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The platform’s new feature allows you to choose “allow,” “limit,” or tighten controls even further so you see even less “harmful or sensitive” content on your feed. All social media sites have some content policy in place, but experts say these policies ultimately won’t shelter everyone from everything, and shouldn’t. “As far as the social media sites themselves, how ‘well’ they police that fringe content boils down to their own business goals and what metrics they see—in other words, who makes up the bulk of their community members,” Mary Brown, the marketing and social media director at Merchant Maverick, told Lifewire in an email....

Spotify Mixes mix your already-liked songs with new tracks the algorithm thinks you’ll like. These are just more targeted versions of Spotify’s Daily Mix and may help folks discover new music. But can algorithms ever even hope to compete with personally picked playlists and human-curated mixtapes? “Will AI music curation ever be as good as human-made playlists?” musician and recording artist the Rav asked Lifewire via email. “I honestly think that one will force the other to focus on its core competencies....

Apple pushes the video capabilities of its top-end iPhones, and they’re indeed impressive, capable of capturing great-looking 4K videos at high frame rates. But if you want to transfer that video to a Mac, PC, or iPad for editing, then you’ll be doing it over a legacy USB 2.0 connection. According to reports from supply-chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, next year’s iPhone Pro will finally fix this. The kicker? The regular iPhone 15 will stay just as it is....

This is the Kobowriter. As you can see, it’s a DIY e-ink typewriter, a USB keyboard hooked up to a modified Kobo Glo HD e-book reader to create a modern-day, single-purpose writing machine. It’s simple, offers zero built-in distractions, and will always be waiting where you left off. In short, it’s the perfect comment on all that’s wrong with your tablet or smartphone. Kobowriter You can make your own Kobowriter....

The iPhone 13 will be able to make emergency satellite calls and send messages in areas without cellular coverage, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. The iPhone would join the rapidly growing field of personal satellite communications. “Reliability and coverage are satellite communication’s biggest advantages over terrestrial networks like cellular,” James Kubik, CEO of Somewear Labs, which sells a satellite hotspot, told Lifewire in an email interview. “While terrestrial networks are well suited for everyday use in urban environments, they are vulnerable to forces of nature—hurricanes, tornados, and other natural disasters—and extremely limited in remote environments....

Experts say this upcycling route is more beneficial to smartphone users and the environment. The average American upgrades to a new smartphone every two years, so experts say we all have plenty of old devices at our disposal with almost never-ending uses. “Finding alternative uses for our old devices helps to reduce the growing electronic waste crisis and, in the process, can also provide a really great use for your phone,” Sarah McConomy, the chief operating officer of SellCell, wrote in an email to Lifewire....

AMD and Samsung have partnered to bring RDNA 2, AMD’s latest graphics tech, to smartphone graphics processors. Mobile games could take advantage of next-gen visuals like ray tracing and variable refresh rates with RDNA 2 enabled, and experts say the new tech could elevate mobile gaming. It could also bring benefits for all types of mobile users. “AMD’s partnership and the RDNA2 graphics tech, in particular, gives phones a lot more processing power for graphics,” Rex Freiberger, a tech expert and CEO of GadgetReview, told Lifewire in an email....

The PS5’s November 12 launch date and price was confirmed at Wednesday’s Sony event as $500 for the Blu-ray equipped version or $400 for the digital-only edition. The new console will compete with Microsoft’s soon-to-be released Xbox Series X. However, some Sony gamers may pause before clicking the pre-order button after it was reported that some games for the PS5 will also be released for the PS4. “With the economy the way it is, people are very price conscious and so there will be a bunch of people that will delay the purchase of upgraded hardware,” said Joost van Dreuenen, author of the book One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games, in a phone interview....

Worksheet Details You use worksheets to store, manipulate, and display data. The primary storage unit for data in a worksheet is a rectangular-shaped cell arranged in a grid pattern in every sheet. Individual cells of data are identified and organized using the vertical column letters and horizontal row numbers of a worksheet, which create a cell reference, such as A1, D15, or Z467. Worksheet specifications for current versions of Excel include:...

Smart Glasses have been popping up in the news somewhat frequently as of late, so it’s understandable if you’re thinking, “again?” However, what sets Xiaomi’s glasses apart from, say, Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories is the inclusion of an augmented reality (AR) display. Though it bears repeating that, according to The Verge, Xiaomi’s glasses are a proof-of-concept and not an actual product intended for sale. At least not right now. Xiaomi’s announcement video claims that its 0....

MusicCast Core Features MusicCast’s central pitch is its wireless control. Through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, you can send, receive, and share music and audio through compatible Yamaha products. These products include home theater receivers, stereo receivers, wireless speakers, soundbars, and powered wireless speakers. The downside is that it’s a closed system, meaning its products and features are only designed to work with other Yamaha MusicCast devices. It’s also not backward-compatible with the older versions of Yamaha MusicCast....

It’s the modern era, with some people making contactless payments from their phones, while the really intrepid are getting payment implants. Surprisingly, most of us are still swiping cards and authenticating transactions using insecure means such as pins and passwords. Samsung says it has created the industry’s first, all-in-one fingerprint security integrated circuit (IC) for payment cards. The chip reads biometric information using a fingerprint sensor, stores and authenticates data with a tamper-proof secure element (SE), and analyzes it with a secure processor....

Researchers say many contacts on the popular networking site LinkedIn aren’t real people. It’s part of the growing problem of deep fakes, in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with a computer-altered representation. “Deep fakes are important in that they effectively eliminate what was traditionally considered a surefire method of confirming identity,” Tim Callan, the chief compliance officer of the cybersecurity firm Sectigo told Lifewire in an email interview....

This remaster, dubbed Pac-Man World Re-Pac, repackages (see what they did there?) the 1999 game for modern platforms. But don’t expect anything that closely resembles the arcade classic—while Pac-Man, Pac-Dots, and ghosts are present, this is more in line with later Super Mario games. Pac-Man will need to run, jump, and otherwise adventure his way through multiple themed areas and levels full of puzzles, items, and boss fights. Definitely not like the maze navigating of yesteryear, except it’s that too because there’s a 3D Maze Mode available....

The latest from Housemarque—the Finnish studio that’s previously blistered thumbs with arcade-style shooters Dead Nation and Resogun—Returnal combines rewarding combat, absorbing storytelling, and haunting environments to deliver one of the PS5’s best exclusives since the console launched last fall. But while it might look like a straight-up sci-fi shooter on the surface, it’s actually a “rogue-like,” an increasingly popular genre that strips players of most of their progress upon death....

How to Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor With Sidecar Sidecar comes equipped with most modern Macs and iPads. Here’s how to use this feature to run your iPad as a second monitor for your Mac. Is an iPad a Good Monitor? Is the iPad as good a display as an actual monitor? Not really. The 9.7-inch display of the full-sized iPad won’t give you as much real estate as a 22-inch monitor....

There are no two ways about it: the HP Envy 17t is a decidedly large laptop. It’s not particularly shy about this fact, and doesn’t make any attempts to hide it. It’s also heavy. And did we mention how large it is? Snark aside, the HP Envy 17t does put a lot of interesting features into one chassis to make it very compelling offering for a likely small subset of shoppers that have the need for them....

On paper, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles sound like the perfect solution to our climate crisis woes. They fuel up as quickly as a gas-powered car, and their only emission is water. Water you can drink if you’re so inclined, but I wouldn’t recommend it; I’ve actually tasted the water that spewed from the Toyota Mirai. Sadly, fueling stations just haven’t been built in any way that makes these vehicles available outside of Northern and Southern California and parts of New England....

This feature is part of a larger security-focused system update and allows users to quickly report hacks or any suspicious account access issues. The cool thing here is that you don’t actually need to be signed in to access the feature, which is often impossible in the case of a hack. Instead, you go to a dedicated URL and follow the prompts to begin the investigative and restoration process. Part of the investigative process involves confirming your identity with Instagram friends, which the system does automatically....

Real, printed-on-photo-paper photographs used to be the standard way to see photos, but now they’re a rarity. Show someone a great photo on your phone, and they start swiping through your other pictures. But give them a print, and they’ll love it. Fujifilm’s new Instax Mini Evo is a neat hybrid digital camera and printer, with the benefits of both—a bunch of neat color and ’lens’ effects, plus a real photographic print at the end....