Apple plans to begin listing new features and changes in AirPods firmware updates in a forthcoming support document on its website. In the fifth developer beta of iOS 16, navigating to Settings → General → About → AirPods and tapping on Firmware Version leads to a new page indicating that AirPods firmware details are available…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Splatoon 3 launches in September but Nintendo has revealed that it’ll be giving Switch owners the chance to try out the game early. A Splatoon 3 demo will be available to download from the Nintendo eShop for free from August 18, Nintendo confirmed during a recent Direct presentation. While parts of the demo will become…
A file photo of Donald Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images An informant tipped off the authorities about possible documents Mar-a-Lago, per reports. Sources told Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal an informant told investigators where the documents were. The informant also pinpointed where the documents were located on Trump’s property. An informant tipped off the authorities…
TikTok has several buried features. Even if you spend hours in the app daily, you probably don’t know how to change your basic settings and preferences – such as your username and profile name. When you create a TikTok account, you’re asked to choose a username and profile name. But what if you used your…
People turn to Google every day for information in the moments that matter most. Sometimes that’s to look for the best recipe for dinner, other times it’s to check the facts about a claim they heard about from a friend. No matter what you’re searching for, we aim to connect you with high-quality information, and…
Alex Mahadevan is director of MediaWiseat the Poynter Institute. He has taught digital media literacy to thousands of middle and high schoolers, and has trained hundreds of journalists from around the world in verification and digital investigative tools. We caught up with Alex to find out about a recent information literacy survey his organization conducted…
A habit called “lateral reading” is a core part of any good fact-checking routine. It means opening up a bunch of tabs and doing multiple searches to verify the facts, source, or claims made in a piece of online information. So it seemed like great news when a new study from Poynter, YouGov, and Google…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The team behind Google Search is tweaking its featured snippets — the text boxes that sometimes spread false information while trying to offer help. The company announced an update that’s supposed to make answers more accurate and avoid the problem of false premises, or questions where no definitive-sounding…
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TL;DR: The 2022 Advanced Cryptocurrency Trading Bundle is on sale for £28.96, saving you 97% on list price. Making money from cryptocurrency sounds simple, but may have a steeper learning curve than it appears from the outside. Though you may have heard of crypto investors losing their money, it may be less intimidating when you…