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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and various lockdowns, quarantines and shelter-in-place orders, many people are now getting used to working from home for the first time. One obstacle you and your coworkers may have run into is the question of how to send and receive files that are too large to attach to an email. Luckily, what …

The Fitbit Charge 4, an update to last year’s Charge 3, is basically the same tracker, but now with GPS. It’s odd timing for a world that’s increasingly shut down and housebound, but GPS was a feature that was missing from Fitbit’s devices for years. The Fitbit Charge 4 is the company’s first new wearable since last year’s Versa 2. See it …

Have you used your iPhone’s dark mode setting yet? If not, you should. Not only is it easier on your eyes, especially if you often use your phone in a dimly lit room, but using dark mode actually saves battery life, according to Google. Apple first added a system-wide dark mode with the release of iOS 13 last year, converting the …

OYou’re on vacation, at a conference, being responsible after a night out or don’t have a car, and need to get a ride. If you’re like me, you have two apps on your phone for this very purpose: Uber and Lyft. But how do you choose which ride-hailing service to use at any given time, especially if they seem to …

Growing up, one of my mom’s biggest pet peeves was pulling together a grocery list, doing the week’s shopping, getting all the way home and realizing something was forgotten. Trying to get everyone to focus and add what they want to the grocery list is almost impossible. The text that said “Can you pick up shampoo?” on Tuesday will be …

Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows.  The first time you open a new app on your iPhone ($500 at Best Buy), you’re bombarded with prompts and requests, each one asking for access to different pieces of your private information. I know I’m guilty of reflexively approving these prompts. The problem with my approach is that …

MacOS got dark mode a few years ago in Mojave, allowing Mac users to apply a dark theme across apps. Android 10 got a systemwide dark mode setting last year, making it drop-dead easy to go dark in the latest version of Google’s mobile OS. And iPhones and iPads got a dark theme in last year’s iOS 13 and iPadOS. You …

On Wednesday, Apple released the first developer betas of iOS 13.4 and MacOS 10.15.4, with several new features that will make the platforms more useful.  The iOS 13.4 developer beta includes nine new Memoji Stickers (expressing celebration, eye rolling, and huffing with anger, among other emotions) for Messages, FaceTime, and other apps that use your phone’s keyboard. CarPlay also has …

If your MacBook’s fan is running too loud for too long, and too frequently, you may have a problem. For the most part, fans are a part of laptop life. Humans sweat, dogs pant and laptops generally spin fans to keep cool. Unless you have the tiny, fanless MacBook, then your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air will occasionally fire up …

Android 10 is slowly reaching more Android phones, and as it does, it adds the option of gesture navigation, which uses swipes and taps instead of the three buttons you might be used to for getting around your phone. The new gestures are very iPhone-like, but that’s not a bad thing — we’re certainly not complaining.  For example, you can swipe …