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First up is something called the Circle of Support. This handy feature widens the caregiving net, allowing up to ten people to share duties. Co-caregivers are now called “circle members” and each person will receive daily health and status alerts on their smartphone or tablet. Circle members can include spouses, cousins, friends, or even neighbors. The primary caregiver or the person receiving care can remove people from the circle at any time by accessing the Alexa app....

The tech giant will use Shazam’s technology to identify artists or labels of the small clips and samples in DJ and dance mixes so they can be properly compensated and credited on the platform, according to TechCrunch. Apple is the first music streaming platform to offer a fair fee for artists involved in these mixes and tracks. Shazam’s identifying tech also will benefit listeners. The Verge notes that Apple Music subscribers will be able to see the name of individual tracks while listening to a mix, skip songs within the mix, and save songs to their library....

Initially spotted by TechCrunch, the new app, which became available earlier this month, is called Siri Speech Study. It asks you to share your Siri voice requests with Apple and provide any feedback you may have about your experience with Siri. The app is available for iOS users in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Taiwan, so it appears the Siri study will be a broad one....

On Monday, the researchers and developers behind the Twitter account @mysk_co shared that they discovered a new issue with the Mail app on the Apple Watch. According to them, when previewing or opening email on the Apple Watch, the app downloads remote content using your real IP address instead of the protected address provided by Mail Privacy Protection. Apple originally introduced Mail Privacy Protection with the release of iOS 15, saying the feature will protect your location, prevent senders from tracking you, and also stop marketers from checking whether you’ve opened an email or not....

At today’s live stream of its Pinnacle of Performance event, ASUS announced plans to reduce weight, increase performance, and bring OLED displays to its newest laptops. This encompasses the company’s new and upcoming Zenbook and Vivobook devices, but the new Zenbook Pro 16X OLED was a big highlight. According to both the presentation and the ASUS website, the Zenbook Pro 16X OLED offers either an Intel 2.3 GHz i7 or 2....

Here’s what could be found with the LiDE 210: Three-color LEDs. Auto scan, copy, email, and multiple PDF-conversion buttons. Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP/2000, and Mac OS X v10.4.11 to 10.63. High-speed USB power source. Guide Review Flatbed scanners are rarely small, graceful items, but Canon turned things around with the CanoScan LiDE 210 flatbed scanner. Measuring 9.9 inches wide by 14.4 inches long and only 1....

What Are Smart Quotes? To help you produce documents that look great and behave as expected in other uses, Microsoft loaded Word with smart quotes. This feature automatically changes straight quotation marks to typographer’s quotes as you type. The curly smart quotation marks curl toward the text they precede and away from the text they follow. While this feature makes for a nice printed document and attractive headlines, it can be troublesome if your work is going to be used electronically, where straight quotation marks are preferred—particularly with computer-code listings....

Antennas Save Money Antennas are, by default, money savers because their job is to receive free TV. If you use a cable or satellite service, you may pay a monthly local service fee to receive local channels. Installing a TV antenna means you can cancel that service fee and enjoy local programming for free, which is how it was meant to be. Find Channels Your Provider Doesn’t Offer While your cable, satellite, or streaming service offers a seemingly endless number of channels and entertainment options, many broadcast stations offer at least one subchannel....

How to Close All Tabs in the Safari Browser Use the Tab menu to close all open tabs simultaneously. Tap and hold the Tab button, which looks like two stacked squares. When you tap it, the button opens a new window, but when you keep your finger pressed on it, the Tabs menu appears. The Tabs menu includes an option to close all open tabs, except for the page you’re currently viewing....

According to the official announcement, Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses have been designed to make mundane (but important) smartphone tasks easier. Phone calls, taking photos, recording videos, and listening to music all can be handled by what looks to be a normal pair of sunglasses. Ray-Ban Stories also can pair with the Facebook View iOS or Android app to make content sharing easier. Ray-Ban Stories boasts a pair of 5MP cameras that can be used to snap pictures or record up to 30 seconds of video at a time when you press the capture button....

The Cause of the Bug When two iPhone users text each other, by default their messages are sent through iMessage, Apple’s free iPhone-to-iPhone messaging tool. You’ll know a text was sent using iMessage because your word balloon in the Messages app is blue. When one person in a conversation has an iPhone and the other person has another kind of phone, for example, an Android, traditional text messaging is used (represented by the green word balloon)....

Identifying the Problem When you connect a new MP3 player, and Windows doesn’t recognize it, check whether the MP3 player is compatible with the version of Windows installed on your computer. Find this information in the documentation that came with the MP3 player, or use the manufacturer’s website to look up your model. If the driver is compatible with your version of Windows, the problem is most likely the driver. If your MP3 player worked on an earlier version of Windows but won’t play on the recent version, the driver is almost certainly the culprit....

What Are the Dates of the Next Game Developers Conference? The next GDC will take place from March 20-24, 2023. It will occur in San Francisco. GDC Registration Info There are various pass options (All Access, Audio-specific, Career Development, etc.), so visit the registration site to get more details. What Will Be Announced at GDC? Products and major industry announcements aren’t typical at GDC. The conference aims to exchange ideas and help all those involved in game creation connect through workshops and industry talks....

How to Personalize Your Facebook Username If your Facebook username is currently an unrecognizable string of numerals and special characters, personalize it by changing your account’s username to something recognizable, such as your name. Here’s how: Guidelines for New Usernames Facebook usernames must follow certain guidelines, including: The new username must be at least five characters long.Special characters are not allowed. Any mixture of the letters a through z, the numerals zero through 9, and periods is acceptable....

Advanced Commands for Google Search It’s easy to use these secret Google search operators with your regular search terms. You’ll see in the examples below that there are really just minor adjustments you need to make to dig deeper and find the stuff you’re really after. You can combine multiple Google Search operators to make use of more than one at once. Here’s an example where we’re requesting a definition, but we want the results to not only be restricted to just websites with the ORG top-level domain, but also to explicitly exclude any results from these two domains and URLs with a certain word: Below is another, where we’re looking for a PDF manual for a specific kind of router on Linksys’ website....

Here’s How to Connect Your iPod to a PC You may already have iTunes installed on your PC. If not, download it from Apple—it’s free—and install it on your desktop or laptop computer. Your iPod came with a cable that has a USB connector at one end and a dock connector on the other. It probably came with a partial charge, but if not, charge the iPod before you connect it to your computer....

If you need a faster shutter speed, consider upgrading to a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, which offers shutter speeds that can exceed 1/1000th of a second. Advanced speeds are perfect for shooting some special effect photos, such as capturing the splash of a drop of water. Challenges and Tips Once you have your camera, making it shoot at its fastest shutter speed becomes a challenge. With most point-and-shoot cameras, the shutter speed is automatically set based on the shooting conditions....

Importance Markers Each email has an importance marker immediately to the left of the sender’s name in the Inbox list. It looks like a flag or arrow. When Gmail identifies a particular email as being important based on its criteria, the importance marker is yellow. When it is not recognized as being important, it is just the empty outline of the shape. At any time, you can click the importance marker and change its status manually....

Add Yahoo Mail to Outlook.com Follow these steps to set up Outlook.com to access your Yahoo Mail inbox. The message import process may take a while if you have a lot of Yahoo Mail messages. Because this occurs server to server, you can close your browser and turn off your computer. When the import is finished, your Yahoo Mail messages should appear on Outlook.com. Manage Your Connected Accounts If you want to make changes to your Yahoo Mail account, go to Settings > View all Outlook settings > Mail > Sync mail....

Prepare Your Yahoo Account Set up your Yahoo account so that it allows Outlook to connect. This initial step depends on whether you have two-step verification enabled on your Yahoo account. Two-Step Verification Enabled? Generate an App Password If your Yahoo account is secured with two-step verification, generate a third-party app password. You’ll use this in place of your Yahoo Mail sign-in password when you configure Outlook. No Two-Step Verification? If you don’t use two-step verification to secure your Yahoo Mail account (and you don’t want to enable it), set your account to allow email clients to access it using your Yahoo account sign-in password....