“Quibi was a big idea and there was no one who wanted to make a success of it more than we did. Our failure was not for lack of trying; we’ve considered and exhausted every option available to us,” wrote founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman in an official announcement. Quibi’s Big Idea Quibi entered the streaming market in April, promising to stand out with “a new form of mobile-first premium storytelling....
Cable and satellite companies scramble digital signals from and require a tuner to view them. In contrast, broadcast TV stations do not encrypt digital TV signals, and your TV tuner can process them. Where Is the Digital TV Tuner? When you are watching broadcast digital TV signals on an older analog TV, the digital TV tuner is in the DTV converter box. When you are watching broadcast digital TV signals on digital or high-definition television, then the digital tuner is inside the TV....
One of the best ways to send cars to Driver’s Ed is by using artificial intelligence. Tesla recently unveiled its new supercomputer that will be used to train the neural nets powering Tesla’s Autopilot and upcoming self-driving AI. And as cars become more autonomous, it turns out that they need a lot of training. “By exposing AI to data related to cars driving, AI can start to recognize patterns,” Chris Nicholson, the CEO of Pathmind, a company that applies AI to industrial operations, said in an email interview....
Key Smartphone Features In general, a smartphone runs an operating system that supports mobile and web applications. Apple’s iPhone runs iOS, and other devices run Google’s Android OS, HP’s WebOS, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone. By 2020, Android and iOS capture almost all the global market. Apps While almost all cell phones include some sort of software—even the most basic models these days include an address book or some sort of contact manager, for example—a smartphone creates and edits Microsoft Office documents, download apps such as personal and business finance managers, capture and edit photos, get driving directions via GPS, and create a playlist of digital tunes....
Cottle’s brand of radical love influences everything she does. With the help of her husband, Doug, the performer has created her lane in the Twitch music space that is sure to capture audiences for years to come. The Twitch streamer boasts nearly 16,000 followers on the popular platform where she and JamFamBam congregate to be enchanted by the musical stylings and artistry of Dylan Cottle. However, that’s not the point for her....
As more and more content goes digital, finding ways to make it accessible for as many as possible is just as important as offering the content in the first place. While HBO Max’s recent addition of over 1,500 hours of audio descriptive content is a step in the right direction, experts say that accessibility needs to become part of the development process, not just an afterthought for compliance. “The promise of all these streaming platforms is to provide universal access to all people, and as such, this is a fundamentally important development for any major streaming platform....
From the time I entered the virtual environment of MeetinVR, I was having a blast which isn’t something I can say on most Zoom calls. The first thing I did after starting up the app was to pick an avatar. These aren’t your usual sticklike figures. The MeetinVR software converts a two-dimensional selfie into a 3D rendering. It can even capture your facial expression, bone structure, and hair, and eye color....
If the word “sliding” digs up memories of that old Nokia phone that expands to reveal a keyboard, think again—LG’s new phone might have a flexible OLED screen that actually gets bigger or smaller as you slide frames in and out on either side. In addition to providing a unique way to expand or retract a screen at a moment’s notice, the design has potential to avoid some of the documented durability issues with folding screens....
Experts say that a subscription-based gaming boom potentially could happen, but platforms like Netflix have a lot to iron out first before they can become widely successful in the gaming community. “I think there will be a huge boom in subscription-based gaming, but service providers are going to have to be very strategic about how they roll it out,” Melanie Allen, a gaming writer at Partners in Fire, wrote to Lifewire in an email....
The Porta Pros look a lot like the cheap, wired, foam-padded headphones that came with the first Walkmans and personal stereos in the 1980s, but they’re a lot more than that. Or rather, they’re nothing more than that, only done better than the competition. Today, Porta Pros are readily available worldwide and come in a range of colors. There’s even a Bluetooth version if you can’t stand the wires. “I’m on my second purchase of Porta Pros now,” software marketing director Caroline Lee told Lifewire via email....
My lowest moments come when I’m using public transportation, and someone is screaming into their smartphone using wireless earbuds. But LG has come up with a genius idea that could help curb loud talkers. The new Tone Free FP true wireless earbuds feature a “Whispering Mode” where you can hold the right earbud next to your mouth during calls to use it as a dedicated microphone. It’s great for those times when you don’t want to shout for the sound to be picked up by the earbuds in your ears....
ARHT Media, a hologram technology company, recently announced a partnership with WeWork to integrate holographic presentations to coworking spaces worldwide. It’s part of a growing movement to make holograms useful for communications, but experts say that it’s most useful for businesses for now. HoloPresence refers to stage presentations where a person appears in a remote location via some holographic projection technology that typically requires specialized stationary capture and projection equipment with stringent lighting conditions, Joe Ward, the CEO of holographic development company IKIN, said in an email interview....
The exciting part is, we have no idea what this means. Perhaps Apple will announce a MacBook Air, unchanged but for the CPU inside. Or maybe we’ll get a radical new, ultra-thin, iPad Pro-inspired MacBook that has a touch screen, runs for days on a single charge, and doesn’t need a fan to keep it cool. “Fan-less would be a big win for my wife, who’s an audiobook narrator,” Mac and iOS software developer Mark Bessey told Lifewire via Twitter....
LG showed off its rollable smartphone, which has a display that extends to make a bigger, more tablet-like screen. TCL also teased its rollable concept phone, which can go from a 6.7-inch phone to a 7.8-inch tablet. The bigger screen real estate offered by phones like these could make them a tempting purchase. “This design essentially allows you to keep a tablet in your pocket,” Carl Prouty, digital content strategist and brand spokesperson of Abt Electronics, said in an email interview....
All will be revealed at Samsung’s scheduled unveiling of its new line of smartphones on January 14. For those who just can’t wait, though, there’s a ton of innuendo spinning across the web about Samsung’s flagship line, including hints of a few new design tweaks. The most substantial and compelling evidence of the new phones comes courtesy of Android Police, which may have gotten its hands on the actual spec sheet....
Your Windows Update failed. But don’t worry. We can help.We couldn’t complete the updates. Undoing changes. Don’t turn off your computer.Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer. In all of the above cases and other similar cases, the message appears on a blue screen unless you have made changes to Windows 10 color settings. Additionally, the message will appear after you have attempted an update, sometimes many minutes or even hours into the update....
Let’s take a look at what the Center has to offer, how to access it, and go over a few of its key features. What is the Windows Defender Security Center? Your computer’s primary line of defense against malware and viruses is the Windows Defender Security Center. Once you install third-party antivirus software, the Center becomes secondary. Many antivirus features become inactive, but you can monitor your device’s security from the Center’s dashboard....
The job of winload.exe is to load essential device drivers, as well as ntoskrnl.exe, a core part of Windows. In older Windows operating systems, like Windows XP, the loading of ntoskrnl.exe is done by NTLDR, which also serves as the boot manager. Is Winload.exe a Virus? We hope it’s clear after reading what you have so far: no, winload.exe is not a virus. Unfortunately, you’ll find a lot of information out there that says otherwise....
That’s the dream and potential future of on-road wireless charging. Special roads are outfitted with charging capabilities, and vehicles that support the system are juiced up without ever leaving the road. It would eliminate one of the largest pain points surrounding EVs: the time it takes to charge on long road trips. If and when it happens, it’ll be outstanding. But like solid-state batteries, it’s going to be a while before it comes to fruition....
What Is a WPS File? Most files with the WPS file extension are either Microsoft Works documents or WPS Writer documents. The Works document file format was discontinued by Microsoft in 2006 when it was replaced by Microsoft’s DOC format. The two are similar in that they support rich text, tables, and images, but the WPS format lacks some of the more advanced formatting features supported with DOC. Another program that uses this same file extension is Translator’s Workbench, but instead of as a document file, it’s used as a project settings file....
