Google Assistant support for these Wear OS watches ends soon

The rollout of Wear OS 3 has been anything but smooth. The smartwatch platform was launched around two years ago, debuting on theSamsung Galaxy Watch 4, but it took over a year to see the vanilla Wear OS 3 experience when it finally arrived on thePixel Watch. Despite the fact that it has been around for so long, many compatible smartwatches are still awaiting their upgrade, with devices like theTicWatch Pro 3still stuck on Wear OS 2, despite being promised an upgrade at the earliest opportunity....

July 2, 2025 · 4 min · 643 words · Charles Collins

How This Pod-Based Ice Cream Machine Can Reduce Carbon Emissions

How This Pod-Based Ice Cream Machine Can Reduce Carbon Emissions You may soon be able to make ice cream at home, within less than two minutes, and with minimal hassle — at least that is what ColdSnap claims to be able to offer. The company recently unveiled its proprietary creation: a pod machine that can make soft-serve ice cream, iced coffee, smoothies, frozen yogurt, cocktails, and protein shakes. However, this can’t be done with just any product, as the pod machine only works with ColdSnap’s own cans....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 927 words · Joshua Lopez

How to enable Low Power Mode on Apple Watch Ultra

TheApple Watch Ultraoffers a few extra features on top of theWatch Series 8and Watch SE, including a longer battery life. While the Watch Series 8 and theWatch SEboth offer around a day of use before they will need charging, the Watch Ultra offers up to 36 hours of normal use. There is also a Low Power Mode though, and a Low Power Workout Mode for up to 60 hours of use....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 455 words · Monica Davis

How to get a flashlight in Pacific Drive

Your car may have headlights to help you see in dark or foggy environments, but as soon as you step foot outside of the vehicle, you’ll quickly find yourself engulfed in darkness. Thankfully, there are some flashlights you may craft to help! Pacific Drive - How to make and use a flashlight The environment around Pacific Drive can get very dark sometimes, especially when looking behind locked doors and abandoned buildings....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 586 words · Nina Baldwin

How to Record and Edit Microsoft Teams Meeting

How to Record and Edit Microsoft Teams Meeting Microsoft Teamscontinue to drive a record number of users to the platform. With many companies delaying office returns for the employees, we won’t be surprised to yet another record quarter for Microsoft Teams. A useful feature of Microsoft Teams is the ability to record the whole conversation during the meeting to view it later. Here’s how you may record and edit Microsoft Teams’ meetings....

July 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1017 words · Rachel Vasquez

How to turn on Tinder's new Dark mode

The meteoric rise of dating apps has made quite an impact on how - and where - we meet people. Among them,Tinder is undoubtedly the most popular one, and the dating app that broke into the mainstream first, paving the way for all the other dating apps on our smartphones. Tinder is best known for the way you interact with your potential matches - swiping left or right has already become a staple, and everyone knows what you mean when referencing these actions....

July 2, 2025 · 4 min · 734 words · Jennifer Dixon

Instagram’s new sticker changes the way content is reshared to your stories

Instagram’s reshare sticker not only boosts the quality of reshared posts but also encourages people to become more thoughtful when reposting someone else’s story as their own. STORY HIGHLIGHTS: Instagram’s reshare sticker is now being tested Instagram wants you to be more thoughtful when resharing content so it recently began testing a new reshare sticker that can be placed in your own stories. Currently, you’re able to repost feed content as your own story but doing so requires you to go to your feed and use the post options....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Robert Stevens

iPhone HD Prototype Finders Outed

iPhone HD Prototype Finders Outed In the ongoingiPhone HDsaga, we’ve seen the engineer who lost the prototype handsetnamed, variouslegal strategiesplayed – including anevidence-collecting police raid– and now, finally, the names of the people in the center of all this: the person who took the smartphone from the bar, and his friend who helped him to hawk it around tech blogs. Wired has beenchasing downthe identity and various details on Brian J....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 342 words · Cody Henry

Is The Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Lifted? (And How Much Does It Cost?)

Is The Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Lifted? (And How Much Does It Cost?) Long regarded as one of the toughest and most capable midsize SUVs available, the Toyota 4Runner boasts body-on-frame construction, straightforward but dependable engineering, and proper off-road chops. The4Runner has undergone many changesover the years, and Toyota has completely rebuilt it for 2025 — the first time in more than a decade. One of the trims making a comeback for the new model is the TRD Pro....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 614 words · Shelley Stout

Latest macOS 10.12.2 beta fixes MacBook Pro graphics glitches, says Apple’s Federighi

An annoying graphics glitching issue that some owners of the new MacBook Pro are seeing should become a thing of the past when macOS 10.12.2 Sierra software update releases for public consumption, according to a purported email message from Apple’s software boss Craig Federighi. Portland-based MacRumors forum member Dennis reportedlyreceiveda reply from Federighi after asking Tim Cook via email about the reported glitches, which range from screen tearing and broken textures to brightly colored flickering and checkerboard patterns to issues with translucency, transparent graphics and other visual artifacts....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · Jason Nolan

Microsoft's New York 'special event' is weeks away, here's what to expect

Microsoft has confirmed that it is going to hold a special event in September and while it hasn’t confirmed what attendees should expect to be shown, there are a few things that will probably pop up. Microsoft says that the event will take place on Thursday, 21 September, and will be held in New York City. It’ll likely come a week or so after Apple’s own event, one that will kick off a few months of announcements that will include theiPhone 15,iPhone 15 Pro, Microsoft’s new hardware, and a whole lot more....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 484 words · Joanna Smith

NeoGeo Arcade 1 and Super Pocket NeoGeo Debut This Summer

Competition between home consoles was quite fierce in the 90s,with Nintendo, Sega and later Sonyall vying for market domination. There were other competitors too, though, which included the likes ofAtariand NeoGeo. NeoGeo was, when it originally released in 1990, probably the most powerful home console, being able to offer experiences akin to full arcade cabinets. Evercade VS Users Getting Game of the Month Feature While profitable, at a price of $599, it was much more expensive than its competitors, so most gamers never got the chance to experience it for themselves....

July 2, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Joseph Allen

New Philips Hue smart bulbs: fall asleep more peacefully with every shade of white light

Philips today announced it’s expanded its Hue smart lighting system with a brand new light bulb that focuses on the many shades of white light in order to encourage better sleep cycles, helping you wake up naturally and drift to sleep more peacefully. The Apple HomeKit-compatible, color-tunable bulb gives you 800 lumens at the color temperature range from 2,200k to 6,500k, imitating the changing daily brightness and color temperature of natural sunlight....

July 2, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Richard Smith