The ever-expanding “who would win in a fight” simulator that is Fortnite has announced its first-ever Icons Series addition from the NFL: Patrick Mahomes, quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. Complete with his own signature emote and outfits. “Getting to be a part of a game that I have played for so long is a dream come true,” Mahomes said in the press release, “It was awesome to be involved every step of the way on the creative and design of my Outfit....

The phone (1), launching this month in Europe, is a much-hyped and quite amazing-looking phone, with some genuinely neat features—like that crazy lighting rig around back. But there’s a problem. The phone (1) seems to be aimed at Apple users, which, as we shall see, is an almost impossible task. “It is increasingly hard for new vendors to enter the Smartphone market for the simple reason that Apple, and Google to an extent, have gone to great lengths to ensure that the iPhone is an integral part of your wider ecosystem of tech,” Lee Essex, of U....

Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field is a tiny, portable, battery-powered music studio. It’s also just about the most fun you can have making and recording music. It’s an update to the decade-old OP-1, bringing refinements more than anything new, but these changes take the OP-1 Field from quirky to essential. In short, the OP-1 Field makes music fun again. “For me, it gives me a portable take-on-the-train all-in-one production device that I can also use at home in the house with an acoustic piano or Nord Grand, and lets me stay in a musical frame of mind rather than a computer frame of mind,” said OP-1 F user and musician Rowan Pope (aka darwiniandude) on a forum thread participated in by Lifewire....

Smart locks, in concert with smart doorbell cameras, will unlock your front door automatically when you arrive home, let you check whether you left the door unlocked (and lock it again if you did), and even let you check who just rang the doorbell. But they can be hacked, and there are all kinds of unintended consequences, like alerting homeowners to pending FBI raids. Yes, you read that right. “The most serious risk, I think,” John Brownlee, editor of health magazine Folks, told Lifewire via Twitter, “isn’t hackers or thieves—there [are] easier ways to break-in....

What Are Snapchat Emojis? The Snapchat app tracks your messaging habits with your friends and assigns Friend emojis to represent the current status of your level of interaction with other users. As you continue to send and receive messages, the emojis will change over time. Likewise, if you stop messaging someone for a while, the emoji may disappear completely. Your Friend emojis are not public; they are only visible to you....

This year, CES is online, and there’s no giant screen to see. But there are still plenty of weird displays, from LG’s “smallest” OLED to Mercedes’ 55-inch dashboard-shaped “hyperscreen.” Let’s take a look at the screens of CES. When you think of screens, cars may not be the first place you look. CES has always had a massive car component, and this year we have a great crossover between cars and screens....

What Is the Wiki Game? The Wiki Game is a fun activity for groups of two or more (not just by a single player) and for people of all ages, young or old. You may know it by other names like “Speed Wiki” and “Wiki Racing.” The only thing players need is access to the internet on a computer or a mobile device. You need to know a few basic rules to play the Wiki Game, which includes two variations: Speed Wiki and Click Wiki....

The new restrictions rolling out to users ages 13 to 17 in the coming months include a setting to choose who can watch minors’ videos and a private setting by default for videos made by 13- to 15-year-olds, according to Engadget. On the direct messaging front, TikTok automatically will turn off DMs by default to new 16- to 17-year-olds’ accounts (or existing accounts who have never used DMs before). This means users will have to manually change the settings on who can message them before using the feature....

Tinder on Friday announced a new option that lets users block people from their phone contacts. According to The Verge, you can use the feature to block your exes, friends, relatives, work colleagues, or just anyone you don’t want to appear in your matches. If you block someone, they won’t appear for you, and you won’t appear for them. Tinder says you can upload all of your contacts to the app, or add them individually, if you prefer....

The mobile site has four tabs at the bottom of the screen: Home, Trending, Subscriptions, and Library. Use these tips to navigate your way around the tabs and other settings. If you want to comment on videos or upload videos to your YouTube channel, sign in to YouTube with your Google account. Otherwise, as a guest, you’re limited to only watching videos. MusicGamingNewsMoviesFashion and Beauty If you don’t see the channel you’re looking for, tap the right-arrow in the upper-right corner to view more channels that you subscribe to....

Some dashcam apps compare more favorably to hardware types of dashboard cameras than others, and some apps provide functionality you can’t get from a physical device. For example, some dashcam apps can tie into an OBD2 Bluetooth scanner for a different experience from anything you can get out of a hardware dashcam. While these apps aren’t as convenient as a hardware device, they are the most useful dash camera alternatives available....

Double-click the clip in the timeline.In the top right of the screen, click the Adjust button. The second button from the right, after the i, is the effect icon.Click the Effect icon to reveal windows showing the available audio and video effects in iMovie. The audio effects function similarly. This feature showcases different effects and without time-consuming rendering. To add several effects to a clip or tweak the way an effect looks, export the project from iMovie to Final Cut Pro, where you can make more advanced edits....

The subscription service is available to download for $3.49 CAD ($2.88 USD) and $4.49 AUD ($3.44 USD). Twitter Blue will offer exclusive features to subscribers like Bookmark Folders; Undo Tweet, which allows you to set a customizable timer of up to 30 seconds to click “Undo”; and Reader Mode, which will make reading long threads easier. “We’ve heard from the people that use Twitter a lot, and we mean a lot, that we don’t always build power features that meet their needs,” Twitter wrote in its blog post announcing the feature’s availability....

The report was released after the seventeenth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is entitled “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue.” The report makes many bold statements regarding the right to Internet access and will spur global efforts to increase broadband availability in nations. Is Broadband Affordable Enough for Universal Broadband Access?...

Multiple photo libraries can be a great solution if you need an easier way to manage them. For example, if you run a home-based business, you might want to keep business-related photos in a different photo library than your personal photos. Back Up Before You Create New Photo Libraries Creating a new iPhoto library doesn’t affect the current photo library, but it’s always a good idea to have a current backup before manipulating any photo library you use....

Which Version of Disk Utility Is Right for You? Disk Utility has evolved, gaining new features with each new version of OS X. For the most part, Apple added features and capabilities to the original Disk Utility core app. However, when Apple released OS X El Capitan, it created a new version of Disk Utility. While it retains the same name, its user interface underwent a dramatic makeover. Therefore, there are two separate workflows for using Disk Utility’s First Aid feature....

The phone carrier announced a brand new Verizon Adaptive Sound system on Wednesday that it says will let you “experience music, games, movies, and meetings like never before.” The first phone with the new Adaptive Sound system featuring Dolby Atmos-enabled content is the Motorola One 5G UW Ace, which is available to purchase now. Droid Life reported that Verizon also will add Adaptive Sound to the Motorola Edge+ in a new update of the device....

Kat VR plans to release a gaming treadmill that works with VR headsets. The company claims the device will provide 360° of movement in VR from a single spot at your home. “An omnidirectional treadmill is tuned to your body, so while you’re running, they’re doing calculations to make sure you’re not going to run off the treadmill (there’s also safety harnesses),” Jake Maymar, the vice president of innovation at the VR company The Glimpse Group told Lifewire in an email interview....

No matter what you’re doing with your generator, from running an air conditioning unit to powering construction tools, simplicity is key. Essentially, you’ll want to get as close to plug-and-play as possible, and that’s where the Westinghouse iGen2500 excels. With an easy-start design, smart LED data center, and lightweight construction, the Westinghouse iGen2500 seems to be the ideal mid-range portable generator. In order to find out if it’s as promising as it appears on paper, we put the iGen2500 through 18 hours of testing under different loads....

What Is a Zip File? A Zip file is sometimes called an archive file. The Zip file is a container that holds the actual compressed files. The purpose behind the Zip file is transportation and storage. The Zip file acts like a sandwich bag: It holds contents inside for easy transporting and storage. This makes the ability to use Zip files (and their counterpart Rar files) valuable to file sharers and downloaders....