When the AirPods Pro first launched in 2019, some were beset with sound issues like crackling or faulty active noise canceling. A year later—just as the warranty was about to run out—Apple introduced a free repair program for affected users. That program was set to expire this month, but it now appears that Apple has…
There’s really no wrong way to decorate for Halloween. It’s the effort that counts, even if all you do is toss some pumpkins on the porch, or set up an inflatable witch on the lawn. But there are those that go above and beyond the call of duty, like Dan Beaven, who leverages some cutting-edge levitation tech to make…
A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed lower-dose booster shots for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
He was filmed attacking officers and lost his civilian job. So he rejoined the military while under FBI investigation.
Though nearly 3,000 years have passed, a new study on ancient fossils reveals that Iron Age miners had a relatable dietary habit: the consumption of beer and cheese. The discovery was made by analyzing well-preserved fossilized feces found in Iron Age salt mines; the presence of certain fungi commonly used to make beer and bleu cheese were found in abundance. … Continue reading
Dyslexia affects as much as 20 percent of the population and is one of the most common learning disabilities. It’s for that reason accessibility features like the “Select-to-speak“ tool in Chrome OS are vitally important. If you’re not familiar, it allows you to select a section of text and have it read out loud by the operating system. Following an update earlier in the year that added playback controls, Google is now introducing more human-sounding voices. With today’s update, the feature is available in 25 languages and various accents, with more to come.
Google worked with both people who live with dyslexia and educators to develop the new voices. The company says it should help with reading comprehension, particularly in classroom settings. You can enable Select-to-speak through your Chromebook’s settings menu. Once the feature is turned on, highlight a section of text and press either the Everything Button or the Launcher Key and S for Chrome OS to dictate your selection.
Though the X-Men’s more bombastic melodramatics have often pulled focus in Marvel’s recent comics—like the mutants declaring themselves the new rulers of Mars—there have been other, smaller details suggesting important developments that have yet to fully play out on the page. Take, for example, Jean Grey’s return to…
Twitter’s been testing some, uh, questionable design tweaks to its platform throughout 2021, but its latest might be the worst yet. On Wednesday, company Revenue Product Lead Bruce Falck announced that Twitter would be testing out a new ad format that puts promoted tweets… into your conversations. The lucky Android…
Star Trek loves itself an explosive storyline or six, season finale or otherwise, modern Trek or classic. Lower Decks is no exception to this, but if its first season finale leveled a kind of threat unforeseen at that point in the show, its second season goes even bigger into a full-on disaster movie epic—but it never…
The once-powerful South Carolina lawyer’s precipitous fall from grace continues.
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