Of course, that information doesn’t help those folks who might need to buy a new vehicle. A single-car family with a car that’s been in a collision or is beyond repair can’t wait 12 months (or longer) for the market to settle itself. They’ve been eyeing an EV, and now they figure if they have to buy something new, it might as well be powered by electrons instead of fossil fuels....

You’ve always been able to share app purchases, but now anything you pay for inside an app also can be shared, including subscriptions. IAP-sharing joins all the other Family Sharing services, like iCloud storage, TV and Arcade subscriptions, and Apple News+. This is a big deal, and can potentially save you a ton of money. But what about the developers? Aren’t they going to be out of pocket? James Abeler, founder and director of Firecore, which makes the excellent video-playing app, Infuse, thinks not....

Virtualization is usually considered too geeky a process for average desktop users, but all it takes is a single click to install Windows 11 on top of the new Parallels Desktop 18. With a significantly improved performance, and the ability to work with Xbox and PlayStation controllers for playing Windows-only games, initial reviews on Twitter seem to suggest Apple Silicon Macs are the best Windows PC, though the experts aren’t buying any of it....

Cybersecurity researchers at Rezilion recently discovered over 90,000 vulnerable internet-facing applications, including over 68,000 potentially vulnerable Minecraft servers whose admins haven’t yet applied the security patches, exposing them and their users to cyberattacks. And there’s little you can do about it. “Unfortunately, log4j will haunt us internet users for quite a while,” Harman Singh, Director at cybersecurity service provider Cyphere, told Lifewire over email. “As this issue is exploited from server-side, [people] can’t do much to avoid the impact of a server compromise....

Yet this is exactly what our mobile carriers have been doing. Thanks to responses published by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), we now know that not only are some of the country’s top telecom operators, including AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, and others, privy to our phone’s location information, many hold on to this, and other, rather private data, for years on end. “Our mobile phones know a lot about us,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in the press release about the responses....

But unlike last year’s Marvel’s Avengers and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy game from Square-Enix, this crime-fighting adventure is a mobile exclusive. This means fans won’t be powering up their PCs, PlayStations, or Xbox consoles, but will instead be saving the world on their smartphones. While it’s played on iOS and Android devices, Future Revolution isn’t necessarily smaller or less ambitious than the big-budget games we’re used to enjoying from behind a controller....

These programs — commonly called zip or unzip programs — are usually small, easy to install, ​and support lots of common compression formats. In addition to decompressing files, PeaZip can also create new archives in over 10 formats. These can be password-protected and encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption, as well as secured with a keyfile for added protection. PeaZip has some advanced features, too, like scheduled archives and support for creating self-extracting files....

All of these apps are different, but a Wi-Fi analyzer might check the network for which devices are connected to it, the strength of the channel, the IP address of the devices and network itself, open ports, and more. It’s really a must have when you’re checking out your own Wi-Fi network to see how secure it is. There are also free Wi-Fi scanners here that will help you identify networks around you, telling you if they’re open or closed as well as the strength of the connection....

Scratch uses a building-block visual interface to create a scaffolded experience for kids and parents. You stack together programming components, such as actions, events, and operators. Each block has a shape that only allows it to be combined with a compatible object. Repeat loops, for example, are shaped like a sideways “U” to let you know that you need to put blocks in between the start and stop of a loop....

8 Things to Consider When Buying a Mouse What you intend to use a mouse for will significantly impact what you’ll want to consider. Something simple and inexpensive will probably do if you only need it for basic point-and-click functionality. However, if you’d prefer not to deal with cords, need something that feels very snappy and precise, or have issues with wrist comfort while working on your computer, there are several options available....

What Is an ADOC File? A file with the ADOC file extension is most likely an AsciiDoc file. In short, they’re used to render a plain text file into a format that’s easily readable, like HTML or PDF. AsciiDoc is a markup language for writing things like software documentation and notes, but it might also be used as the format for eBooks or slideshows, among other things. Therefore, the extension indicates that the file is using the AsciiDoc language to store this information....

Britain’s national weather service has developed an AI tool that it claims can accurately predict the likelihood of rain in the next 90 minutes. Making accurate weather predictions is a challenging problem that has resisted millenniums of effort. But researchers hope AI could revolutionize weather forecasting. “Any industry that is weather-sensitive is looking into ways to use AI to improve safety and operations,” Renny Vandewege, the vice president of weather operations at data analytics company DTN, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Researchers recently found that artificial intelligence (AI) could find and exploit weaknesses in human decision-making and guide people toward certain decisions. Experts say the discovery is a sign of the growing influence of algorithms on human behavior. “People who are heavy users of online digital platforms are at a greater risk of being influenced, compared to the average person, by virtue of providing the behind-the-scenes, data-hungry AI algorithms with more information about their habits and patterns of behavior,” Soheila Borhani, a physician and scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who was not involved in the research, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is the latest to be given a helping hand by AI. A startup taught an AI Beethoven’s work and his creative process to finish the music, but the move begs the question of where the human work ends, and the computer’s handiwork begins. “​I think that the real short- and intermediate-term potential for AI is precisely that it will complement our own creative efforts, not necessarily replace our own creative production as humans,” Kelland Thomas, Kelland Thomas, the dean of the College of Arts and Letters and a professor of music and technology, at Stevens Institute of Technology, told Lifewire in an email interview....

In the past, target display mode let you repurpose an iMac as an external display for another Mac. That feature withered and only works on older devices, but Apple has resurrected the concept with AirPlay Display. With AirPlay Display, you can co-opt any nearby Mac or iPad screen and use it as a second or main display. The feature is both amazingly useful and a bit frustrating. “Target Display Mode was a system function in macOS that allowed an iMac to serve as a display for another Mac....

Download the app: A Brief Netflix History Netflix started in 1997 as a company that pioneered the concept of renting DVDs by mail. It devised the innovative concept of charging a flat monthly fee instead of charging by each DVD ordered. As a result, the corner video rental store phenomenon started to fade away. By 2005, Netflix had a loyal 4.2 million DVD-by-mail rental subscriber base. In 2007, Netflix made the bold announcement that it would add the ability for subscribers to stream TV shows and movies directly to their PCs in addition to its DVD-by-mail rental program....

I recently swapped out the old UPS I had been using to backstop the gaming rig I also use for work for a APC Back-UPS Pro 1500. Over the course of a couple weeks, I was able to test how well the Back-UPS Pro 1500 handles daily duty as a surge protector, and also subjected it to simulated brownouts and full-blown power outages to see how well it actually protected my high-end equipment....

CarPlay Allows You to Use Your iPhone Hands-Free CarPlay and Siri allow you to place phone calls, listen to text messages, or play your favorite playlist without ever touching your iPhone. Better, you can get turn-by-turn directions and have them displayed on the infotainment system’s larger screen to make it easy for the driver to glance at while driving. Cars that support CarPlay have a button on the steering wheel to activate Siri, making it easy to ask her to ‘Call Mom’ or ‘Text Jerry....

What Is Apple Intercom? Apple Intercom is a feature of the Apple Home apps which allows you to communicate with other people in your house using an Apple device as an intercom. You can even use it with your Apple CarPlay. When two or more devices are connected through the Apple Home app, you can use one of those devices to make an announcement on the other. If you have multiple devices set up in different rooms on the Home App, you can opt to have it made in only one room or multiple rooms....

When you buy a new iPhone, the easiest way to upgrade is to restore from an iCloud backup. Problem is, with only 5GB of space, many users don’t have a backup. The iOS 15 and watchOS 8 betas fix that, by lending you as much online iCloud storage space as you need, free, for up to three weeks. The idea is you can make a backup, restore it to the new phone, then delete that backup....