Facebook Year Together: How to create your personalized 2021 highlights

Facebook has launched its yearly highlight feature, with users able to check their top friendships, reactions and checkins for 2021.  The feature, which includes the three categories labeled by Facebook as “the friendships,” “the sparks” and “the places,” will be available globally by Friday. “Here’s to the things that meant the most, and kept us …

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Walmart’s $199 Oculus Quest 2 deal is still available

As far as Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts were concerned, it was pretty slim pickings when it came to the Oculus Quest 2. The best we saw was a free gift card with purchase, but no actual drops in price. While the 128GB model stubbornly remains at $299, if you’re committed to getting your hands on one of these …

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Amazon fought unions, regulation and rising costs in 2021

You’ll likely hear a lot in 2022 about Amazon being a great place to work and a business that guarantees low prices for customers and delivers with lightning speed. A look back at 2021 explains why the e-commerce giant is so anxious to get those messages out. Amazon began and ended the year fighting a unionization movement at its Bessemer, …

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COVID

It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night in Ellicott City, Maryland and I’m in the mood for some comedy. The Ellicott Silly festival is in town and there are local comics all over the town entertaining people from all over the state. But at the Wine Bin down the street, projected on a 130-inch screen on the side of the …

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Instagram 2021 Playback: How to create your stories highlight

Instagram has added a new wrap-up feature for the end of the year, with the social media platform debuting 2021 Playback for some users on Thursday. The feature showcases what Instagram thinks are your best stories from the year, although you can add or delete other stories of your choice before publishing. “To help you look back on your special …

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Twitter Spaces filled with hate speech, extremism, report says

Taliban supporters, white nationalists and anti-vaccine activists have reportedly flocked to Twitter’s live audio chat feature, Spaces, with the social media site struggling to police the harmful content. The Washington Post, citing researchers and users, as well as screenshots seen by the news outlet, reported Friday that hundreds of people have listened to these offensive live audio chats. Twitter users …

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How to take 3D photos: This free Android app does the work for you

Products like 3D televisions and 3D phones give 3D a bad name. Part of the problem is that 3D is hyped as the start of a new product category, instead of being seen as a tool for expression. Lucid, the company behind the LucidPix app, smartly embraces 3D’s role as a creative tool. Whether you have a newer phone like the Google Pixel 6 or …

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Better.com CEO ‘taking time off’ after Zoom mass layoff, report says

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg is reportedly “taking time off” after apologizing Tuesday for laying off hundreds of employees via a Zoom call last week. The digital mortgage lender’s board of directors said Friday that it will hire an independent firm to do a “leadership and cultural assessment,” according to a report from Vice.  In an email to employees on Tuesday, which was …

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Best Wireless Earbuds: Here’s What I Look For

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Game Awards 2021: Watch all the trailers revealed

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Alexa gets new features to make it a better listener

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Amazon slapped with hefty fine, WhatsApp pilots crypto payments

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How tiny black holes left fingerprints on the moon

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Apple Arcade review: The best game subscription for casual gamers

Dec 2021 When Apple Arcade launched in 2019, it presented a polished service that held its own next to Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus and the Apple Card. Since then, Apple Arcade has consistently improved its service and offerings, as well as placing a spotlight on lots of different game developers around the world.  While updating older games and …

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