www.mashable.com Who needs a white noise machine when your iPhone comes with all the ocean sounds you could ask for? Apple announced the Background Sounds feature during WWDC in June as part of its efforts to help reduce distractions, which they call a gesture “in support of neurodiversity.” The feature allows iOS 15 users to…
www.mashable.com TL;DR: A one-year subscription to NordVPN is on sale for £42.88 as of Aug. 22, saving you 79% on list price. You may lock up every door and window in your home, but intruders can still get in. Without a VPN, those devices you use every single day act like an open door to…
www.mashable.com Google Docs’ “Suggesting” feature — similar to Microsoft Word’s “Track Changes” functionality — is a great way to collaborate remotely with others. The “Suggesting” tool allows users to make suggestions in the form of comments in a document that other users can then respond to, accepting or rejecting the proposed changes. It’s a very useful…
www.mashable.com Need to convert YouTube videos into MP3 audio files? We’re delighted to report that there is an absolutely excellent free online tool to help you do so. Whether you want to download the audio from videos to convert them into podcasts to listen to while you’re exercising, or you want to share audio from…
www.mashable.com Be careful who you trust, gentle internet user. If Facebook’s Wednesday report on “Widely Viewed Content” is to be believed, the most-shared links appearing in people’s News Feeds during the second quarter of 2021 covered topics like football, hemp, charitable donations, and recipes. You may want to hold off on placing too much trust…
www.mashable.com The FDA is fed up. The nation’s pharmaceutical regulator is clearly irked by the dangerous promotion of the drug ivermectin — used to address parasitic worms in animals and sometimes humans — to treat or prevent the respiratory disease COVID. On Saturday, the agency tweeted: “You are not a horse. You are not a…
www.mashable.com While peering up at the hazy Martian sky, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently spotted one of Mars’ irregularly-shaped moons. The moon, Deimos, is relatively small at 7.5 miles wide, so it appears as a bright spot in Mars evening sky, as seen in the timelapse video below. NASA spotted the lumpy moon while looking for…
www.mashable.com Season 2 of Ted Lasso has been building up to this moment. Yes, I’m talking about the triumphant return of Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) to AFC Richmond. But I’m also talking about the show’s use of “She’s a Rainbow” by The Rolling Stones, which plays as Roy makes his mad dash back to Richmond’s…
www.mashable.com Choosing between a traditional laptop or a Chromebook? There are a few key differences you should know about, and which one is better basically depends on your individual needs. Read on to make an informed decision about what machine works best for you. What is a Chromebook? Let’s start with what a Chromebook actually…
www.mashable.com What do you really need from a smartphone? That, probably, is the question you should be asking when on a hunt for a budget smartphone. If you want the best phone, then you want all the things. But if you don’t want to spend an unreasonable amount of money, you’ll need to do a…