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The company announced its new Ryzen 6000 mobile processors at CES 2022. While the CPU cores receive a modest update, the real news is the upgrade to Ryzen’s integrated graphics. Ryzen 6000 chips will use the RDNA 2 architecture found in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X game consoles. “The transition to RDNA 2 effectively increases every graphics resource by 50 to 100 percent. The net of that is that in gaming graphics, RDNA 2 is twice as fast,” Robert Hallock, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, said in a video call....

Lensa AI reportedly tops both Apple’s and Google’s app charts. The app uses artificial intelligence to touch up or entirely change your looks. Some experts take issue with Lensa’s terms of use which gives broad rights to license images. “Such apps use AI models trained on images scraped from the internet, uploaded by people who never considered, let alone intended, that their photos be processed in this way,” Irina Raicu, the director of internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University told Lifewire in an email interview....

We already know that Hello Games’ functionally infinite galaxy exploration sim No Man’s Sky is headed to the Switch, but today’s Direct Mini revealed so much more. Playing the games we love (even if they may be a few years old at this point) on-the-go is a major draw for many, and the list of choices is only getting longer. Existential crisis in a bottle NieR:Automata is bringing all the sad robots to the Switch on October 6, including all extra modes and costumes (and a few exclusive outfits of its own)....

Video-streaming giant Youtube unveiled a nifty bit of tech today that allows you to seamlessly switch from one device to another without losing track of the content you are watching. If you’re watching something via the YouTube app on your phone or tablet and you switch to a web browser, a mini-player with the same video will launch in the bottom corner of your screen. All you have to do is steer your browser to YouTube....

Loop Hero is a pixel-art genre-bender that combines elements from RPGs, roguelikes, auto-battlers, card games, and real-time strategy games. You’re put in charge of a single adventurer with no weapons and a death wish, and are challenged with building up both him and the dungeon simultaneously, without making the dungeon too difficult for him to survive. It’s more complicated than it sounds. You die a lot in Loop Hero, but somehow, it’s rarely frustrating....

Where You Can Find YouTube YouTube can be found on almost every streaming device, so however you stream, you can watch YouTube on your TV. Smart TVs If you have a smart TV, with very few exceptions, the YouTube App is either pre-installed or available to add to your viewing list using the TV’s built-in app selection or store. If you don’t have a smart TV, but your TV has an HDMI input, you can connect other devices to your TV to get access to YouTube....

The Show 10 goes on sale on February 25 for $249.99. Unlike previous models, this one has a swiveling screen that can track your movements, so it always will face you during video conversations. Experts say the tracking feature opens a new front for privacy invasions. “While this model includes the usual Echo-related privacy concerns (listening for its wake word, mistakenly hearing its wake word, access of recorded conversations by employees, other users possibly being able to see your conversation transcripts, and more), the Show can also track you around the room, meaning you’re never off-screen,” Chris Hauk, consumer privacy champion at Pixel Privacy, said in an email interview....

What Is the iCloud Email Size Limit? iCloud Mail lets you send and receive messages that are up to 20 MB (20,000 KB) in size, which includes the message text as well as any file attachments. For example, if your email is only 4 MB with text, but then you add a 10 MB file to the message, the total size is only 14 MB, which is still permitted. However, if you add an 18 MB file to an email that exceeds 2 MB, it will be rejected, since the whole message exceeds 20 MB....

How does it work? When you use Image Capture to import photos from, say, an iPhone or iPad, you have the option to convert them to JPEG when bringing them onto your Mac, rather than importing them as the default HEIC format. To do this, you uncheck the “Keep originals” checkbox in Image Capture and then import. When you do so, however, the developers found that each imported photo file had 1....

The internet is a global network of billions of servers, computers, and other hardware devices. Each device can connect with any other device as long as both are connected to the internet using a valid IP address. The internet makes the information sharing system known as the web possible. The web, which is short for World Wide Web, is one of the ways information is shared on the internet (others include email, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and instant messaging services)....

One big problem with modern devices is discoverability. App developers, and OS developers like Apple and Google, keep adding new features, but unless the users know about them or can easily find them, they won’t know they are there. Take Spotlight, for example, the built-in, system-wide search feature on iOS devices and Macs. It has been on the iPhone since iOS 3 in 2009 but is so hidden, most people don’t know it’s there....

The Challenge: Two Eyes, Two Images The main issue with viewing 3D on a TV (or video projection screen) is that humans have two eyes, separated by a couple of inches. We see 3D in the real world because each eye sees a slightly different view of what is in front of it and transmits those views to the brain. The brain combines the two images, resulting in viewing a natural 3D image correctly....

How to Tell If Outlook.com Is Down Can’t access your email and you’re not sure who’s at fault? Check these places first to see if it’s down for everyone or not. If problems are being reported, you’ll likely need to wait until Microsoft fixes the problem. If no one else is reporting a problem with Outlook across these services, though, the problem is almost certainly on your side. If the web page displays a red or yellow symbol next to Outlook....

About Android and Rooting Android is an open source operating system, although the Google fork of it contains a lot of Google-specific services baked in. Because the core of Android is open source, anyone can build on and modify it. Most of the time, device manufacturers modify the OS to create custom Android versions for their phones, add features, and create a polished experience for users. Part of that includes imposing their own rules and restrictions on their custom Android builds....

However, at the Let Us Loop You In Apple Event on March 21, 2016, Apple announced a new, smaller 4-inch smartphone called the iPhone SE. Despite the company’s push to larger devices, Apple sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015. The iPhone 5s (the previous 4-inch model that Apple produced) still proved incredibly popular among people making their first smartphone purchase. With the forward momentum of new device launches leading to the retirement of earlier models, Apple needed a solution to fill the “budget” smartphone space in their lineup, and with the iPhone 5c (their first attempt at a budget model) nearing its third anniversary, there was a need for something new to fill the void in their product lineup....

How to Transfer MP3s to Apple iCloud iCloud works with Mac desktop and laptop computers, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices. You need to sign up for a free Apple ID if you don’t have one. The account includes 5 GB of cloud storage. If that’s not enough, you can purchase more for a small fee. Here’s how to turn on the iCloud Music Library on various devices:...

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac Finder Keyboard shortcuts for the Finder can streamline how you work and play with your Mac. However, keyboard shortcuts are a combination of two or more keys that, when pressed at the same time, perform a specific function, such as pressing the Command key and the W key to close the frontmost Finder window. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to memorize all the shortcuts. Even if you only learn the shortcuts for the actions you often perform, you’ll increase your productivity and save time....

Damage to the electrical components or accessories with a digital camera could lead to a fire or to a malfunctioning or broken camera. Use these tips to properly maintain, use, and protect your digital camera and to learn everything you need to know about digital camera safety. Make Sure the Battery Charger Matches Your Model Only use an AC adapter or battery charger that is designed specifically for your make and model of camera....

If you’re looking for a little more from your bedside alarm clock, the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential aptly keeps time and serves as a speaker and personal Google Assistant. Voice commands offer easy shortcuts for setting alarms, checking weather forecasts, controlling media playback, and creating handy daily routines centered around waking up or winding down for bedtime. As long as you’re not looking for advanced flourishes such as a camera for streaming media or video chats or an ambient sunrise lighting feature for gentle wake-up calls, the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential will serve up an easy, mostly hands-free user experience....

An open-source router that can also serve as a wireless extender, the Linksys WRT1900ACS is a moderately priced option. It’s a few years old, so it’s not Wi-Fi 6 or even MU-MIMO capable, but it offers a unique set of features that make it a contender among its newer competitors. I tested the Linksys WRT1900ACS in the real world along with other Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 routers to see if its combination of design, performance, and features equal a worthwhile investment....