Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Backups
What would you do if you permanently lost all the photos, notes and other files on your phone? If you have a backup system in place, you’d likely know what to do next: Restore it…
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How to Trace Your Ancestry Using Your Phone’s Free Tools
Spending time in graveyards and libraries may not be everyone’s idea of summer fun, but for those interested in finding their roots, collecting information about one’s ancestors is a “family” vacation. Sure, genealogy sites have…
Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Costs Closer to $4,600 With Necessary Add-Ons
When Apple unveiled the Vision Pro virtual reality goggles last year at a technology conference, many in the audience gasped at the price: $3,500. That’s more than quadruple the cost of a new iPhone and…
How to Make Your Digital Smartphone Photos Look Old
Like the allure of vinyl records, classic video games and even the early internet, the fascination with older photography standards like point-and-shoot cameras or 35-millimeter film persists — even in people too young to remember…
The Youths Have Spoken: Wallets Are Uncool. Go Digital.
To a growing number of youths, a wallet stuffed with cash and cards is as unfashionable as the millennial tuck, no-show socks and skinny jeans. Carrying only a smartphone is the way. Iykyk — that’s…
In Content Warning, Role-Play as Influencers Dying to Go Viral
The list of things that influencers have done for attention is terrifying. Creators have eaten 10,000 calories in one sitting, glued their lips together and smashed gallons of milk on the floor in public. When…
San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars
When David De Clercq traveled to San Francisco last year, he had a few musts on his itinerary: Go to Alcatraz. Try new restaurants. And ride in a self-driving car. Self-driving cars, also known as…
Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot. Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in…
Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Use AI to See, Hear and Speak. What Are They Like?
In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta, its camera glasses that shoot videos, into a gadget seen only in…
Meta and Google Are Betting on AI Voice Assistants. Will They Take Off?
A pair of glasses from Meta shoots a picture when you say, “Hey, Meta, take a photo.” A miniature computer that clips to your shirt, the Ai Pin, translates foreign languages into your native tongue….