Category: Tech

Black Friday seems to be approaching early this year, and as always, the new 4K TV is likely to top the shopping list, especially with […]

Google is in the process of replacing familiar icons for its many apps and web services with minimalist, multicolored options. While these new icons have […]

While none of us should be traveling right now, there are still many people who want (or need) to leave their home base. I start […]

Google Meet finally has one of Zoom’s best features: virtual backgrounds. For now, you will only get it if you use Google Meet through a […]

Today is Election Day, a day known as digital hell. Your poor device will be constantly attacked by every new application that can send a […]

If you are the person in charge, you either voted ahead of time or dared (and COVID) to vote today. And it’s all. If you […]

Halloween is my favorite holiday, but like everything else in 2020, this year won’t be that festive for most of us. If you crave some […]

As many Lifehacker readers already know, I love the good beta version of the operating system. Risking a crazy life in exchange for early access […]

We are all used to taking screenshots on our Android phones , Apple devices and computers , but you can also take screenshots on your […]

The YouTube app for Android and iOS is getting big updates for video management, including new gestures and reordered overlay menus with shortcuts to turn […]

Every chat service should provide at least three things: a way to turn off conversations so that your chatty friends never bother you again, a […]

I usually dislike getting involved in other people’s affairs, especially when it comes to their consumption of online adult content. As long as your hobbies […]

Learning to edit video and audio is difficult, and complex APIs don’t make it easy. If that’s true for your editing experience, you can try […]

The flexibility of working from home comes with a lot of responsibility. While your job is unlikely to get very upset if you take the […]

I can’t go through a day without taking a screenshot on my computer. Whether it’s a job, some dumb piece of video I want to […]

Here’s a popular quiz. You drop your phone. When you pick it up, you notice that you have broken the screen. You: a) Use unkind […]

Amazon is changing its packaging to use less material, but is also adding fancy QR codes to its new boxes that allow you to scan […]

Why bother with cables if you don’t need them? It’s 2020. There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to wirelessly connect to all […]

When I’m looking for a new place to protect a service, I turn to Yelp . In addition to learning about the overall quality of […]

Every time you take a photo with a digital camera or smartphone, your device adds additional information to the image file – metadata about the […]

Spotify quietly rolled out a new “lyrics search” feature across all of its apps, so sorry if you didn’t even know it existed. (Who among […]

We all have opinions and beliefs that may seem strange to others, but sometimes these ideas escalate into dangerous movements like QAnon. QAnon began in […]

I’ve never really given much thought to what the various icons look like on my device – especially since I’m an iOS user, which means […]

Bluetooth is a handy AF when it works, and annoying troubleshooting when it doesn’t work. In theory, it should just … always work. One device […]

Nintendo recently warned Switch owners that not being able to charge their consoles regularly (in this case, at least every six months or so) could […]

The Google Meet apps for Android and iOS offer an optimized version of the video chat service desktop interface. The basic controls are simple and […]

I was really hoping that Google’s latest Google Maps integration would allow you to see COVID-19 cases emerge and spread on a giantPlague, Inc.- style […]

There is nothing I love more than troubleshooting my internet connection. I am also very pleased to note the stupidity of the plans that we […]

Amazon managed to squeeze about a dozen product announcements into Thursday’s 50-minute presentation, showcasing everything from new Alexa smart speakers to cloud gaming services, next-generation […]

Todoist is already great for managing projects and to-do lists, but the recently launched Whiteboard app turns those to-do lists into custom – and collaborative […]

I’m going to cheat a little for Tech 911 Q&A this week on Lifehacker. I don’t get this question emailed the way it usually is, […]

If you’ve ever wondered about TikTok or WeChat, you only have a few days to download them before apps are removed from the Apple App […]

How do you manage a multi-platform household? Not everyone is completely committed to Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other tech company. You can have an […]

Amazon recently updated Alexa with a new feature that allows users to print to-do lists, recipes, and more with a quick voice command. The AI […]

With great power comes great responsibility. And I couldn’t emphasize that any more if I wanted to, because now I’m going to give you a […]

A recently discovered vulnerability in WhatsApp – I use the term more broadly than usual because this vulnerability itself doesn’t seem to be an application […]

Ever browsing an old website and encountering a 404 error when you clicked on a link to a long-abandoned site? How about finding an old […]

Teachers create the best tricks. Full stop. There are no arguments. Their clever ways of managing the number of children they watch and bypassing the […]

Yes, this week we’re diving into those waters: the classic PC versus Mac debate that spawned countlesshilarious commercials from Apple and John Hodgman a decade […]

You have Android. Check. You have a computer. Check, check. You want to connect your Android to your computer in order to copy files from […]