While battery life has continued to remain around the same threshold for the past several years, new features that decrease the amount of time it takes to charge your phone have become staples in new devices. Fast-charging, aka rapid charging, often promises to charge up to 50% of a phone’s battery in a matter of minutes. Now, though, Xiaomi has revealed that it can fully charge a phone in eight minutes flat....
Keep reading to learn how to determine if the site is actually down or if there’s just something preventing you from seeing it. Well, Which Is It? Learning whether a site is down for everyone or just you is the easy part. There are several websites that can help you with this task. The most popular is Down for Everyone or Just Me. Select the link, enter the URL of the troublesome site in the text box, and select or just me....
WhatsApp Was First When WhatsApp rolled out in 2009, it was the first of its kind. There was Skype, which excelled at voice and video calling, but Skype was for the PC and made a late entry into mobile phones. WhatsApp was to free messaging what Skype was to free calling. Although other mobile messaging apps, such as Viber and Kik, came out later, WhatsApp remained the app to beat. WhatsApp wasn’t a VoIP app at launch....
When considering a 600 Mbps router, there are a host of caveats and limitations that determine how close to that speed your WiFi connection will be in reality. Internet Connection Speed Regardless of the speed of your router, if your throughput through your internet service provider doesn’t match the theoretical speed of your router, the router cannot “make up the difference.” A 600 Mbps router will never deliver that speed on a network cap of 200 MBps....
Beijing, China-based Xiaomi snagged the No. 2 spot for smartphones after South Korea’s Samsung for the first time ever, according to a study of second-quarter data by independent analyst company Canalys. The rankings are based on each company’s market share for shipments. Xiaomi has proven to be popular for its affordable devices, but is now branching out and looking to grow its higher-end devices, too, Ben Stanton, research manager at Canalys, told Lifewire in an email....
The new Sony headset will have better resolution, more accurate head-tracking and a wider field of view. Like the previous Sony headset, it still will be tethered with a single wire to the console. The tethered option is a compromise in terms of freedom of movement; however, the physical connection to the PS5 console could allow for greater computing power. “Although many of the specific details of the new headset have not been made public yet, we expect that the new Sony headset will at least be on par with the latest competitor performance specifications,” DJ Smith, co-founder and chief creative officer of virtual reality company The Glimpse Group, said in an email interview....
Why Your Computer is Slow All of a Sudden Computer performance issues are a headache and the causes can be mysterious, as there are thousands of software bugs, drive issues, and other issues that might cause a slow computer. You could have a virus, be downloading multiple large files at once, have too many open apps and programs open, opened too many tabs on your web browsers without closing them, have poor Wi-Fi or internet connections ....
While the issue of an inverter draining a car battery is fairly complex, the general rule of thumb is that the inverter won’t drain a battery when the vehicle is running, and especially not when it’s driving around. However, using an inverter when the engine is off will run the battery down, and it doesn’t take much before the engine won’t start back up again without a jump or a charge....
What Are the Dates for the Women in Tech Summit? Women in Tech has a variety of both in-person and virtual events planned for 2023. WITS MidAtlantic: March 23-24, Washington, DCWITS Northeast: April 27-28, Philadelphia, PAWITS Midwest: May, Chicago, ILWITS 2023 Virtual: JulyWITS West: September, Denver, COWITS Southeast: November 3-4, Raleigh, NC WITS held a Fall 2022 Virtual Summit on October 20 and 21. WITS kicked off 2022 with a virtual conference from April 27 through April 29....
The ID@Xbox Winter Game Demo Event is being billed as an alternative to catching up on your gaming backlog, providing a week’s worth of game demos for the Xbox One and Series X|S. Though it looks like it’s actually going to be two weeks, with an even larger follow-up planned as soon as this first batch of demos is finished. These aren’t your typical demos, either. They’re more like preview “show floor” builds, which act as an early look (extremely early in some cases), but also encourage feedback for the developers....
Overall Findings The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S look quite different, with the former taking on the appearance of a black monolith, and the latter being like in size and configuration to a tissue box. Both systems share similar CPU and GPU architecture, with the Xbox Series X leveraging more powerful specifications to offer better graphics. The Series X also comes with a disc drive, which the Series S lacks....
Things to Consider If fixing the heater core on your car isn’t possible before you get into cold weather, a portable car heater is a viable option. However, there are a few things to keep in mind: Residential heaters (even portable ones) aren’t always safe for automotive use.Although some propane heaters are safe for indoor use, you should never use them in moving vehicles.A 12V portable car heater requires electricity to run, which may cause issues with a weak alternator or a lot of other accessories....
Pixalate, a fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, examined the state of children’s online privacy by scrutinizing over 4,22,000 apps that they believe are meant for use by children in both the Apple and Google Play stores. Their research found that 68% of the top 150 most popular US-registered apps and 70% of the top 1000 apps for children, which Pixalate reviewed manually, transmitted location information, while 59% requested permission to access other personal information....
According to YouTube, this is part of an effort to create a respectful environment and curb harassment. Content creators will still be able to find the dislike count in YouTube Studio’s analytics and other metrics to understand how their video is doing. In March of this year, YouTube announced that it would experiment with the dislike button to see if removing it would better protect creators from harassment. The platform claims its research teams discovered groups of people would misuse the dislike button to target content creators as part of a coordinated assault....
When You’re Walking Rather Than Driving Use your portable GPS for walking just as you would for driving. Select your destination by entering the address or searching for a point of interest, and start your route. You will receive text and spoken directions just as if you were behind the wheel. Entering Pedestrian Mode Consult your GPS model’s user manual for directions on how to select pedestrian mode. For example:...
Safelist a Sender or Domain in SpamAssassin Using its comprehensive set of rules and Bayesian analysis, SpamAssassin catches an impressive amount of spam with hardly any false positives — hardly any. To reduce this number even further, you can safelist certain newsletters, for instance, which tend to be top candidates for being erroneously classified as spam. While you’ll sometimes you’ll see the term safelist written as whitelist, the modern term is safelist....
Whether you’re looking for a way to zoom in on a specific area, or would like your entire screen content to be enlarged, read on to learn how these features work. Zooming in and out on a Mac Increase Size in Apps Increasing text size in many Mac apps can be done from the View menu (found along the top of the screen in the Menu Bar). Typically the feature will be called Zoom In along with a corresponding feature called Zoom Out....
Long before Reddit became the front page of the internet or Quora was the go-to answer forum, Yahoo Answers provided an entire generation with a sense of community through shared questions. Though the service experienced both good and bad times, experts say this truly marks the end of an internet era. “Yahoo Answers were a remnant of a time that is already well behind us; a time when search results weren’t Google search results by default when they were a lifelike mix of human knowledge, curiosity, and ignorance,” wrote Mark Coster, owner and chief editor of STEM Toy Expert, to Lifewire in an email....
Released on Wednesday, the update brings iCloud for Windows up to version 13 and will finally allow iCloud subscribers to access ProRes and ProRAW content on their Windows PCs using the iCloud application, MacRumors reports. The update also brings Apple’s password generator to the application, which will help people set up and save stronger passwords. Apple originally debuted its iCloud Keychain password manager in August, and now Windows users will be able to easily access their passwords even when not using an Apple device....
Online Roulette released a new survey of 788 self-identified LGBTQ+ gamers detailing their experiences in it. The findings show that they experience an increased degree of harassment and discrimination, compared to their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. Approximately 88% who are out to their gaming communities have experienced harassment within the past year. “Our study shows that online gaming still has a significant problem with harassment, and half of LGBTQ+ gamers are still uncomfortable being open about their sexual identity with their gaming communities,” the report reads....
