Новости за 03.10.2023

In terms of value, it’s tough to beat Apple Arcade. The service costs $5 per month following a one-month free trial, or comes as part of an Apple One subscription. Heck, if you bought an Apple device recently, like an iPhone 15, you get three months of Apple Arcade free. But whether you’re rocking your free trial, or…

If you’ve been looking for a new laptop capable of playing games and handling your day-to-day business, you might want to take advantage of the latest deal from Dell, only available for a limited time. It gets you a Dell Inspiron 16 with a 13th Gen Intel i7-1360P and an Nvidia RTX 2050 for $929.99, $320 off the retail…

By now, Live Photos are an iPhone staple. And not only can you relive a little of the action occurring in your still photo, you can also turn Live Photos into Boomerangs for Instagram, or even looping GIFs and long-exposure shots. But there’s one more thing you can do with Live Photos you might not know about—convert…

As long as the web has existed, this advice has rung true: “Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.” Whether it’s a personal blog, a tweet, a YouTube video, or a TikTok, anyone can say anything on here, and it’s tough to know whether or not they’re right (or even telling the truth).

Meta’s Threads app, seemingly one of the most popular rivals to X (formerly known as Twitter), is full of interesting photos and videos. As with all social media platforms, Threads accounts post everything from cute cat videos, picturesque locations, or screen recordings showing you useful features on your phone.…

The Brave Browser is an excellent alternative to Chrome, sporting useful built-in features like an adblocker and anonymized Tor browsing. In my tests, it was almost as fast as Chrome, and, if you change some settings, you can make Brave even more private.

If you’re looking to get a jump on your student loan application for next year, you’re going to have to wait: The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) won’t open until sometime in December. Since 2016, the FAFSA for the upcoming academic year has opened on Oct. 1—however, the process is currently being…

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When facing what feels like a crushing amount of debt, you may be tempted to resign yourself to feeling hopeless and alone. This is understandable, given how society tends to treat debt like a personal problem—your mistake, your job to deal with the consequences. But debtors’ unions are trying to change that.

Annotating your textbooks or other study materials is a great way to help you retain what they’re saying—it forces you to read critically and pay attention. Unfortunately, if you don’t do it right, you’re not going to get as many benefits as you should. Here are the right (and wrong) ways to annotate.

Bing Chat, like other big tech products, makes some money from advertising. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and most of us are pretty used to the practice at this point. But just as with search engines, some of these ads aren’t legitimate. In fact, some are malicious, with the ultimate goal of tricking you into…

Get ready for a little chaos on Wednesday afternoon, because a test of the national Wireless Emergency Alerts will happen between 2:20 and 2:50 p.m. EDT. (That’s 11:20 to 11:50 a.m. on the West Coast.) If you have a burner phone that needs to stay hidden, or a baby who sleeps during that time, you may want to be…

You’d think we all have enough stress, but we still love those heart-pumping thrillers—whether they’re the quiet, suspenseful kind or the big action spectaculars. It might be simply that the things that get our hearts racing in real life are more often like “wow, look at this medical bill,” so a spy movie, a…

The Epic Flight S89 is a beginner-friendly foldable quadcopter, and it’s on sale for 64% off right now—it’s $89.99 for a limited time. This compact drone takes about 45 minutes to fully charge and has a max flight time of 15 minutes on a full battery. It comes with two Lithium batteries, a remote, a screwdriver, a char…

Instead of a smart plug, what if the outlet itself was smart? In fact, what if all your outlets were smart? Leviton, a legacy brand for outlets, light switches, and dimmers, is adding connectivity to its products, which makes a smart home more accessible to everybody. Now, instead of installing a smart light or fan,…

Amazon has announced that “Prime Big Deal Days,” a Prime-member-exclusive savings event, will run from Oct. 10 at 3 a.m. ET through Oct 11. “Member-exclusive” includes the millions of Amazon Prime users currently paying $14.99 per month or $139 per year for their membership.

This Apple Watch Wireless Charger Keychain is a compact charger compatible with every Apple Watch series, and you can get one of them on sale for $18.99 right now (reg. $49) or two of them for $38.99 (reg. $99). These wireless keychain chargers connect to your Apple Watch magnetically and have a 950mAh battery to…

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Tuesday, October 3, 2023, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Beware, there are spoilers below for October 3, NYT Connections #114! Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s…

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is an exciting device, marketed as the Apple Watch for those looking for a excellent fitness tracker packed with health features. But maybe fitness isn’t your focus—maybe what you want is a top-of-the-line smartwatch that handles the basics well and includes a bunch of extra bells and whistles.…

Now that you know the local high school’s running track is (probably) available for you to use, you might want a few tips on how, exactly, to coexist with other runners when you use it. Here are the rules of running track etiquette that thou shalt not break.

Amazon is excellent at capitalism. The ubiquitous online retailer uses every psychological trick imaginable (and some we probably can’t imagine) to maximize its profits, and one of the most powerful tools in the company’s arsenal is controlling the price of products during sales like its Prime Day promotions. The next…

This refurbished 7th generation iPad is on sale for $237.99 right now (reg. $499). It’s from 2019 and can update to iPadOS 17, and it’s compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil and smart keyboards (though they’re not included), and it features a 10.2-inch Retina display, 32GB of storage, Apple A10 chip with…