans automakers from affordable standbys like Kia and Hyundai to more expensive brands like Tesla, but they all get at least 300 miles on a charge....

Spotify has had a big year: they hit more than 80 million paid subscribers, launched a much-improved new free plan, and even IPO-ed. If you’ve been a Premium subscriber for a while, you might not have noticed a lot of the other small changes and features that got added. Here’s what’s new. Better Recommendations and Personalized Playlists At How-To Geek, we’re huge fans of Spotify’s recommendation engine and the playlists it generates....

What Your IP Address Tells Websites Your internet service provider gives you a public IP address. All the devices on your home network share that IP address, and your address is unique on the internet. When you connect to a website, that website then sees your IP address. Your computer connects to the website’s IP address, and the website sends data back to your IP address. Packets are transmitted through network routers, and the IP address on those packets tells the routers where they need to go....

Thinner and thinner smartphones seem to be the trend lately, and one that many people complain about. But iPhones have actually gotten thicker over the last few years, mostly thanks to beefier hardware and added technology. RELATED: Why the iPhone XR has the Best Battery Life of the New iPhone X Series I’m sure you’ve heard the complaints before: “I want Apple to make a thicker iPhone with a bigger battery!...

Fallout 76‘s latest patch is over 47 GB in size. From video games to 4K streaming video, everything online keeps getting bigger. But Comcast’s 1 TB data cap isn’t changing, and some smaller Internet service providers are even worse. 100 GB Downloads for Modern Games Modern console and PC games are huge! Sure, 47 GB for a single patch is a lot of space, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg....