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MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage17d ago
Google is enhancing its health offerings with a major update to its Pixel Watch range, adding four new wellness features designed to turn your wearable into a constant health guardian.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi17d ago
There are hundreds, if not more, Linux distros out there, but not all of them get the same amount of attention.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke17d ago
Game of Thrones is the biggest hit in the history of HBO, a high fantasy epic so successful that the network created a spin-off series, something it had never done before.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah17d ago
I've used Windows' Snipping Tool for screen recording for years and never felt the need to switch, because it just works. A screen recorder isn't something you expect much out of anyway.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi17d ago
When a Windows laptop starts draining battery faster than usual, most people check Task Manager first.
MakeUseOfby Sponsored17d ago
Full-color 3D printing has mostly stayed out of reach for creators and small studios. Industrial machines that can produce full-color models exist, but they typically cost tens of thousands of...
MakeUseOfby Brady Klinger-Meyers17d ago
It's not that I don't like making Plex easier to use; I just take the time to use the tools at my disposal before I start incorporating another add-on, whether it's an app or a plug-in.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi17d ago
I’ve never had much to complain about with PuTTY or WinSCP on their own. PuTTY is still one of the straightforward ways to use SSH in Windows, and WinSCP handles file transfers very well.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah17d ago
At this point, most people know how apps track them when they set up an account. That's bad enough, but what your smart TV does is worse.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu17d ago
I often open Incognito the way you'd open a door, assuming whatever happens inside remains private.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder17d ago
The market for smartphones in the U.S. seems to be consistently thinning. In recent years, brands like LG and Asus have shut down their smartphone businesses entirely.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura17d ago
Most of what I own from Ryobi cost less than a nice dinner out. The ONE+ platform rewards that habit, and building a whole workshop around it never once required a big receipt.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan17d ago
You'd be surprised by what your PC can actually do, and that doesn't mean getting more performance out of it. Instead, there are features that unlock completely new ways to use your PC.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah17d ago
It's been a couple of months since the support for Samsung Messages officially ended. And as someone who used it for years before being forced to switch to Google Messages, there are still things I...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar17d ago
Summary - F-Droid 2.0 rewrites the client in Kotlin/Jetpack Compose with a modern Android UI (Discover, Search, My Apps).
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder18d ago
We're right in the middle of a computing shift. Tasks are completed on phones and tablets instead of laptops, laptops are increasingly featuring Arm-based processors for better efficiency, and...
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey18d ago
Taming a large yard is tricky. You can pay a lot of money for a lot of property and then find that you have no time to actually maintain it.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar18d ago
Summary - OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal, accessing public and non-public health data. - OpenAI only detected the June breach in August and notified officials weeks later.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef18d ago
Windows Search is one Windows feature that I can never recommend to anyone. It's painfully slow, inaccurate, and recommends everything under the sun except what you need.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre18d ago
I've been checking my car's dashboard after every Android Auto update since May, hoping to see the redesign Google showed off at I/O.
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