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Your iPhone have a flashlight function, but why pull it out of your pocket if you don’t have to? Your Apple Watch can do something very similar. Here’s how to use it when you need to stumble your way through a dark room. RELATED: How to Turn Off Your Apple Watch’s Screen with Theater Mode Unfortunately, the Apple Watch doesn’t have a LED flash like the iPhone does, so instead it relies on the small screen to provide enough light to see your way through a pitch-black room or hallway....

Despite advances in streaming technology over the years, watching the Olympics on anything but a TV with a cable subscription is still a hassle. Read on as we show you how to get your Olympics fix without resorting to signing up for a cable plan. How Olympics Coverage Is Controlled In The U.S. and Abroad So why is watching the Olympics such a challenge? Because wherever you are in the world, somebody usually has the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in your region, and how flexible that arrangement might be is highly dependent on both agreements with the individual companies the rights-holding network deals with and the Olympic organization....

The European Union has, in general, taken a far more hands-on approach to consumer rights than the US. If you’re in the EU, you are probably entitled to a lot more recourse than you might think when something goes wrong with your gadgets. It’s not just the one-year warranty the manufacturer gives you. What You Get with a Basic Manufacturer’s Warranty A manufacturer’s commercial warranty is essentially a promise that the product you buy from them will work as they said it would for a certain period of time....

Having 24/7 professional monitoring of your security system might seem like a great way to keep your home safe and catch burglars in the act, but is it really? Or does it just provide a false sense of security on which you’re wasting a monthly fee? First of all, 24/7 monitoring itself isn’t a bad thing, and I think that in the right circumstances, it can be beneficial for some....

Microsoft is bad at naming things. Their recent renaming of the “Windows Store” to the “Microsoft Store” is just the latest in a long line of confusing and silly product names. Just look at the names of consumer versions of Windows: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. Microsoft can’t stick with a naming scheme for long....

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law on Tuesday that aims to limit the use of environmentally-damaging fossil fuels for cryptocurrency mining. It sets a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining. The law also instructs New York’s Department of Environment Conservation to evaluate how cryptocurrency mining affects the state’s climate goals. Governor Hochul said in a statement, “I will ensure that New York continues to be the center of financial innovation, while also taking important steps to prioritize the protection of our environment....

The latest trend in the awful Windows ecosystem is pretty ridiculous — scammers have a fake version of the reputable AdwCleaner tool, which is a real tool for Windows experts. And this one pretends your computer is infected and tries to make you pay them to remove it. AdwCleaner is indeed a real freeware tool, with a good reputation for removing spyware and adware. It’s not as well known as MalwareBytes because it’s not all that user friendly, since it is meant for Windows experts rather than regular users....

Android is loaded full of features—many of which aren’t completely obvious or are possibly even hidden behind “secret” menus. Here’s where to find some of the most useful features in Android that you may not be using. Double Tap Recents for Quick App Switching If you’re using a phone that runs Android 7.x (Nougat) or newer, then this is a tip for you. If you double the tap the Recent button, it will immediately bring up the previously open app....

You can’t have video games without music. Well, you can—the earliest games didn’t have music in the strictest sense, just beeps and boops. But it wasn’t long before the two became inseparably linked, and now a 150-year-old saucy Russian folk tune is known as “that song from Tetris.” Today, developers and publishers put huge amounts of time, money, and consideration into the music that foes into their games. But if you’d rather play with your own meticulously-curated local collection, there are plenty of games that are happy to let you do so....

Back in the days of the iPod, the future of digital music looked like a more convenient, a la carte version of the past: customers could buy single tracks for relatively little money, but the paradigm was still about owning music that you then managed yourself. With the advent of smartphones and always-on connections, the streaming service reigns supreme. Now you can pay a monthly fee (or listen to advertising) for an all-you-can-eat selection of millions of songs....

Let’s take a look back at Flash, what’s next, and how to enjoy the old content in 2021 and beyond. Flash is Going Away Forever Flash is no longer available to download since December 31, 2020, and Adobe starts blocking Flash content from running altogether on January 12, 2021. The company recommends that you uninstall Flash entirely as a matter of security. There will be no more updates to Flash, nor will you be able to download old versions directly from Adobe....

Windows 10’s October 2018 Update will include a new “Your Phone” app that syncs text messages, photos, and notifications from your phone to your PC. But you can already do this—and more—with features currently in Windows 10. Get Notifications on Your PC (Android Only) If you have an Android phone, you can already sync your phone’s notifications to your PC. This feature is built into the Cortana app for Android....

The Echo Dot is a great device, but Anker’s Eufy Genie ($35) aims to dethrone it with the same Alexa-based system and a $15 cheaper price tag (even more when it’s on sale). But is it worth saving a few bucks to get a third-party Echo device in the first place? There’s No Far-Field Microphone Array The Eufy Genie doesn’t have this, but it does at least come with a two-microphone setup that Anker claims to still offer 360-degree voice recognition....

You decide to check out a new show on Netflix. Before you realize it, you’re nine episodes deep and it’s 4:00 AM. Binge watching may be satisfying at the time, but it ruins what makes TV shows special in the first place. Binge Watching Devalues the Show When a show comes on weekly, there are seven days in between episodes. During that time, people generally discuss the episode with friends and family, dissect everything that happened, and just generally think about it....

It’s the most famous number on the internet: 140. That’s how many characters you can use in a tweet, and it’s as core to Twitter’s brand as #hashtags, Trending Topics, and ignoring harassment victims. You could argue that 140 characters is Twitter, and Facebook just stole it. Not directly, but they’re stealing the idea of this number, incentivizing users to keep posts to 130 characters. And most people didn’t even notice....

RELATED: How Does an Electric Vehicle Work? How Many Miles Can an EV Drive on a Full Charge? According to the UC Davis Plug In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Research Center, the average figure for how far a single charge can get you is 250 miles (at the time of writing in June 2022). Some models will get less mileage, and some can get 350 miles or more. But what causes that variance in range?...

Google Docs is an excellent alternative to many other word processing applications, and it allows users to communicate with collaborators about specific parts of a document without having to send an email or message them. Here’s how you can add comments in Google Docs. Adding comments in Google Docs is a useful way to add notes, suggestions, or questions for other collaborators in the document. Comments are an excellent way for teachers to add specific notes for the author/student who wrote the file....

Open the Instagram app on your Android device or iPhone, then visit your list of DMs by tapping the Messenger icon at the top-right corner of the home screen. Head into the conversation that you’d like to try sending texts with special effects in. Type your message in the text box at the bottom. When you begin typing, the camera shortcut on the left will be replaced by a magnifying glass icon....

Microsoft Word makes it easy for you to alphabetize text, whether that text is on its own, in a list, or part of a table. Let’s take a look at how it’s done. How to Alphabetize Paragraphs or Single-Level Lists Sorting text alphabetically works the same way whether the text is in separate paragraphs or an actual list (bulleted or numbered). One thing to note, though, is that Word can only handle sorting a single level list....

Video compression is the process of reducing the total number of bits needed to display a video. It shrinks the video down while attempting to maintain the original quality. This makes the file size smaller and easier to share or upload. RELATED: How to Shoot Slow Motion Videos on a Samsung Galaxy Phone First, a note on this genre of app. You’ll find plenty of choices in the Play Store if you search for “compress video....