If your car USB port isn’t charging your phone, the problem could be with the port, the cable, or even the phone. Not all car USB ports are designed to charge phones, or power peripheral devices at all, so there’s a chance that you’re dealing with that type of situation. There’s also a chance that there is a compatibility issue between the port and your phone, which may or may not be solved by using a different cable....

It also featured social media integration, photo and file sharing, video and audio chat, Buddy List themes/skins, and more. On December 15, 2017, AIM was discontinued. What Was AIM? AIM was a chat service available from desktops, mobile devices, and web browsers. You could log in with your AOL account to instantly communicate with any of your contacts. AIM didn’t only support one-on-one chats and group IMs. It also allowed you to chat with your Google Talk friends and connected to your social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, Foursquare, and others) to show your feeds, trade files, and share location updates....

As more of us work from home or split our time between home and the office, a laptop is essential. But economically, it’s something of a nightmare, especially if you use the thing on your lap. The answer is the desktop laptop, a laptop that docks with peripherals, like a Transformer, to become more powerful, more useful, and more comfortable. “I use a Thunderbolt dock to keep my setup organized....

Color calibration is common in high-end design, movie, and photography workflows. It’s not just about making the images look good on screen. It’s about making them accurate. Print designers need to know that what they see on the screen precisely matches what they will see on the printed page, for instance. And now, with iOS 14.5, Apple is bringing it to your home TV. “Most of us don’t consider the color tonality of our TVs while watching, but this tool will help you see where your viewing experience can improve,” technology writer Heinrich Long told Lifewire via email....

Why Doesn’t My Car Radio Doesn’t Fit? There are a handful of reasons why a new car radio may not fit correctly. In some cases, you can use a car radio fit kit to install a radio that’s not sized correctly for your head unit. But there are limitations. For example, while you can use an installation kit to replace a 2 DIN car radio with a 1 DIN car radio, the opposite is not always possible....

Should apps really cost the same everywhere? If the average wage is only $300, it makes no sense to charge $60 for a video game. And yet, that’s the way it works. Cutting prices to better fit the buying power of locals is not just morally better, but it’s good for business, and could help to combat piracy. “If I look at someone in, say, Bangladesh, who makes about the same in a day as I make every minute I am alive,” writes music software developer Chris Randall on Twitter, “I am effectively asking him or her to pay the same for [our Dubstation app] as I paid for my Prophet 10 [a $4,300 synthesizer]....

When I first received the water bottle, I was a little thrown off by how heavy it was, but when I considered that it carries a battery pack, 16.9 ounces of water and these FuelPods that add additional flavor, I stopped complaining. Plus, there’s a heavy-duty lanyard around the neck of the bottle that helps you carry it. Now you’re probably wondering, why do you need a smart water bottle to track your water intake?...

The pricey R3 is hardly an impulse purchase. However, the R3 boasts high speed, fast AF performance, low light capability, and a mirrorless design and full-frame image sensor that’s the same size as an analog camera. I’ve owned my fair share of mirrorless and DSLR cameras, and while I’m a huge Canon fan, the specs left me not as excited as I would have been just a few years ago....

The CPU in your computer, the one that does the day-to-day work, is expensive, and highly specialized. A GPU, on the other hand, is really, really good at math. Specifically, they can multiply big numbers, and they can perform many, many operations in parallel. This makes them good for generating complex 3D graphics, but they are used for much more. “GPUs are great for big data, machine learning, and image processing,” 3D animator David Rivera told Lifewire via instant message....

Google is taking its workplace productivity apps a step further by introducing smart canvas, a new feature that makes apps like Drive and Sheets more flexible. It’s one of a growing number of options for collaborating online that are useful for more than just work. “When I moved out of my old apartment and planned to sell it, I used a mix of Google Sheets and Google Docs to capture action items and track them down,” Henry Shapiro, the co-founder of collaboration software Reclaim....

Edison describes OnMail as an “ad-free, privacy-focused, and modern email service.” It joins other new players like Hey and the forthcoming Big Mail. Like those other email services and apps, OnMail rethinks email for today. The OnMail app is the most conventional of this new wave of inbox wranglers. Its biggest feature, however, is one you won’t really see: Importing all your current email accounts to put them in one place....

This week Microsoft opened availability for Windows 365, the cloud PC setup that lets you stream Windows 10 or Windows 11 via a web browser. Although it’s intended for business customers, it can allow you to run Windows on almost any device. “It is extremely useful as an alternative when traveling, but not necessarily good for everyday use,” Chris Jordan, the CEO of cybersecurity firm Fluency Security. told Lifewire in an email interview....

In one of the latest attempts, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group (FIG) have managed to recreate the sensation of touch in and around a user’s mouth with minimal modifications to a regular VR headset. The modifications add little weight to the headset, which the researchers plan to cut down even further before commercializing their mouth haptics headset. “I think it’s really exciting that FIG understands the value of multi-sensory and also the role our lips and mouth play in our experiences,” Aaron Wisniewski, CEO of OVR Technology, told Lifewire over email....

BMW recently began charging a monthly fee to access heated vehicle seats. The program is only available in select locations, but it marks one of the first notable uses of monthly subscriptions to unlock a feature that’s already present in your car. Subscriptions are nothing new to consumers (millions of people pay a monthly fee for services like Netflix and Xbox Game Pass), but paying monthly to access functionality in a vehicle you own is fairly new—and it sounds like it might be here to stay....

Parallels is software that lets you virtually run other operating systems on your Mac. Instead of booting up a PC, you could just double-click and launch a Windows PC right there on your Mac, and it could do everything a “real” PC could do. Now, Parallels runs on Apple Silicon, so you can use it on your M1 Mac. “The Apple M1 is capable of running Windows 10 on ARM almost two times faster than Microsoft’s own hardware,” Bram Jansen, chief editor at tech site VPN Alert, told Lifewire via email....

Dairy farmers are increasingly turning to robots to increase milk production, according to a new study. The robots can make the tenuous farming business profitable for small farmers and increase income for large companies. It’s part of a growing wave of automation in the agricultural industry. “Robotic milking is reaching far into the dairy industry to help automate the milking process and gather data, and improve cattle nutrition,” Roshan Pinto, head of manufacturing at the digital products company Tavant, which works with agriculture and other industries, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Overall Findings The easiest way to summarize the difference between these two services is as follows: YouTube Premium combines the benefits of YouTube Music Premium with additional video features. Two big decisions will affect your choice. The first is whether you’re a big YouTube video watcher and how important that is to you, as YouTube Music Premium is… well, just music. The second is if you have children, as YouTube Premium has features to protect your kids....

On the official YouTube blog last week, the video-sharing platform unveiled plans to release a new automatic software to “more consistently apply age restrictions” on videos deemed inappropriate for younger viewers. Motivated by recent concerns about children on the app, the new system is based around machine-learning artificial intelligence software with the ability to forgo human moderators for a more automatic process. The issue? YouTube’s automated systems have been accused of singling out LGBTQ+ content and creators simply for existing....

I feel increasingly old when I think and talk about Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake. So many thoughts of how “this isn’t how it used to be. I liked the old ways better!” linger in my mind. It turns out that Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade expands that sentiment even further, but I’m starting to find my peace with it. So, just how is Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade?...

NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (it’s the square root of 1.5; this is math snark) is the remastered version of NieR, a cult favorite action-RPG from 2010. It amps up the production values, adds more quests, and replaces a bunch of content that had to be cut from the original release. It’s the best possible version of itself, made under the creative direction of Yoko Taro, one of modern video gamings’ most famous eccentrics....