When Will the WWDC 2021 Keynote Take Place? Apple will stream the WWDC 2021 keynote live from its headquarters in California on Monday, June 7, 2021, at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. GMT). Like last year, it’s a virtual-only developer event and will likely be pre-recorded for broadcast. How to Watch the WWDC Keynote Live There are several ways to watch the WWDC 2021 keynote live, including:...
Google Pay already allows you to keep cards, loyalty programs, digital keys, and other data on your phone for easy access. Google Wallet doesn’t add any groundbreaking features, though it does change the interface — there’s less emphasis on the budgeting features and promotional discounts. Everything in Google Wallet is stacked into a single vertically-scrolling list for easy access. The rollout for Google Wallet is confusing, though. In the United States and Singapore, Wallet will be installed alongside the old Google Pay app (giving you two apps on your home screen), which is where the money-sending and budgeting features will remain....
What Is an Ethernet Splitter? An Ethernet splitter is a simple device with three Ethernet ports on it. The idea is to allow you to run two Ethernet devices along a single cable without having to purchase and power a switch or run more cables. Splitters are incredibly cheap, but that’s where the positives end. To use splitters, you’ll need two: one to connect your two devices, and another at the other end to “unsplit” the connection....
Get ready for another format war! The next big thing in TV is HDR. But “HDR” isn’t just one simple feature–there are two different, incompatible HDR standards. That means not all HDR videos and games will work with every TV. What Is HDR? RELATED: Should You Get an “Ultra HD” 4K TV? HDR stands for “high dynamic range.” When it comes to TVs, HDR indicates the ability to display a much wider range of colors on a TV display....
Google Pay is a one-stop-shop for making purchases using your phone. One piece of the puzzle is the ability to handle loyalty and membership cards. We’ll show you how to free up some wallet space. Mobile payments are a big part of the Google Pay service, but it’s about more than scanning your phone at contactless readers or tracking your credit card spending. In the same way that you can add a credit card and pay by holding your phone to a reader, putting your loyalty and membership cards in Google Pay allows you to leave the physical cards at home....
Some of our most painful Microsoft Word memories involve losing hours of work because we forgot to save our documents. You no longer need to worry about that because Word lets you automatically save documents to Microsoft OneDrive. If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you get 1TB of free OneDrive storage along with the Microsoft Office suite of apps. You can put that storage to good use by storing your Word documents there, allowing you to enable autosave for all of your documents, too....
You can set any name as your display name in Snapchat. Users who have already added you will continue to see your old display name. Additionally, the users who have saved you in their contacts will see the name they used to save the contact. While Twitter allows you to change your username, if you want to change your Snapchat username, you’ll need to delete your current Snapchat account and create a new account....
Finding your PowerShell version helps you know what PowerShell features you have access to. A PowerShell command lets you reveal the version number, and we’ll show you how to do this. Find Your PowerShell Version You’ll use the PowerShell utility itself to find the version number. To start, open the “Start” menu, search for “Windows PowerShell,” and click it in the search results. In the PowerShell window that opens, type the following command and then press Enter:...
Google TV introduced a completely reimagined home screen experience. Parts of this new interface have made their way to the older Android TV devices, including the video and audio home screen previews. If you don’t like them, you can disable them. As the line between Google TV and Android TV gets blurrier, not everyone is happy with the way that the home screen interface has changed. One thing that many people seem to dislike is previews that autoplay when you select them....
What exactly is end-to-end encryption? We have a full guide that goes deep into E2EE, but the basic idea is that your data gets scrambled from the point that it’s recorded until the point that you access it. That way, no one can descramble (decrypt) it during transit. Without it, you’re relying on the security of whatever devices your data passes through before getting to you. RELATED: What Is End-to-End Encryption, and Why Does It Matter?...
Apple iCloud is great for backing up your devices and syncing documents, photos, and videos across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and even PC. If you find yourself running out of iCloud storage space, it’s easy to upgrade for a monthly subscription fee. Here’s how to get more. Three Ways to Upgrade iCloud Storage If you need more storage space in your iCloud account, there are three ways to increase your storage space....
In Windows 11, Task Manager is no longer just a right-click away on the taskbar. Whether you’re troubleshooting or just keeping an eye on your system resources, here are six different ways to launch it instead. Press Ctrl+Shift+Escape The time-tested Task Manager keyboard shortcut still works in Windows 11. Just press Ctrl+Shift+Escape on your keyboard, and Task Manager will appear. RELATED: Seven Ways to Open the Windows Task Manager...
Sharing your screen is great for literally showing what’s on your screen, but it also needs to be enabled for Zoom’s Whiteboard feature. We’ll show you how to do that and how to allow multiple people to share screens at once. RELATED: How to Use the Whiteboard Feature in Zoom to Mark up Screens Allow People to Share Their Screens in Zoom To allow participants to share their screens, you’ll need to create and start the meeting first....
When you create an essay, research paper, or article where you’re including a long quotation, it’s key to format it correctly. Here, we’ll show you three ways to make a block quote in Google Docs. A block quote is a quotation in your document that is indented and begins on its own line to break it away from the rest of the text. This highlights the quote and makes stand out from the remaining parts of the document....
Consider What (and How) You Share Facebook can operate both as a public social network where everything is viewable to everyone, and a private friends-only space where you restrict your posts and information to only those people you choose to connect with. You can even mix and match these approaches, depending on what you’re posting. The easiest way to do this is with Facebook’s inline audience selector. Whenever you decide to make a new post, you can click or tap on the drop-down box beneath your name and choose between Friends or Public, or restrict certain users....
Similar to the Chrome browser for iPhone, iPad, and Android, Google Chrome on the desktop has includes several personalized recommendations on the New Tab page. These can feel intrusive and distracting, so we’ll show you how to turn them off. The mobile browser’s New Tab page is a lot like the Discover feed. It’s the news and other articles that Google thinks you might be interested in. The desktop version, however, is more about product recommendations and recipe ideas based on your browsing....
You accidentally closed a tab, then realized you weren’t done with that webpage. Or, you want to open that elusive webpage you visited last week, but you forgot to bookmark it. No worries, you can get your closed tabs back. For each of the five browsers, we’ll show you how to reopen the last closed tab, how to access the browsing history in each browser so you can reopen tabs you closed in previous browsing sessions, and how to manually open all the tabs from your last browsing session....
If you’ve ever been curious about which apps you use most on your iPhone, there’s a way to keep track, but you have to turn on Apple’s Screen Time feature first. Here’s how to set it up. First, Turn on Screen Time Before you can find out which apps you use the most on your iPhone, you’ll need to turn on a free feature built into iOS and iPadOS called Screen Time....
On your Windows 11 PC, you might have several different audio output devices hooked up, such as speakers, headphones, headsets, or otherwise. Here’s how to tell Windows 11 which sound device you want to use as the default for audio and communications. First, open Settings (press Windows+i) and navigate to System > Sound. Or, you can right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar and select “Sound Settings.” In Sound settings, locate the “Output” section and click the arrow beside the audio output device that you’d like to set as your default....
RELATED: How to Use Discord to Watch Movies with Friends Can You Stream Netflix on Discord? Yes, you can stream Netflix on Discord as long as you meet the minimum requirements for doing so. The first requirement that goes without saying is you must have an active Netflix plan. Secondly, you need a Discord server where you can stream your content. You can create your own server if you don’t already have access to one....
