Over the past four years, net neutrality has been a concern for many, and now that Ajit Pai, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has stepped down, companies like Mozilla are pushing for President Joe Biden and the FCC’s upcoming new commissioner to put more rules in place to help keep internet service providers (ISPs) from having too much control over our internet usage. “Imagine, for example, that an internet service provider wanted to force adoption of its video call tool, and so it limited bandwidth—or even blocked—competing video conference tools....

The new MacBook Pro is just incredible. Over the past year, rumors about the pro Apple Silicon laptop have seemed more like wishcasting than credible leaks. And yet they all came true. From the slim-bezel, micro-LED-backed screen, to an HDMI port and SD card slot, a massive 64GB RAM capacity, and the triumphant return of the MagSafe charger—it seems like Apple has shaken off its obsession with minimalism. The computer is impressive....

An IP Address Is a Georeference Geolocation systems attempt to map IP addresses to geographic locations using large computer databases. Some geolocation databases are available for sale, and some can be searched for free online. Geolocation systems generally function for their intended purposes but also suffer from some important limitations. How Is IP Address Location Used? Geolocation proves useful in several different cases: Manage Websites: Website creators use a geolocation service to track the geographic distribution of visitors to their site....

Dying Light is a first-person action-adventure game set in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Its headline feature is kinetic parkour traversal through an open-world infested with unique zombies. Setup Process: Straight into the action The first time you launch the game you’ll be treated to an artistic video over the background of a news report. It explains the situation in Harran, the city where the game takes place. The game proper starts with a cut scene that shows you on a plane, about to parachute out....

The new Echo Auto is filled with features to finally deliver on the promise of turning a regular car into a smart car without having to pony up for a brand-new vehicle. The new model is much slimmer than its predecessor, with a redesigned backing film to allow for a sturdier placement, but that’s only the beginning. This refresh includes five separate microphones, so you can put it just about anywhere in the interior, and Alexa will still hear you call for assistance, even with ample road noise....

Torres is the founder and CTO of Drift, developer of a conversational marketing and sales platform that helps businesses connect with customers in real-time who are ready to make purchases. Launched in 2015, Drift’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based platform allows companies to have conversations in real-time with customers. The platform can integrate with other sales and marketing platforms and uses artificial intelligence to offer personalized experiences. The company reports that more than 50,000 businesses are using its platform....

The latest addition to Epson’s Home Cinema 2000-series of projectors is the Home Cinema 2350 4K PRO-UHD1 3-Chip 3LCD Smart Gaming Projector, and its main function is to play video games. Though it can, of course, be used to watch TV and movies—either through an HDMI connection to another device or by streaming through the built-in Android TV. As the full name implies, the Home Cinema 2350 can project in 4K Pro UHD to give you video that’s clear, sharp, and runs smoothly....

Car audio is inherently more complicated than home audio due to the irregular nature of vehicle interiors, so even great automotive sound systems can end up sounding bad right out of the box. The interior of your car is full of materials that absorb or reflect sound, which can result in some frequencies getting muffled while others hit your eardrums like a truck. Equalizers Pros and Cons Some head units include simple bass, treble, and mid-range adjustments, but equalizers take it a step further than that....

Depending on the context, the error might prevent you from loading a web page, signing in to an online gaming platform, or using a piece of software. Or, the game or application might work fine when you’re using it offline, and 524 A Timeout Occurred might show up only when you try accessing an online feature. These errors are almost always displayed on two lines like this: Error 524 Causes These error messages are seen in situations involving Cloudflare....

The EC has proposed the Cyber Resilience Act to ensure all connected devices sold in the European Union (EU) adhere to a new set of cybersecurity standards. The security community welcomes the development, asserting security can never be an after-thought, especially when it comes to products used by regular folks. “Security has to be built into devices during the design phase before they are unleashed on an unsuspecting world,” Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer at Cybereason, told Lifewire over email....

Samsung Galaxy S22 Series photographers (and photo enthusiasts) can do even more with their shots now, thanks to an Expert RAW update and a new Camera Assistant. Between the two, Samsung believes you’ll be able to create even more professional-looking images straight from your phone. Expert RAW’s changes include two new options: Astrophoto and Multiple exposures. With Astrophoto, you can further enhance night photography via AI to make the stars in the night sky pop....

In June, Evernote released the first iteration of Tasks to early access. On Wednesday, the company announced the official release of the new feature to the general public, as well as some other additions to the note-taking app. Tasks are the main addition in this update, allowing users to create to-do lists that can be assigned to other Evernote users. You also can connect your to-dos with various notes to add some context to the list as well....

CSE Formulas You create array formulas by pressing the Ctrl, Shift, and Enter keys on the keyboard in succession once you’ve typed in the formula. Because of the keys pressed to create the array formula, people sometimes call them CSE formulas. MAX IF Nested Formula Syntax and Arguments The job of each part of the formula is: The MAX function finds the highest result for the event chosen. The IF function allows us to choose the event by setting a condition using the event names....

A recent report from Ryan Wyatt, the head of global gaming at YouTube, revealed that the platform has seen over 100 billion hours of content watched in the gaming category during 2020, including 10 billion of livestream content. With big streamers like Dr. Disrespect making the jump to YouTube full-time, it’s not unreasonable to think that YouTube Gaming could finally be getting its big break against streaming giant Twitch. According to experts, though, this growth is only temporary, and if YouTube Gaming wants to take over the streaming scene, or even act as a real competitor for Twitch, it’s going to need to offer its creators more than it already does....

According to The Verge, Facebook has announced that its region-limited test of Reels is being extended to some folks in the US. Facebook’s reasoning is that users spend almost half their time on the app watching video content, telling The Verge that Reels is growing quickly. Not everyone is being included, however, so you might not see Reels pop up in your feed for some time yet. If you are part of this expanded test, Reels should appear on the Facebook app in your News Feed and in Groups....

The social media giant issued a software update to allow full root access to the Oculus Go headset, with no jailbreaking required, as reported by the official Oculus developer blog. This move has long been rumored, especially since id Software founder John Carmack, the consulting chief technology officer of Oculus VR, said in September that he was in favor of unlocking the device. “This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today and means that a randomly discovered shrink-wrapped headset 20 years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down,” Carmack said in a Tweet last month....

There are dangers of oversharing on Facebook. Many people make their Facebook posts and photos private so that only their friends or family can see what they post on the network. You can do that by adjusting your Facebook Privacy Settings. You use the privacy controls on Facebook—the default settings that apply to large categories of your information—in conjunction with the audience selector that appears on each individual piece of content you post to the site....

This lets editors and producers work from home without needing to upload and download huge video files over slow home internet connections. In short, FCPX lets TV and movie post-production teams collaborate from home, without compromising the finished product. And that means they can keep making our favorite TV shows even during lockdown. “With more people working from home it also makes sense to have smaller files to work with remotely to speed up the workflow,” Ste Smith, Head of Post Production at Paragon Pictures, told Lifewire via Twitter DM....

Overall Findings Chrome and Firefox are two of the best, most powerful web browsers available. Both render web pages accurately, sync favorites and history across multiple devices, and are customizable through add-ons and extensions. In addition, both Mozilla and Google support and are involved in the development of standards governing the World Wide Web, such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The two browsers differ, however, in one important area: privacy....

Here’s a look at five excellent free IDS technologies to consider implementing for your network. Snort Snort, which is available for Windows, Fedora, Centos, and FreeBSD, is an open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS), capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It performs protocol analysis, content searching and matching, and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more....