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Google gets Black History Month started with a Search Easter egg Google’s got a long history of hiding fun and quirky Easter eggs behind some of its searches. Looking up results on “askew,” for instance, will tilt the results page off-kilter, or searching for “do a barrel roll” will make the page spin 360°. Google also delivers more timely Easter eggs forevents and holidayslike the World Cup or Christmas. Now its latest one celebrates Black History Month....

How Do Foldable Laptop Screens Work? Foldable Laptops Compared Foldable displays are an impressive feat of engineering and pose many uses in portable products. They allow a large display to be utilized, which can cleverly fold to a more streamlined form factor. Flexible OLED displays capable of being bent and folded have made this possible, transforming a seemingly ordinary laptop into a large touchscreen, tablet-style device. Unfortunately, the current offerings for these unique devices are somewhat limited, but manufacturers like Lenovo and Asus have already released folding-screen laptops....

How to Add Custom Shortcuts to Your Android Quick Settings Menu Android’s Quick Settings menu is one of the easiest ways to access a feature or perform a task on an Android smartphone. Swipe down from the top of your screen, tap on a quick setting shortcut, and you’re done. Unfortunately, only a limited number of features can be accessed from the Quick Settings menu. Depending on the brand of your Android smartphone, you may get more features or fewer....

iPhone 14 Plus Review: Who Is This For? Apple iPhone 14 Plus The iPhone 14 Plus is a good flagship smartphone for 2022. While it is missing some common high-end features and introduces minimal updates this year, it is worth considering if you want a large iPhone with excellent battery life without spending $1,099. Apple has released its iPhone lineup for 2022; the iPhone 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max, iPhone 14, and the 14 Plus....

Netflix is thinking about charging you extra for sharing your account With how expensive Netflix has gotten, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of its customers share accounts with other users.According to some estimates, 15% of Netflix streamers are actually borrowing a friend’s password to watch the latest binge-worthy original. The company has recently been taking steps tocrack down on shared accountsoutside of a single household, and it seems like the free ride might be coming to an end....

Safari is getting a new collaborative feature I desperately want Chrome to steal In the wake of Apple’s WWDC conference, I’m struck by a particular feature that the company announced: shared Tab Groups. Past all the new hardware, the revival of lock screen widgets, Apple’s new love with customization — beyond all of that, this one dumb little feature sticks out to me as something with the potential to be really impactful in a thousand tiny and unanticipated ways....

Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless 3 earbuds are here to give the Sony WF-1000XM4 a run for their money If there’s a name associated with premium audio, it’s got to be Sennheiser. The company has made waves in the audio space for decades, and most recently, it’s been known for making excellent headphones and earbuds with fantastic sound quality. TheSennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2,released in 2020, are still among thebest earbuds you can buythese days, with serviceable ANC andveryrich sound....

Sync for Reddit’s Material You makeover is now available for beta users — here’s what it looks like Material Youhas brought us into a whole new era of design on Android — even if Googlecurrently seems a little too obsessed with the past. While the company spent the entirety of 2021 updating its apps with dynamic themes and all sorts of enhancements, third-party developers have been slow to bring this new look to their apps on Android....

What Does the Python enumerate() Function Do, and How Do You Use It? Python supports many iterable objects: lists, tuples, and strings are just a few. Python’s for loop is flexible enough to handle these objects with ease. In particular, it saves you from dealing with the numeric index of each entry yourself. But sometimes, you’ll want to work with an index, to count or filter items in a collection for example....

What Is Account Takeover Fraud? How Can You Prevent These Hacks? You receive a message from a friend on WhatsApp asking you to send them money for something urgent with a promise to refund you later. They probably don’t make such requests often, so you transfer the money immediately. You later discover that your friend didn’t send the message. An intruder hacked their account and accessed their contacts. Just like you, other people responded to the fraudulent message....

Why Firefox Total Cookie Protection Won’t Stop Companies From Tracking You It’s not unreasonable to expect that your online activities are kept secret. But tracking companies are able to monitor your browsing to build an accurate picture of who you are, your likes, and dislikes, your political leanings and your shopping habits. This can be used to sell you stuff, to target political campaigns, or be sold elsewhere. Traditionally, this profiling has relied on cookies—a technology which allows trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites....

5 New Email Apps to Keep Your Messages Organized and Private We rely heavily on email for myriad tasks in our daily lives. In no time, your inbox gets cluttered and unmanageable. These free email apps have ways to take care of common email issues like privacy, organization, and overload. Email is almost as old as the internet itself. It’s no wonder then that the changes you see in new email apps and services are tweaks and iterations, rather than ground-breaking new ways of communication....

6 Interesting Career Options in 3D Printing 3D Printing uses digital files and additive materials to print solid, three-dimensional objects. The art of creating these digital files, sourcing suitable materials, and manufacturing functional 3D objects requires expertise in design, manufacturing, 3D software, slicing software, and so on. If you have proficiency in computer-aided design (CAD) software, additive manufacturing, or graphics design, you can explore the following career options in 3D printing....