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Quick settings toggles get some cute new animations in Android 13 QPR1 Beta 1 After a month without any early software worth testing, Google returned yesterday withAndroid 13 QPR1’s first beta. It’s a release chock full of secrets, from upcomingimprovements to phone callstohidden animations previewing future hardware. Of course, there are also a handful of smaller changes as Google continues to build on the groundwork first laid with Android 13’s stable launch last month, including some new animations found in quick settings....

The 5 Best Auto Clickers With Hotkeys for Windows Auto Clickers are often used by gamers where repeated mouse clicks are needed. However, you can also use an auto clicker as a productivity tool. An auto clicker can automate mouse clicks with a keyboard shortcut to reduce frequent switching between a mouse and a keyboard. Auto clickers allow you to set a click position and then assign a shortcut key to trigger the click....

8 Ways to Fix “There Are No Startup Items to Display in the Task Manager” Error on Windows While using the Windows Task Manager, you may suddenly come across an error message that reads, “There are no startup items to display in Task Manager.” It’s a confusing error message, but don’t fret; it’s very easy to fix. Let’s check out the best ways to fix Task Manager’s “no startup items” error....

Android 13’s per-app language options finally let me live my Deutsch-English life in full Google is a pioneer when it comes to accommodating multilingual users around the globe. Gboard and Google Assistant support seamlessly switching between languages mid-sentence, allowing you to express yourself as you see fit (granted, Google still has itsissues with bilingual voice inputlast time I checked). AtGoogle I/O 2022, the company announcedeven more features and further improvementsfor those of us who routinely juggle two or more languages, and Android 13 Beta 2 has finally addedthesingle feature I’ve been most excited aboutever since we leaked it— per-app language options....

Android tablets and Chromebooks struggle for market share amid tumbling shipments Google is finally starting to show some love for tablets and other large-screen devices. After neglecting tablets for years,Android 12Linvested in tablet-focused UI changes for maybe the first time since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. And with it, Google also signaled that tablets were an essential pillar of Android’s long-term strategy, and committed to supporting them better — we’ve even gota Pixel tabletto look forward to....

Folding the OnePlus 10T goes just about as tragically as it did for the 10 Pro TheOnePlus 10Tjust debuted a couple weeks back, and from a design approach, this hardware borrows more than a little direction from theOnePlus 10 Pro. In a lot of respects, that’s a good choice, but it also left us wondering if some of the 10 Pro’s shortcomings might be addressed — like thedisappointing resultswe saw when Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything ran the phone through his durability tests....

Google’s second retail store is headed for Brooklyn, New York AtGoogle I/O 2022, the company announced that it’s opening a new physical location, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Offering a hands-on experience of Google’s products, the company says this is the first of its “neighborhood stores” which will apparently offer a “more intimate experience”. Itsfirst store opened in Chelsea, New Yorkin 2021, and offered a hands-on experience for new products along with customer support and a repair desk....

How to Change App Icon Shapes on Your Samsung Phone If you’re looking to change app icon shapes on your Samsung phone, you must’ve seen a lot of guides recommend downloading an Android launcher and using it to change the icon shapes. But sadly, downloading a launcher also means that you might have to give up many of the features of the One UI software skin. Luckily, there’s a way you can change app icon shapes on your Samsung phone without downloading a launcher....

How to Fix a Freezing File Copy Progress Bar in Windows 10 & 11 Many users need to copy files between drives in Windows 11/10. However, snags can arise in Explorer’s file copying. Users have posted on Windows forums about file copying freezing when they seek to copy or move larger files to or from external storage devices. When that issue arises, Explorer’s copying progress bar simply freezes (typically about halfway through) at zero bytes and never finishes....

How to Get 5.1 Audio in Google Chrome & Desktop Spotify for Windows If you have a 5.1 audio system, you may be wondering why Google Chrome and Spotify’s desktop client only use two speakers. These prominent applications fail to provide an option for upmixing stereo sound to output to multiple speakers (like a 5.1 setup). Worse, they may “crush” multi-stream audio and only send it to two of your speakers as stereo....

Insteon is back from the dead, thanks to a group of customers If you have any Insteonsmart home devices, you might have noticedthey suddenly stopped working in April. Since then, we’ve learned the company went out of business, suddenly shutting everything down — servers and backend included — and posting a public statement after the fact. You might have been equally surprised to find out today that, after all that stuff, your Insteon devices are suddenly back online....

iPad Air (2022) review: Making $1,000 Android tablets look silly The spectacle of flashy new hardware can be a lot of fun, but there’s something respectably honest about new versions of products that are blatantly iterative — not everything can be reinvented from the ground up every couple of years, as much as tech companies would like to pretend otherwise. The2022 iPad Airis such an iterative update: Apple took 2020’s model, jammed newer parts in it, and shoved it out the door at the same $600 MSRP....

What Is a Security Operations Center? All businesses are targets for hackers; business that don’t protect themselves properly are particularly attractive. The cost of a successful cyberattack is the theft of private information and/or the disruption of business activities. Security staff are an important line of defense against such threats. so as to make the most out of security staff, many businesses opt to implement a SOC, or security operations center....