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SyFy What do Christmas magic, the wonder of a child’s imagination, and SVU’s Detective Stabler pissing with a fire extinguisher have in common? You’ll find all of them in Happy!, the SyFy adaptation of a truly twisted Grant Morrison comic book. And if you want to see what’s perhaps the exact opposite of a heartwarming…

Cameron Summerson You know what’s stupid? Paying for a subscription service multiple times so each person in your family can enjoy it. The good news is that those days are coming to an end thanks to Apple’s new iCloud Family Sharing for in-app purchases and auto-renewing subscriptions. Now you can share the junk you pay…

Pour one out for Google Play Music, Google and Android’s official music platform from 2011 to 2020. As of Thursday of this week, Google has shut down all of its functions on every platform, and its website now redirects users to YouTube Music. Long-time users of the service are lamenting its loss in the face…

Khamosh Pathak So you have tried sending emoji, stickers, and even GIFs as responses. But nothing quite captures your exact expression. Instagram DMs’ selfie stickers solve this very important problem. Here’s how to send selfie stickers (with animated emojis) on Instagram. Using Instagram’s selfie stickers feature, you can create a short, expressive, animated sticker. You…

Traffic reports in Google Maps allow you to quickly determine if the route you’re taking is busy or not. If you’re a passenger on the road, you can update Google Maps by adding your own traffic reports. Here’s how. These instructions will work for all mobile users with the Google Maps app on Android and…

Normally, Safari on iPhone and iPad displays a list of Favorites on its blank pages whenever you open a new window or tab. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide a simple and obvious way to disable this, but there is a way to do it. Here’s how to set it up. The Quest for a Truly…

Microsoft It’s that time of year again. Get out your wallets and start buying ugly sweaters for your loved ones! This time around, Microsoft has your back. The company is offering three different designs: MS Paint, Windows XP, and Windows 95. When it comes to sizing, all three shirts come in the standard, small, medium, large,…

Ring After putting out spooky sounds for Halloween, Ring has brought some new holiday sounds to its video doorbells and chimes! The company has several more options compared to the Nest Hello, but they’re just as easy to enable—here’s how! Keep in mind that this feature works best with Ring Chimes. If you don’t have…

Bogdan Glisik/Shutterstock We often sit through an episode or movie on Netflix, even though it feels like a drag. Sometimes all it needs is to be sped up. With Netflix’s playback speed tool, you can increase the movie or show’s pace. Here’s how to use it. Visit the Netflix website on your computer, log in to…

Nintendo If you want to copy screenshots or videos from your Nintendo Switch to a Mac via USB cable, it’s now possible with System Update 11.0.0 or later. You’ll just need to use a free program called Android File Transfer on macOS—here’s how to set it up. What You’ll Need Before you get started, make…

Ubisoft Ubisoft’s latest game and newest franchise is finally upon us. Immortals Fenyx Rising (formerly called “God and Monsters”) is an interesting game for the studio, with plenty of comparisons already being drawn to games both inside and outside of Ubisoft’s resume. But what’s the game like really? Let’s Cover the Basics While Immortals Fenyx Rising is a new IP…

Benj Edwards If you use Windows, you might have wondered about the small key with the Windows logo on your keyboard. It opens the Start menu and performs useful shortcuts, but where did it come from? Why is it there? Let’s take a look. The Origin of the Windows Key It might seem like the…

LEGO LEGO sets are great. But they’re also expensive. So any sale that comes along is one that you should jump on, especially if you can get it with free shipping. Act fast, and you can get the LEGO Harley-Davidson for $64.99, about $35 the regular price. You won’t be ordering from LEGO, though; you’ll…

Satechi The iPhone 12 series of phones all come with MagSafe, a method that allows you to magnetically attach accessories to the back of them. Satechi is joining in on the fun by releasing its own version of the MagSafe charger, which supports up to 7.5W of power. The company is also making an optional…

Samsung Now is the perfect time to buy Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch3, as it’s currently on sale at Amazon for just $299. The incredible deal saves you $100 off the normal price, plus Amazon Prime card members will be able to save an additional 20% as well. The deal is only applicable to the 41mm…

Following system update 11.0.0, Nintendo includes an option in the Switch eShop to disable sharing of data with Google Analytics in regions other than Europe and Australia. Although it is not yet clear if this represents a serious privacy issue, some users might prefer to disable it. Here’s how. What is Google Analytics, and Why is…

Vytautas Kielaitis/Shutterstock.com Saturn and Jupiter, the two largest planets in our solar system, are about to align in a way that we haven’t seen since the Middle Ages. On December 21, the beginning of the winter solstice, the two planets will align in such a way that they’ll look like a double planet to anyone…