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Since launching in 2009, darktable has offered photographers a high-quality photo editing experience without the financial burden of expensive software or endless monthly subscriptions. The application is also open-source, which is always an added bonus. Boasting features like customizable panels and cinematographic color adjustments, the new update seemed like a game changer and I was excited to see how it stacked up against similar commercial software. “The darktable team is proud to announce our second summer feature release, darktable 3....

The best jump starters blend portability with reliability. Most importantly, it needs to resurrect your car, every time, as quickly as possible (and with minimal hassle). On the other hand, for all the times you’re not in an emergency situation, it needs to tuck neatly away in your car, and not hog a ton of valuable real estate. To find out just how well the DBPOWER 600A Peak 18000mAh Portable Car Jump Starter struck this balance we purposefully drained a car’s battery and got to work testing....

The website is friendly and interactive to make it both simple and fun to learn a new language. In addition to text, Duolingo utilizes your microphone and speakers to teach you how to speak and understand other languages when they’re spoken. There’s even a dedicated app for kids who are just learning to read. Languages You Can Learn at Duolingo Visit Duolingo Language Courses to see which languages you can learn based on the language you speak....

The ELAC Debut 2.0 F5.2 tower speakers are powerful beasts. With their Debut 2.0 lineup, ELAC aimed to crush the budget audiophile market, and they’ve definitely proved that they belong at the top of any list. Sure, there are $1,000 tower pairs that sound better, but there are also $1,000 pairs that sound worse than the F5.2s, and that’s laudable for ELAC. They’ve managed to make premium speakers affordable. The F5....

What Is an FBR File? A file with the FBR file extension is a FlashBack screen recording file, sometimes called a FlashBack movie file, used to store video recordings of a computer screen. Videos are often combined with images, sound, and text for use in software demos or training videos. Another file that uses this extension is a Mercury screen recording used by the HP Quality Center software for sending video evidence of problem software during testing....

With Samsung’s recent announcement of not one, but two new foldable phones, it’s the big player in a market that’s still taking shape. That is to say that Samsung is one of a handful of companies offering foldable phones for sale in the country, but experts expect that to change soon enough. Apple will surely join the fray, and not before time. “More than anything else, foldables reintroduce an element of fun that was missing in the handset industry in the last five years,” Harish Jonnalagadda, a senior editor at Android Central, tells Lifewire via WhatsApp message....

It may not seem obvious given all of that, but the Pixel 4a 5G is ultimately the better pick of the pair for most people, giving you a very similar feature set and a larger screen with only a couple of notable feature omissions—but a $200 price savings in the process. It’s a very compelling mid-range phone with a sharp screen, excellent camera skills, and Google’s own appealing take on Android....

How to Select DTS-ES on Your Home Theater Receiver Ensure your home theater receiver is set to auto-detect incoming surround sound formats (and DTS-ES Discrete and Matrix options are available). This means the receiver will automatically perform the proper decoding and display the selected format on your receiver display. To manually set the surround sound format, select the DTS-ES Discrete or Matrix sound on your DVD’s soundtrack. What Is DTS-ES? The most common surround sound formats are Dolby Digital and DTS 5....

Considered easier to hold and more manageable, the phone has drawn praise from the those who use it, but with so many other options on the market, the mini hasn’t taken off like other new models in the past. A report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released earlier this week shows that iPhone 12 mini sales were lagging behind, compared with some of Apple’s other models. “Apple has seen other phones struggle similarly, such as the iPhone X, which they cut after one year....

In the simplest terms possible, this registry hive contains the necessary information for Windows to know what to do when you ask it to do something, like to view the contents of a drive, or open a certain type of file, etc. How to Get to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT HKCR is a registry hive, so it sits at the top level in Registry Editor, in the root of the entire Windows Registry:...

CarePredict, a type of smartwatch, can track what someone is doing by analyzing their gestures. A caregiver can be alerted if someone isn’t eating, for example. Robotic care bots also can help families communicate with elderly relatives. “But we really should not become dependent on care bots or believe that they are doing a job equivalent to a human,” Brian Patrick Green, a director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said in an email interview....

With its newly announced Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, Nintendo will add games from its one-time arch-rival Sega to its Switch console. You’ll also be able to play a bunch of Nintendo 64 games and buy Switch versions of the N64 and Genesis controllers. This new “expansion pack” almost certainly will require another payment on top of the existing Nintendo online subscription, but who cares? For 1990s-era gaming nerds, It’s going to be worth it to play Sonic on a handheld after all these years....

The new AI project, which Facebook calls SEER, was able to see and recognize over one billion public images on Instagram. While SEER is currently only a research project, there are plenty of applicable uses for this kind of AI on social media, from accessibility to content moderation. “Facebook could use this model to build user-facing products powered by AI for use cases,” wrote Matt Moore, the vice president of product management at Zype, in an email to Lifewire....

How Many Devices Can Be Logged Into Hulu at Once? Hulu lets you activate your account on an unlimited number of devices, but you can only actively stream from two of them simultaneously. It means if you try to stream Hulu on more than two screens simultaneously, you’ll encounter an error message. Hulu offers an Unlimited Screen Add-on for Live TV subscribers if you need to stream on more screens. The add-on costs an additional $9....

Microsoft recently unveiled Microsoft Mesh, the company’s mixed-reality platform built to make collaborating easier. Designed to work with a multitude of virtual-reality (VR) and augmented-reality (AR) headsets, the new tech will allow users to collaborate in both virtual and physical locations in a more immersive way. Experts believe that the blending of real-world and virtual actions could be a solution to many of the problems surrounding collaborating with others, even once the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic has vanished....

Being able to launch a voice recorder app and take down notes really quickly has always been one of the best features of having a smartphone in your pocket. Whether you’re a journalist, a med student, or just someone who doesn’t have time to write things down on a notepad, being able to take notes with your voice is both helpful and efficient. And now Google is making that process even smarter for Pixel owners....

Start With Your Profile and Content Nobody wants to follow a user who posts bland content. Make sure your photo and video posts include the best, most high-quality content you can put out there. Other users will visit your profile and glance over it quickly before deciding to either click the follow button or leave. To increase your chances of getting new followers, consider giving your profile a serious makeover. You can pump up the look of your profile and the quality of your content by:...

What Is iPhone Data Roaming? Your regular monthly plan covers the data you use when connecting to wireless data networks in your home country. Even if you go over your data limit, you’ll probably only pay US$10 or $15 for a relatively small overage. But when you take your phone overseas, even using a tiny amount of data can get really expensive, really fast (technically, there can also be domestic data roaming charges, but those are less and less common)....

What to Look For When Buying a TV It can be tough to sort through the massive number of TVs on the market, but you can use five crucial factors to help you find the right one. PriceResolutionScreen sizeDisplay typeSmart platforms How Much Should You Spend on a TV? The right amount to spend on a TV depends on where you plan on using it and how big it needs to be....

Enter the Weighting Formula The example shown in this article calculates the weighted average for a student’s final mark using the SUMPRODUCT function. The function accomplishes this by: Multiplying the various marks by their individual weight factor.Adding the products of these multiplication operations together.Dividing the above sum by the total of the weighting factor 7 (1+1+2+3) for the four assessments. To enter the SUMPRODUCT formula to compute a weighted average, open a blank worksheet, enter the data in rows 1 through 6 from the image above, and follow these steps: The unweighted average for the same four marks would be 76....