Most suggestions involve upgrades such as a new head unit, premium speakers, or a subwoofer, but others focus on improving the acoustics in your car primarily by removing as much external interference as possible. Here are five of the best ways to improve the quality of the audio in your car. The fix: Install aftermarket features that meet the same dimensions and play nicely with your existing head unit. The easiest way to hear at least some improvement in car audio quality is to replace the factory speakers with higher-quality aftermarket units....

The vulnerability, recorded as CVE-2022-38392, points to the music video of Janet Jackson’s 1989 classic Rhythm Nation as bringing down a specific model of hard disks. Yet, the MITRE Corporation, which helps identify and categorize vulnerabilities in software, only recently decided to list it as an issue. Although the bug isn’t new, it came into the limelight after Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen blogged about it recently. “While new systems are coming out with SSDs, older hardware and software has a way of staying around well past its prime,” Chris Goettl, VP of Product Management for security products at Ivanti, told Lifewire over email....

Acer’s ChromeBox CX13 is one of the smaller desktop computers available, but it still packs a punch in spite of its shrunken size. It comes in several configurations, with prices ranging from $280 all the way up to $900. For this review, I tested the Acer ChromeBox CX13-i38GKM2, a mid-tier model that sells for around $500. Design: Fits in your hand The CX13 is designed to disappear into its surroundings, promoting space savings and emphasis on the more tactile peripherals....

What Is an ACV File? A file with the ACV file extension is a Curves file that Adobe Photoshop uses to store custom RGB colors that have been adjusted with its built-in Curves tool. Photoshop comes installed with ACV files, stored in the program’s installation folder. You can also make your own custom ACV files or download them from the internet, and then use the Curves tool to import them into the program....

One such tool is Adobe’s Substance 3D, which just received a massive update, as announced via press release. For the uninitiated, Substance is sort of like Photoshop for 3D space and has been a mainstay of digital animators as they create worlds found in movies and video games. It is also quite handy for creating the 3D graphics behind metaverse worlds. To that end, the update brings a wealth of new tools to budding VR creators....

CCE is Adobe’s answer to the burgeoning category of single-serve design apps. These cheap and often free apps make it easy to create party invites, flyers, posters, or any other visual materials. They give you templates, so you don’t have to start with a blank canvas, and offer a stripped-down feature set so you can quickly achieve what you need to do. Creative Cloud Express is exactly that, only made by Adobe....

Voyager Labs is reportedly collecting social media information to create profiles that can be used to identify people who pose security risks. It’s part of a growing effort to use artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate potential criminals. But some experts say that the movement is rife with potential problems. “It’s very hard to predict human behavior,” Matthew Carr, a security researcher at Atumcell Group, told Lifewire in an email interview....

AirPods flash orange to indicate a problem. They will refuse to flash white when pairing is impossible. The indicator light can also change a couple of other colors to convey additional information. What Do The Different Light Colors Mean On AirPods? AirPods and AirPods Pro cases have a single LED capable of changing to four different colors, with each color meaning something specific. Here’s what the colors on your AirPods mean:...

As it stands: The request was made in January 2020, and the data returned covered a period from September 28, 2019 through February 3, 2020. There were over 1,900 specific “camera events” in the document, including detected motions, doorbell “dings,” and any remote action by users to see the live video feed or talk to a visitor. In addition, the latitude and longitude of each device, including the one running the Ring app, were recorded, down to 13 decimal places, which (in theory) could indicate where a device was to the nearest 0....

Google announced the new feature—called Play as You Download—coming to Android 12 this fall during Monday’s Google For Games Developers Summit, according to a blog post published on the Android Developers blog. “Play as you download, built into the core of Android 12, will allow users to get into gameplay in seconds while game assets are downloaded in the background,” Greg Hartrell, product management director of Google Play and Android, said in the blog post....

Recent problems with Wyze security cameras may have left some people looking for a replacement, and Anker’s new eufy 4G Starlight Camera is certainly one such option (of many). This specific camera is likely best used for large or rural properties as its main draw is that it doesn’t require a Wi-Fi connection, so wireless modem/router range is a non-issue. That said, you will need an AT&T data-only SIM card to use its 4G capabilities....

Apple recently announced the changes, saying it has worked closely with safety experts and law enforcement to decide what improvements should be made to better protect users. Initially, the changes will include new alerts and warnings while Apple works on adding new safety features, set to release later this year. In a future update, new AirTag users will get a notice stating that the product is only meant to be used on their own belongings....

According to Apple Insider, this annual Christmas Easter egg is available on the Apple Store app. To get the snow globe effect, open the Apple Store app and search “let it snow” in the search bar, and your phone screen will be filled with fluttering snowflakes. If you are using the app on your iPhone or iPad for holiday shopping, you can even shake your device, and the snow swirls around like an actual snow globe....

The company just announced the forthcoming launch of iPadOS 16 and demoed many of the upcoming features available with the latest version of the tablet-focused operating system. First up, a beefier multitasking interface that goes way beyond the side-by-side split view available with current iPad models. The redesigned interface makes it easy to see which apps are open and, as such, switch between them at will. The new tools let users juggle between eight apps and even allow for resizing windows, taking modern iPads closer to legitimate PCs than ever before....

According to Bloomberg, Apple will release the Apple Watch Series 7 in 2021, with a new screen and faster processor. The company also is expected to release the Apple Watch Series 8 in 2022, alongside a more rugged sports edition, as well as an updated Apple Watch SE. Apple Insider reports that the Series 8 could include a body temperature sensor. Apple isn’t expected to reveal the Apple Watch Series 7 until later in 2021, though Bloomberg reports that it will include a thicker chassis than previous models....

What Are Containers? Containers are logical constructs of digital space that contain one or more volumes. When all the volumes in a container use the APFS file system, the volumes share the space available in the container. A volume that needs additional storage space can use free space from another container. Volume vs. Partition A volume is a self-contained storage area that a computer can read. Common types of volumes include CDs, DVDs, SSDs, and hard drives....

The WordPerfect word processor software uses AST files as template files, but this program is more commonly associated with WordPerfect Template files (.WPT). Another use for AST files might be for Adobe Color Separations Table files used by a few Adobe products for exporting data to the PDF format or to a different program. It looks to be an obsolete format but you can read a little more information on it in the Adobe Photoshop File Formats Specification....

Below are various advanced search tips you might not know you can use on Bing. Reverse Image Search on Bing A Bing image match search is an easy way to find pictures that look like another image. You do this not by using text like a normal search, but instead by giving Bing the image you want to use as reference. Select the image button on the home page to browse your computer for the image, or provide its URL....

Published by Comsec, a security research group from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich, the paper describes a “Rowhammer” attack that slams memory with junk data to trigger a bit flip. Comsec’s new twist on this attack, Blacksmith, can bypass protections used by DDR4 memory to guard against such attacks. “All devices that feature DRAM are likely vulnerable,” Kaveh Razavi, an assistant professor at ETH Zürich and leader of Comsec, told Lifewire in an email....

Factors to Consider Fears about losing steering wheel controls when upgrading a car stereo are largely unfounded, but this type of upgrade is more complex than most. While it is possible to implement aftermarket steering wheel audio controls with your original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware, it isn’t a given that any new head unit you buy will work with your steering wheel controls. In addition to buying a compatible head unit replacement, a typical installation scenario also involves the purchase and installation of the right type of steering wheel audio control adapter to facilitate communication between your factory controls and your aftermarket head unit....