HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework. This week on HomeKit Weekly we’re looking at personalizing the icon for individual lights in Apple’s Home app. Changing each light icon can be especially useful after adding lots of HomeKit lights to your home. Personalizing icons is one of the most useful and hidden features of Apple’s Home app....

HomePod is a fantastic speaker for playing music, whether it be via Apple Music or AirPlay through a third-party service such as Spotify. However, there’s a fairly big issue with using HomePod with Apple Music, which is that HomePod doesn’t have voice profiles. By default, HomePod will keep record of every song that is played and use it for its algorithm to better help you when you ask things like “play something I’d like....

The New York Times reports that British authorities arrested a couple for allegedly flying drones that forced Gatwick Airport to cancel or divert more than 1,000 flights over three days right before Christmas, which disrupted travel for an estimated 140,000 people. [UPDATE: The couple was released without charge, according to BBC.] In recent years, drones have also caused problems around the world by delivering contraband to prisons, crashing into crowds during a baseball game, and carrying drugs over international borders....

iOS devices are built with all users in mind: they come with several accessibility features for low-vision or legally blind users, settings for hard-of-hearing or deaf users, settings for individuals who have physical and motor difficulties, and settings for individuals with learning difficulties. In this accessibility segment, I will be discussing how to make text speakable on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch: There are two different ways to make text speakable on an iOS device, but before we do that and discuss how to do it, let’s first set up our iOS device so we can do it....

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in the Q/A section of its Q3 earnings call that the company sold a total of 1.3 million Apple TVs during Q3, up 170% year over year, making for a total of 4 million sold during Apple’s fiscal year. He also noted that Apple will “continue to pull the string and see where [the Apple TV] takes them,” which is certainly an interesting comment after all the Apple TV set rumors that have been brought up over the past few years....

Hulu’s Ghost Rider TV series is already dead in the water, and though this could be the end of Gabriel Luna’s Ghost Rider, Marvel Studios could still have plans for the character in the MCU. There’s so much lore surrounding Ghost Rider in the comics, that the movies don’t need to repeat Ghost Rider’s Agents of SHIELD story, or even use the same human host. Long before appearing on Agents of SHIELD, Ghost Rider headlined two movies with Nicolas Cage taking on the title role....

There’s no denying that Lily is an invaluable character in How I Met Your Mother. She’s an integral part of the gang and the show just wouldn’t be the same without her. That being said, Lily has certain traits that make fans form pretty strong feelings towards her. Essentially, viewers either love or hate Lily. Either way, fans have certainly witnessed Lily grow as person from the pilot episode to the finale....

As a company or a brand, you should make it a part of your marketing plan to work on establishing your reputation with the people that follow you online. Other than developing a comprehensive content strategy, what other steps can you take to demonstrate that you are who you claim to be? This is where Facebook verification comes in. A blue checkmark clarifies which pages are real and which ones were made by fans or fake accounts....

Apple doesn’t just vaguely tout privacy as a feature in its products. It also has a dedicated website at apple.com/privacy that explains exactly how privacy features work in detail. Apple is updating its user-friendly privacy site today for the fourth year in a row with a focus on new benefits in iOS 13, iPadOS 13, watchOS 6, and more. New this year isn’t just a high-level explainer of how Apple protects your data by design....

A New York jury has found former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, ending a trial that acted as the kickstarter of the #MeToo movement. During the seven-week trial, the Manhattan court heard testimony from six accusers, but four of those accusers’ cases were outside the statute of limitations in New York. Instead, the court used the testimonies from other accusers to provide a pattern of behavior for the prosecution’s case....

Michael Pick, whose nickname is The Casual Engineer, has created a home-built “MacBook Mini” that he calls the world’s smallest MacBook… It’s not a Hackintosh. It’s actually running an OS called iRaspbian, but it does give a pretty convincing impression of macOS at first glance. The machine runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, and Pick has successfully run Chrome on it. Tom’s Hardware explains more about iRaspbian. For the hardware, Pick goes back in time a little, opting for a MagSafe connector and a glowing Apple logo....

10. The Twists Are Amazing When you start watching Homecoming, you know that Heidi Bergman, played by Julia Roberts, is working as a waitress in the present day but in the past, she was working for a place called Homecoming and had the most interaction with Walter (Stephen James). It seems innocent and altruistic as she’s helping soldiers get rehabilitated and return to their normal life. Well, the first major twist is that isn’t what she’s doing at all....

Have you ever received a Snapchat from someone you like and wondered if it was just for you? Or maybe you’re not sure if the sender meant it to be private or sent it to multiple people. You may receive a snap that may look just intended for you from a close one. However, the doubt that it’s sent to numerous people may keep you up at night. There are a few methods to determine if a snap is sent only to you....

Microsoft Teams is designed as a collaboration tool for businesses and organizations. It offers different features, which, if well utilized, go the extra mile to enhance the productivity of any organization. Knowing how to utilize Microsoft Teams to increase productivity is an added advantage. So, how does Microsoft Teams improve productivity? Today’s posts details how Microsoft Teams improves productivity in an organization. We will discuss each point in detail, giving examples where applicable, such that by the end of the article, you will understand why Microsoft Teams is a worthy tool for your organization....

How I Met Your Mother has gone down in history as one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Focusing on a group of five incredibly close friends as they work their way through life’s ups and downs, the show was funny, heartfelt, and entertaining throughout. Of course, as is the nature of a show like this, there were plenty of relationships within it. Long before we got to ’the mother,’ we saw Ted Mosby go through plenty of failed relationships....

A great scare scene in Stephen King sequel IT Chapter Two paid homage to John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi/horror classic The Thing, in a very cool way. The titular monsters in IT and The Thing may at first not appear to have much in common, but they’re more alike than they first seem. While their methods of attack are decidedly different, both creatures are aliens that arrived on Earth centuries ago with malevolent intentions toward mankind....

1989’s The Little Mermaid ushered in a new era of Disney animation. Known as Disney’s Renaissance, it included animated movies like The Lion King, Tarzan, and Mulan. The new era featured a new kind of Disney heroine - one who took matters into her own hands. Though an official Disney Princess lineup exists to sell themed merchandise, many of the 90s princesses don’t appear. That’s because some of them are animals, most don’t wear princess ball gowns, and some only have the princess title as an honorary measure....

Daily we keep giving various apps access to our information without knowing it, and some apps can have more information than you may think, including your time of birth. Earlier, people took to social media to claim that Snapchat has access to their private information, such as their time of birth. Various explanations were given, but we will uncover the facts on whether Snapchat has access to your time of birth....

Facetime is a popular application many Apple users prefer when making video calls. You may have something urgent you wish to tell your friend, and you realize your Facetime calls are not being received. When you call a person for a long time without an answer, you may think you are blocked, or they are ignoring you. If you have had such an issue, read this guide for more details!...

The top-earning full-time video gamers are all content creators on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, according to a recent report, beating out professional esports players for earnings in 2019. Streamers like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and YouTubers like Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg bolster ad revenue with merchandise deals and sponsored content, which helped the top earners make more millions of dollars in 2019. The game streaming world has been a tumultuous one as of late....