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According to TikTok, the update will focus on four major areas with the goal to protect users from potentially harmful content and to ensure a more welcoming environment. The changes will be implemented in the coming weeks with the company stating that it’s open to feedback. The first change will move suicide hoaxes and dangerous challenges into their own section in the Safety Center, plus TikTok is adding new videos to teach users what to do when they encounter this type of content....

If you’ve ever wanted to hear someone’s chosen Anthem while viewing their Tinder profile, then the upcoming Music Mode is for you. Tinder users have been able to select an Anthem that they believe best defines them for some time, but the tracks haven’t been automatically playable on profile pages before. According to Tinder, roughly 40 percent of its Gen-Z members use Anthems, and those that do, Tinder says, get a 10 percent increase in matches....

Design: Basic, but clever There’s nothing striking about the design of the Archer A9. It’s gloss black, with indicator lights on the front and the ports, power switch, WPS button, and antennas located in the back. The gloss finish fingerprints and smudges easily, so I would have rather seen a matte finish, but the A9 has an intelligent design otherwise. The branding is small—not tacky or obtrusive—and the A9’s venting is cleverly designed....

The TP-Link Archer C9 AC1900 is a budget-friendly router, so it doesn’t include too many of the features you see in newer, more expensive models. It doesn’t include Alexa control or MU-MIMO technology, but it’s supposed to provide a long signal range for larger homes, as well as support fast enough speeds for online gaming and 4K media. I tested the TP-Link AC1900 alongside several other long range routers to see how well it performs in the real world....

The Twelve South Compass Pro is an iPad stand for people who want to travel light. Its compact compass design offers a few viewing angles without sacrificing stability. I tested the Compass Pro around the house and in every pocket I could find. Design: Compact and portable The Compass Pro has a compact, foldable design reminiscent of a drafting compass. When completely folded, the stand is only half an inch tall and just over seven inches long....

The long-story-short version of it is that HDR gaming on Xbox One S, Xbox One X, PS4, and PS4 Pro is worthwhile, but HDR gaming on PC is a far more fraught pursuit. If you’re a console gamer interested in checking out HDR gaming, there should be very little holding you back. Whereas PC gamers are faced with obstacle after obstacle that we can only hope will quickly be removed as HDR becomes more commonplace....

To get started, make sure you: Install batteries into the Universal Remote.Can point the Universal Remote at the TV or another device you are trying to control during programming. If this “link” is broken, you will have to restart the programming process. Direct Code Entry The easiest way to program a Universal Remote is to enter a code that identifies the product you wish to control. Codes may be provided via a “code sheet” or a web page where the codes are listed by brand and type of device (TV, Blu-ray Disc player, Home Theater Receiver, Cable Box, VCRs, and sometimes media streamers)....

How to Use and Manage the Office Clipboard When you use the cut, copy, and paste commands in Excel and other Office programs, that data, including text and images, goes into the Office Clipboard, which retains up to 24 of your previous entries. The Office Clipboard task pane lets you view the items in the Office Clipboard in the order in which they were copied. In Excel, access the Office Clipboard task pane by selecting Home and then choosing the Clipboard dialog box launcher....

How Do I Contact Venmo? If your money doesn’t arrive on time or if you experience another problem, Venmo offers the following contact methods and typically responds in a timely fashion. Chat with a support specialist in the Venmo mobile app. Select Menu > Get Help > Contact Us > Chat with Us. Call Venmo customer support at 855-812-4430. Their hours are 10:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday....

YouTube IP Addresses These are the most common IP addresses for YouTube: 208.65.153.238208.65.153.251208.65.153.253208.117.236.69 Just as you can visit the YouTube homepage by entering https://www.youtube.com/ in a web browser, so also can you add https:// to any YouTube IP address, for example, https://208.65.153.238/. YouTube IP Address Ranges To support a large and growing network of web servers, YouTube owns a number of IP addresses in ranges called blocks. These IP address blocks belong to YouTube:...

This is Walmart’s second shot at the low-end tablet market, with the Tablet Pro line bringing some improvements and an increased price tag over the first generation, so I was interested to see exactly what it’s capable of. I carried an onn. 8-inch Tablet Pro with me everywhere for about a week, using it for everything from email and web browsing during the day to watching movies at night, and even a little video chatting....

Audio files on an MP3 CD are stored like any other file on a regular CD-ROM, using the Yellow Book CD standard. This storage method differs from audio CDs, like ones you might buy in music stores, where the files are encoded in an uncompressed format using the Red Book CD standard. The quality of audio CDs is higher than that of compressed MP3s. MP3 CD Advantages The audio files on a standard audio CD aren’t compressed, so the maximum playing time you can get out of one is approximately 80 minutes....

About Protocols Without protocols, devices would lack the ability to understand the electronic signals they send to each other over network connections. Modern protocols for computer networking generally use packet switching techniques to send and receive messages in the form of packets, which are messages subdivided into pieces that are collected and reassembled at their destination. Hundreds of computer network protocols have been developed, each designed for specific purposes and environments....

Camtasia is used to capture video of a computer screen, often to demonstrate how a piece of software works; this file format is how such videos are stored. This file extension is unique to the Windows version of Camtasia. The Mac equivalent uses the .CMREC file extension, and it, too, has been replaced by the TREC format as of version 2.8.0. How to Open a CAMREC File CAMREC files can be viewed and edited with the Camtasia application by TechSmith....

Unlike a program that has a graphical user interface (GUI) like buttons and menus that are controlled by a mouse, a command line interpreter accepts lines of text from a keyboard as the commands and then converts those commands into functions that the OS understands. Other Names for a Command Line Interpreter Any command line interpreter program is also often referred to in general as a command line interface. Less commonly, it’s also called a CLI, command language interpreter, console user interface, command processor, shell, command line shell, or a command interpreter....

What Is a DAA File? A file with the DAA file extension is a Direct Access Archive file. They’re a lot like ISO files in that they can be full image copies of discs, but have some advantages over ISO, like compression and file splitting abilities. Some DAA files might be encrypted, protected behind a password, and even split up into smaller pieces like file.part01.daa, file.part02.daa, etc. The Direct Access Archive format is a proprietary one developed by the same people that created the disc imaging software PowerISO....

Leased lines can span short or long distances. They maintain a single open circuit at all times, as opposed to traditional telephone services that reuse the same lines for many different conversations through a process called switching. What Are Leased Lines Used For? Leased lines are most commonly rented by businesses to connect branch offices of the organization. Leased lines guarantee bandwidth for network traffic between locations. For example, T1 leased lines are common and offer the same data rate as symmetric DSL....

What Is a Roguelike? That’s a good question, and one with a complicated answer because the definition of it has become very muddied. However, the core of what a roguelike should be is that the game features levels that are procedurally generated. Your character suffers from “permadeath” – meaning that they should have to start over from some predetermined starting point fresh. Essentially, a roguelike should force you to learn its systems through the cost of failure is steep....

What Is a Subreddit Used For? Subreddits are niche community forums where users can share links, images, and text posts. Most of them are to share information about a subject that interests the subreddit members and discuss related topics. For example, a subreddit devoted to a video game will typically feature many links to news articles about the game, upcoming developments, and both official and unofficial artwork. Depending on the rules of the subreddit, there may also be text posts where users discuss the game, develop new strategies, and other related topics....

How to Install Duo Mobile for Android and Add a Third-Party Account Setting up Duo for Android is straightforward and only requires a few steps. Here’s how to install the app, as well as how to add a third-party account for two-step authentication. How to Use Duo Mobile With Third-Party Accounts With Duo installed and an account with two-factor authentication enabled, you can now generate passcodes for each login session. The steps below illustrate how to use Duo’s passcodes to sign in to one of the app’s supported third-party accounts....