A post was made in Google’s Issue Tracker, asking for a way to flip the UI for a Wear OS smartwatch upside-down so lefties could comfortably wear the watch on their right wrist. Now, just shy of four years later, Google has marked the issue as “resolved” with the statement: “Our development team has implemented the feature you have requested and will be available on future new devices.” It’s the “future new devices” part that’s ended up frustrating users—perhaps more than they were before....

Leaked by Twitter user, The Galox, the new images appear to include promotional material for the Z Fold 3, as well as images of the back and main display of the device. One of the most notable changes detailed in the leak is the removal of the camera notch, which has been a mainstay on smartphones since the push for “edge-to-edge” screens several years ago. In recent phone releases, this notch has been replaced by a small circular cutout, but the Z-Fold 3 could do away with that completely, as well....

The appropriately-named Venu Sq 2 doubles the battery life from the previous iteration, though it’s also chock-full of other advancements that hope to entice you to wrap it around your wrist. The OLED screen is now bigger, at 1.4-inches, and there is a brand new Health Snapshot feature that creates a two-minute analysis of heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen levels, respiration, stress, and more. Sports and fitness tracking take center stage here, as the Venu Sq 2 includes 25 built-in apps for various activities, including yoga, strength training, cardio, pilates, and more....

Safer Internet Day is possibly the most appropriate time for Google to reveal its plans for improving user protections across several services, starting with high-risk users. It will be teaming up with various organizations ahead of the 2022 US midterms to expand protections for users it determines to be at greater risk. Said organizations include Veterans Campaign, Women’s Public Leadership Network, LGBTQ Victory Institute, Latino Victory, and more. Along with improving high-risk user protections, Google will also be rolling out “account-level enhanced safe browsing” sometime in March 2022....

Hard Drives Hard drives are still the most common form of storage in a laptop and are pretty straightforward. Generally, the drive will be referred to by its capacity and rotational speed. Larger-capacity drives tend to perform better than smaller ones and faster-spinning drives, when compared with ones of similar capacity, are usually more responsive than slower ones. However, slower-spinning HDDs do have a slight advantage when it comes to laptop running times because they draw less power....

Of course, I bought a pack of four for $99, but at least you have the option to go the less expensive route. That’s a change of pace for Apple, which is known as much for its high prices as its quality. But the AirTag is far more than just a cheap accessory, as it’s meant to help you keep track of your prized possessions. The idea behind the AirTag is hardly novel....

Like the best light therapy alarm clocks, the HeimVision Sunrise Alarm Clock A80S is a device claiming to ease the pains of 21st-century life by making it easier to get to sleep and less jarring to wake up. Can it deliver the performance to meet such lofty goals? Design: Shaped like the Sunrise The HeimVision Sunrise Alarm Clock A80S matches form to function with its large, disk-shaped tower. it’s attractive in a somewhat futuristic way and wouldn’t look out of place in a science fiction film....

AI is already influencing architecture. New technologies ranging from smart speakers to smart thermostats are changing the way architects think about living and workspace. But the architecture of the future that’s designed by AI may be unique, according to the authors of a new paper in the International Journal of Architectural Computing. “The result is something new, different, alien, strange, and wonderfully beautiful—maybe the first genuine 21st-century architecture," Matias del Campo, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, and one of the researchers who carried out the study, said in an email interview....

Ford and Google have formed a collaborative group called Team Upshift to bring Android to Ford vehicles in 2023 and work on future updates. Based on Ford’s blog post about the partnership, it sounds like Google will take over Ford’s operating system duties, leaving Ford engineers to work on “unique Ford and Lincoln customer innovations.” It’s convenient for users, and for Ford, but there are two problems. One is Android security, and the other is Google, itself....

“I think many people are probably not aware of the inadequate measures that have been taken by government agencies and their contractors to secure this especially sensitive information,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) associate director of community organizing Nathan Sheard told Lifewire via email. “Many are not aware that [US Customs and Border Protection] contractors alone have allowed license plate and face image data of over 100,000 individuals to be compromised....

Modern compatibility is made possible because of the development and widespread implementation of Plug and Play (PnP) technology. What Is Plug and Play? Plug and Play—not to be confused with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)—is a set of operating system standards that enable hardware connectivity through automatic device detection and configuration. Before Plug and Play, users had to manually change complex settings (for example, dip switches, jumper blocks, I/O addresses, IRQ, and DMA) for hardware to function correctly....

The Star Chase gadget can be launched from a police cruiser onto another vehicle to track it during a pursuit. It follows the runaway suspects using GPS, and recently was adopted by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio to prevent high-speed chases. Experts say that avoiding pursuits can save lives. “Chases are insanely dangerous,” former federal law enforcement officer Leonard A. Sipes Jr. said in an email interview. “You never know what the driver is going to do....

British firm OneWeb recently launched 34 satellites into orbit from a spaceport in Kazakhstan, increasing its in-orbit constellation to 322 satellites. The satellites are intended to provide high-speed internet coverage in areas that are underserved by traditional methods. It’s part of a new wave of technologies that could help bridge the digital divide. “Satellites can provide a solution for people living in remote areas where terrestrial broadband infrastructure has not been built out, providing essential connectivity for millions of people,” Mark Buell, a vice president of the nonprofit Internet Society, told Lifewire in an email interview....

How long a graphics card lasts in the former is very much dependent on your wants and needs, but the latter is down to the hardware itself and if years of heat have taken its toll. Can a GPU Last 10 Years? Absolutely. If you play the same game for ten years, then there’s no reason that the same graphics card won’t continue to play the game and when it was released....

How Many Villagers Are There in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? As of the Series 5 amiibo cards release, New Horizons now has a total of 412 villagers (excluding special villagers like Tom Nook, Isabelle, Blathers, and others). Although this may seem like an overwhelming number to choose from, especially since you can only have up to 10 neighbors living on your island at a time, there isn’t as much differentiation between villager personalities as you might think....

How Long Can You Record on Spectacles? If you’re just recording video, you can take up to 150 video snaps, but this will depend on how long your videos are. Longer videos mean fewer Snaps altogether, and since most people don’t take exclusively videos or pictures and rather a mix of both, this will also impact how much you can record. Luckily, though, all Snapchat Spectacles videos are recorded in HD, and if you have a pair of second-generation or third-generation Spectacles, you’ll record at 60 frames-per-second, too....

Data Usage Depends on Streaming Quality The amount of data your music streaming services use depends on the streaming quality settings in the application. The quality settings are measured in bitrates, which is the rate at which data is processed or transferred. The higher the bitrate, the better quality the music is when you listen to it. For example, Apple Music tops out at 256 Kbps (kilobits per second), while Spotify Premium gets up to 320 Kbps....

Apple Watch Emergency SOS Feature The Apple Watch Emergency SOS feature can be a literal life-saver for your loved ones, helping them call for emergency services and alert their emergency contacts with the touch of a button. To use Emergency SOS: How to Set up Emergency Contacts Here’s how to designate your emergency contacts so that the Emergency SOS feature will alert the right people. Apple Watch Fall Detection Using the Apple Watch Series 4 or later’s built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, the device can detect when a user has taken a bad fall....

How Do I Access ‘Other’ and System Storage on Mac? To see how much “Other” storage you’re dealing with, you’ll need to check your Mac’s System Storage. Here’s where to find it. How Do I Find Out What ‘Other’ Is in My Mac Storage? Along with taking up a non-trivial part of your Mac’s hard drive, “Other” storage can be frustrating because nothing in About This Mac tells you what exactly it is....

How to Access Gmail in Eudora To connect your Gmail account to Eudora so that you can send and receive messages: Can You Access a Gmail Account With Eudora? Although support for Eudora was discontinued in 2013, the email client still supports POP3, IMAP, and SMTP protocols in addition to SSL and S/MIME authentication. That means you can access your Gmail account from Eudora if it’s still your preferred email program....