New AI-powered writing assistant Craftly.AI claims to automate a large part of the writing process. The company says the assistant uses an algorithm to understand and emulate your unique human communication style. It’s part of a growing number of AI-powered writing programs. “AI is and will be a huge part of content creation,” Alexander De Ridder, the co-founder and chief technical officer of AI writing software company Ink, said in an email interview....

As wildfires have grown in numbers and intensity throughout the western United States, it’s caused a run on new kinds of technology that can help fight them. That includes machine learning for data analysis, drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellite surveillance. California alone tracked 4.2 million acres burned in 2020, with five of the six largest fires in state history occurring simultaneously. That has led to multiple tech-driven firefighting solutions being approved in the state, including predictive analysis, fire-spotting from orbit, and AI-powered equipment inspections....

What Each Speaker Does in a Home Theater Before placing speakers in a surround sound setup, you need to know what each one does. Left/right channel speakers: These speakers output most of the music and sound effects in a movie or TV soundtrack. They also provide a way for sound effects or dialogue coming from the front of the listening area to move from left-to-right or right-to-left. When listening to stereo music, the L/R channel speakers operate the same way as in a two-channel stereo system....

What Is Seamless? Seamless, formerly known as Seamless Web, is a food delivery service that’s part of the Grubhub brand. Offering an app and an online service, Seamless offers food from nearby cafes, restaurants, and popular fast food locations near your specific area for pick-up and for delivery. Seamless currently supports thousands of delivery and take-out restaurants located in more than 900 cities in the United States, as well as London....

Dynamic Headroom: Power When You Need It For room-filling sound, a stereo or home theater receiver needs to put out a certain about of power to your speakers. Because sound levels constantly change throughout musical recordings and movies, the receiver needs to adjust its power output quickly and in a consistent manner. Dynamic headroom refers to the ability of a stereo, home theater receiver, or amplifier to blast the power to higher levels for short periods of time....

Backtracking a little, multiplayer gamers may recoil in horror at the thought of not seeing the point in dedicated gaming headphones. I don’t mean you guys. When trying to sneak up on someone in a multiplayer session of something, being able to hear everything around you is incredibly important. No, I mean for single player gaming. I’ve always been content with my TV speakers or—more recently—a high-end soundbar, instead. However, Corsair’s latest headset, the Corsair HS80, has changed all that....

The previous iMac design was so good that it stuck around for 14 years, and has found its way into offices, homes, and dentist’s reception desks around the world. But it was the original candy drop Bondi Blue iMac from 1998 that changed the computing world. Computers went from dull beige boxes that nobody cared about, to cool lifestyle accessories that everybody wanted. It was the birth of the modern mainstream Apple....

Enable Preview Pane in Gmail Gmail has a built-in option called Preview Pane that might make it easier for you to read messages. This feature splits the screen into two pieces so that you can read emails on one half and browse for messages on the other. Switching between the different reading panes is a breeze, but before you get started, you have to enable Preview Pane in Gmail (it’s disabled by default)....

Add Friends on Steam Using the Desktop App or Website The Steam desktop app is virtually identical to the Steam website, so you can add friends using the one you prefer. The Store tab in the app corresponds to Steampowered.com, which is Steam’s online store. The Community tab corresponds to Steamcommunity.com, which is Steam’s online community portal. Here’s how to find and add friends on Steam using the desktop app or the Steam Community website:...

How to Block Calls From Your Call History The easiest and most common way to block a phone number is from your call history. Locate the number that called you and tap it. Tap the menu button in the upper right corner > Block number. How to Block Calls on an LG Phone From Settings If you want to add a number or a set of numbers before they call you, there are three call blocking features found in your dialer....

How to Adjust Windows 10 Privacy Settings Maybe you just want to limit the amount of personal data your Windows 10 PC sends out, or maybe you just don’t want much data gathered about your computing activities to begin with. Regardless of why, if you want to adjust how Windows 10 gathers your data and sends it out, you need to how to change your Windows 10 privacy settings. Here’s how to access and adjust each of the five main Windows 10 privacy settings: General, Speech, Inking & Typing Personalization, Diagnostics & Feedback, and Active History....

How to Check If Your iPhone Is Under Warranty To find out if your iPhone or other Apple device is still under warranty, all you need is your device’s serial number. Follow these steps: If the device isn’t registered, the warranty is expired, or AppleCare can be added, click the link next to the item you want to take action on. Tap Settings > General > About and find the Serial Number section....

Choose the Right Speaker Wire Connector There are three types of wire connectors that you can use with your speaker cables: banana plugs, spade connectors, and pin connectors. Each is easy to install, requiring only a few simple tools. To choose the right kind, you first have to look at the terminals available on your equipment. Banana plugs work with binding posts, inserting straight into the holes on the ends (note: not all binding posts have this)....

Cannot Record Movie Error Message The Cannot Record Movie error message usually means your Nikon camera can’t pass the data to the memory card fast enough to record it, so a timeout error occurs. Most of the time, this is a memory card problem. The card could be corrupted or incompatible with your camera. To solve the issue, use a memory card with a faster write speed. File Does Not Contain Image Data Error Message There are a few reasons why you might receive this error:...

Depending on your needs and the security options set in the individual PDF, you have several options for extracting text, images, or both from a PDF file. Choose the option that works best for you. Use Adobe Acrobat Professional. If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, not just the free Acrobat Reader, you can extract individual images or all images as well as text from a PDF and export in various formats such as EPS, JPG, and TIFF....

How to Get Your First Shovel (on a New Island) Players starting a new island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can’t craft a shovel until completing a few tasks in the game’s tutorial. How to Get Your First Shovel (on an Established Island) Players creating a new character on an already established island will encounter a faster, less specific tutorial. Here’s how to get a shovel if you’re a new resident on an old island....

Sideloading Apps Maybe the simplest way to add apps to your iPhone without using the App Store is by using a technique called sideloading. Sideloading is the name used for installing apps directly on the iPhone rather than using the App Store. It’s not a common way to do things, but it’s possible. The real difficulty with sideloading is that you need to have the app in the first place. Most iPhone apps are only available in the App Store, not for direct download from the developer’s website or another source....

Migration Assistant Is an Option to Consider You have options for performing the move. The easiest and most often suggested method is to use the Apple Migration Assistant. This method works well, but it has one drawback: Migration Assistant is an all-or-nothing process when it comes to moving data. It copies everything from one Mac to another. However, you may not be interested in transferring everything to your new Mac....

What Happens When You Mute Someone on Twitter? When you mute someone on Twitter, they continue to see tweets posted by the account that muted them and can like, retweet, and comment on them. Muted users can also send a DM, or direct message, to you. While a muted account can interact with your Twitter account, Twitter hides these interactions from you. You won’t see their likes, retweets, or comments in your Twitter notifications or DMs from them in your Twitter inbox....

How to Turn On the iPad’s Multitasking Features To use features like the App Switcher, you’ll want to make sure you have the options switched on first. Here’s how to do that. Open the App Switcher in one of two ways: Double-click the Home Button, which is the physical button just below the iPad’s display when holding it in portrait mode. On later models, this is also the sensor for Touch ID....