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Samsung’s Home Hub tablet wants to be your smart home’s command center Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem is among the most ubiquitous, especially if many of your appliances consist of intelligent Samsung products already. SmartThings also integrates well with third-party manufacturers and home assistants like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, making devices connected to it easily controllable. But sometimes it’s still simpler to just use a touchscreen to command all of your devices with your fingertips rather than your voice, and that’s where Samsung’snew Home Hubcomes in, introduced duringCES 2022(viaThe Verge)....

6 Reasons Why 2022 Wasn’t the Best Year for Chromebooks Chromebooks hit an all-time popularity high in 2020 as billions of people were forced to stay home, and discovered they needed a cheap way of entertaining themselves, working, and engaging with the education system. But 2021 saw sales drop off sharply to 37.3 million units, and it’s estimated that a mere 30 million Chromebooks will have shipped by the end of 2022....

6 Types of Apps You Need for a Productive Day Productivity does not always come by chance. Having a productive day, or several productive days in a row, requires you to have a system or set of practices combined with specific apps that improve your workflow and help you make the most of your time. Whether you have already designed your productivity system or are still in the process of finding one that works for you, there’s no doubt that the following types of apps will play a significant role in helping you stay on track and be productive....

Android 13 is rolling out to all Windows Insiders Microsoft made some interesting promises with Windows 11, one of which was support for Android apps, and so this support arrived several months after the OS launched. The Windows Subsystem for Android(WSA) based on Android 12allows users to run a handful of Android apps on their Windows computer as though they are native programs. After a rather short period of beta testing, we are happy to report WSA users can soon upgrade toAndroid 13....

Best Fitbit Charge 5 bands Fitbit has been well known within the fitness community and even the general population for bringing forwardsome of the best fitness trackerson the market. One of these great trackers is theFitbit Charge 5, and while some might even consider it a smartwatch due to its features and performance, the Charge 5 is really a power cell of a fitness tracker. The screen is so colorful and brilliant that it lends to the overall clean look of this device....

Google Contacts is getting a long-overdue change on the web If you use Google Contacts on the web, you might be frustrated by the fact that you can only create new contacts on itsdedicated siteand nowhere else. Of course, you could always pick upyour favorite Android deviceand put in the details, but that can be quite inconvenient if, say, you have a work contact, but only your personal phone nearby — and we all want to stay kosher with our work and personal communications....

Microsoft Edge leaps ahead of Chrome when it comes to building website collections Modern browsers have moved on from offering bookmarks as the sole way to save interesting bits you find surfing through the vastness of the internet. Each browser now serves up something unique, and on Microsoft Edge, it’s Collections, which by the way is so useful that it single-handedlymakes you want to ditch Chrome for good. Compared to Chrome’sReading List, Collections is a lot more intuitive in that it lets you save images and text snippets along with webpages — while also doing a better job at organizing them....

OnePlus 10 Pro gets its third Android 13 Beta, but users are facing issues installing it OnePlus is among the few Android manufacturersrunning an Android 13 Developer Preview Programfor its flagship handset. So far, the BBK-owned brand has released two beta builds for theOnePlus 10 Pro, focusing on incorporating all Android 13 changes in OxygenOS 13 and fixing all known and reported bugs. Just over a month after thesecond Android 13 beta was releasedfor the 10 Pro, OnePlus has seeded the third beta with a focus on system stability....

T-Mobile is the first US carrier to let you make calls on 5G alone T-Mobile has just announced thatit’s deployed Voice Over New Radio(or VoNR) for its 5G network in parts of Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT. Although this marks the first commercial availability of the technology, which allows you to place a call over a 5G connection without falling back on LTE, the functionality is limited to last year’s Galaxy S21 for now....

The Pixel Watch may be exciting, but its battery life may not be AtGoogle I/O 2022, Google showcased its hardware launches for the rest of the year and even one for the next year. While some of them, thePixel 6aand thePixel Buds Pronamely, are already out and in the hands of customers, other launches are still pending. Among them, we have thePixel Watch, which is expected to be launched alongside thePixel 7 and 7 Prothis fall....

Will Dogecoin Ever Reach $1? Can It Go Beyond? Dogecoin was first introduced as a “meme coin” back in 2013. Sign up forfree Forgot your password? Create an account *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By continuing, you agree to thePrivacy PolicyandTerms of Use.You also agree to receive our newsletters, you may opt-out any time. But, while it launched as a joke, many consider Dogecoin a serious investment....

With Android 12L, Google wants developers to think tablet-first, not mobile-first After years of leaving Android tablets languishing, Google has finally stepped things up again withAndroid 12L, a surprise version bump for Android 12 focusing on enhancements fortablets, foldables, and other big screens. While this release has just launched in stable, it hasn’t actually arrived on any relevant device that could truly benefit from it, but Google is just getting started....

4 Easy Ways to Search in Google Sheets (With Examples) As a spreadsheet user, you may often see yourself sifting through data rows to find a specific keyword. On smaller spreadsheets, doing this manually is easy. However, with large spreadsheets, this becomes close to impossible. Thankfully, Google Sheets has several built-in functions that allow you to easily search for data in your spreadsheets. 4 Ways to Search in Google Sheets There are multiple ways that you can search text in your spreadsheet....