Dedner in January 2018 launched Hurdle, a digital mental health platform focused on providing mental health services and self-care support to people of color. Dedner fully committed himself to the company in June 2018, aiming to provide the Black community with better access to digital mental health services. This mission became even more clear for Dedner when the health crisis hit last year, followed by the civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death....

Does It Really Matter? A Kindle might not seem worth the bother, security-wise. It’s just ebooks, after all, right? But if the software security lapses, leaving millions of Kindles vulnerable, it could be a lot worse. For example, say a hacker develops or discovers an exploit for an older Kindle model. The result could be anything, up to and including stealing your account details. That’s a definite worst-case scenario and perhaps unlikely to happen....

Little by little, Nintendo has been bolstering it’s roster of classic Nintendo 64 games available on the Switch. There are still lots of worthwhile titles absent from the lineup, but with Kirby and the Forgotten Land releasing recently, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards seems like an obvious pick. Which is exactly what it is, as Nintendo announced via Twitter that the N64 outing for its roundest and pinkest mascot will indeed be the next game added to the library....

Everyone who regularly follows along with Nintendo’s online presentations (Nintendo Direct) is used to one or two disappointing omissions, but today’s Direct didn’t leave much out. There may not have been any mention of Metroid Prime (the upcoming fourth game or otherwise), but many big names were included in the lineup. A new Fire Emblem, called Fire Emblem Engage, is headed for the Switch on January 20, 2023, and brings back the turn-based tile-driven combat of the classic series....

Because Windows 10 is one of Microsoft’s newest operating systems, manufacturers regularly release compatible drivers. Never Updated a Windows 10 Driver Before? See How to Update Drivers in Windows 10 for a full tutorial. A free driver updater software tool is another option you might want to consider, especially if you’re new to this. Just search for your Acer PC model and then select Windows 10 from the Operating System drop-down box....

Lenovo’s lineup isn’t limited to just laptops and tablets—though both are included—but also includes a new monitor and gaming mouse. The Legion M600s Wireless Gaming Mouse will be releasing in July as a follow-up to the upcoming gaming laptops: the 15-inch IdeaPad Gaming 3i in May and the 16-inch version in June. According to Lenovo, they’ll be priced starting at €99.99 ($112), €999 ($1,122 ), and €1099 ($1,235), respectively. The company also revealed its first Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad, the ThinkPadX13s, which is set to release in the US sometime later in 2002....

According to LG, the two monitors deliver highly accurate color replication plus powerful HDR and SDR performance. The UltraFine line was created with creative professionals in mind. Both monitors display 4K UHD resolution and independent pixel control for high-quality color fidelity. The new monitors include a 27-inch model and a 32-inch model, sharing many of the same features. Both monitors come with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and cover the majority of the DCI/P3 color space, which is the standard for digital movie projections in the American film industry....

So long as you have a supported LG TV (using webOS 5.0 or higher) and a compatible controller, you can nab a free Stadia Pro subscription and play more than 50 different games at no extra cost. No need to buy or hook up a game console—just set up an account and play straight through your TV (and internet connection). Setting it all up is a matter of finding the Stadia Pro offer in the LG Content Store, then scanning the QR code to get started....

With the massive upgrades in technology over the last few console generations, there has been a growing itch to remake our favorite games of the past. Enter The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, a Switch remake of a Game Boy classic from 1992. The remake is a beautiful reimagining that manages to stay faithful to both the spirit and the gameplay of the original in a way that few remakes manage to pull off....

When to Open an Applet From a Command Line Sometimes it’s easier, or maybe even in some cases necessary, to open an applet in the Control Panel from a command line in Windows. For example, if you’re building a script or software program that needs to open an applet, these little tricks help. More common, however, is a situation where your computer is misbehaving in a certain way that prevents you from navigating around like usual, leaving you with no way to open Control Panel normally, which you likely need to do to solve the issue!...

File Extensions Explained If you open a file with one of these file extensions, your computer could, without your continued permission, run one or more operations programmed into that file. To put it in even simpler terms, these files either belong to programs, scripts, or program extensions and plugins. They’re meant to run and do things on your computer, only you can’t be sure exactly what they’re running or doing. That’s why it’s always crucial to only run them when they come from a trusted source or website....

Keep an Eye on Diners to Make Color Bonuses When new patrons walk in, do your best to give them tables matching the color of the clothes they’re wearing. This way, you rack up a Color Bonus. Also, it might be easier to keep track of who’s sitting where when the going gets tough. Get into the habit of doing this and it will benefit you in the long run....

How to Add Google Chrome Users on Windows To set up a new user profile in Google Chrome for Windows: Handling Multiple Users in Chrome After you’ve added multiple users to Chrome, when you select the Profile icon, you’ll see the other users listed. Select a user to switch between browsing sessions. To change individual user settings, select the three vertical dots in the top-right corner of Chrome, and choose Settings....

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, just revealed it’s shuttering its experimental video speed-dating service, called Sparked, according to a company email acquired by TechCrunch. Sparked was developed by Meta’s in-house NPE team, who often dabble in experimental concepts. The service was unique in that it eschewed traditional dating app design principles in favor of group video chats that were then broken down into four-minute and 10-minute one-on-one chats between willing participants....

To that end, Meta is throwing its Skynet hat into the ring by releasing its latest chatbot, Blender Bot 3, on the web, so we can test out its conversational abilities. Just click the link and start chatting, but be nice. We don’t want another Tay on our hands, which was Microsoft’s chatbot that Twitter users taught to be a racist jerk in mere hours. Why did Meta release Blender Bot 3 on the Internet for everyone and their uncle to interact with?...

The Surface Laptop Studio looks to be a marked improvement over previous Surface Laptop models, both in performance and functionality. As expected with the newest tech, it boasts bigger and better specs for improved performance, but this model in particular also can be used as a tablet. Specs-wise, the Surface Laptop Studio uses a 14.4-inch, 2400 x 1600 PixelSense display with a refresh rate up to 120Hz and Dolby Vision support....

There’s a different impact for different vulnerabilities. However, since most users don’t understand how crucial some updates are, and instead of having you decide for yourself which updates you should promptly apply and which ones you can likely ignore, Microsoft developed the Security Bulletin Severity Rating System to rate them for you. Security Rating Definitions Like I said, there are four different ratings in this system. They’re all listed below with explanations as Microsoft defines them....

Qikfox recently launched a browser that’s meant to make content more easily discoverable. The browser costs $180 per year and is currently available on an invite-only basis in North America, but observers say it’s got significant potential. “This browser can eliminate the need for domain names. Users can search for content without having to type domain names, thus eliminating the need to buy domain names,” Harish Srigiriraju, a product manager for Verizon cloud services, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Both of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by hackers to give non-admin users full access to the respective operating system. The Windows exploit was discovered by security researcher Jonas Lykkegaard, who shared his findings on Twitter. Lykkegaard discovered that the Windows 10 and 11 registry files associated with the Security Account Manager (SAM) are accessible to the “User” group, which has minimal access privileges on a computer. The SAM is a database that stores user accounts and account descriptors....

Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of rare-earth compounds. Rare earth elements have many uses, including clean energy technologies, energy storage, and permanent magnets. “New compounds may enable future technologies that we cannot even fathom yet,” Yaroslav Mudryk, the project supervisor, told Lifewire in an email interview. Finding Minerals To improve the search for new compounds, scientists used machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) driven by computer algorithms that improve through data usage and experience....