The purpose of the feature is to see what various types of home decor will look like in your home before purchasing them. Pinterest is working alongside American retailers like West Elm and Wayfair to make this AR preview capability possible. The feature utilizes Pinterest Lens, a technology that normally scans objects and shows you items with similar styles and designs on the app. For this new feature, you will find a button on select product listings that displays the AR preview....

PS Plus Collection Release Date November 12, 2020 was when the PS5 launched. The PS Plus Collection was available that day, too. That release date applied to anyone in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. You had to wait until November 19 in these areas: Europe, the Middle East, South America, Asia, and South Africa (excluding China and Saudi Arabia where this isn’t available). PlayStation Plus Collection Game List Sony includes these 20 games in the PS Plus Collection:...

Suspicious activity was first noticed yesterday (Tuesday, August 24th), according to an email from Plex that was sent to customers this morning. Upon closer inspection, Plex has been able to verify that an unknown third party was able to access some information on one of its databases. That data includes user names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. While Plex assures subscribers that the potentially compromised passwords have been “hashed and secured in accordance with best practices,” it’s still erring on the side of caution....

Advantages Portable apps (short for applications) are software distributions that don’t need to be installed on a computer to run. They are therefore perfect to carry around with your media library without you having to install the right software on every computer you use. Using this type of software isn’t just for external hardware devices either. You can burn MP3 CDs for example with a portable jukebox app on them so you can play your music on any computer with a CD-ROM drive....

Presearch, which has just exited the testing phase, is one such option that wants to end the monopoly of traditional search engines by putting people in charge. Its decentralized network replaces company-controlled supercomputers with a network of thousands of user-controlled nodes that work together. The goal? To get you the same meaningful results for your search queries but without the privacy and monopolistic concerns associated with traditional search engines like Google....

When Was the PlayStation 5 Released? The Playstation 5 was released for sale on November 12, 2020, in the United States. We’ve been impressed with the console’s evolution; this version is worth the upgrade if you’ve got the bucks to spend. What’s the Price? The PS5 has a $499 price tag for the Blu-ray disc version with the digital version (without an optical drive) priced at $399. That puts it a bit above its Microsoft competitor, the Xbox Series X and Series S (digital version), with pricing of $499....

The smallest current quantum computers are too bulky to be portable, but MIT researchers have now used ultrathin materials to build superconducting qubits, the quantum computer equivalent of transistors. It’s part of a quickening effort to make quantum computers practical for everyday use. “Quantum devices, particularly for sensing enabled by solid-state quantum technology, are well on their way to being “personal electronics” size,” Prineha Narang, a professor of computational materials science at Harvard University who studies quantum computing (who was not involved in the MIT study), told Lifewire in an email interview....

Who Is Grace Hopper? The Early Years Born in December 1906 in New York City, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Van Horne’s daughter. As a child, she was educated in private schools and showed an early interest in engineering. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 1928 with degrees in mathematics and physics. She then received her master’s degree in mathematics from Yale in 1930 and, one year later, began teaching the same subject at Vassar College....

Cybersecurity research firm, NCC Group, has demonstrated a weakness in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) specification that could be exploited by attackers to break open smart locks, such as the one used in a Tesla, and other phone-as-a-key systems that rely on Bluetooth-based proximity authentication. Fortunately, experts say such an attack is unlikely to occur on a mass scale, as it would take a tremendous amount of technical work to achieve....

After its release of THEC64, it’s only natural that Retro Games would want to try its hand at another bite-sized retro console, hence THEA500. According to the official website, the mini console is designed for “…perfect emulation of not only the original Amiga 500, but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) of the Amiga 1200.” THEA500 comes loaded with 25 classic games like Another World (Out of This World), Simon the Sorcerer, and Worms....

With the ubiquity of smart TVs preloaded with premium streaming apps, what’s the purpose of streaming devices like the Roku Express? When you tune in to the Express, you get access to thousands of free and premium shows you may never have discovered on the choice few apps of your smart TV, or on the same reruns that show up on your cable subscription. If you’re afraid of leaving cable, know that many primetime shows are on some streaming platform out there, and for much less money....

It’s hard to overstate how much the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ puts Android tablets on the map. As a category, Android tablets have long been considered the younger, less capable sibling of Apple’s iPad lineup, and that is in large part due to software limitations and lack of tablet-specific support from developers, but it has also historically been because, frankly, Android tablets didn’t look and feel that exciting. Samsung has aimed to (and in a lot of ways, succeeded in) shattering that expectation with the Tab S7+, bringing consumers a truly impressive tablet experience....

Samsung Health Wants to Be Your Health Habit Hub Samsung Health works as your hub for all things health related. Workouts, water intake, and hooking up with your running app to have all the information you want in a single place. There’s a lot going on in this app, but the aim is to put you in control with data to back up plan. When you walk the dog or take a run, your phone detects the motion and tracks it for you....

According to Samsung, the user interface update will first roll out to the Galaxy S21 series, including the base model, the S21+, and the S21 Ultra. The company promises to send out the changes to other devices in due time but neglects to say when. Galaxy S21 owners will be given a slew of new Color Palettes to choose from in the update. You will be able to change the look and feel of the entire user interface from the home screen to the menus, buttons, and icons....

Well, now the company is putting the puzzles away and going for a more direct method of communication. Samsung just officially announced an Unpacked event for August 10 and even gave some details about what is on the agenda. Subtitled “unfold your world,” next month’s event will focus on updates to Samsung’s line of foldables, as expected. The announcement included a short video showing a Galaxy Z Flip-shaped device positioned as a “greater than” symbol....

It’s a special semi-lockdown that lets repair technicians check your phone without accessing your private data. You engage it before handing your phone off for repair and unlock it again when you get the phone back. In the meantime, access to personal data like photos, messages, and passwords is blocked. “Our phones have a lot of private data that include saved passwords, social media accounts, and more,” Anirban Saha, technology writer and founder of Techbullish, told Lifewire via email....

The ‘Save as’ Dialog In Gimp, the Save As or the Save a Copy dialog does not allow to save in a GIF format. Gimp will only save in the following formats: XCF, BZ2, XCFBZ2, GZ, XCFGZ, and XZ. To save an image in the GIF format, you’ll have to use the Export As option instead. Export the File The Export File dialog will open if you’re saving a file with features that aren’t supported by GIF, such as layers or other image formats....

The bootable version of SeaTools is more powerful, but is a bit more difficult to use. SeaTools for Windows or Linux isn’t as full-featured, but it’s much easier to install. Both programs are completely free and are highly recommended. If you suspect that your hard drive might be failing, one or both of these tools from Seagate will help you determine what’s wrong. More About Seagate SeaTools Seagate SeaTools is available in both a Windows (or Linux) version and a stand-alone, bootable version for maximum flexibility, called SeaTools for Windows/Linux and SeaTools Bootable, respectively....

Searches made in Windows Vista (where this file type is used) work because the Windows Search Index monitors changes made to files and stores those changes in a SEARCH-MS file, which is then used to quickly find those files throughout the computer. The file type is also used when a user saves a search to view the results later. These files are based on the XML file format, which means they are text files that contain just text entries....

Overall Findings Link a video in a PowerPoint file when you know you’ll have internet access during the presentation, or if you have limited storage space or bandwidth to transfer the file. If you don’t have access to the internet, or if you need the video file to be accessible wherever the file is stored, embed the video in the PowerPoint file. Linking a Video in a PowerPoint Pros and Cons As long as you have permission, you can use a video in your presentation from anywhere on the internet by simply copying and pasting some HTML code....