As someone who is on his third pair of Warby Parker frames and an owner and operator of an iPhone X, an update this week to the glasses-maker’s app has me excited. Warby Parker added a new Virtual Try-On feature to its iOS app that uses augmented reality and the face-mapping capabilities of the iPhone …
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The Super Bowl is live now, and even after halftime, it’s still anyone’s game. It’s a rematch of 2002’s Super Bowl 36, which started the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick dynasty, when the underdog Patriots knocked off the then-St. Louis Rams to win the first Super Bowl in franchise history. Now, Brady and Belichick are seeking their sixth Super Bowl ring. Led …
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Apple has been holding out on us. With MacOS Mojave, Apple finally introduced a system-wide dark mode to Macs that turns the background black and text white in Apple’s apps. But there’s a darker version of dark mode if you know where to look (and don’t mind sacrificing a little color). Darker dark mode To enable dark mode, go to …
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With the latest update to the mobile version of its Edge browser, Microsoft is ramping up efforts to combat fake news. The Edge app now includes a rating system called NewsGuard that alerts you to the trustworthiness of a website. Previously, NewsGuard was available only as an extension to the desktop version of Edge. But can I trust NewsGuard? NewsGuard …
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Using your AirPods ($165 at eBay) with a Mac isn’t too great a chore, but it’s not as seamless as having them automatically connect to your iPhone ($899 at Amazon). If you use your AirPods frequently while working or watching videos on your Mac, then you need to know about two apps that make it simple and guarantee you won’t …
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The YouTube app recently added two swipe gestures that you may have discovered by accident, as I did. (Once you begin using the new gestures, you are even more likely to need to employ YouTube’s Take a Break feature.) I was merrily and innocently flitting about YouTube and accidentally swiped my way to a new video. After some quick Internet …
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The New England Patriots are playing in their eighth straight AFC Championship game. The Kansas Chiefs haven’t reached the conference championship in 25 years. If Tom Brady and the Patriots want to return to the Super Bowl for the third straight year, they’ll need to win on the road at Arrowhead Stadium, one of the most difficult places in the …
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There is a more elegant method for blocking your webcam than sticking a piece of tape over it. And it won’t leave a sticky residue behind should you later decide you’d like to use the cam. With the Device Manager in Windows, you can easily disable and enable your webcam. Now playing: Watch this: Top 5 favorite Microsoft duds 4:10 …
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The two best teams in the NFC — the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints — will face off to determine the conference champion to advance to Super Bowl LIII. It’s a battle of the old guard vs. the young bucks. Veteran QB Drew Brees and long-time head coach Sean Payton won the first Super Bowl for New Orleans …
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A Star is Born is now streaming. On Tuesday, the movie was made available for digital purchase in the US and Australia. If you have yet to catch the box-office smash hit and awards favorite starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (or want to watch it again and again), you can now watch the fourth iteration of this classic tearjerker …
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