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This is one of the crucial times, and with thrusting official policies of social distancing, people are more of a cat on a hot tin roof. — Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) March 12, 2020 How Have Broadband Companies Stepped Up To Help The Anxious Customers? Many broadband companies have extended a hand by bringing user-friendly policy changes. Some of them are Comcast, AT&T, and more. AT&T is waiving data caps for all its customers for the time being....

1. Sarahah “Honesty is the best policy” is something we all learned during primary education and ‘Sarahah’ tried to take a step further, strengthening the old proverb by making an app which allows the users to send anonymous messages. It was primarily aimed at providing honest feedbacks to friends and co-workers until its purpose was abused to send bullying and offensive messages which resulted in Google taking it off the Play Store....

I’ve been using Kingston DT101G2/64GB with my Pioneer AV receiver and I like the price and capacity so I bought another Kingston DT101G2/64GB. However, after formatting the USB flash drive on my Windows 7 PC and moving music files (and testing whether the files can be played with VLC), the Pioneer refused to recognise the USB flash memory. I checked both Kingston and found both are now exFAT with 128 allocation unit size and everything including driver version is the same....

Start saving now because an AirCar, which can drive on roads while also being able to fly, recently completed a 35-minute test flight. A new study found that the cost of a flying car will come in at over $700,000. “Individual, middle-class people may not be able to afford to buy a flying car in the near future or until as early as 2050,” Seongkyu Lee, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Yes, the Surface tablet has finally hit the stores, and if you’re all geared up to pick one up for yourself, we bring you some important information that could be of help to you. People who have had the Surface experience are raving about its design and ease of use, but there’s more to Microsoft’s maiden venture into the tablet arena. The Surface starts from $499 for the basic 32GB model without the Touch cover, and goes all the way up to $699 for the highest model with 64GB of storage space a black cover....

It’s probably not only the kids that want a decent internet connection, and plenty of people look for Wi-Fi when deciding which hotel or Airbnb to book. And if you do go for the latter, or rent a cottage somewhere, it’s well worth adding your mesh Wi-Fi system to your packing list. It might sound crazy, but it’s actually very practical. You can unplug your two or three units depending upon how many you bought and simply plug them in when you arrive at your holiday home....

The Mi 11 smartphone, available for the first time outside China, seems designed only to show off some absurdly over-provisioned specifications, including the camera. But what’s the point? You can make big prints from such a sensor, but who prints photos any more anyway? And aren’t there downsides to using such a dense sensor in a phone? “There is no actual reason for a phone to have a 108MP camera,” real-estate photographer Matthew Digati told Lifewire via email....

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition is the best Christmas gift this season. The tablet is endowed with some luring features such as S-Pen, TouchWiz system and 2560 x 1600 px resolution. What really attracts about this Samsung offering is its original and inventive design. It seems following its court battle with Apple, Samsung has really given a thought to its designing sense. The weight of the Samsung tab is around 600 grams, which is on heavier sider as compared to iPad Air....

What’s going on? Apple’s FaceID has been around since its 2017 debut in the iPhone X, and yet it has never been available in a Mac. Is there a technical reason for this? Does Apple think a biometric face-unlock is a poor match for a Mac? Or has it just not gotten around to it yet? “Apple doesn’t like to make an entire suite of sweeping changes to its product lines,” Rex Freiberger, CEO of Gadget Review, told Lifewire via email....

Apple and other companies are warning of manufacturing constraints due to a shortfall in critical components. Microprocessors, essential to smartphones and many other electronics, are in high demand and in short supply. “Overall, consumers should be prepared to pay more for smartphones and wait for some time to get the phones they want,” Nir Kshetri, a business professor who studies chip supplies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, told Lifewire in an email interview....

BeBop Sensors has launched their new RoboSkin line of skin-like coverings for tactile awareness for humanoid robots and prosthetics. The fabric-based sensor skin can be shaped to any surface allowing quick tailoring to fit any robot, with high spatial resolution and sensitivity. It’s part of a growing movement to improve robotic skin to give automatons better awareness. “As robots integrate better with humans in the home (assisting the elderly, taking over mundane home tasks such as dishwashing), they’ll need more distributed sensing to be safe and feel out their surroundings in cases where vision fails,” Alex Gruebele, who recently completed his Ph....

Types of Wireless Bridging Hardware that supports wireless network bridging includes: Wi-Fi to Ethernet bridge: This hardware allows Wi-Fi clients to connect to an Ethernet network. The hardware integrates with Wi-Fi wireless access points and is useful for older computers or devices that don’t have Wi-Fi capability. Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi bridge: This bridge joins two Wi-Fi networks, often to increase the coverage area of a Wi-Fi hotspot. Some wireless AP hardware supports bridging in Ethernet as well as Wi-Fi mode....

“Big name players will certainly help increase the speed at which we are able to roll out self-driving fleets,” wrote TerraNet CEO Pär-Olof Johannesson, to Lifewire in an email. “Big Tech has their work cut out for them: prioritize safety in their rollouts.” A Self-Driving Future Autonomous vehicle technology has been in the works since the 1980s, but we’ve yet to really make self-driving cars normal and obtainable. Of course, big players like Tesla already are succeeding in the market, but experts say we need more innovation to make the technology more widespread and more accepted, and that Big Tech will help....

But what’s the difference between Linux on normal laptops and Chrome OS on Chromebooks? And which one’s better for beginners who are learning the Linux operating system? We’ll find out in this post. 1. Easy to Set Up As mentioned above, Chrome OS uses Linux as its base, but the underlying system is well-hidden to the point where a casual user might never uncover the truth. Google has created a containerized Linux installation dubbed Crostini, a pun on an independent project called Crouton that requires developer mode on your Chromebook....

So when it comes to protecting yourself online, you may have chosen to use a VPN. But is it really a safe route, and will it protect your privacy in the long run? What Elements Will a VPN Hide? When you connect to an internet service provider (ISP), someone can log in and see everything you do online. Your ISP may seem trustworthy, but it could be giving your browsing history to advertisers, the government, cybercriminals, or other parties....

But this isn’t just another new processor. The company’s latest chipset is an industry-leading 7nm thick, but still delivers a number of key enhancements to the user experience that make it worth considering for your next device. For many years, Intel’s Core series has been considered the industry standard for laptop and PC processors, and as such few manufacturers have deviated from what they know best. However, huge value can be found in opting for the Ryzen™ 4000 series, a chipset which has been designed with speed in mind....

While the company has already released the January 2022 security patch for older Pixel devices starting from the Pixel 3a through the Pixel 5a series, its latest and greatest phones—the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro—are still stuck on the November 2021 patch. Here’s why. A Buggy December 2021 Patch Google did release the December 2021 security patch for the Pixel 6 series. It was a part of the December Pixel Feature Drop update that contained plenty of bug fixes as well as some new features....

There have been lots of complaints going around on the web, saying that once users launched and installed the latest iOS 6 on their devices, it refused to connect to the Wi-Fi. There is a long thread of complaints on the discussion board at the Apple site, where users have grumbled about the failed system. Here is the link- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4310121?start=0&tstart=0 The basic pattern of complaints seems to be simple. Once users install the software on their devices, the Wi-Fi works all right at first, but then eventually it gets disabled....

I need your help if it’s possible. If I delete my photos from my phone camera roll, will I also lose my photos saved in Dropbox camera roll? I want Dropbox to be the only app that saves my files in my phone. I just want to make sure first if that’s possible before I lose my files.

Starting June 1, 2021, Google will charge for storing more than 15GB of photos. And this 15GB will also be used by any Google Docs or spreadsheets in your Google Drive. The good news is that the photos you currently have stored are safe, and won’t count towards the new 15GB cap. The bad news is, there aren’t any decent free alternatives for online photo storage. “[It’s] notable that free Google photo storage helped to drive tons of startups out of this market—Everpix, Loom, Ever, Picturelife,” writes technology journalist Casey Newton....