Spotify Car Thing’s latest update brings it closer than ever to an in-car display After years of testing — first privately, then with public invites — Spotify finally made its Car Thing gadget available for anyone to buy.We took it for a test driveand found it to be an interesting piece of hardware mostly let down by its software, effectively acting as a mirror for whatever your phone played without navigation, notifications, or anything else....

YouTube will put you in timeout if you post abusive comments That comment box under YouTube videos is a place where spammers have thrived for a very long time. The situation got bad enoughthat even big creators like MKBHDmade videos to voice their concerns and for YouTube to take notice. Creator impersonation and sending out junk comments aren’t new to YouTube, but the platform’s existing moderation tools have proven inadequate at handling the growing menace....

At $300 off, upgrade your living room with a Sony OLED TV with this Black Friday deal If you want toupgrade your living room’s entertainment setupin 2022, OLED TVs are the way to go. And what would be better than snagging a temptingBlack Fridaydeal on two of Sony’s latest and greatest TV sets? The 55-inch Bravia A80K OLED TV could be yours with a flat $300 discount, but you can go even bigger with the 65-inch Bravia X90K LED TV for a similarly impressive saving....

How to Stop Multitasking in Gmail Today, emails are essential to a productive life. They let you communicate, sign up for services, keep accounts secure, and more. This also means that your inbox can easily become overwhelming, which is a problem when you use emails for work. Gmail is especially rich in features and distractions, but there are ways to manage your account and yourself so that you don’t end up multitasking again....

Intel Core i9 vs. AMD Ryzen 9: Which Ultra-Fast CPU Should You Choose? The 13th-Gen Intel Core i9 and the AMD Ryzen 9 7000-Series chips are fast and powerful. But which should you pick if you’re building a new system or upgrading the one you have? Unless you’re a super fan of either brand, it’s difficult to pick between these two options. So, let’s compare AMD’s and Intel’s top contenders for the most powerful CPU and see which one you should choose....

Put a smart display in every room with this $60 Google Nest Hub deal As far as Google Assistant smart displays go, it doesn’t get much better than the Nest Hub. It has a nice clear display, gives you access to the full complement of Assistant features, and it can be controlled via both voice commands and motion gestures. Out of all the smart home devices available today, few of them can make as immediate and obvious impact on your day-to-day life as asmart display....

Samsung’s latest Good Lock module makes sharing your system settings and config options super easy Samsung’s Good Lock software and all its various modules bring a ton of new features and customization options to your Galaxy phone — stuff you won’t find on any other Android devices. FollowingOne UI 5’s release, the South Korean giant released several new modules, likeCamera Assistant,DropShip for easily sharing large files, andRegiStar for Settings menu customization....

The original Angry Birds is back, and it’s as great as ever The original Angry Birds dates back to 2009 as an iOS release, and the game was a huge hit thanks to cute graphics and accessible slingshot-based controls. After this breakout success, the game was ported to a multitude of platforms, including Android, and it ran for years receiving new content. Well, thanks to the#BringBack2012Twitter hashtag campaign, Rovio took note that the preferred rendition of the classic game was the 2012 version, which offered eight Angry Birds episodes (over 390 levels), and so the company has recreated this version for modern devices, known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, which is officially available on the Play Store starting today....

What Is a Product Manager? Here’s How You Can Become One The driving force of any successful business is its products. Product management plays an important role in the process of delivering great products and making consumers understand their value. Wearing multiple hats at work, product managers strive to make a product successful. They are in high demand in the corporate world. In this article, we have covered all the aspects of being a product manager to help you know more about this lucrative career option....

6 Ways AI-Powered Search Engines Will Change the Internet Forever Ever since ChatGPT became viral, the tech industry has been obsessed with the idea of AI chatbots and how they’ll influence us. In fact, Microsoft now integrates a ChatGPT-like chatbot directly into Bing, dubbing it the “new Bing” designed to disrupt Google’s monopoly in the space. As expected, Google retaliated by showcasing its own chatbot called Bard, a part of Google Search....

Android 13 DP2 brings the first visible changes to screen savers Last month, the firstAndroid 13preview release gave us an idea of the changes Google could introduce tothe way the operating system manages screen savers. TodayAndroid 13 DP2 has arrived, and it starts to flesh things out a little more, giving us a better look at how the new screen saver settings will appear. Settings now take proper advantage of screen real estate, showing the Clock, Colors, and Photos options on the first page, like Samsung’s One UI....

Elon Musk reverses course again, won’t be joining Twitter’s board after all It has been a pretty wild week for Twitter since the announcement that Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had purchased 9.2% of the company’s stock; making him the single largest shareholder. After a series of almost daily twists and turns, it has now been announced that Musk is no longer joining the company’s board of directors....

Google’s Word of the Day notifications eloquently extend triumvirate of loquacious convolutions Last fall, Google rolled out a word-of-the-day feature for Search. Powered by its Knowledge Graph, the feature sent you a notification every day teaching you a new word and its definition. It isn’t clear how popular the feature might be, but Google has recently adjusted how it works slightly. You can now configure the word of the day to offer three different levels of difficulty: Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert....