During Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple announced a slew of new updates on everything from FaceTime to Messages to Notifications, all designed to make iOS 15 a game-changer. FaceTime Users will see so many different changes and updates to FaceTime in iOS 15, including spatial audio capabilities, voice isolation, a new grid view in FaceTime, a Portrait Mode in FaceTime, and the ability for Android and Windows users to finally participate in a FaceTime call by simply sharing a link with them....

What Is an EXO File? A file with the EXO file extension is a Video Chunk file. These files are literally pieces of a larger file that are created when an offline video is requested from a website or app hosting video streams, such as within the YouTube app on some Android devices. YouTube EXO files, specifically, are very often encrypted and compressed. Others taken from online videos might be encrypted, too....

What Is Messenger Kids? Messenger Kids is a free video calling and messaging app for iOS and Android devices as well as Fire tablets. With parental controls and kid-friendly features, Messenger Kids offers children all the fun of digital communication in a safely controlled environment. Parents set up and manage their child’s Messenger Kids account through their own Facebook account, and Mom and Dad control their child’s contact list. Messenger Kids Safety Features Safety and privacy are paramount concerns in Messenger Kids....

This device features a replaceable coin cell battery rated for a full year+ of use, so you won’t have to worry about charging it up on a weekly (or even monthly) basis. The Vivofit is far from Garmin’s most advanced activity tracker, but it has some solid features, especially for more casual exercise enthusiasts. In addition to tracking and displaying your steps, distance, and intensity minutes on its backlit display, the wrist-worn Vivofit 4 tracks your sleep and automatically recognizes the type of exercise you’re doing....

In macOS, the folder that has the .FPBF extension appended to it is labeled as just Burn Folder, but you might see it elsewhere referred to as a Finder Backup Burnable Archive file. How to Open an FPBF File FPBF files can be opened with Apple’s Finder. Some FPBF files might also open with Adobe Photoshop. If this works for you, then all Photoshop is doing is opening a Photoshop-compatible file, like an image, that’s stored within the FPBF file—you can’t use Photoshop to burn the files to a disc like the Burn Folder is intended for....

How: Visiting Apple Music’s web player will let you find and add the playlist to your account. Why Do You Care: It’s fun to see what you’ve been listening to over time. While it’s only February, you can listen to your favorite tunes of the year on a playlist that will update every month until the end of the year. Every year, streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music release a way for their users to listen to their most played tracks from the past year....

When Google Assistant refuses to open anything, it’s usually related to issues with the Google app or smart lock feature, but there could also be a problem with compatibility, your internet connection, or even your microphone. When this problem happens, you will typically see this message: “Sorry, I can’t open apps on this device.” In other cases, Google Assistant won’t respond at all, or you will see the Google Assistant dot icons move for a while, but the requested app won’t open....

If you use Google Chat, you should be able to mark your messages and spaces as read/unread either now or soon. The option is rolling out to everyone who uses Google Workspace, as well as G Suite Basic and G Suite Business, with no admin or end-user actions required. No menu diving will be needed to turn it on—it will be enabled by default once the rollout reaches you. Marking read messages as unread is something Google acknowledges as a common method of staying organized, which is why it’s coming to Google Chat....

How: You can get the app for iOS (and soon Android) and use it on the web, as well. Why Do You Care: If you’re not into TikTok-style viral videos, this might be a great way to share your expertise with an interested community of DIYers. Called Tangi, a name that evokes the word “tangible” and may stand for “teach and give,” the new video app encourages you to, according to Engadget, share video of a project that you can teach someone else in 60 seconds or less....

The Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro flagship models launched in October 2022. The new devices look similar to their Pixel 6 and 6 Pro predecessors but feature aluminum horizontal camera bars instead of glass and more prominent camera lenses. Along with a minimally updated design, the models boast Google’s new Tensor G2 processor, face-unlock capabilities, and enhanced camera zoom features. Both the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro come in Obsidian and Snow, while the 7 has an additional Lemongrass shade, and the Pro also includes a Hazel offering....

It was revealed during The Game Awards that Google Play Games is now bound for Windows machines. According to the announcement, Google Play Games plans to expand its reach in 2022, letting you seamlessly switch between Android and PC desktop/laptop devices. While Google hasn’t revealed any concrete details about the new PC app, it’s likely to be similar to the Play Games app that’s already available for Android devices. Meaning you can save your progress on an Android tablet, then pick up where you left off on your computer....

The Google Wear OS is the company’s proprietary operating system for smartwatches, allowing users to use Google apps on their wearables. However, the system has been unpopular with consumers and mostly neglected by the company. The last major update was the Wear OS 2, which was in 2018. Google is teaming with Samsung on the Wear OS 3. In a blog post from May 18, Google said it was striving for a “new consumer experience” to fix various issues....

The Apollo, built in accordance with a University of Pittsburgh study, is an app-controlled wearable ($349, or $32/month) that purports to regulate your mood with the calming effects of inaudible sound waves. Depending on the setting, it’s supposed to help with relaxation, focus, anxiety, stress, or sleep. Ordinarily, I’d pass something like this by, but after the top-rope soul crusher that was 2020, I’ve gotten more proactively interested in practices like chill-out apps and other at-home mental health boosters....

WarnerMedia announced the plans to launch the new tier on Wednesday, also revealing a new original series, as well as content premieres. While a $10 streaming plan undoubtedly will appeal to many, the lower cost does come with some drawbacks. Notably, Arstechnica reports that the lower-tier plan will not include HBO’s same-day theater premieres, which will include simultaneous launches of movies like Dune, The Matrix 4, and The Suicide Squad later in the year....

Basic Facts Name: Sega Genesis (North America), Sega Mega Drive (Japan, Europe, Brazil)Type: 16-bit consoleDate: 1988 (Japan), 1989 (North America), 1990 (Brazil)4th Generation of Video Games Before the Beginning With the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System dominating the video game market from 1984 to 1989, fellow coin-op arcade manufacturer Sega threw their hat into the home console biz with the Sega Master System. Designed to go head-to-head against the NES, the Master System released seven years after the NES, and while it was a bit more advanced than the competition, it never really caught on in North America....

Artificial intelligence (AI) can discover who you are attracted to. A computer program could generate images of faces it knew certain users would find attractive by examining brain scans. It’s part of a growing effort to build computers that can understand our thoughts. “Such a system might be used to select the content to be catered to a given user,” Radek Kamiński, CEO of nexocode, a company that focuses on AI implementation and consulting, said in an email interview....

DALL·E, a portmanteau of the names of the artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL·E, can take any text and create an image from it. The system uses a neural network that’s been trained on billions of pictures and text examples. It’s one of a growing number of AI projects that can mimic, but not replicate, human beings’ creative output. “Because natural language is constantly evolving, and very dependent on contextual nuance, teaching a machine to understand language well enough to draw a picture is a very significant achievement,” Tamara Schwartz, professor of cybersecurity at York College of Pennsylvania, said in an email interview....

Why Is Base64 Encoding Used? The need for Base64 encoding comes from the problems that occur when media is transmitted in raw binary format to text-based systems. Since text-based systems (like email) interpret binary data as a wide range of characters, including special command characters, much of the binary data that is transmitted to transfer media is misinterpreted by those systems and lost or corrupted in the transmission process. One method of encoding this kind of binary data in a way that avoids such transmission problems is to send it as plain ASCII text in Base64 encoded format....

YouTube’s decision to change how the website uses its hashtag keywords recently was announced in a community post. Instead of offering recommendations of videos with the searched hashtag alongside other relevant content, hashtag landing pages now only will show the videos making use of that particular tag. “Under the old system, you simply added keywords, but they were no guarantee your video would be found unless you intentionally misspelled a keyword and had someone search for your topic with the same misspelling,” YouTuber John Bennardo, director of The Two Dollar Bill Documentary, told us in an email interview....

Understanding Network Routing You can think of network routing as similar to a public transportation system. The entire bus system, including all the stops, is like the network, and the stops are like the nodes. As a bus rider who must make several transfers to get where you’re going, you’re like the data that travels between each node until it reaches its final destination. When data is transferred from one device to another on an Internet Protocol (IP) network, it is broken down into smaller units called packets....