Posts

With movies, great video is nice, but great audio is essential. Blocky video with clear audio is watchable, but pristine HD video with glitchy, muffled speech is impossible to bear. Key Takeaways Netflix’s has added “studio-quality” audio to its Android app.Movies and TV shows will be easier to hear in noisy environments.Mobile streaming is getting the most radical new tech. Netflix just upgraded the audio in its Android app to “studio-quality,” with tweaks to the audio codec that make it easier to hear in noisy environments and stop things going bad when your cellular connection falters....

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro is the best iPad ever made, and the best one you can buy. Unless you need the portability of a smaller 11-inch model, this is the one. In fact, even if you think you want a smaller iPad, you probably don’t. Key Takeaways The iPad Pro 12.9-inch can do everything the smaller iPads do, and more.Reading, writing, photo-editing, watching movies—it’s all better with 13 inches.The bigger iPad is heavier and easier to bend, but the sacrifice is more than worth it....

Android phones are really personalized to each user. What applications you have greatly depends on your walk of life. Some people like games and others are business oriented. There are certain apps however that transcend your lifestyle. Superbox packages ten of these into one application. Not all of the Android phones come with some of the everyday essential applications like a file manager or batch uninstaller. By using a 10-in-1 app like Superbox, you can get all of the functionality of individual applications, yet lose only a fraction of the space on your device....

Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 16299.15 as a quality update for PCs enrolled in the Fast ring in the Windows Insider Program hinting that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is now finalized (or RTM). Though, you still need to go through the long install process. The company is not sharing any details on the changes included with the Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16299.15, but it notes that it’s testing servicing with the newly released update before the final release....

The ISO file for Windows 10 build 9901 recently leaked on torrent and file sharing site, giving us an early behind the curtains preview of what is coming in January. Even though Microsoft isn’t mad about users downloading an unreleased version of the operating system, many people are finding out almost impossible to install build 9901 on a virtual machine. For those using VirtualBox, the software will just freeze and those users trying build 9901 with VMware Workstation will find that the virtual machine will just keep looping and the Windows 10 installation will never start....

Microsoft may be planning to replace the Start menu on Windows 10 with a new design that ditches the live tiles in favor of traditional icons according to sources. When the software giant first introduced Windows 10, the desktop included a new Start menu that combined the familiarity of the Windows 7 menu with the Start screen live tiles available with Windows 8. While the live tiles were a good idea at the time, as they were meant to give you a quick glance in real-time of things happening within the app, the approach never took off....

Windows 10 version 1803 is now virtually finalized, as Microsoft pushes build 17133 to PCs enrolled in the Slow ring of the Windows Insider Program. This is the test preview that is reportedly being prepared to roll out to everyone on April 10, 2018, as the Spring Creators Update. Windows 10 build 17133 in the Slow ring doesn’t introduc new changes or new features, but it’s stable enough to be in Slow ring....

Microsoft releases Windows 11 build 25174 to the Dev Channel. The update introduces a new Game Pass widget. Also, you can now middle-click a folder to open it in a new tab on File Explorer. Furthermore, you will find various fixes and improvements. Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 11 build 25174 for computers enrolled in the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider Program. This release doesn’t include many visual changes, but it brings various improvements and fixes....

Are you getting a strange “Person who bought this needs to sign in” or 0x803F9006 error on your Xbox console? Most of the errors exist because of a fault within the system, network, or an update but this error falls under neither of that. This error primarily happens because Xbox is unable to check the user rights for the downloaded game you are trying to access. Here are some potential fixes for the 0x803F9006 error on your Xbox....

Yoshi’s Crafted World has 9 bosses and each has their own style of attack. In this Yoshi’s Crafted World How To Beat Every Boss Guide, you will get step by step details defeating every boss and counterattacking their attacks. After killing the bosses you will earn a Dream Gem, in some cases, you will only get coins. Below you can find all bosses and what gems you get after destroying them....

ZTE has announced pricing and availability for its upcoming Axon 40 Ultra smartphone, which boasts a number of improvements over previous models. A new press release sent to Lifewire from ZTE covers several details about the next phone in the Axon line, including an upgraded screen and camera system. It also boasts better performance, thanks in part to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. If you’re accustomed to the fully-integrated screens of other Axon smartphones, don’t worry—the Axon 40 Ultra won’t be breaking that particular pattern....

When you press the shutter button and take an image, the photo doesn’t just magically end up on the memory card. Whether it’s a fixed lens model, a mirrorless ILC, or a DSLR, the digital camera has to go through a series of steps before the image is stored on the memory card. One of the key components of storing an image on a digital camera is the image buffer....

WhatsApp users can now set the app to send disappearing messages by default. Key Takeaways WhatsApp’s disappearing messages can now be set as the default for new conversations.You can choose to have messages self-destruct after 24 hours, seven days, or 90 days.People can still save and screenshot your indiscretions. You’ve been able to use disappearing messages for a while now, but this is the first time you’ve been able to set the feature as the default for all new conversations....

Your phone has probably been to more countries than you have. That’s because it also contains more pieces of the periodic table than you do: a study found that the average smartphone contains about 62 distinct elements out of the 83 stable, non-radioactive elements in the periodic table as opposed to the paltry eleven non-trace elements identifiable in the human body. You don’t get all 62 of those elements from the same place, and some of them are only available in a few places on Earth, meaning that without a global supply, chain not even China, with its disproportionate share of resource production (over 90% of rare earths!...

The skill of combining form, harmony, melody, rhythm, and other expressive elements to produce sound is often referred to as music. Apps are computer programs that can be executed on a tablet, smartphone, or mobile device. They can also be used with other hardware, such as laptops and desktop PCs, provided they have a web browser. Application has been condensed into the term app. Apps can do tasks like playing music, checking email, setting an alarm, taking and editing images, and checking the arrival time of the bus or train....

The World Health Organization (WHO) has partnered with several big video game publishers to promote the #PlayApartTogether initiative. It encourages people to play video games with each other while engaged in sheltering in place and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why This Matters When the organization that has historically cautioned people about ‘gaming addiction’ comes out in favor of playing games together while quarantined, you know the world has changed....

According to a status notice spotted in the game client, Riot has deactivated Yoru in Valorant. The message’s only detail is that Riot is working on “an issue,” which is most likely related to the agent’s ability to exploit certain previously unknown issues. However, we as gamers have a theory as to what may have caused it. Yoru was one of the newest additions, and his teleport skills were being exploited in exploitable Gatecrash glitch....

To those who own tablets, the decline of the device sounds like a proper reason to panic. For those who don’t, it’s perhaps something they’ve been expecting for awhile. Despite the many things one can do with a tablet, it just seems that their surge in the consumer market was just a fad that will never catch up to the smartphone’s sales figures. But after all that has been said and done, there really is no reason to think that the tablet will ever die....

As expected, it’d appear that Microsoft is planning to name the next major release of Windows 10 “April 2019 Update.” Although the software giant hasn’t officially revealed the marketing name of version 1903, the latest 19H1 preview build for servers include a reference of “Windows 10 April 2019 Update/Server 2019” when running the Get-VMHostSupportedVersion PowerShell command. Seeing the trend of names (such as April 2018 Update and October 2018 Update) that the company has been using, the new name reference makes a lot of sense, and it seems that Microsoft will continue to follow the pattern when it comes to naming its feature updates....

Microsoft is fully committed to make Windows 10 a great operating system, and one topic the company is really focusing on is in bringing more robust security features to the operating system. As new network breaches, theft of personal information, and other threat like new sophisticated type of malware keep growing is up to Windows 10 to provide the tools to seamlessly protect us moving forward. In a new article, Microsoft shared details on improvements that Windows 10 is bringing for better security and information protection....