If you have a TPMS light, it’s important to remember that it isn’t a replacement for regular maintenance. While a TPMS light coming on can be a great warning ahead of an impending emergency, there’s no replacement for physically checking your tires with a tire pressure gauge and topping them up as needed. What Does the TPMS Light Coming on Really Mean? When you have a car that has a TPMS, what that means is every tire has a wireless sensor inside it....

For example, beginning on January 1, Comcast began limiting households to 1.2 terabytes of data per month. Other broadband companies also are turning the data taps down for their customers. While a terabyte or more is sufficient data for many people, some users could exceed these amounts and have to pay a penalty. “Americans are paying for the lack of investment by the cable companies,” Mark Chen, the owner of Bill Smart, a company that negotiates between customers and internet providers, said in an email interview....

The Steam Deck has had much of the gaming world’s attention since Valve dropped the official news earlier this month. Now all eyes are turning back to the massive publisher following news that it would be striving to offer 30FPS as the bar for what it considers “playable” on the Steam Deck. There are some caveats to that bar, and experts say that even at 30FPS, most games should be more than playable on the Steam Deck’s smaller screen....

The other way to be zapped by a car is to inadvertently act as a ground for the ignition system, which can be painful and dangerous. The other electrical systems in most cars aren’t dangerous or capable of shocking you, with the exception of electric and hybrid vehicles. The How and Why of Automotive Static Shock When you touch a car door handle, door, or another metal surface and feel a shock, the cause is the sudden discharge of static electricity....

Researchers in Japan have created a pure and light diamond for use in quantum computing in a move that could lead to new kinds of hard drives. It’s part of an ongoing effort to use the strange effects of quantum mechanics to hold information. “Unlike our classical computers that operate on binary digits (or ‘bits’), that is, 0’s and 1’s, quantum computers use ‘qubits’ that can be in a linear combination of two states,” David Bader, a computer science professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who studies quantum memory, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The 10-minute experience took my player through some of the major events we experienced last year, including the Australia wildfires, the coronavirus pandemic, a stock market crash, quarantine and that weird rush for tissue, an election, and more. I thought the game was a success because it was light-hearted, while still touching on some major trends from 2020. And I’m not the only one who enjoyed the game. Garkavyy said over a video interview with Lifewire that the game is being played worldwide, with more than 2 million plays already....

Arriving on the island of Cozy Grove, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Many of Apple Arcade’s titles have left me feeling unsatisfied, often leading to me dumping them from my phone almost as quickly as I’ve installed them. Cozy Grove is different, though. It pulls you in with a heartwarming story, but it never asks you to invest so much into that story that you have to spend hours staring at the screen of your smartphone....

Here are six ways to keep your word-processed documents safe. Never Store Your Documents on Your OS Drive While most word processors save your files in the My Documents folder, this is the worst place for them. Whether it’s a virus or software failure, most computer problems affect the operating system, and often, the only solution is to reformat the drive and reinstall the operating system. In such an instance, everything on the drive will be lost....

Many of the suites listed below open, edit, and create Office documents. Although they don’t have all the cool Office features, many get close. Six separate programs are included that make up the suite: Writer (word processing), Impress (presentations), Calc (spreadsheets), Base (databases), Math (formula editing), and Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts). You can install it on your computer or use the portable version. You can open files from your computer or remote locations like Google Drive, OneDrive, or an FTP server....

You don’t need a manual to get started. Select a day and start typing to add events. View the calendar by day, week, or month, depending on your preference. All views are easy to use. There’s also a way to view only four days at once or a schedule, which is a list of upcoming events. Sharing With Google Calendar One of the main advantages of Google Calendar is its sharing abilities....

Researchers at MIT and IBM Research have created a method that enables a user to rank the results of a machine-learning model’s behavior. Their technique, called Shared Interest, incorporates metrics that compare how well a model’s thinking matches people’s. “Today, AI is capable of reaching (and, in some cases, exceeding) human performance in specific tasks, including image recognition and language understanding,” Pieter Buteneers, director of engineering in machine learning and AI at the communications company Sinch, told Lifewire in an email interview....

It’s not unusual for smartphone operating systems to follow in the footsteps of their competitors. That seems to be the case with Android 12, as Google is doubling down on privacy features similar to those Apple already has released for iOS. While the move to include more features like Android 12’s Privacy Dashboard is good for users and delivers some great additions that iPhone users already get to enjoy, it ultimately fails to deliver the same level of privacy protection....

A UPS can protect your valuable equipment from power incidents. Whether in the middle of a tense multiplayer game, boss fight or even halfway through an important piece of unsaved work, the last thing you want to is to lose everything due to a power outage or brownout. The APC 1500VA Gaming UPS (uninterrupted power supply) aims to keep you going for long enough to restore power in the event of brief outages and brownouts, giving you time to safely shut down your device, preserving your valuable data and hard drives....

According to newly-published data from Sensor Tower, app subscriptions rose by over 4% in 2021, up to $18.3 billion worldwide and $8.6 billion in the US. And while Google Play subscriptions grew faster, overall, App Store users account for more than two-thirds of all subscription spending. Other data shows that App Store users are more likely to pay for software overall, but what is driving this subscription trend? “A research paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research found that owning an iPhone is a strong indicator people have a high income,” technology strategist Sundus Shahid Bari told Lifewire via email....

It’s impressive and very convenient. But do we really want a homogenized audiobook experience? And what about those voice actors? “From the indie publisher’s perspective, anything that reduces the cost of audiobook production is very interesting,” Rick Carlile, owner of independent publisher Carlile Media, told Lifewire via email. “But that attraction assumes that the product would be of equal quality to traditional narration. I don’t think we’re one hundred percent there yet....

What Is an ASF File? A file with the ASF file extension is an Advanced Systems Format file developed by Microsoft that’s commonly used for streaming audio and video data. An ASF file can contain metadata like a title, author data, rating, and description. The structure of the audio or video data is understood by an ASF file, but it doesn’t specify the encoding method. WMA (audio) and WMV (video) are the two most common kinds of data that’s stored in the ASF container, so ASF files are most often seen with one of those file extensions....

With a second COVID lockdown starting across Germany this week, this kind of delivery service is going to prove very handy. Ethical shoppers will be happy that the company employs riders directly, but how does Gorillas’ store model affect regular local stores? Gorillas founders Kağan Sümer and Jörg Kattner did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Three Gorillas works via an iOS app and Android app, both of which are plain and easy....

How to Open .BOOT Files Files that end with the .BOOT suffix are InstallShield files. These are plain text files that store installation settings for the InstallShield program, which is an application that’s used for creating setup files for software installs. Since they’re text files, you can most likely view the contents with a text editor, like Notepad in Windows or an application from our Best Free Text Editors list. These kinds of BOOT files are sometimes seen stored along with similar installation files like INI and EXE files....

Even worse, these earbuds cost $249 and come from Bose, one of the most respected audio brands. How are they planning to get away with this? It turns out that by taking away music, you can make earbuds more liberating if all you’re planning to do is use them to get to sleep. The Sleepbuds II might be some of the quirkiest earbuds that ever have been released. They do one thing and one thing only—play a limited selection of relaxing noises....

How to Change an Image Size Many digital photos will open into your photo editing software with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, because your digital camera does not store resolution information when it saves the photo, or the software you are using can’t read the embedded resolution information. Even if your software does read the resolution information, the embedded resolution may not be what you really want. Look in your photo editing software for an Image Size, Resize, Print Size, or Resample command....