Imagine spending a few hours exploring mountain peaks or watching the sunset burn across wetlands as local birds wade by. Maybe you hunt some boar, take a wild horse for a gallop over the plains, or just wander, camping out and cooking over a fire, or take a selfie in front of the distant rainbow that appears after a storm. That is the world of Zelda: Breath of the Wild....

Apple’s next round of MacBooks could be pretty radical. Freed from the constraints of hot Intel chips, Apple Silicon laptops could be as slim as an iPad. Apple’s M1 Macs already can run iOS apps, but the experience is poor because those apps are built for touch. So what might a future convertible Mac look like? One thing is almost certain—it won’t be a macOS tablet. “Mac isn’t a touch-focused machine....

With its many options and ability to copy entire directories, it’s similar to, but much more powerful than, the copy command. The robocopy command is also similar but has even more options. Xcopy Command Availability This command is available from within the Command Prompt in all Windows operating systems including Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 98, etc. You can also access the command in MS-DOS as a DOS command....

Glance is a $2 billion subsidiary of adtech giant InMobi backed by Google and other investors. It serves various kinds of media to the home screens of participating handsets, and may actually be pretty compelling for some people. Glance puts a feed of news, quizzes, photos, videos, and so on, right onto your lock screen. “The potential of lock screen adverts is appealing to advertisers. Because lock screens are seen hundreds of times a day and are devoid of visual noise, they are set to be high-impact and high-engagement ad placements if done well, which Glance appears to be willing to do,” financial analyst Candice Moses told Lifewire via email....

Over the years, the consoles and platforms that Kingdom Hearts has been available on have changed, but the series never made the transfer to PC, leaving me and many others to miss out on key entries in the series. Since I didn’t own a PlayStation 2 or PlayStation 3, I never really got to take in the first few entries, and my only real experience with the franchise was Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, which I played multiple times as a child on my Gameboy Advanced SP....

Stubbs, which re-released last week for modern consoles, is a 2005 action game built on the same engine as the first Halo. It puts you in the middle of a zombie apocalypse but flips the script by making you the one who starts it. As Stubbs, a mostly-mute but surprisingly smart zombie, your job/passion is to zombify everyone you can reach in the retro-futuristic science-fiction city of Punchbowl. Stubbs is an entertaining but poorly-aged splatterpunk comedy that takes many cheap shots at 1950s science fiction....

Selfie sticks can be handy, but if you’re looking for a way to or regularly shoot video and photos from your smartphone, a tripod like the Acuvar 50-inch Aluminum Camera Tripod can help you capture and record what you want with some added and possibly even hands-free stability. We played around with this tripod to see how easy it was to adjust and use with our smartphone. Design: Flimsy and no-frills The Acuvar 50-inch Aluminum Camera Tripod looks like your average full-size tripod....

Jaume Puig, Founder and CEO of Biel Glasses, recently won the HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award for creating smart glasses that use AI and mixed reality to enable people with low vision to navigate their surroundings confidently. “Products like Biel Glasses are an exciting development for users with low vision,” Chris Hauk, consumer privacy champion at Pixel Privacy, told Lifewire via email. “As the technology advances and the headsets begin to become more compact, smart glasses will most assuredly be a huge aid to low vision users....

Researchers at the University of Liverpool say they have created a collaborative artificial intelligence tool that reduces the time and effort required to discover new materials. The innovation is part of the growing use of AI to help develop everything from new drugs to new batteries. “Thanks to high-performance software tools, processing power, and cheap memory, AI can fully automate complex tasks and provide consistent and precise discoveries,” Matthew Putman, the CEO of Nanotronics, a company that uses AI, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The Mac mini (M1, 2020) is the first Mac desktop to receive Apple’s new ARM-based M1 chip. It’s also the most affordable way to dip your toe into the brave new world of Apple Silicon, even though it’s powered by the exact same chip found in the much more expensive MacBook Pro. It can’t run Windows apps via Bootcamp like an Intel Mac, and there will be some growing pains as developers switch gears and start catering to the new hardware, but that hardware offers tremendous raw performance, excellent potential in the long term, and more than acceptable real-world performance in the short term....

A new series of emails between Microsoft and Apple has shed new light on the ongoing push to bring Xbox cloud gaming to the App Store. The emails, uncovered by The Verge, show Microsoft was willing to play by Apple’s rules—for the most part. Instead of following Apple’s demand to separate each app and include the streaming package within it, Microsoft wanted a singular app that offered access to all of its games inside....

For years, developers have been limited in how much they can charge for apps in Apple’s App Store. This is why app prices are all so similar, all coming in at $0.99. or $9.99, rather than $8.76, for example. This week, Apple has expanded the available range of prices massively, almost tenfold, to 900 options. Prices now run from $0.29 up to $10,000 (although higher prices are only available on request, subject to approval)....

Whether it’s PC gaming or working from home, having a reliable, fast internet connection that covers your entire home is a necessity. Investing in a home mesh WI-Fi network, specifically, the ASUS ZenWiFi AX6600, turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in terms of not only my gaming experience but also my work-from-home life. Read on for my thoughts on the Wi-Fi 6 speeds, compatibility, and connectivity over two weeks of testing....

The Brother MFC-J895DW is a light-duty all-in-one printer that’s designed for use in the home and small offices. It sports an attractive minimalist design that hides the paper tray and automatic document feeder (ADF) when not in use. It also has separate ink cartridges for magenta, cyan, yellow, and black, wired and wireless network connectivity, and near field communication (NFC) support for interfacing directly with smartphones. I set up a Brother MFC-J895DW in my office and put it to the test over the course of five days....

External Mic Connections The camcorder microphone you buy must interface with the external mic connection built into your video camera. Consumer camcorders use a stereo jack for attaching an external mic, while higher-end camcorders offer an XLR jack for connecting a mic. Before you buy an external microphone, check what kind of input your camcorder has, and pick out a microphone that will fit the jack. Types of Camcorder Microphones There are three main types of camcorder microphones to choose from: shotgun, lapel (or lavaliere) and handheld (like newscasters or musicians use)....

How Can a Router Get a Virus? A router can get a virus if hackers can get through the initial login screen and modify the router settings. In some cases, viruses can modify the embedded firmware that controls the router software. You don’t need to toss out an infected router—repair and then protect that device from further infections in the future. Two common router viruses that have infected thousands of routers in the past include the Switcher Trojan and VPNFilter....

In an ocean photography competition, photos from around the world showcase what amazing work photographers can do underwater with just a small amount of equipment. Gaetano Dario Gargiulo started out diving and taking photos as a hobby, but his winning photo brings out the hidden colors beneath the waves of the pools of Kamay Botany Bay National Park near his home in New South Wales, Australia. “If you are just starting you may want to start with an action camera or even your mobile phone,” Gargiulo, winner of Best of Show in the Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition, recommended in an email to Lifewire....

The Alexa App for Android Then, to begin using Alexa as your Android smart home control center, you’ll need to add smart home devices. You can choose any device that’s Alexa enabled, which can include smart plugs, smart bulbs, smart appliances, and even smart gadgets like smart scales or smart beds. How to Control Alexa Devices With Your Android Phone Each type of device might have different setup instructions, so be sure to read the included instructions before you begin this process....

Sure, you can play PC games with any computer keyboard—but if you’re a die-hard with a custom, souped-up gaming rig, then some plain old keyboard isn’t likely to satisfy. Corsair’s Strafe RGB Mk.2 MX Silent Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is a very good option if you’re keen on a mechanical keyboard with all the familiar bells and whistles but without the loud key clacking heard on some competing boards. It also has dedicated media controls, which are handy, not to mention swappable keycap sets designed for popular competitive game genres....

When DeepMind put its AlphaCode engine to work on coding challenges designed to test humans, it finished in the top 54 percent, making it as good as an average human. That might sound like it’s ready to be deployed for live use. You could fire the worst half of your human coders, then replace them with AI coding bots, right? Not yet. “With AI companies, writers are needed more than ever....