Communications and research company Omdia reports that Apple plans a folding phone with a big screen, up to 7.6-inches, in just two years. If Apple releases an iPhone, you can be sure that it has overcome the problems of early foldable phones, like Samsung’s disastrous Galaxy Fold phone, with its janky hinge and peel-off screen. But even with a technically functional fold, is a folding screen actually useful? Isn’t a folding phone the dumbest thing ever?...
Nintendo is well known for making the most fun games around, usually on hardware that looks pedestrian, or even retro, compared to the latest consoles from the competition. But it also has a history of making amazing and innovative game controllers. The NES gamepad might not look like much today, but it was a lot better than the wrist-breaking Atari CX40 Joystick from 1977, for example, and the N64 controller defined controls for the era of 3D games....
Reports say that the new MacBook Pro models with Apple-designed silicon will arrive this fall. I can’t wait to see what Apple will do with large Mini LED displays paired with the blazing-fast M1 chips. While my 2019 Macbook Pro 16-inch is fast enough for most tasks, I’ve been spoiled by the incredible speed of my M1 iMac. I’ve also become a convert to the stunning Mini LED display on my iPad Pro 12....
Consumer privacy continues to be at the center of a lot of tech conversations. One of the most recent announcements includes the release of a new search engine from the makers of Brave, a privacy-focused browser. The search engine is available in beta right now and promises users more privacy than other options out there—like Google or Bing. Experts, however, say better protection, alone, isn’t enough to pull users from the heavy hitters that dominate the search market....
Apple’s ProMotion technology can accelerate the display refresh rate to 120Hz for video or drop it down to a lower rate for still images and text to conserve battery life. While it’s been available on iPads for a while, this marks the first time Apple has brought ProMotion to the iPhone. “Higher refresh rates offer a much better user experience,” tech blogger Patrick Sinclair told Lifewire in an email interview....
Coming soon to WhatsApp on iOS: automatic voice-message transcription. This will take the incoming ramblings of your friends and family and turn them into text so that you can scan them and get straight to the important bits. For instance, are you trying to arrange a dinner date with a friend? With a transcribed voice message, you can skip straight to the reservation time and ignore the parts about how another friend’s cousin visited the same restaurant that one time, and “…wait, I’m just about to go into a tunnel....
Vinegar is a Safari extension for macOS and iOS that banishes the YouTube video player and replaces it with Apple’s built-in player. This allows for proper Picture-in-Picture (PiP), better subtitle support, full-screen mode from anywhere, and more. Vinegar also removes ads. The extension has some downsides too, but overall it rids YouTube videos of all their usual annoyances. But how did it come to this? The last time web video was so bad, it was due to the Flash Player that killed the battery on any device that used one....
Twitter says that an edit button is its most requested feature to date, adding that some Twitter Blue subscribers might already see the edit button appear beside their tweets. But experts say that being able to edit messages will fundamentally change how people use Twitter, and they are concerned about the unintended consequences of such a feature. “There is some fear that this feature will lead to gaslighting, spreading of false information, or even promotional spam added onto tweets that have been retweeted or shared,” Kami Huyse, social media strategist and CEO of Zoetica, told Lifewire via email....
Working from home (WFH) hasn’t turned out to be the productivity nightmare employers may have imagined. In fact, remote workers are more productive and, by some measures, less likely to look for another job. It’s also cheaper for employers, and because there’s no commute, it’s better for the environment. Big tech companies like Google and Apple have already extended WFH plans well into 2021. But will it continue after the pandemic?...
It’s called View Once, and it lets you choose to send an image that can only be opened and viewed once. Recipients cannot forward, save, star, or share photos or videos sent this way, and any media not opened for 14 days will disappear. Or will it? “As someone who works in a privacy protection company, I say that disappearing messages, images, and voicemails do not guarantee the protection of your privacy....
The Winegard FL5500A FlatWave Antenna is a thin, powered antenna that utilizes a similar design to some of the best TV antennas on the market right now. Most of these antennas come in either powered or unpowered configurations, where the powered variants use a USB-based power adapter to amplify the signal and try to achieve better performance. The Winegard FL5500A FlatWave Antenna has average performance for an antenna of this type, but for some reason costs a lot more than most of the other competing options....
Here’s a look at the types of wireless encryption methods, how to determine the service you should use, and other factors affecting your wireless security. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) If you set up your router years ago, it may use a form of wireless security called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WEP used to be the standard for wireless security, designed to give wireless networks the same level of privacy protection as a comparable wired network....
Xbox 360 Hardware Specifications Here are the full hardware specifications for the Xbox 360 video game console. Custom IBM Power PC-Based CPU Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz eachTwo hardware threads per core, six hardware threads totalVMX-128 vector unit per core, three total128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread1MB L2 cache CPU Game Math Performance 9.6 billion dot product operations per second Custom ATI Graphics Processor 500 MHz processor 10MB of embedded DRAM 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines Unified shader architecture...
But, there are a few things to keep in mind. Game saves from an original Xbox console cannot be transferred to the Xbox 360 console. Xbox Live functionality for original Xbox games has been discontinued, which means there’s no online multiplayer support. You can still play with your buddies, however, by linking two Xbox 360s using a cable or by linking up to 16 consoles through a network. Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360 2006 FIFA World Cup 25 to Life 4x4 EVO 2 AirForce Delta Storm Aggressive Inline Alias Aliens versus Predator Extinction All-Star Baseball 2003 All-Star Baseball 2005 America’s Army: Rise of a Soldier AMF Bowling 2004 Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding Amped 2 APEX Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis Arena Football Armed and Dangerous Army Men: Sarge’s War Atari Anthology ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 Auto Modellista Avatar: The Last Airbender Bad Boys 2 Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II Barbie Horse Adventures Wild Horse Rescue The Bard’s Tale Bass Pro Shops Trophy Hunter 2007 Batman Begins Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu Battle Engine Aquila Battlestar Galactica Big Mutha Truckers Bionicle BLACK Blade II Blinx: The Time Sweeper Blinx 2 : Masters of Time & Space Blitz: The League Blood Omen 2 BloodRayne 2 BlowOut BMX XXX Breakdown Brute Force Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds Burnout Burnout 2 Burnout 3: Takedown Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2 Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 06 Cabela’s Deer Hunt 2005 Season Cabela’s Deer Hunt 2004 Season Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Call of Duty: Finest Hour Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Call of Duty 3 Cars Casino Catwoman Championship Manager 2006 Chicago Enforcer The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Circus Maximus Close Combat: First to Fight Colin McRae Rally 4 Colin McRae Rally 2005 Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers Commandos 2: Men of Courage Conflict: Desert Storm Conker: Live and Reloaded Constantine Counter-Strike Crash Bandicoot 4 Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex Crash Nitro Kart Crash Twinsanity Crime Life Gang Wars Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics Dark Angel Darkwatch Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 The Da Vinci Code Dead or Alive 3 Dead or Alive Ultimate Dead to Rights Demon Stone Deathrow Destroy All Humans!...
iOS 14 added several consumer-focused features that put more control in consumers’ hands, and Apple plans to add even more with iOS 15. One way the company is letting users control how they use their phone is by not forcing them to update to the latest version of iOS when it releases. Instead, Apple still plans to let users continue using the previous version, as well as provide additional security updates for it....
Aside from important security fixes, iOS 16 brings a slew of great new features, some that will make your iPhone look nicer and others that will make it way easier to use. However, not everything is available just yet. Thanks to Apple’s staggered release schedule, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura won’t arrive until next month. This means one of this year’s best new features has been delayed at least until then....
The company is debuting a new Galaxy phone feature in South Korea. Called Repair Mode, it hides users’ data to prevent its theft when a device is turned over for repair. According to a translated version of the Korean press release, repair mode will block access to photos, messages, and account information when activated. “This feature allows users to protect data, photos, attachments, contacts, and other data so that prying eyes cannot access information while a device is out for repair,” Stephanie Kurtz, Lead Faculty for the College of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Phoenix, told Lifewire over email....
Apple’s new M1 Ultra chips use advances in a kind of chipmaking called “packaging.” The company’s UltraFusion, the name of its packaging technology, links two M1 Max chips with 10,000 wires that can carry 2.5 terabytes of data per second. The process is part of a growing revolution in chip packaging. “Advanced packaging is an important and emerging area of microelectronics,” Janos Veres, the director of engineering at NextFlex, a consortium that works to advance manufacturing of printed flexible electronics, told Lifewire in an email interview....
Tools like Windows Error Checking and the chkdsk command are included in your Windows-based operating system already, but some others, like those below, are available from hard drive manufacturers and other developers. Depending on the issue, you may need to replace your hard drive if it fails some part of one of these tests. SeaTools Bootable and SeaTools for DOS support Seagate or Maxtor drives and run independent of your operating system on their own USB drive or CD, respectively....
You’re also not just limited to a hard drive. External devices like flash drives and external hard drives can be encrypted by disk encryption software, too. Not only can it encrypt whole disks of data at once, but it can also encrypt the system partition that has an OS installed. Furthermore, you can use VeraCrypt to build a single file that acts as a drive, complete with its own encrypted files and folders....
