And the good news is that the latest macOS, 13.0 Ventura, makes this a lot easier. For the first time, there’s a dedicated gamepad section in the System Settings, complete with the ability to remap buttons and even create profiles for different games. You can connect the controllers that pair with every current gaming console (XBox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch), and most other Bluetooth and USB controllers should also work....
If you’re more of a visual learner, pair this article with Australian tech vlogger @Ellyawesometech’s viral TikTok video about this feature (formally called AssistiveTouch) that has amassed more than 14 million views at the time of writing. Whatever your reason for using Assistive Touch, you can easily set up hand gestures to navigate your Apple Watch apps, summon Siri, or even activate ApplePay. How to set up AssistiveTouch on your Apple Watch To get hand gestures up and running on your wrist-bound device, you need to have the right Apple Watch....
Companies have been promoting tablets as serious computing devices for a long time—at least as far back as Microsoft’s 2001 Tablet PC. Over the last few years, though, as both hardware and software have become more powerful, they’ve actually begun to look like genuine laptop alternatives. If your aging computer’s life is coming to an end, consider replacing it with a new tablet for a simpler and more lightweight experience....
The new legislation narrowly passed Congress after a lengthy political battle in the Senate last August. Considered one of President Biden’s signature achievements, the $440 billion package provides money for clean energy and lowers drug costs for older people, among other things. The government plans to pay for the credits through raising taxes on corporations that make over $1 billion in profit per year, taxing stock buybacks and investing in the Internal Revenue Services to catch tax cheats....
How to make a BLT The magic of bread happens before it hits the oven. To rise properly, the dough needs plenty of carbon dioxide, which comes from the yeast. Those single-celled organisms process glucose and turn it into carbon dioxide (plus a little ethanol). But wheat flour doesn’t naturally contain much glucose. What it does have are starches, which are just long chains of sugar molecules. To get those starches to break down into smaller sugars, you add water to the flour in order to activate the enzyme amylase....
Every time you send an email or a text, or even look up a friend’s address on Google Maps, you rely on a digital list of your contacts. But just because you use it all the time doesn’t mean you treat it well. Many of us let old numbers, needless duplicates, and unlabeled mystery addresses pile up in whatever contacts app we prefer. This makes it harder to find the information we need when we need it....
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps you’ll need to get a non-starting computer up and running again. We’ll also explain when it might be best to call in the professionals. If all else fails, we’ll tell you how to retrieve your data from a dead device. When your desktop or laptop refuses to start, that means either the hardware or the software is having trouble. Identifying the problem’s root cause isn’t an exact science, but if you troubleshoot with a methodical approach, you can rule out many potential issues one by one....
Use a strong password and two-step verification Take time to choose a secure password for your Microsoft account. The longer it is, and the more of a mix of cases, letters, and numbers it includes, the harder it will be to crack. It shouldn’t be something that’s commonly used, like “password”, and it shouldn’t be based on something people can easily find out about you, like the date of your birthday....
So, you’ve done your homework and determined what you want in a tree and how you want it to contribute to your landscape. You’ve familiarized yourself with the nature of your growing region and assessed the specific conditions of your planting site. You’ve considered all the ways in which a tree can create a more comfortable environment, providing tangible environmental and economic benefits. You’ve learned about the different parts of a tree and how each of them function....
Upgrade your router software Just like your laptop and cell phone, routers run their own software. In this case, it’s called firmware because it’s so tightly tied to the hardware—the manufacturer installs and configures it before shipping the device. Companies don’t often issue updates for their routers’ firmware, but many do make new versions of their software available for download. These updates fix bugs and may also include performance upgrades, as well as extra support for newer devices on the market....
If you count yourself among the 80 to 90 percent of travelers eager to do more good than harm across the globe, our hope is that this story will help you see through the marketing haze to understand what travel companies are really doing to keep the planet—and humanity—thriving. Consider plastic straws. At this point, most people know straws end up in waterways in astounding numbers, harm wildlife, and are incredibly difficult to recycle....
The Qubie prototype is simply a Raspberry Pi computer connected to a Wi-Fi network adapter and a portable power source. Open-source software uses the adapter to count the wireless transmitters—i.e., cellphones—in a given area, without collecting personal identifying information. For now, the resulting data is sent to Free & Fair’s proprietary software for analysis. The engineers tested Qubie during the California primaries this June and plan to deploy them in several more polling places for the general election....
Reminders of this tragic truth can come from a swarming subway car, a bustling barbeque, or even our own stuffy homes, especially as summer creeps up. This means it might be time to start breaking out our favorite smelly scents to cover up the sweaty stench of summer. Pew Research found that most Americans are now taking action to increase their everyday sustainability, from reducing food waste to using fewer single-use plastics....
The package, the announcement states, is designed to support Ukraine “by meeting their most urgent needs, while also building the capacity of Ukraine’s Armed Forces to defend its sovereignty over the long term.” Some of the $400 million is going to funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment, ways that the Ukrainian forces can keep fighting at a professional level. It’s also important for incorporating a range of modern and older equipment into one effective military force....
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the two tropical systems distantly related to Florence. Subtropical Storm Leslie formed in the north-central Atlantic Ocean on Sunday morning. A subtropical storm is a storm that’s partially tropical—the system doesn’t have all-tropical characteristics, but its structure is close enough for the NHC to name it and issue forecasts as if it were tropical through and through. Leslie is expected to be short-lived and shouldn’t affect anyone but ships and planes traversing the ocean....
It’s fitting that part of the NEEM study’s fieldwork, which retrieved a two-and-a-half-kilometer shaft of ice, took place during one of the hottest Greenland summers on record. What that ice core has revealed about a warm period 130,000 years ago could be one of the most critical new tools for predicting how our planet will respond to a warmer future. The NEEM ice core has provided the first picture of the Greenland ice sheet during the entire Eemian interglacial period, a 15,000-year span of natural warming that occurred between the two most recent ice ages....
First, drones fly over a construction site, taking pictures of the ground below. Software then stitches these pictures into 3D maps, and site planners add in the information about what earth they want moved, which areas they want left intact, and what the next stage of construction should look like. The machines then set about their tasks, working on the site under the watchful eye of a remote human controller/manager, instead of individual drivers....
Boomerang lets you capture a photo series similar to a GIF, and share it with your friends via Instagram. Like last year’s Hyperlapse, which helps users create time-lapse videos, the new tool is a separate app that shares to Instagram, rather than an integrated feature. Image sharing isn’t anything new. Everything from Twitter and Facebook to Snapchat, Vine, and even Instagram lets you share photos of a short snippet of video with a network of your choosing as well as with the public....
The delay has been heralded by consumer advocates as a necessary measure to ensure that every American has the opportunity to make the transition from analog to digital broadcast television. 6.5 million households have still not made the jump and there have been problems with the government’s digital converter voucher program. But not everyone is supportive: the delay could wind up postponing the release of wireless services planned for the old spectrum....
But COVID researchers continue to say that findings like these don’t necessarily mean that Omicron is intrinsically milder. In fact, they might suggest that vaccines combined with prior infection might simply be preventing deadly outcomes, as they were intended to do. The Discovery researchers themselves note that, given a 35 percent adult vaccination rate and a population that has already recovered from other COVID variants, it’s hard to estimate Omicron’s “true severity....
