How to connect Alexa to a Bluetooth speaker
Amazon Echos don’t have the most powerful speakers. But you can synch your Amazon Echo with any Bluetooth speaker to have your music play from both your Amazon Echo and your Bluetooth speaker to add some more volume or spread out sound to multiple rooms in your home. The Amazon Echo is a speaker and […]
NASA researchers developed a balloon for detecting earthquakes — Future Blink
A team of researchers from Caltech and NASA’s JPL created a balloon that can detect earthquakes. Now, they’re hoping to adapt a similar technique for analyzing seismic waves on Venus.
IKEA furniture instructions just got easier, thanks to this robot — Strictly Robots
Researchers at USC developed a robot that can predict how you’ll build an IKEA bookcase and anticipate your needs in the process.
Joe Biden says Facebook is 'killing people' with COVID misinformation
President Joe Biden did not equivocate when asked what on message to platforms like Facebook that host COVID misinformation. Biden told reporters that “they’re killing people.” Biden spoke briefly with reporters on Friday and was asked: “On COVID misinformation, what’s your message to platforms like Facebook?” “They’re killing people,” Biden said. “Well look, the only […]
How to get your Instagram Top 9
Yes, you can technically turn off your Instagram likes – but isn’t it just more fun to know exactly how many likes your photos get? If you want to bask in the vanity of your Instagram’s best-performing posts, you can get a neat little report of your top nine most liked posts, delivered in an […]
What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.
The secure messaging app Signal has been around for years. But thanks to heightened awareness of the need for privacy the app recently exploded with new users. Known for its end-to-end encryption and independent structure as a non-profit organization run by a foundation — not a big tech company — Signal has previously been the […]
How to keep your Slack status active while 'working' from home
For such a tiny bubble, it sure causes a major headache. As more and more companies realize that remote work is here to stay, an ever-growing number of Slack users are now faced with the same problem: How to appear as “active” on the platform when they’re anything but. For the unaware, Slack is a […]
Four simple ways to connect an iPhone to a TV
If you’re reading this, you must be familiar with one of the classic dilemmas of the modern age: You’re looking at something on your iPhone and you desperately wish it was on your TV across the room instead. After all, why look at a small screen when a big one is right there? That YouTube […]
Save $1,000 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, plus more laptop deals this weekend
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Google gave nearly 1,000 emoji a much-needed makeover
In honor of World Emoji Day, Google revamped hundreds of its existing emoji (992 of them to be exact) to look more accurate and inclusive. And considering Unicode’s new emoji release has been postponed, at least we have some type of emoji content to celebrate the holiday with. While I’d love to break down the […]