When Lisa McCorkell got COVID-19 in March 2020, her symptoms were mild. Her physicians told her to isolate from others and that she would recover in a few weeks. But the weeks stretched into months and McCorkell, who was working on a master’s degree in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, started having … Read more
Apple favors podcasts in its “Browse” tab that participate in its subscriptions program, according to Semafor. To be featured at the top of Apple Podcasts‘ Browse tab, creators simply have to submit a form to Apple, but the report noted that, last week, five of the first seven shows in the “Browse” carousel in the … Read more
Telegram isn’t quite as widely used as WhatsApp, but businesses can now add it as a communication option for their customers if they want to. Anybody on the messaging app can now convert their account into a business account to get access to features designed to make it easier for customers to find and contact … Read more
Never in my life did I think I’d own a home, but I was fortunate enough to close on my first house last fall. Yet as I moved into my new space—after nearly a decade of renting in New York City—I was overwhelmed with anxiety. Anything and everything that went wrong in the house was … Read more
Love watching YouTube’s excellent content of free tutorials, unboxing videos, and old intros to cartoons you loved in the 90s on the big screen – i.e. your TV? You’re not alone, although watching YouTube videos on your TV does come with its own obstacles. The most notable of these is that your TV almost certainly … Read more
The Beauty Of Falling: A Life In Pursuit Of Gravity Claudia de Rham Princeton Univ. Press (2024) Swiss cosmologist Claudia de Rham is best known for co-developing a theory of gravity that tweaks Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It could help to explain why, for the past several billion years, the Universe has been … Read more
Samsung introduced Super HDR with the Galaxy S24. It is a new feature in which images and videos shot on the Galaxy S24 are captured in the new Super HDR format (based on Google’s Ultra HDR format). People hoped the feature would trickle down to older high-end phones with the One UI 6.1 update, but … Read more
Microsoft could be reworking a major part of the Start menu in Windows 11, or at least there are changes hidden in testing right now which suggest this. As flagged up by a regular contributor of Windows leaks, PhantomOfEarth on X (formerly Twitter), the Start menu could end up with a very different layout for … Read more
Unless you plan on slipping your new AirTag into the inside pocket of a bag, you’ll likely need a case or holder with which to use it. Apple’s Bluetooth trackers pair with iPhones and handily use the Find My network to keep track of your belongings, but in very Apple fashion, the company did not … Read more
Last updated: April 2nd, 2024 at 10:20 UTC+02:00 As most of you might know, WhatsApp for Android and iOS allows you to lock chats behind a passcode or biometric authentication. Once you lock a chat, the app also moves it from the regular chats list to the Locked Chats folder. This feature is very helpful … Read more