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Garmin Garmin is back with a pair of new smartwatches, dubbed the Venu Sq. It comes in two variants, the standard for $199, and a “Music Edition” for $50 more. For your money you get GPS tracking, a 1.3-inch (240 x 240) color LCD touchscreen, and blood oxygen tracking. By starting at $200, Garmin brings…

GSMA Mobile World Congress, one of the most notable events in the yearly technology trade show calendar, was the first major conference casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. And since COVID isn’t going away any time soon, the GSMA has confirmed that it’s delayed Mobile World Congress 2021 from its usual late February/early March date to…

Adobe Adobe released a smart new feature today—Adobe Liquid Mode— that will make it easier for people to read PDFs on their smartphone. Instead of pinching and squinting your way through a PDF, the new feature, now available in Adobe Acrobat Reader, uses Sensei (Adobe’s AI) to reconfigure it and make it smartphone-friendly. Liquid Mode…

Google Google Assistant’s routines can help you automate your smart home or create a school bell schedule for your kids. But what you, the modern adult working from home? Now Google Assistant has you covered too, with a new routine that schedules your workday. The new routine is optional and opt-in, you’ll have to go…

Samsung The Galaxy S20 is a fine flagship phone, though in some ways, it does more to prove the future of foldables than sell itself. But no matter how good a flagship is, $1,000 money is a lot of money to spend on a phone. We think you’d be better off buying a budget phone,…

Aukey Are you tired of using a wired wireless charger? Aukey’s new 10,000mAh power bank has a 10-watt Qi charger built-in, so you can wirelessly charge your phone while out on the town or wandering around your home. The portable wireless charger usually costs $40, but is available for $30 on Amazon by clipping the…

Smartphones are handy when you’re navigating a new city. Sometimes, though, a computer is a better place to start. On Waze’s web interface, you can start a trip on your computer, and then send it to your phone. Before we get started, make sure you have the Waze app installed on your iPhone, iPad, or…

Echelon/Fox Yesterday we reported that a new Peloton-style connected fitness bike had hit Amazon with Prime branding, from a company called Echelon. As it turns out, said company was (ahem) exaggerating its relationship with Amazon. And by “exaggerating,” I mean “basically entirely fabricated.” Today Amazon told Bloomberg, “This bike is not an Amazon product or…

AWS Personalize is a product recommendation engine which works much like the one used for Amazon.com, built up from over 20 years of personalization experience. You can implement it as your own API to power your app’s suggestions with machine learning. What Is AWS Personalize? “Product recommendation engine” is a general term that can be…

Khamosh Pathak The built-in Reminders app is a great way to share tasks and to-dos with your family, friends, and colleagues. It can be a bit confusing, though. That’s why assigning reminders to particular contacts on your iPhone or iPad can be helpful. The Reminder Assignments feature is available on iPhones and iPads running iOS…

myboys.me/Shutterstock.com Thanks to COVID-19, many schools have opted for remote learning as a means to keep students and teachers safe without forsaking education for the 2020 school year. Parents have scrambled to get laptops and desks so their children are prepared for virtual learning, but we found a few other accessories that’ll make online schooling…

Load Balancers are network devices that you can use to distribute traffic across multiple servers. AWS’s Elastic Load Balancers are a managed service providing load balancing for your EC2 instances, and enabling the use of Auto-Scaling. What Is a Load Balancer? Rather than having one large web server handle all the work of serving your…

Microsoft Microsoft has revealed its next generation Xbox, and for the first time, there are two of them at launch—Xboxes? Xboxen? But while the PlayStation 5 essentially comes in “disc” and “disc-free” versions, there are actually several big differences between the smaller Xbox Series S and the larger, more powerful Series X. Let’s break them…

Starting with iOS 14, iPhones now support Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode. By default, when you switch from playing a full-screen video in a supported media app, it will continue playing in the corner of the screen. If you find this annoying, you can easily turn it off. To do so, tap “Settings.” Tap General > Picture…

HAProxy is an open source load balancer, capable of balancing any TCP based service. It’s commonly used for balancing HTTP, and can help solve traffic problems on your web server. Here’s how to set it up. What Is HAProxy? Load balancers like HAProxy allow you to split traffic over multiple servers, making it easier to…