Apple’s PowerBeats Pro 2 offer a landmark feature—heart rate monitoring. Unfortunately, early reviews show that this feature is flawed in ways that may not be resolved through firmware updates. In a detailed video review,DC Rainmakerlaments that thePowerBeats Pro 2cannot maintain more than one Bluetooth connection at a time. So, if you connect the earbuds to gym equipment, Garmin hardware, or Strava software for real-time heart rate readouts—a feature that is advertised by Apple—music playback stops completely....

Proton just introduced two new improvements to its password manager service, Proton Pass. The new updates allow users to autofill online forms and log into the Proton Pass desktop app using biometric authentication. TheProton Passapp across all platforms now has “identities.” This new feature lets you save and autofill the info you enter in online forms. The identities are secured inside an encrypted vault, just like passwords. A Proton Pass Identity can have personal info like names, addresses, organization, or zip codes....

Quick Links UsingQuick Steps in Microsoft Outlook, you can click a button to run one or more automated actions on an email you select. While Outlook gives you some handy premade Quick Steps, you may want to create your own. By setting up a custom Quick Step, you can do things like move an email, create a task, and set up a meeting with a single click. How to Create a Custom Quick Step Tocreate your own Quick Step, head to the Home tab and select the bottom arrow in the Quick Steps box....

Quick Links It’s a moment that can be haunting: You reference something highly specific in a movie that you’ve seen way too many times, and the people around you, even if they’ve watched said movie, stare blankly and have no idea what you’re talking about. “I’ll just see myself out,” I usually mutter, accidentally walking into a closet. We all have those movieswe watch over and over, to the point that we begin developing a deep knowledge about them where we can answer obscure trivia questions no one’s asking, and could probably recite the entire script if somehow a casting agent asked us to....

Quick Links Widgets are one of the best ways to customize your smartphone experience, both in terms of style and functionality. If you want to step up your widget game, here are ten of my favorite widgets that I use every single day. 1OnePlus Weather One of the most unorthodox widgets has to be the OnePlus Weather widget. Although I only had one OnePlus phone (the OnePlus 3), its Weather app stuck with me....

There are a lot of VPN services out there, and many of them claim to be the cheapest. We went through our VPN reviews to find the services and make sure you get the best value. If you go through our selection of thebest VPN services, you’ll quickly see many differences in how VPNs approach price. Some, like ExpressVPN, charge a lot, but as you can read in ourExpressVPN review, they offer a lot, too, making it worth it....

The Google Pixel 8a may be a part of the company’s mid-range line, but it’s still an excellent buy. Keep it protected for years to come with a quality precision-cut case! Spigen Liquid Air for Google Pixel 8a With a sleek, flexible design, the Spigen Liquid Air Case balances affordability and protection with its Air Cushion technology and enhanced shock absorption. Its official Pixel partner status ensures a precise 8a cut, and the wireless charging capability is thrown in for good measure....

Quick Links Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t—Connections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered. What Is Connections? Connections is a game from the New York Times. The objective is simple: sort 16 words into groups of 4....

Summary With an intent to shake up the NAS industry, the Ugreen NASync line of networked storage devices all pack a pretty powerful punch for the price. I’ve been using theUgreen DXP480T Plus NASfor the past few weeks and have really enjoyed its all-SSD setup for lightning-fast data transfers. However, the operating system could use some upgrades to make it a bit more user-friendly. Ugreen NASync DXP480T Plus The Ugreen NASync DXP480T Plus all-SSD NAS system offers impressive specs, ample I/O, and great capabilities....

Summary When you think of LinkedIn, you probably think of boomers posting about their company’s latest PR stunt, or your over-achieving friend from high school who was just named to the 40 under 40 list. But LinkedIn actually has a lot more to offer, and if you aren’t on the platform, you (and your future career?!) may be missing out. Who is Really Using LinkedIn Obviously, LinkedIn users are mostly people who are already in the workforce....

Quick Links In case you haven’t heard, Gen Z has apparently “canceled” a handful ofemoji, including the thumbs-up. That’s absolutely not true, but it’s brought something interesting to light. Do people not realizeemojis have multiple meanings, just like words do? This all came about from a silly news cycle that was based on ayear-old Reddit comment. The comment was simply about how younger people (under 35) like to use the thumbs-up emoji in a passive-aggressive way....

Quick Links Summary The Linux gaming community has grown rapidly over the past few years, thanks to open-source game development and compatibility layers. With all these games, Epic games are also making headlines in the Linux community. It’s now easier than ever to run Epic games on Linux. Can Epic Games Titles Be Played on Linux? Yes, you may playEpic Games titleson Linux, but it requires a workaround since the Epic Games Store doesn’t officially support Linux....

Summary Your printer might not be the first entry point you think of for hackers. But you’d be surprised by how many vulnerabilities your printer has. And now, you might even have an unfixable one too. A slew of serious security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in nearly 750 printer models from leading manufacturers, including Brother, Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh, and Konica Minolta. The most severe of these flaws, which affects 689 Brother models, allows attackers to remotely determine the device’s default administrator password....