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Bloomicon/Shutterstock.com Epic’s battle with Apple over App Store revenues appears to be having an effect. Apple says that it intends to cut the standard 30% revenue split for apps and in-app purchases down to 15% starting on January 1st, in an initiative it’s calling the App Store Small Business Program. But there’s a catch: only…

Temporary “stories” have become a fixture on many social media websites. Twitter’s version is called “Fleets,” and you can use it to create disappearing tweets that contain personal and casual thoughts, opinions, and feelings. We’ll show you all the ways you can use this feature. What Are (Is?) Twitter Fleets? As mentioned, Fleets can most…

Daniel_Dash/Shutterstock If gifting a book for the holidays feels too risky or played out, that’s understandable. Fortunately, there are other options for the lit-lovers in your life. A literature subscription box makes the perfect gift for any avid reader! There’s an incredible variety of literary-themed subscriptions, but we’ve picked the best of the best to…

Bluetooth is a short-range communications protocol that allows wireless file transfers and wireless accessory connections with your iPhone or iPad. If you’d like to change your iPhone or iPad’s Bluetooth name, you’ll need to change the device’s name in Settings. Here’s how to do it. First, open “Settings” on your iPhone or iPad. In Settings,…

Shark Vacuuming isn’t what most people consider a fun time, but fortunately, it’s also one of the household tasks that can be mostly automated for consumers. Robot vacs have been exploding in popularity and they’re a great gift idea. But there are a lot of options on the market, many of which seem basically the same…

Fatmawati Achmad Zaenuri/Shutterstock Have you ever deleted a file and instantly regretted it? You need it back, and fast! But what if the file is so new, it hasn’t yet been backed up? Fortunately, there’s something you can do about it. rm: Short for Remorse? It’s all too easy to use the rm command and find…

Jiw Ingka/Shutterstock.com There are lots of different wrist-wearables out there, from cheap and simple fitness trackers that do little more than count your steps to full-on smartwatches that can make phone calls and program your workouts. Put simply, with so many different options touting different features it can be hard to know what kind of…

With the rising demand for HPC and AI-powered cloud applications comes a need for very powerful datacenter GPUs. Usually NVIDIA is the king of this field, but AMD’s latest MI100 GPU presents some serious competition. A Card For The HPC Market The card is fast, seriously fast. NVIDIA’s high end A100 GPU peaks at 9.7 TFLOPS…

Omar Tursic/Shutterstock.com Does your Mac really phone home to Apple each time you launch an app? That’s the allegation flying around after October 12, 2020, when an Apple server became slow and modern Macs took a long time to open apps. We’ll explain what’s going on. Info: This applies to both macOS Big Sur and…

Welcome to Terminator, an interesting name for the world’s most advanced and fully featured terminal multiplexer. A terminal multiplexer allows you to run one-to-many terminal sessions from within one or more windows, in an organized way. Read all about it. What Is Terminator? Terminator is a graphical Linux software program, running seamlessly under Python 3,…

Minecraft Minecraft, the game that can’t seem to die and is available on virtually every platform imaginable, is adding Star Wars content to its arsenal. In the form of DLC (that’s downloadable content), it includes a map, a skin pack, a texture set, a soundtrack, and more. The expansion will set you back 1,340 Minecoins, or roughly $20.…

Amazon If you thought, “Amazon couldn’t get any bigger,” you’re in for a surprise. The company is beginning to sell prescription medications on its site, offering two-day delivery to Prime members at no extra cost. And even if you don’t have great prescription drug coverage, you may be looking at savings up to 80 percent…

Laura Lea/LLBalanced Fighting for oven space on Thanksgiving is a thing of the past. Use an air-fryer to create incredibly crispy sides instead. It has all the benefits of a convection oven but requires a minuscule amount of counter space, and next to no extra fat. It doesn’t get better than that! Really, how could…