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Facebook may be busy preparing for a video-centric future, but it also wants you to resort to using traditional text to express yourself. To that extent, the company is launching a new customization feature that lets you change the background color that appears behind your status. The feature, which was first spotted byTechCrunchand later made official by Facebook, gives you several colors to choose from. Instead of the default white background users are accustomed to, you’ll have the option of red, purple, yellow, orange, and variations of blue, among others....

There are still a few more weeks until the start ofFortniteseason 2 on February 20and Epic Games is continuing to provide new overtime challenges allowing players to earn new skin styles and other rewards. FortniteCameo vs. Chic challenges This week brings the Cameo versus Chic challenges, which offers a new skin style for Chic. A list of tasks to check off before claiming the prize follows below: As with the last batch, there are 10 varied challenges to complete this week for rewards....

It might not be Miles Davis or John Coltrane but you can certainly play Miles’ 1959jazz classicon a newly minted Aqua model of the Google Home Mini, releasing October 29. While it doesn’t add any new functional or technical features, the Aqua offers a relaxing shade of blue that might remind some of the sea or the sky in its refined light blue hue. In ablog poston the Google Home support site, Isabelle Olsson, the director of Design for Home, Wearables and CMF (color, materials, and finishes), explained that the Aqua is made from the same fabric as the Mini’s original colors — chalk, charcoal, and coral — the same aesthetic goal of blending into a smart home....

Cuphead‘s arrival onNintendo Switchmeans a large swath of people will get to experience the exhilarating pain that is Grim Matchstick.Xbox OneandPCusers who have playedCupheadknow that Grim Matchstick is the start of the seriously challenging final stretch. The fire breathing dragon holds court in a towering spiral castle in Inkwell Isle Two. Though you still have more than a handful of bosses remaining after you fell Grim Matchstick, “Fiery Frolic” might just be the hardest fight in the game outside of the pair of final bosses....

“Why you’re able to trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ Hive may still be a relative newcomer to the North American market, but the connected home division of energy-giant Centrica has been quietly building a comprehensive product portfolio in the United Kingdom for over five years....

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to stay in their homes two years ago, a few people sought to maintain their social lives by any means necessary. Armed with their VR headsets and custom-made avatars, these people joined a virtual world unaffected not by COVID, but by gender norms, language barriers, and location, among others. Among this virtual community was Joe Hunting, a documentarian who sought to record this unique social interaction inVRwith his new documentaryWe Met in Virtual Reality....

It’s good to clean up at least once a year and get rid of the clutter in your house, but there’s no reason you shouldn’t apply the same rule to your digital life. Cleaning up your smartphone isn’t just about scraping the gunk out of your case and regaining that sparkly new look (though you should do that); it’s also about sweeping away the junk onboard and potentially enjoying a performance boost....

How to get your Xbox Year in Review: 2023 recap explained Another year down and it’s time to see how you stacked up on the Xbox. If you’re wondering how to get your Xbox Year in Review, read on. 2023 has been a massive year for the video games industry with a seemingly endless barrage of bangers. It’s just been capped off withThe Game Awards 2023where we were shownwhat the next few years have in store....

TheBlink Outdoor Camerais a powerful option for home security. It provides 1080p resolution and streaming, and – if you have the floodlight camera – up to 700 lumens of illumination. The only downside is that setting it up can be a little complicated, but we have broken down exactly how to do it. Difficulty What You Need Blink Sync Module 2 Blink Outdoor Camera Set up the Blink Sync Module The first step of connecting any Blink device to your home is to set up the Blink Sync Module, which is in charge of relaying commands and network details to your Blink devices....

The galaxy NGC 7773 as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh This picture-perfect galaxy is called NGC 7773, and is located in the constellation of Pegasus, 357 million light-years away from Earth. It is in many ways similar to our galaxy, the Milky Way, as both are a type of galaxy called abarred spiral galaxy. You can see the “bar” of bright light running horizontally across the center of the galaxy; a central structure of dust and gas in which new stars are born....

More than 280 people accused of carrying out email scams for financial gain have been arrested in a global operation spanning 10 countries, theFBI revealedthis week. Seventy-four of the suspects were arrested in the United States, 167 in Nigeria, and 18 in Turkey, with others detained in the U.K., France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Ghana, and Kenya. The suspects allegedly engaged in so-called Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes designed to trick people into sending cash via wire transfers....

LTE laptops are on the rise. Whetherpowered by Intelor Qualcomm, they seem destined to be the “next big thing” in laptops. This new breed of 2-in-1 laptops come with all sorts of advantages: All-day battery life, instant-on capabilities, and high-speed internet connection anytime and anywhere. It’s hard not to see the big promises and capabilities, and we’ve alreadypondered about the potential. But what is it really like to live with always-connected PC today?...

Inside Out 2’s Amy Poehler & Maya Hawke Talk Joy, Anxiety & Spinoff Potential Summary The first reactions are in for Pixar’s new movieInside Out 2. Continuing the story of the acclaimed 2015 Pixar film that first anthropomorphized the emotions of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger inside the head of young Riley, the sequel follows Riley as she enters puberty and her teenage years, this time adding Ennui, Envy, Embarrassment, and Anxiety to the mix....