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[Updated: Statements] Roku Loses YouTube TV, but Existing Customers Still Get Access (for Now)

Just days ago, Roku sent out an email to users that YouTube TV may leave the platform due to a dispute with Google. Unfortunately, that warning became a reality today, and the YouTube TV channel is no longer available for new users to download. Existing customers get a pass—for now. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2Rex6Am

How to Access the Camera from the iPhone Lock Screen

If you need to quickly take a photo or video on your iPhone, you can swipe into the Camera app in a jiffy without unlocking your phone. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3aVqRZg

5 Signs a VPN Isn’t Trustworthy 

VPNs are a big business worth billions of dollars a year. With so much money up for grabs, it’s no surprise that many VPN providers just aren’t trustworthy. So how do you choose a good, trustworthy VPN? Here are some telltale signs to watch out for before opening your wallet. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3e5GVd9

The 6 Best Apple AirTag Accessories

The Apple AirTag offers an affordable way for iPhone users to track nearly anything, but there’s a catch. By itself, the AirTag can really only be thrown into a bag. To make it more versatile, you’ll need some accessories. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/332JPsC

How to Find, Add, and Remove Fonts in Google Docs

Google Docs offers more font styles than what you see at first glance. If you want an elegant script or a monospaced font, here’s how to find and manage additional fonts. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3u5l2QJ

T-Mobile Wants You to Know It Has a Tracker, Too

In the wake of several device trackers hitting the market—from the likes of Apple, Samsung, and of course Tile—T-Mobile has also released a tracker. Dubbed the SyncUP TRACKER, it relies on the carrier’s LTE network, instead of Bluetooth, to work. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/332SbQU

How to Share Song Lyrics From Apple Music on iPhone or iPad

Apple Music has a couple of nifty features including the ability to share song lyrics. You don’t have to take screenshots of song lyrics any longer when sharing to social networks because Apple has made sharing easy. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ny73R4

How to Reset the Settings App in Windows 10

Like other apps, the Settings app can also sometimes malfunction. If this happens, resetting the app to the default settings may fix the problems you’re experiencing. There are a few quick ways to do it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3eANseY

Secretlab's First Desk Offers Magical Magnetic Accessories and RGB Lights

Secretlab, who already makes some of the best gaming chairs on the market, just announced an all-new desk aimed at gamers. The Secretlab Magnus Metal Desk is a premium PC desk with cable management, a magnetic accessory ecosystem, RGB lighting, and more. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3gIrlFR

How to Turn on Orientation Lock When Opening an App on iPhone

The iPhone orientation lock lacks context awareness. Opening YouTube or Netflix won’t disable the lock, nor will opening a news-reading app enable it. Thankfully, there’s a Shortcuts automation to automatically toggle the orientation lock when using certain apps. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3sXylkS

The Best Apps and Websites for Lifelong Learners

Learning doesn’t have to stop once you graduate high school or college. In fact, there are tons of websites and apps out there that make learning at any age easy as pie, no matter what kind of topics you’re interested in. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3tYjs32

Samsung's New DeX Keyboard Makes the Most of Galaxy Gadgets

Samsung just unveiled its Smart Keyboard Trio 500, a portable keyboard with shortcut keys for the DeX desktop interface on Galaxy phones and tablets. The small keyboard also works with Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, and can instantly jump between three connected devices using its Logitech-style quick-switch keys. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3aIkN6s

How to Change the Default Date Format in Google Sheets

If you need to work with another date format in Google Sheets, it’s easy to change your Sheet’s default format to match the standard in any location. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3nz3qKJ

How to Enable (or Disable) Password Suggestions in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge has a built-in password generator to help you create passwords for your online accounts. You can turn this password generator on and off, depending on whether you want to use it or not. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2R3TGeX

Did You Know? Microsoft Made a Kids’ Word Processor in the 1990s

When it comes to Microsoft and writing, Microsoft Word wasn’t always the only game in town. In 1993, Microsoft released a wacky word processor for kids called Creative Writer. Here’s what made it memorable. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3viWYtD

How to See Firefox Tab Previews in Windows 10’s Taskbar

When you hover over an app’s taskbar button in Windows 10, you’ll see a small thumbnail of each app’s windows. With Firefox, you’ll only see the active tab in each window by default. But with a small change, you can see thumbnail previews of every open tab in every Firefox window. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3exNyUj

Watch a Model Train Play Music and Set a World Record

You can come up with some pretty crazy ideas when you’re cooped up indoors. But few lockdown projects match the giant, wineglass-playing model train assembled by employees at the Miniatur Wunderland museum. The project is so outrageous that it set a Guinness World Record for “longest melody played by a model train.” Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2S58qef

What Does “GTG” Mean, and How Do You Use It?

Has anyone ever told you “GTG!” instead of goodbye? Here’s what that means and how you can use it to make a quick getaway from a conversation. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3xhjF3r

How to Quickly Locate Your Mac Mouse Cursor by Shaking

With such big screens these days, it’s easy to lose track of such a tiny mouse cursor. Luckily, Apple introduced a quick way to visually locate the cursor in 2015. Here’s how to use it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2RSihDY

Wyze Smart Lamp Review: Simpler Than a Smart Bulb, Better Than a Regular Lamp

Wyze makes a lot of excellent and interesting products. Its cameras are probably the most well-known, but it has a whole slew of other products, like a scale, smart bulbs, vacuums, and a lot more. The newest member of the Wyze family, however, is the Smart Floor Lamp, and it’s arguably one of the more interesting products in the company’s catalog. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3xozup5

Samsung Announces a Bespoke Event to Unveil a "New Vision for Every Home"

Samsung is really getting into Bespoke Appliances, and it started with Bespoke Refrigerators. As its name suggests, you can customize a Bespoke Refrigerator to match your home’s look. Samsung will unveil a full vision for Bespoke Appliances on May 11th. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/32JcSRV

How to Send Text Messages with Google Assistant

Sometimes your hands are full and can’t grab your phone to type out a text message. Thankfully, Google Assistant makes it easy to send SMS with only your voice. We’ll show you how it works on phones and smart speakers. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3dNB5wW

How to Take Screenshots in Chrome and Firefox’s Incognito Tabs on Android

For privacy reasons, both Chrome and Firefox don’t let you capture screenshots in incognito tabs on Android. However, both these browsers let you lift the restriction if you want. Here’s how to toggle on and off the option to take screenshots in these browsers’ private tabs. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/32Frly7

Turn Your Old Galaxy Phone Into a Smart Home Sensor with Samsung's App Beta

Following up on a promise at CES, Samsung launched a new Galaxy Upcycle program beta to keep your old Galaxy phones out of the trash. If you have a Galaxy phone from 2018 or later, you can turn it into a smart home sensor for detecting light and sound events. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3eua7t0

New Tamagotchi Pix Eats Photos Of Real Food

Virtual pets will finally get a taste of the real world with the new Tamagotchi Pix, a full-color Tamagotchi handheld with a built-in camera. Available now, the $60 Tamagotchi Pix lets you take selfies with your virtual pet, or even “feed” your pet photos of real food. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3sIzFYK

How to Connect Bluetooth Devices to a Chromebook

Chrome OS devices work great as standalone laptops and tablets, but you may occasionally want to extend functionality with accessories. We’ll show you how easy it is to connect Bluetooth devices to your Chromebook. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3gJPCvx

New Chrome OS Update Includes Diagnostics Tool and Improved Launcher

Chrome OS 90 is now rolling out, according to an announcement by Google. The software update includes a ton of new features, including improved Launcher search results, a Diagnostics app, Live Captioning, and finally, native support for document scanners. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2QfGTq5

How to Stop Android Notifications from Popping up on Your Screen

Android notifications are great, but they’re not perfect. The way that some notifications pop up on the screen can be annoying, especially if they’re not important. Thankfully, you can stop this from happening. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3dB4Uk7

These 4 Yoga Apps Will Help You Strike a Zen Pose

Yoga is the perfect blend of working out and meditation. It’s the perfect way to combat anxiety, assist with weight loss, and improve your flexibility. Plus, you can do yoga workouts from the comfort of your own home. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/32BeuNC

iOS 14.5 Rolls Out Next Week, With Apple Watch FaceID Unlock for iPhones

Following its “Spring Loaded” event today, Apple announced that it will be rolling out iOS 14.5 starting in the week of April 26. iPhone users can expect several new features including the ability to unlock FaceID-capable iPhones with your Apple Watch. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3veeSxX

Geico Customers' Driver's License Numbers Stolen In Months-Long Data Breach

A security flaw allowed “fraudsters” to steal driver’s license numbers from Geico’s online sales system, according to a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general’s office. Geico has since fixed the vulnerability, which went unnoticed for over a month, but asks that customers look out for fraudulent unemployment applications. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3n2Iona

How to Hear a Chime When Google Assistant Speakers Are Listening

Google Assistant smart speakers and smart displays show a visual indicator when the device is listening, but it can be easy to miss. Thankfully, you can turn on an audible chime to indicate when the Assistant is listening. We’ll show you how to turn it on. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3tCB7gz

Vari's New Portable Standing Desk Converter Fits in Your Backpack

With Vari’s new Portable Laptop Stand, you can enjoy the benefits of a standing desk workspace in cafes or anywhere else you go. The collapsible stand weighs just 2.4 pounds and conveniently fit in your backpack or purse. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3n0ZvWH

What Are Microsoft Teams Meeting Notes, and How Do You Use Them?

Meeting notes are most useful when they’re written during a meeting and easy to find afterward. Microsoft Teams lets you write notes during a meeting and access them from the meeting appointment at any time in the future. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3x8sdcN

How to Find Your Android Phone or iPhone with Google Assistant

Everyone knows the fear of losing their smartphone. There are plenty of ways you could try to find it, but the easiest might be with the help of Google Assistant. Just say “Hey Google” and find your iPhone or Android phone. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2REmkUi

Peak Design's Universal Magnet Phone Safe System Is Delayed Until August

In early October 2020, Peak design, a company known for camera bags and accessories, announced a new ecosystem of mounts, chargers, and even a wallet that connected using magnets and launched on Kickstarter. Now the company says it needs to delay delivery from its May target to August. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3x70YiC

How to Quickly Launch a Mac App with Spotlight

Tired of fumbling around trying to find an app on your Mac? With one quick keyboard shortcut, you can launch any app quickly from anywhere thanks to Spotlight Search. Here’s how to use it. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/2QAugFE

How to Use Discord to Watch Movies with Friends

Discord is an excellent, free chat application that is usable by anyone and not just gamers. You can use Discord’s Go Live feature to stream Netflix (or another video source) and watch movies with your friends. Here’s how it works. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3x64TMU

What Is a VTuber?

VTubers are transforming online content creation by changing the way people look, sound, and act. Here’s who VTubers are, and why they’re so different from an average internet influencer. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ggLNxv

New Robots Could Use Synthetic Bat Ears to Pinpoint Sound Sources 🦇

Led by mechanical engineering professor Rolf Mueller, a team of researchers at Virginia Tech developed a new, bat-inspired technology to help robots accurately determine a sound’s origin. The team hopes that its new technology will improve robotics for agriculture, environmental surveillance, and of course, defense and security. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/2RDEntL

How to Reset a ProtonMail Password

Since ProtonMail is a secure email service that prioritizes privacy and security, resetting your password is a bit different from “regular” webmail providers like Gmail. You can do it, but here’s what you need to know. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3tt5iGS

Google Will Wait a Bit Longer Before Publishing Zero Day Vulnerability Details

Project Zero is a team from Google tasked with finding vulnerabilities and reporting them to manufacturers. It’s not without controversy due to occasionally publishing the details of vulnerabilities before a patch. To that end, Project Zero will add some time to its disclosure period. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3sA7WJP

How to Use the LinkedIn Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word

Resumes are important for job seekers but can also be tough to create. If you’d like extra help with which skills to include or how to best write your work experience, check out the LinkedIn Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3sjPlRW

PSA: Android Can Remind You to Look up While Walking

It’s no secret that smartphones can be distracting. We typically talk about this for driving, but that’s not the only case. Walking around with your head buried in your phone can be dangerous, too. Android phones can help with this. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3ttXl4b

The DJI Air 2S Picks Up an Upgraded Camera, Drops the "Mavic" Moniker

If a first-person view drone is a little much for you, DJI has another new drone on the market that might be a little more friendly to beginners—minus the cost. The $999 DJI Air 2S is a follow-up to the DJI Mavic Air 2 and houses a better camera and upgraded sensors. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3gffjUd

What’s New in Chrome 90, Available Now

Chrome 90 brings some new window management tools, a much-needed fix for the Reading List, and plenty of improvements under the surface. The update is rolling out now to Chrome browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/32k50pY

How to Open Previously Visited Locations in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams can quickly become filled with teams, channels, tabs, chats, and meetings. Remembering where you saw something can be tricky, so there is a dedicated, clickable list of the last 12 places you visited. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/32fIApx

Mazda's MX-30 Crossover EV Will Come to the U.S., Complete with Suicide Doors

In 2019, Mazda announced its first electric vehicle (EV), the MX-30. The crossover SUV made its way to Europe shortly after and sold well but never made its way to the States. Now Mazda will kick off a series of EVs in the United States, starting with the MX-30, suicide doors and all. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3uOxioH

TCL Debuts Three Affordable Phones With Cutting-Edge Displays

During its livestreamed “Display Your Greatness” event, TCL announced three new 20-series phones with cutting-edge display technology, high-resolution cameras, and attractive price points. The TCL 20 Pro 5G, TCL 20L, and TCL 20L+ launch April 15th in the UK and will roll out in select regions over the coming weeks. Read This Article on Review Geek › https://bit.ly/3di4YVR

How to Use Your iPhone or iPad as an Apple TV Remote

Have your couch cushions swallowed your Apple TV remote again? Don’t worry, you can easily use your iPhone or iPad as an Apple TV remote instead—right from Control Center. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article on How-To Geek › https://bit.ly/3di3I4T