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It’s true: Today’s EVs are able to drive longer and longer distances due to ongoing improvements in batteries and other EV features. Still, there are a few things to know before you hit the road that are a bit different from road tripping in a gasoline-powered vehicle. Road Trip Range Planning There are plenty of benefits to traveling a long way in an EV—you’ll save gas, of course, but you’re also helping the environment by not burning fossil fuels along the way....

How to Make a Home Page in Chrome Changing the home page in Chrome is done through the settings. You can set a custom page to open when you open Chrome, or you can turn on the home button and then tie a specific web page to it so that it opens when you select it. How to Make a Home Page in Safari Whether you’re on Windows or Mac, you can change the Safari home page from the General preferences screen....

How to Turn on Personal Hotspot After Personal Hotspot is enabled on your data plan, turn it on: If you don’t have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or both enabled when you turn on Personal Hotspot, you’re prompted to turn them on or only use USB. Enable Instant Hotspot Using Continuity With Instant Hotspot, the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone (or cellular iPad) shares online access to any Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without entering the password....

With ongoing privacy concerns, you should know the kind of information Google tracks about you, how it uses this information, and what you can do to better protect and safeguard your Google searches. What Information Does Google Track? Once you’re signed in to one of your accounts, Google actively tracks the following: What you search forHow you searchYour search patternsThe ads you’re interested inThe links you clickImages you viewWhich videos you watch...

How to Use Smart App Control on Windows 11 To use Smart App Control on Windows 11, you need to have Windows 11 version 22H2 or newer installed. If your Windows is outdated, this feature won’t be available, and you’ll have to update Windows before you can use it. If Windows is fully updated, this feature will operate automatically. Smart App Control has three states: on, evaluation, and off. When Windows 11 is first installed, this feature starts in evaluation mode....

How to Pick up Where You Left Off Press Shift+F5 to return to the last place you made changes. Focus Mode: How to Use Word With No Distractions Changing the view in Word can be helpful in varying situations. Changing to Focus Mode could help when you need to zero in on your document. It hides all the toolbars from view, allowing you to concentrate on your work. Toggle between Focus Mode and other view options as needed....

How to Set Up the Apple Health App To start using the Apple Health app, add a bit of data about yourself to the app. To do that, follow these steps: How to Share Data with the Health App With that done, you should also see if you have any apps that can share data with the Health app. To do that, follow these steps: Use the Apple Health Summary View When you open the Health app, it defaults to the Summary tab, broken into two main sections: Favorites and Highlights....

Fundraising is the name of this game, and charity streaming has become the lifeblood for this social worker turned streamer who’s hoping her unique brand of compassionate relaxation can transform the gaming world one stream at a time. Kaelena, who has asked to keep her identity anonymous, is blending her passion for gaming with a deeper desire to help the world. “[Streaming] was always there in the back of my mind until one day I said you can’t keep running away from this....

A growing number of devices, including headphones and rings, are monitoring our movement and health. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to use carpets to monitor humans without using privacy-invading cameras. These surveillance gadgets stretch the meaning of “wearable,” and could include technology outside the body. “Today, consumers have the technology to track nearly every part of their lives—sleep, exercise, diet—enabling them to have constant information about their physical states at their fingertips (or, in this case, wrists),” Ramses Alcaide, the CEO of Neurable, a company that develops smart headphones, said in an email interview....

Private Relay is a special privacy protection option for iCloud+ subscribers that hides your IP address and makes it more difficult for companies, advertisers, and bad actors to learn your physical location or track your browsing habits. Things started to get muddled recently when some T-Mobile users noticed that Private Relay wasn’t working. In addition, they were also receiving an error message implying that the problem was being caused by their carrier and not Private Relay or their iCloud account....

How Storage Evolved In the early years of the computer revolution, floppy drives were widely used to share data files. Today, however, the average person’s storage needs far exceed floppy capacities. Businesses now maintain an increasingly large number of electronic documents and presentation sets, including video clips. Home computer users, with the advent of MP3 music files and JPEG images, also require vastly greater and more convenient storage. Central file servers use basic client/server networking technologies to solve some of these data storage problems....

The Messenger app can already encrypt your messages so no one can read them in transit, but soon, Facebook will also allow you to encrypt your stored message history to prevent anyone, including law enforcement, from coming after your data through a back door. This may lead to Facebook Messenger becoming one of the most secure messaging platforms. The trouble is, nobody trusts Facebook. “I don’t think people have issues with the security features of Facebook itself, but rather what they do with our data,” Andreas Grant, a network security engineer at Networks Hardware, told Lifewire via email....

The allure of Kindle Vella is in its focus on the interaction between authors and readers. The former can directly address their audience using the author’s notes at the end of each episode/chapter, while the latter can encourage writers with Faves and thumbs-ups on their stories. Readers also can use in-app currency, called Tokens, to purchase additional story chapters as they become available—with 50% of the revenue going directly to the author....

Design: Small and versatile If you’ve been considering the Kobo Clara HD, but wish it were waterproof, the Kobo Libra H2O provides a happy alternative. It’s rated IPX8, which means you can definitely take this with you in the bath or pool, and it’s safe to submerge in up to 6.5 feet of water for an hour if you feel like taking a dip with it. Like its siblings, the Kobo Libra H2O features a responsive touchscreen that can handle touch commands without trouble....

The Lenovo 130S-11IGM is an interesting little machine for the budget-minded user. Down at the bargain basement of laptop prices you might expect to find lackluster performance and cheap quality. To be fair, this isn’t a fast laptop by any stretch, nor is it the most premium build out there. But, considering it does run Windows 10, and does so way under $500, your expectations will (and should) be adjusted accordingly....

Despite its name, the $49 Essential is a smart speaker hiding inside a timepiece. And that change in form somehow makes all the difference. There’s something innately comforting about glancing at the time on this classic-looking design in a world that’s been invaded by orbs, lozenges, and other strange smart-speaker shapes. You instinctively know what the Smart Clock does because of its glowing numerals that look right out of a 1980s-era bedside clock....

Overall Findings Both the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are great laptops that provide some of the best performance and battery life on the market. They even share many design features, including Retina displays and backlit keyboards. While the Air is no slouch, the performance potential of the Pro is hard to beat. You can even upgrade to a 16-inch Pro if you’re looking for a larger MacBook with more horsepower....

If you want to listen to music on the go but abhor earbuds, then on-ear headphones offer an attractive middle ground between comfort, audio quality, and portability. The Marshall Mid ANC proves that this middle ground does not have to be a compromise, and that some of the best wireless headphones live in this range. The question is whether or not they can justify their steep asking price. Design: Classic Vintage Style The Marshall Mid ANC headphones practically ooze style in their beautiful design, wonderfully reminiscent of Marshall’s renowned guitar amplifiers....

Whenever you create a new account for, well, anything, you may use a password manager to create unique and complex passcodes. But you probably still use the same email address for everything. Wouldn’t it be great if you could also create a unique email address to go with that strong password? Fastmail and 1Password have teamed up to offer “masked” email addresses, which are just that. You can automatically generate a new email address at sign up, and it will automatically forward to your regular inbox....

Quake, Doom, Call of Duty. These are all games that had a lasting impact on how video games within their genres evolved. For fans of role playing games (RPGs), BioWare’s early action RPGs, like Mass Effect, helped show the impact players can have on a game when they’re actually given control to make meaningful decisions in the story. Mass Effect Legendary Edition captures the heart of the original titles perfectly, without ever stepping too far outside the box or trying to fix anything about the original experience—which is both good and bad....