HP's Reverb G2 VR Headset Is Like a More Affordable Valve Index

The Valve Index Virtual Reality Headset has great screens, fantastic speakers, and very comfortable finger-tracking controllers. There isn’t much not to like—except maybe the $999 price tag. That’s why it’s exciting to see HP partnered with Valve to make a similar headset, dubbed the Reverb G2, at a more affordable $599 price.

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How to Pin and Reframe Video Feeds in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams faces high demand for improvements to its video chat feature as telecommuting becomes the new norm. On a Teams video call, you can pin or reframe individuals to focus on the people you really want to see.

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Gmail's New Settings Overhaul Makes Customing Your Email Interface Easier

Gmail isn’t short on options for customizing the appearance of your email. But that might be hard to realize because getting to your settings feels like jumping through several flaming hoops. Now that’s a thing of the past, thanks to an overhaul rolling out to users.

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How to Zoom In on the Nintendo Switch While Playing Any Game

While playing Nintendo Switch, you’ll sometimes find a game with text or interface elements that are too small for you to comfortably see. Luckily, the Switch includes a system-wide Zoom feature that lets you set the magnification level on any game while playing. Here’s how to use it.

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The Best HBO Originals on HBO Max (May 2020)

HBO is synonymous with top-tier original entertainment. Its new streaming service, HBO Max, offers the best of the best. Skipping obvious hits like The Wire, Watchmen, and Game of Thrones, here are the best original HBO shows, new and old.

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8 Tea Subscription Boxes Worth Your Tea Time

Tea is more than a beverage—it’s a peaceful moment in your day that can help you relax or give you a gentle boost. With these tea subscription boxes, you can experiment and enjoy new flavors every month.

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Use Vimium to Browse with the Keyboard in Chrome and Firefox

The mouse is a great invention, but don’t sell the keyboard short—even for web browsing. Thanks to a very effective browser add-on called Vimium, you can browse the web without ever touching your mouse.

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The Best Electric Skateboards for Commuters, Travelers, and Daredevils

Electric skateboards make for wonderful toys, and they’re  one of the most convenient alternatives to costly cars or crowded public transport. And, unlike regular skateboards, they won’t make you a sweaty smelly mess.

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YouTube is Rolling Out a Chapters Feature For Desktop and Mobile

Sometimes YouTube videos you want to launch are extraordinarily long. And while all the content is good for some people, you might need a specific section, like a “How-To.” YouTube’s new chapters feature can help you skip to the meat if the creator supports it anyway.

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Twitter Announces Tweet-Scheduling, Drafts for Web Users

You don’t need to switch over to a 3rd-party app like Tweetdeck just to schedule your Tweets. Now, Twitter lets you schedule posts from the “What’s Happening” box. Twitter is also adding Drafts, a feature that used to be mobile-only, to its website.

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[Updated] The OnePlus 8 Pro Loses Its "X-Ray Camera" In a New Update

Sorry, no more x-ray vision. OnePlus is disabling the OnePlus 8 Pro’s color filter camera through a new OxygenOS 10.5.9 update. The color filter camera will return in a future update, but without the “negative image” mode that allows users to see through plastic and thin clothing.

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How to See What Malware Windows Defender Found on Your PC

If you use Windows Defender Antivirus for malware detection and removal on Windows 10, it’s easy to keep an eye on Defender’s performance with a built-in list of every threat the utility has detected on your PC. Here’s how to view it.

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Apple Will Sell You Refurbished iPhone XR Models Now

In its day, the iPhone XR was one of the best smartphones you could buy. But time moves on, and new phones (and iPhones) are always on the way. Sometimes, though, that fact can work in your favor. Apple now sells refurbished iPhone XR models, and that means you can save a pretty penny on a great phone.

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How to Set App & Game Limits on Windows 10

With Microsoft Family Groups, you can easily block specific apps and games for individual profiles on any of your Windows 10 machines. You can also create custom time limits for apps to restrict screen time for work or play.

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What Is Crunchyroll, and What Anime Does It Offer?

For anime fans everywhere, it might seem impossible to get your hands on your favorite shows without paying a lot of money. Thankfully, Crunchyroll is the best anime-streaming service around, and it offers tons of popular shows.

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What Your Function Keys Do in Chrome DevTools

The function keys on keyboards don’t get the love they used to, but depending on the app you’re running, they can still be handy. Chrome DevTools has some interesting features tucked away behind your function keys. Here’s what they do.

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How to Zip and Unzip Files and Folders on Mac

Macs ship with a robust built-in compression tool that can help you zip and unzip files and folders. Plus, it’s very easy to use! For added functionality, you can always try a third-party app as well.

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ICYDK: You Can Skip the Doordash Delivery Fee by Skipping the Doordash Site

With the current pandemic and efforts to stay at home, it’s probably very tempting to have your food delivered through a service like Doordash. But that price of convenience adds up quickly, and the delivery fee doesn’t help. How do you save a few bucks? Skip Doordash’s website, and use the restaurant’s instead.

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What to Watch on HBO Max at Launch

HBO has spent nearly half a century pushing the envelope when it comes to hard-hitting television, movies, and original programming. All of that and much more is available through HBO Max. Here are our top picks available at launch.

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How to Uninstall Windows 10’s May 2020 Update

Despite a long testing process, we’ve seen reports of bugs in Windows 10’s May 2020 Update. If you’ve installed the latest version of Windows 10 and run into problems, you can uninstall it. Here’s how to uninstall the May 2020 Update or any other major Windows 10 update.

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[Update: It's Back] It's Not Just You—Amazon Is Down

Can you remember a world where you didn’t buy everything with 1-2 day shipping from Amazon dot com? I’m not sure I can. But right now, this second…we’re living in that world again. Because Amazon is down.

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How to Watch Plex Together With Friends

Plex has always been at the forefront of media sharing technology for the masses, and its new Watch Together feature makes it easier than ever to watch movies and TV with your friends and family around the world.

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How to Watch Classic “Simpsons” in Original 4:3 Format on Disney+

In an attempt to modernize classic Simpsons episodes, Disney+ cropped 4:3 episodes down to 16:9. In doing so, numerous visual jokes were cut out. Thankfully, Disney now lets you watch in the original aspect ratio, but you need to disable a feature to view the original format.

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How to Watch TV With Friends Using Hulu Watch Party

If you miss holding watch parties with your friends who aren’t able to join you in person, you can use Hulu’s Watch Party feature to gather up to seven additional friends together around one synchronized video feed.

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Epic Games Store Gives Away 'Borderlands 2' and 'The Pre-Sequel' This Week

The hits keep coming on the Epic Game Store, and they don’t cost a cent. After killing its servers for almost a full day by giving away Grand Theft Auto V and announcing a brand new freebie collection of Samurai Showdown Shodown games, Epic is giving away one of this generation’s most beloved looter-shooters. Oh, and also The Pre-Sequel.

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Plex Will Let You and a Friend Watch a Movie Together Even When You're Apart

What do friends do when they want to catch up on a show or movie together during a pandemic? Plex has a new solution for you, thanks to a new “Watch Together” feature. Invite your friends with a link, and the whole thing syncs up for you. You can watch Plex’s on-demand service or your personal media.

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Make Your Own TARDIS With Even More Free Stuff From 'Doctor Who'

If your idea of staying at home involves Totally And Radically Driving In Space, then we have good news for you. The fine folks at the BBC are handing out even more free Doctor Who stuff, including another free issue of Titan Comics. This time you’ll get a free Fourth Doctor comic, but that’s not all you can grab.

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The Philips Hue TV Sync Box's Latest Update Adds Voice Controls

Signify, the company behind the Philips smart home brand has a new feature for its Hue TV sync box—voice controls. Before, if you wanted to turn the device on, off, or change modes, you needed to get out your phone to control it. Now you can ask Google, Alexa, or Siri to make changes for you.

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How to Pin Text and Images to Windows 10’s Clipboard History

Windows 10 makes copy and paste more convenient with a feature called Clipboard history. It allows you to pin items you frequently copy and paste to a list for quick access. Here’s how to use it.

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You Can Now Use Your Canon Camera as a Mac Webcam

Webcams are in high demand right now, and buying one at a reasonable price is nearly impossible. So why not use a camera that you already own? Canon’s webcam utility software, which used to be Windows-exclusive, can now turn your EOS or PowerShot camera into an overpowered Mac webcam.

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You Can Now Buy the Raspberry Pi 4 With 8 GBs of RAM

The Raspberry Pi 4 is already the most powerful entry yet from the Raspberry Pi foundation. So how do you take a good thing and make it even better? Add more RAM, of course. You can now grab an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $75. You’ll want to grab the beta 64-bit Raspbian OS to take advantage of it, though.

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Deal Alert: YouTube Premium Subscribers Can Get a Nest Mini Speaker for Free

If incessant double pre-roll ads aren’t enough to make you pay for YouTube, maybe some free hardware will be? That’s Google’s latest approach to signing up new users for YouTube Premium. If you start a new subscription between now and June 30th, Google will send you a voucher for a free smart speaker to be redeemed on Google’s online store.

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How to Forget a Wi-Fi Network on Mac

Your Mac automatically remembers W-Fi networks you’ve connected to in the past. However, the network it automatically connects to might not be the best option. Here’s what to do if you want your Mac to forget a Wi-Fi network.

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Samsung's Health App is Now Available on All of Its 2018-2020 Smart TVs

With gyms across the country closed and many states even disallowing outdoor workouts, it’s a hard time to get (or stay) fit. There are plenty of workout-from-home apps out there, but if you have a 2018 or newer Samsung Smart TV, you can now access the company’s Health app directly on your big ol’ living room screen.

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How to Set Up a Meeting in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams lets you create, schedule, and host secure meetings with a few of your clients or hundreds of employees. Quickly invite only the relevant people, or gather the entire channel into public or private sessions.

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Why SpaceX Had to Scrub Its Wednesday Launch

May 27th was supposed to be a historic day. For the first time in nearly a decade, American astronauts were supposed to launch into space from an American rocket on American soil. But at practically the last minute, the launch was scrubbed and rescheduled for Saturday. And it all came down to bad weather that cleared up ten minutes after the launch window. Unfortunately, ten minutes later is still “too late” and here’s why.

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How to Edit a Header and Footer in PowerPoint

Headers and footers in PowerPoint are ideal for displaying descriptive content, such as slide numbers, author info, the date and time, and more. We’ll show you how to easily insert or edit info in a header or footer in PowerPoint.

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Take Your Stretching Game Up a Notch with This Mobility Gear

Stretching is easy, right? Just touch your toes a few times and do a standing quad stretch? Maybe pull your arm across your body and call it a day? Well, as anyone who’s ever had to recover from a sports injury or learn how to Olympic lift can tell you, there’s a lot more to it than that if you want to see real progress.

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4 Great Sets of Wireless Headphones for $100 or Less

Gearstd/Shutterstock.comHeadphones are a great way of listening to music at a loud volume while not disturbing anyone else. A really good set of earphones can easily cost $300 or more, but you might not want to spend that much, or even not have that much to spend. Inexpensive doesn’t necessarily mean cheap, however.

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How to Install Windows 10’s May 2020 Update

Windows 10’s May 2020 Update is finally here. That doesn’t mean you’ll get it immediately. It may be weeks (or even months!) before Windows Update even offers the update on your system. Here’s how you upgrade right now.

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Which Devices Support HBO Max? Roku and Amazon Fire TV Don’t

HBO Max combines TV shows and movies from HBO, WarnerMedia, Warner Bros, brand new originals, and other studios. With so much to watch, you’ll need to know where to stream it all. Here are all of the devices that support (and don’t support) HBO Max.

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What’s New in Windows 10’s May 2020 Update, Available Now

Windows 10’s May 2020 Update launched on May 27, 2020. Code-named 20H1 during development, this is Windows 10 version 2004. It’s much bigger than Windows 10’s November 2019 update but still feels like a collection of useful improvements.

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Classic 'Fraggle Rock' Comes to Apple TV+, Along With a Full-Season Reboot

After 33 years, Fraggle Rock is getting a full reboot on Apple TV+. The new season features all of the show’s classic characters and is produced by the Jim Henson Company. Apple hasn’t announced a release date for the new season of Fraggle Rock, but the original 96 episodes are available on TV+ starting today.

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How to Cancel Your HBO Max Subscription

HBO Max is the latest streaming service to take on Netflix and Disney+. It includes content from HBO Go and HBO Now, WarnerMedia and Warner Bros TV shows and movies, and HBO Max originals all for $15 a month (after a seven-day free trial). If the streaming service isn’t for you, here’s how to cancel your HBO Max subscription.

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Wemo Moves Its Smart Home Device Management to the Cloud

Wemo, the maker of well known smart plugs, switches, and more, has a device management problem. Often, setting up multiple Wemo devices and getting them to work together is a difficult, arduous task. That was due to the local control method the company used. But it now it’s fixing that by moving to the cloud.

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How to Change Your Twitch Username

Everyone has made an embarrassing username in their lifetime that they’ve ended up regretting. Whether you have an awkward username from 5 years ago or simply misspelled something, here’s how you can go back and change it on Twitch.

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'Samurai Shodown: NeoGeo Collection' Includes Seven Games, And It's Free on Epic Next Month

Fans of classic 2D fighters should keep an eye on the release charts. A new anthology of SNK classic Samurai Showdown Shodown titles from the NeoGeo arcade era is landing on a bunch of platforms. It’ll be $40 on the PS4 and Switch when it releases in July. You can get it on Steam on June 18th for the same price.

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End of an Era: The Original Google Home is No Longer Available

The original Google Home was a game-changing product for the company. It introduced a new, standalone way to access Google Assistant by way of a smart speaker. It also dramatically shifted Google’s approach to smart home in a meaningful way.

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J.K. Rowling Releases New Book 'The Ikabog' Online for Free

J.K. Rowling is publishing a new children’s book called The Ickabog online for free. The book, which is reminiscent of classic fairy tales (not Harry Potter), will release chapter-by-chapter over the next seven weeks—with “a chapter (or two, or three)” being published at a time.

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Facebook Launches a Pair of Apps to Help People Connect While Apart

This morning, Facebook’s NPE team (New Products and Experiences) announced a pair of new apps to help users connect with each other even when they’re apart. Collab is all about making music together, while CatchUp is a group phone call app. Yeah.

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