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This isn’t a version of Flight Simulator for the Xbox. It’s an attempt to make the existing game fit into a console’s framework, with numerous shortcuts and adaptations made so you can control a realistically depicted airplane straight from the pilot’s seat with your Xbox controller. It’s a lot to juggle when you’ve got the comparative freedom of a keyboard and mouse, or any of the elaborate hardware mockups that serious flight sim fans have put together....

Basic Facts Title: “Pac-Man” aka Puck-Man Release Date: Japan 1980, North America 1981 Platform: Coin-op video arcade cabinet Developer: Namco Manufacturer: Namco (Japan), Midway (North America) Designer: Tōru Iwatani The History of Pac-Man Namco, a major developer of mechanical arcade games, had been a well-established company in Japan since they started up in 1955, and by the end of the ’70s were already major players in the video arcade market thanks to their first game, Gee Bee (an elaborate take on Breakout) and their first space shooter Galaxian (inspired by “Space Invaders”)....

Enable YouTube Restricted Mode in Your Web Browser Restricted Mode is part of YouTube’s current parental control offerings. Restricted Mode attempts to filter YouTube search results so that mature content is weeded out. It also prevents your child from viewing material that has been flagged as inappropriate by the YouTube community or has been marked “for mature audiences only” by the content’s creator. Restricted Mode is meant to limit the content of an explicit nature....

Sync With a Third-Party App Health Auto Export is a third-party app and it bridges the gap for seeing Activity app data on your Mac. The app syncs this data from your iPhone (paired with your Apple Watch) to your Mac or iPad. So be sure to install the app on both your iPhone and Mac (or iPad). Once you have Health Auto Export installed and are ready to view your data, open the app on your Mac....

Live Streaming Television in a Car Services like Sling TV, YouTube TV, and others aren’t specifically designed for use in cars, but they do represent the easiest way to watch live television on the road. You need a cellular-data connection to use these services, and watching a lot of television on a mobile data connection can quickly eat through your monthly allotment. Watching live streaming television in your car is as easy as signing up for a service like Sling TV, YouTube TV, PS Vue, Xfinity Stream, or DirecTV Now, and downloading the associated app for your phone or tablet....

Where Is the Best Place to Stream NASCAR? The broadcast rights for NASCAR are owned jointly by Fox and NBC in the United States, with races airing on Fox, NBC, and various cable channels. You can watch a lot for free if you have a television antenna and local Fox and NBC stations. You’ll need a subscription to a cable, satellite, or television streaming service if you want access to everything....

One of USB-C’s greatest benefits is its ubiquity. As more and more gadgets switch to the now-standard connector, you never really have to think about how you charge them. You just grab the nearest cable, and it all sorts itself out. NiteCore has now added a USB-C port to the battery itself, so you can juice a battery from your smartphone, laptop, or other power brick. You still need a charger, but you don’t need a special, separate charger....

A research team at Cornell University has developed a device that can be worn as a necklace and tracks facial expressions. The NeckFace uses infrared cameras to capture images of the chin and face from beneath the neck. It’s part of a growing wave of innovations aimed at capturing and expressing emotions in VR. “Current VR implementations have advantages and disadvantages versus other remote communication forms like webcams,” Devon Copley, the CEO of VR company Avatour, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The company also released a new monitor and Victus by HP, its next-generation mainstream-level gaming PC portfolio, with a 16-inch laptop. “Our constant focus with gaming is to create innovative technologies that progress the medium forward for everyone, be it enthusiast-level OMEN users or newcomers to this growing and endlessly entertaining industry,” said Judy Johnson, director of gaming and esports at HP, in a news release. The Omen 16 includes an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU 8 GB or AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based graphics....

Revealed in April and planned for a May 2021 launch, Apple Podcasts Subscriptions suddenly was delayed at the end of its intended release month. In an email to creators, Apple wrote, “To ensure we are delivering the best experience for creators and listeners, Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and channels will now launch in June.” In a more recent email obtained by The Verge, Apple has revealed that the new intended release date is June 15....

Business Network Design Small office and home office (SOHO) networks normally function with either one or two local area networks (LANs), each controlled by its network router. These match typical home network designs. As businesses grow, their network layouts expand to increasingly larger numbers of LANs. Corporations based in more than one location set up internal connectivity between their office buildings. This connectivity is called a campus network when the buildings are in close proximity, or a wide area network (WAN) when spanning across cities or countries....

iOS 15 Compatible Devices If you own an iPhone or iPod touch that supports iOS 14, then you can upgrade to iOS 15. Apple’s list of iOS 14 compatible devices exactly matches that for iOS 15. Here is a list of iOS 15 supported iPhone and iPod models. iPhone 12 iPhone 12 miniiPhone 12 ProiPhone 12 Pro MaxiPhone 11 iPhone 11 ProiPhone 11 Pro MaxiPhone XiPhone XRiPhone XSiPhone XS MaxiPhone 8iPhone 8 PlusiPhone 7iPhone 7 PlusiPhone 6siPhone 6s PlusiPhone SE (1st and 2nd generations)iPod touch (7th generation)...

Sensor-shift stabilization, aka in-body image stabilization (IBIS), moves the camera’s sensor to compensate for your wobbly hands while you take pictures. It lets you snap photos that are sharper, even in very low light. And it may be in every iPhone 13. “Generally, better stabilization in cameras will give sharper images at slower shutter speeds,” photographer Nathan Hill toldLifewire via Twitter, “as it helps compensate to any tiny movements while the image is being captured that would usually cause blur....

The short answer is no, the iPhone is not an Android phone (or vice versa). While they are both smartphones — that is, phones that can run apps and connect to the Internet, as well as make calls — iPhone and Android are distinct things and they are not compatible with each other. Android and iPhone are separate brands, similar tools that do similar things, but they’re not the same....

Can I Play PS3 Games on Playstation 5? The short answer: Sort of. It’s not possible to put a PS3 disc in your PS5 and for it to correctly load. The disc drive is unable to read the contents of the disc and simply won’t work. However, there are other solutions that mean you can still play some PS3 games on PS5. One of the most prominent and simplest workarounds is to use PlayStation Plus....

You pick something up that says it is a VHS adapter. However, to your dismay, the 8mm tape doesn’t fit. Frustrated, you demand the salesperson get you a VHS adapter for 8mm tapes. The salesperson responds that there is no adapter for playing 8mm tapes. You respond, “But my cousin in Jersey has one, he just pops in his camcorder tape in the adapter and puts it in his VCR”....

Electric guitars are such expressive instruments that it has proven hard over the years to capture that expression and use it to control software or hardware synthesizers. One approach has been to load up the guitar with special sensors that capture the notes and turn them into MIDI, the international language of musical instrument control. Another has been to use a computer to do the same, but usually with a delay....

JPEG Is the Proper Spelling: True Although the files often end in the three-letter extension JPG or JP2 for JPEG 2000, the file format is spelled JPEG. It’s an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the organization that developed the format. JPEGs Lose Quality Every Time They’re Opened: False Simply opening or displaying a JPEG image doesn’t harm it in any way. Saving an image repeatedly during the same editing session without ever closing the image will not accumulate a loss in quality....

What Is an Home Atomic Clock? When you purchase a clock that labels itself as an atomic clock, you are buying a device that synchronizes itself to the U.S. government’s official Atomic Clock outside Boulder, Colorado. Home atomic clocks are designed to receive a radio signal broadcast from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado and to synchronize to that signal. How to Use an Atomic Clock Clocks that are synchronized to the NIST atomic clock are simple to use....

Because KillDisk can run from a disc, it can even be used to erase a hard drive that has your operating system installed to it. More About KillDisk You can use KillDisk either from a disc or from inside the operating system like a normal program. Boot Disk Creator is what you need to open to make the bootable program. If using the bootable version, you can erase a whole hard drive at once (even if it has an operating system installed to it), but the interface is text-only....