Sharing a PC doesn’t have to be a pain if you give each family member their own personal login. Personal logins allow for separate files, desktops, and browser favorites, and adult family members can monitor and restrict kids’ activity by blocking websites, limiting screen time, and keeping tabs on what sites kids are visiting and …
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March, 2016
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3 March
Stop the whining! Make Apple EarPods play nice with Xbox One
Other headphones play nice with the Xbox One, but if you have tried to use Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic with an Xbox One controller, it probably wasn’t for long. Because if you plugged in a pair of Apple EarPods to a newer Xbox One controller that has a headphone jack, you were greeted by a high-pitched whining buzzing …
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3 March
Listen to this amazing ‘3D’
Straight out of London, Simon McBurney’s performance piece “The Encounter” is now playing at the Barbican Theatre, but for a limited time you can stream “The Encounter” on YouTube. McBurney shares the stage with a special binaural microphone “head,” and the sound of his voice and his recordings transports us into the humid depths of the Amazon jungle. Binaural recordings …
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3 March
I flew a drone that was 1,400 miles away and it didn’t go so well
Cellular connection or not, I am not a good drone pilot. That’s what I learned from my brief time at telecom-gear maker Ericsson’s booth at the Mobile World Congress trade show last week in Barcelona. I had a chance to pilot a drone more than 1,400 miles away in Stockholm with the help of an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset and …
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3 March
How to remove personal information from photos in Windows 10
There’s more to your digital photos than meets the eye. Embedded in each file is EXIF data, or metadata, that contains information on your camera’s make and model, the time and date the photo was taken, and even GPS coordinates if you happened to take the photo from a camera (or, more likely, a phone) that has geotagging enabled. Luckily, …
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3 March
Ghostbusters prepare for battle in new full
When ghosts take over your town, who ya gonna call? In this full-length “Ghostbusters” trailer, we see the new specter-fighting team of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon suit up and get ready for battle. The trailer for the upcoming movie made its debut Thursday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” This version of “Ghostbusters” is a reboot …
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3 March
Your 3D printer is telling people what it’s making
If you want to steal a 3D design, all you have to do is record the sound of the 3D printer making it. In research demonstrating that industrial espionage may be as simple as opening a recording app on your smartphone, a team led by Professor Mohammad Al Faruque at the University of California at Irvine has shown that it …
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3 March
GoPro is livestreaming a shark swim on Periscope using a simple cable and an iPhone
To show just what’s possible when you use your iPhone to livestream from a GoPro camera using Periscope, GoPro will be streaming a dive with some great hammerhead sharks. The event is happening today at noon ET (9 a.m. PT, 5 p.m. UK) with GoPro athletes Jeb Corliss and Roberta Mancino. Corliss says they hope to have anywhere from three …
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3 March
For Apple, Samsung: Turn off the phone, the party’s over?
The smartphone industry may have seen its last year of double-digit growth in 2015, and that could spell challenges for Apple and makers of high-end Android phones. Last year saw smartphone shipments rise by 10.4 percent from the previous year, IDC said in a report released Thursday. But this year will see that growth rate drop to just 5.7 percent …
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3 March
Samsung to roll out Apple
Apple’s iPhone upgrade programs appear to have piqued the interest of Samsung, which is now trialing a similar service in Singapore. The South Korean electronics giant on Thursday unveiled a program called Samsung Concierge. The service, currently only available in Singapore, costs a one-time fee of S$38 (roughly $25, AU$35 or £20). Like Apple’s recently announced Trade Up With Installments …
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