How to Turn on Keyboard Backlighting on HP Laptops HP has made the process of turning on its keyboard backlighting extremely easy. Most modern HP laptops only require that you press a single key to toggle the keyboard lighting on and off. Using the Luminance Keys You can adjust the brightness of your keyboard backlighting using the separate luminance keys. They are also located in the top row of FN keys and are denoted by large and smaller flashing light symbols....

How to Stop Unwanted Emails There are many ways to unsubscribe from mailing lists and stop unwanted emails from appearing in your inbox. The method you choose depends on the type of mailing list and your preferences. Select the Unsubscribe link in the email message. This may be the easiest method. After you click the unsubscribe link, you’re automatically removed from the mailing list.Mark an email from the mailing list as spam....

What Is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality, or AR, is a technology that overlays digital information onto the real world, using apps on smartphones and other devices. Generally speaking, augmented reality apps let users “see” through the cameras on their devices. The apps then add data delivered from the Internet to the image being shown. Augmented reality doesn’t get the same kind of hype as virtual reality (VR), but it has the potential to be a much more widely used and much more world-changing technology....

A Quick Review: What Is Bumble? Not all apps built to connect people do so while thinking about the actual people involved. Bumble, was built in part, to empower women and give them a better chance of deeper connections unlike competitors like Tinder. Bumble is broken out into three separate sections: Bumble Date, Bumble BFF, and Bumble Bizz. Each one has its own specific purposes and works a bit differently. Bumble Date is for the people looking for a date night, or a new relationship....

How to Use Night Mode If you have a Samsung phone, you have two ways to make your phone easier to read at night—Samsung night mode and Samsung blue light filter. Both are easy to turn on in the Quick Settings menu. You can also schedule night mode to open automatically in Settings. How to Use the Samsung Blue Light Filter You can also turn the blue light filter on and off in Settings....

How to Sign Up for Paramount+ Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) is a single-network streaming service that allows cord-cutters to watch live television without a cable subscription. Unlike most other services, it offers content from CBS and other channels from the parent company, ViacomCBS. It’s also one of the only places you can watch CBS online, and it’s the only place anywhere that you can watch exclusive content like Star Trek: Discovery....

How Do I Set Up Parental Controls On My Kindle? Do Kindles Have Parental Controls? Yes, but you need to enable the feature. However, this does enable you to hand-pick what kids can read and do on each tablet to a point. Keep in mind you’ll also need to configure parental controls in games and apps like Overdrive and Libby, which allow you to borrow from local libraries, and may not apply to independent browsers such as Opera....

Before You Use Google Docs Speech-to-Text Before you get started using dictation in Google Docs, you’ll need to make sure you’re using Google Docs on a Chrome browser. Although you can use the speech-to-text feature of the Google keyboard on a mobile device, it’s not as fully featured as voice typing in Google Docs on Chrome. You also need to make sure the microphone on your computer is enabled and is working properly....

The Flow is a lot lighter than most other non-pro VR rigs on the market. It ditches a few things to keep its weight down, including controllers, so you have to use your smartphone instead. Experts say that portability is vital when it comes to VR. “It is something that some people could also consider wearing outside the home, like, for instance, on a plane,” VR expert Antony Vitillo told Lifewire in an email interview....

The IBUYPOWER BB108A sits at the low end of the desktop PC spectrum, both in terms of cost and in horsepower. Once you start looking at budget desktop PCs, you’ve got to expect serious compromises. Can the BB108A perform well enough to justify its cost, even at this low price point? Design: The incredible bulk There is nothing discreet or subtle about the iBUYPOWER BB108A—it’s a massive, hulking tower of metal and glass that tends to dominate any space in which it’s placed....

Something else you can do at Internet Archive is download free movies. It’s 100 percent legal to not only stream these films but also save them so you can watch them offline on any of your devices. Internet Archive’s Free Streaming Movies This site’s movies are organized in collections. Some of them include Animation & Cartoons, The VHS Vault, Vlogs, Short Format Films and, of course, Movies. Along the left side of the page are all the filtering options....

For owners who bought their devices in the 4-5 years prior to the release of iOS 10, the news was good. In this article, you can learn all about the history of iOS 10, its key features, and which Apple devices are compatible with it. iOS 10 Compatible Apple Devices Key iOS 10 Features iOS 10 was so desirable because of the key new features it introduced. The most significant improvements that came in this version were: Improved Siri Revamped interface for Apple Music iMessage apps iMessage effects and animations Improved lock screen features and options The ability to delete pre-installed apps Voicemail transcriptions Home, an app to control Homekit compatible smart-home devices....

More information about how Apple plans to bring Find My support to AirPods has possibly been revealed thanks to code discovered by 9To5Mac in the latest iOS 15 beta. According to Engadget, Apple has been talking quite a bit about how it wants to bring more support for AirPods to iOS 15, including better tracking. The code found suggests that users will be able to connect their AirPods to their Apple ID....

Is the Apple Watch Series 7 Waterproof? Like every model of Apple Watch since the Series 2, the Series 7 boasts a WR50 rating, which means it’s water-resistant up to 50 meters (about 164 feet) below the surface. So the short answer is, no, it isn’t completely waterproof. The longer answer is that it’s sufficiently resistant. You shouldn’t have to take it off in most situations. The Apple Watch conforms to ISO-22810-2010, an international testing standard that ensures the water resistance of watches....

In this guide we’ll take a closer look at Vonage, including its pros and cons. Features Vonage includes a lot of features with its basic service. Here are some of them: 911 Voicemail Caller ID with Name Call Waiting Call Forwarding 3-Way Calling In-Network Calls Take Vonage With You Area Code Selection Call Transfer Click-2-Call Call Return Caller ID Block Repeat Dialing International Call Block Ring Lists Call Hunt Vonage V-Forecast...

Wielding artificial intelligence, investigators were able to scan huge amounts of information collected from wearables and discern users’ height, weight, sex, age, and other characteristics, according to a recently released paper by scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Alan Turing Institute. The identities of the people whose information was in the data were not revealed, but the study raises privacy concerns about what could happen to information that’s collected, experts say....

The bill would force social media services like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to offer a plain old chronological timeline as an alternative to the algorithm-created flows that are optimized to keep users engaged and enraged. The idea is that users could choose to switch away from these opaque and possibly manipulative content feeds and take back a measure of control. But will it work? After all, there’s a reason these platforms are so popular—people like what they’re being fed....

Let’s talk about how you should be part of that second group. Not an Instant EV Utopia On January 1, 2035, no one will be rolling through town in—I assume—a large truck that transforms into a fire-breathing mechanical dinosaur and destroys gas-powered vehicles sitting in driveways. Sure it would make for some outstanding reality television. But that’s not what the rule says or will do. Instead, the rule says that all NEW cars sold in the state need to be electric....

Where things stand right now: What you’ll initially notice is the simplification of the tabs on the bottom of the screen. Already reduced to three tabs in an October 2018 update, this new update removes the Discover tab altogether, putting the focus on People and Chats. The former shows your contacts’ stories while the latter is the same basic chat list you’ve used before. The big picture: While it may seem a small change, the streamlining of the Messenger app could also be seen as another step towards putting people first as Facebook tries to undo the damage from the Cambridge Analytica debacle and Russian interference in the 2016 elections....

University of Rochester researchers have come up with a new way to make VR glasses that are compact and easy to wear. The glasses are made by imprinting freeform optics with a nanophotonic optical element called “a metaform.” Innovations like this one could soon make VR gear more immersive. “Today, device makers have to make tradeoffs between immersion and portability because a device with a high-quality display and a high refresh rate will likely consume more computing power,” Thomas Amilien, the CEO of virtual reality company Clay AIR, said in an email interview....