If you’re looking for a more general set of earbud options, take a look at our list of the best wireless earbuds. And if you’re having trouble deciding between the AirPods Pro and the Jabra Elite 75t, read our take on how they compare. The fit is more comfortable, makes a better seal of noise isolation, and is less likely to fall out of your ears. You also don’t have to worry about taking it to the gym since they’re IPX4 water and sweat resistant, though obviously, you should avoid full immersion....

When you think of a search engine, your mind probably pictures Google, but many privacy issues come with using the site. As an alternative, Brave Search recently launched its privacy-centered search engine in beta as a way to search the web without being tracked. After a weekend of using Brave Search, I can see the value of using it for simpler searches, but it still leaves much to be desired for more detailed or location-specific searches....

Can You Use Multiple Range Extenders? You can use multiple range extenders, and there are a lot of situations where doing so can be helpful. If you have a big house or a complicated layout, you may need two, three, or even more range extenders. For example, if there are Wi-Fi dead zones on both the east and west sides of your house, you’ll need an extender on both the east and west sides to create Wi-Fi networks in both areas....

How DAC Works Whether you’re listening to a CD player, mechless head unit, smartphone, or some other digital tech, your car’s audio experience hinges on a component you may have never even heard of. The digital to analog converter (DAC) is responsible for taking digital information stored on CDs and streaming music files and converting it into something that can be played over your car speakers. The one exception to this rule is conventional AM/FM radio, which starts off with an analog signal....

Low Tech Car Diagnostic Tools Although cars have been trending more and more toward computer controls and diagnostic equipment in recent years, it’s important to start with the basics. With that in mind, there are a few decidedly low tech (and somewhat less than low tech) tools that every DIYer and backyard mechanic should have in his or her toolbox. Some of the most basic car diagnostic tools include a:...

Entire “cookbooks” have been written on materials and shaders in Maya, UDK, 3DS Max, Vray, etc. It’s something a lot of beginners have difficulties with and for good reason! Tweaking an array of arcane parameters like “specular strength” and “diffuse weight” in an attempt to mimic real-world materials like wood, glass, stone, or ceramic tile is no easy task. So, here we are. Starting with ambient occlusion, we’ll start to introduce some application settings for some common real-world materials that are tough to nail down....

According to a new report from password manager and VPN service Nord Security, high-level executives use weak, easy-to-crack passwords, just like everyone else. In fact, as well as not bothering to protect their own, or their companies’, security, they seem to have a weird preference for fantastical creatures. “Interestingly, the study showed that top executives also extensively use names of people (i.e., Tiffany, Charlie, Michael, Jordan) and mythical creatures or animals (i....

What Is an EX4 File? A file with the EX4 file extension is a MetaTrader 4 Program file. It’s compiled programming code made for the free foreign exchange market trading program called MetaTrader. Stored in one of these files may be scripts or indicators used by that software. The file could instead be an Expert Advisor (EA) program used by MetaTrader for automating trading. The programming code in the file is compiled from an MQ4 file, which is an MQL4 source code file....

What Is Facebook Watch? Facebook Watch is built into Facebook, can be accessed through the main Facebook website and the Facebook app on mobile platforms and streaming devices. It can be found on its own Watch tab, which is similar to the Marketplace and Messenger tabs. Facebook Watch isn’t a cable replacement service. It’s more like YouTube than YouTube TV, because it doesn’t include live television from networks or cable channels....

When you work in a regular job, in an office, with rules about not ruining employees’ bodies, getting a proper chair is easy. You either already have one, or you ask. Unfortunately, for home workers, there’s a good chance you will have to pay for it yourself, which is when you realize that you’re not going to get much change out of a grand. That’s crazy money for a chair, but if you continue working from a kitchen stool or a cheap Ikea chair, you’ll end up spending a lot more than that, either on medical bills or in pain and suffering....

Since I’m still working from home, I’ve been using a built-in desk in my bedroom. It left me hunched over all day, and I would feel my back aching by the time I logged off my work VPN. Even worse with this desk, I couldn’t adjust it. I needed something that would not only fit into my hundred-year-old home aesthetic but would allow me to shift and stretch my back when I needed to....

What You Need to Begin Gamesharing on Xbox One Before you can enable gamesharing on your console, each person needs the following: An Xbox One video game console. You can use either an original Xbox One, Xbox One S, or an Xbox One X. An internet connection for logging into the Xbox network online service. One Xbox network account for each user. This is the account you use to buy digital video games on an Xbox 360 or Xbox One console, in addition to movies and apps from the Microsoft Store....

Neighborhood Vibe works by showing user reviews as you’re panning through the area. Another new feature also allows users to see how busy a neighborhood might be, based on Google’s crowd-level data from that business, and what the weather may be like on any day they’re planning to arrive. While the new Maps update hasn’t rolled out, some experts see the potential for trouble.. “It’s standard practice for computer scientists to continuously improve AI models based on new data,” Daniel Wu, a researcher in the Stanford AI Lab and cofounder of the Stanford Trustworthy AI Institute, which focuses on technical research to make AI safe, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Moley’s kitchen is a frightening-looking contraption with two robotic arms featuring fully articulated “hands” that attempt to reproduce human hand movements. The manufacturer claims it can retrieve ingredients from the smart fridge, pour, mix, and serve food onto plates just as a human cook would. It even cleans up after itself. “Dining out is a whole different story during COVID, and more than ever people are cooking at home,” Julie Ryan Evans, the editor of SecurityNerd, said in an email interview....

The recently released WIDEX MOMENT uses AI to learn how users prefer to hear their surroundings and compares it to millions of settings stored in the cloud to help personalize the listening experience. It’s one of a growing number of hearing devices that are using new technologies. “WIDEX MOMENT with PureSound addresses one of the great unsolved challenges for hearing aid users: no matter how good the sound, it still sounds artificial, like you’re listening to a recording of your voice rather than how it sounded before your hearing was impaired,” Kerrie Coughlin, the vice president of Widex Marketing, said in an email interview....

Google is working on a new version of Android 12, which will ship to entry-level smartphones in 2022. The new operating system is based on several of the best features from the main version of Android 12. It has been optimized to run on budget Android devices that feature lower amounts of RAM. RAM plays a huge part in how your phone multitasks, and standard operating systems can bog down if they don’t have enough RAM to work with....

The digital graveyard of apps that were once popular is filled to the brim with examples like Vine, Meerkat, Myspace, and the like. Of course, being a popular app in 2012 takes a different set of tech and features than being popular in 2021, but modernizing an old platform for today’s users might bring your old favorite apps back to life. “In this age of make-overs and version updates, any comeback is possible,” said Arvind Patil, a business developer at Selectra, in an email interview with Lifewire....

Four Ways Spammers Get Your Address There are four main ways spammers get your email address. Here’s a look at each method and what you can do to defend your inbox against these unwanted intrusions. Buying Email Addresses From a List Spammers purchase email addresses both legally and illegally. When you create an account on a website or service or make an online purchase, read the privacy policy carefully. Your email address could be sold to a marketing list, creating unwanted junk mail....

How Fast Is Cable Internet? Rated connection speeds of cable internet connections typically range between 20 Mbps and 100 Mbps. In the early days of the internet, cable internet providers supported broadband network speeds as low as 512 Kbps (0.5 Mbps) for downloads. These speeds have increased over the years by a factor of 100 with improvements in internet network technology. The Role of Cable Modems in Cable Internet Speed Cable modem technology follows the industry standard Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)....

Passwords are a huge problem. Weak or stolen passwords are behind over 80% of hacking breaches, and people are just terrible at managing passwords. We either forget them, use the name of our dogs or kids, or use the same password for everything. Password managers like NordPass or iCloud Keychain can help, but a password is still fundamentally insecure. Passkeys in iCloud Keychain, and the new standard WebAuthn, want to fix this, but can they ever really replace the password?...