This past week I had the opportunity to test the latest winter and all-season tires from Bridgestone at its Winter Driving Experience near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. While I’ve spent years informing friends and family that a pair of good winter tires are far better than all-wheel drive, this was an opportunity not only to see that in action but a chance to feel how far tire technology had advanced. And while spring might be just around the corner now, if we’ve learned anything from HBO’s TV series about dragons, beheadings, and incest, winter is coming....

It’s been plagued by slow adoption, spotty service, and no clear advantage. It’s especially pointless on cell phones, where the most demanding network activity is watching an HD video, which 4G can already manage just fine. Handset makers got excited about 5G because it’s an opportunity to sell new phones to people who may not otherwise upgrade. “5G is supposed to be the next big thing in wireless technology, but so far, it’s been pretty slow to take off....

Likes, follower counts, and ever-shifting algorithmic timelines—they’re all designed to keep you scrolling and opening your social network apps obsessively. When the photo-sharing app Glass launched, it did so without any of these. But in a radical twist, Glass has just added likes, and in typical fashion, it’s done so in a way that doesn’t ruin the app. It’s so sensible you wonder if it would be possible for Instagram, Twitter, and the rest to copy....

Many similar features include easy to use slide design and transition effects, tabbed interfaces, spell check, free templates, and much more. You really can create exactly the presentation you want with these free programs. There are premade templates you can load from directly inside the program, or you can of course start a blank slideshow. Lots of popular file formats are supported, so you can import PDFs, PPTX, POTX, XML, and even PowerPoint addin files....

To be more specific, 5G is the newest cellular standard that some mobile phones are able to take advantage of, and really just refers to an upgrade from the previous mobile network standard called 4G. 5 GHz refers to a portion of the radio spectrum that’s used by Wi-Fi devices. Most people run across this term only when connecting to some Wi-Fi networks or when comparing 5 GHz Wi-Fi to 2....

First, determine whether your car or truck has ABS. This is typically very simple, since ABS-equipped cars and trucks have a dedicated ABS light on the dash. When you first turn on the key or start the vehicle, look for an amber- or yellow-colored ABS light. If you can’t find the light, but you still believe your car is equipped with ABS, then you can either consult the owner’s manual or contact your local dealership....

There are several ways to cover your tracks and hide your online identity, and none of them require special privacy hider tools or programs that you have to buy. Below are several tips anyone can follow to hide what you search for, keep your personal information off of the web, mask your IP address, and more. Why Is Hiding Your Identity Important? It’s far too easy for our personal details to leak on the internet, either via hackers, companies selling the information, or some other dishonorable method....

If you haven’t done any diagnostic work at all, and you’re comfortable checking out a few basic things, then you’ll want to start with the car battery. Loose battery connections can cause an electrical system to “shut down” and then start working again, as can bad fusible links, so the connections between the battery and the rest of the electric system should be checked out thoroughly before anything else. Other than that, a problem with the ignition switch can also cause this type of problem....

Leaks and rumors about Apple’s work on a foldable iPhone have been popping up for months now. The latest information from well-known insider Jon Prosser seems to suggest that Apple not only has settled on a clamshell design reminiscent of old flip phones, but that the company also is considering multiple “fun” colors. If so, Apple could make the device more appealing to mainstream users, as opposed to going for a more expensive premium option like some competitors....

Apple reportedly is considering launching a version of its smartwatch with a rugged casing aimed at athletes. The Apple Watch would compete with a growing number of tough smartwatches on the market. “As an avid outdoorsman, a rugged smartwatch has lots of benefits and are more dependable than the average smartphone,” Bertie Cowan, founder of Effortless Outdoors, said in an email interview. “These watches are designed for the watch-wearing outdoorsman with features focused on heart rate tracking, GPS navigation system, a compass, and so forth....

For Mac owners, buying a monitor was complicated. You either opted for the huge (in size and price) 32-inch Pro Display XDR to get proper integration with your Mac, or you settled for a third-party monitor from Dell, LG, or somebody else. And they may be great monitors, but they usually come in plastic cases, with all kinds of weird compromises for the Mac user. But now, after eight years in the wilderness, we can finally get a proper Apple monitor for our Macs....

Other motherboard manufacturers have created custom BIOS software based on the AMIBIOS system. The beep codes from an AMIBIOS-based BIOS may be exactly the same as the true AMIBIOS beep codes below or they may vary slightly. Reference your motherboard’s manual for specific instructions. If you could boot a bit further, you might run one of the best free memory test programs, but since you can’t, you’ll need to start by replacing the memory (RAM)....

The program interface is probably the easiest we’ve used in a backup program, even though we’d consider the program pretty advanced. This should definitely be a contender when choosing a good backup program. The interface is easy to work with for anyone, and it’s packed full of great features. AOMEI Backupper: Methods, Sources, & Destinations The types of backup supported, as well as what on your computer can be selected for backup and where it can be backed up to, are the most important aspects to consider when choosing a backup software program....

The wide-ranging iPhone 12 line includes Apple’s largest smartphone to date, but also the company’s smallest phone in years. The latter is the iPhone 12 mini, a push back against the ever-growing trend of large phones and one that is sure to be appreciated by those with smaller hands—or even just those who want to easily use a phone with a single hand. Despite the smaller form factor, the iPhone 12 mini keeps nearly everything that’s great about the larger iPhone 12 intact, including the most powerful processor in any phone, an excellent screen, speedy 5G connectivity, and sharp cameras....

Our phones are loaded with personal information, and they also know where we are and what we’re doing. Apple’s new PDF offers a detailed look at exactly what you need to take care of, and how. It even offers checklists so you can make sure you’re not sharing your location, that you’re not still sharing photos, calendar appointments and so on, and that nobody has access to your device or accounts....

Quick Notes is a system-wide way to quickly take a note in iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey. On the iPad, you swipe up from the bottom-right corner of the screen and the new panel appears, floating over the rest of the screen like a window. You can add anything to a Quick Note, but the really neat part is that if you select text in a web page, you can clip it to the note....

The Asus ROG Rapture AX11000 is a tri-band Wi-Fi 6 router with eight antennas and a massive footprint. It’s billed as a gaming router, and it has some great features for gamers, but hardware like this is also perfectly suited to large houses with tons of devices, streaming media, working, and just about anything else you might want to throw at it. I recently unplugged my trusty Eero and slotted in a ROG Rapture AX11000 for a five day trial by fire....

Asus is a key player in the budget laptop space, and the 14-inch X441BA is a meat-and-potatoes example of just such a machine. The unit I got my hands on is capable of a very basic, very specific set of tasks, but beyond that is really nothing much to be excited for. That said, there’s a surprisingly good display on-board—something that is often lacking on this end of the price range—and the weight is surprisingly light for its size....

What Is DAZN? DAZN, pronounced ‘Da Zone,’ is a sports-only streaming service. Subscribers can watch live and on-demand sports events from multiple devices. DAZN provides access to European boxing, MMA, F1, and other professional fights legally in the United States for sports fans across multiple streaming platforms. There are two subscription options: Monthly and annual. There is no free trial offered for new DAZN subscribers. DAZN Streaming Requirements DAZN is available on most streaming devices, such as mobile devices, smart TVs and connected devices, and game consoles....

Brave Search, from the privacy-centric project that also makes the Brave web browser, is now out of beta and has launched a new feature called Goggles that allows people to create custom rules and filters to alter the way the results are ranked. In essence, this enables people to customize their search results. “Essentially, Goggles will act as a re-ranking option on top of the Brave Search index,” noted Brave as it announced the feature....