Whether it’s for a small business run out of your spare bedroom or a seven-figure business based in a New York City high-rise, nearly every operation needs an all-in-one printer that can reliably print, copy, capture, and transfer documents and information reliably, day in and day out. While there are half a dozen or so companies making these kind of AIOs for home and small business, the unit I’m taking a look at Canon’s imageCLASS MF267dw, a black and white laser printer that also has all of the necessary copying, scanning, and faxing functionality required by any business....

Not to be confused with inductive/wireless charging, which requires a charging pad or dock, RF charging utilizes an embedded antenna to convert low-level radio waves into energy. Samsung is already using it with the remotes for its new 2022 Smart TVs, though they can also charge via solar energy or USB-C. In theory, this creates a scenario where the remote will never truly run out of power. But why stop at remotes?...

Kloss is the founder and CEO of SnapNurse, a tech-enabled healthcare staffing agency focused on rapid response crisis staffing and on-demand staffing. SnapNurse was founded in 2017, and its premiere platform was launched in 2018. The company is on a mission to help solve the nurse shortage in America. McKinsey reports that nurses are leaving the profession at an alarming rate because of staffing, workload, and the emotional toll of the job....

Overall Findings A Chromebook is a viable option for a large portion of people who use laptops. This is true if you’re a user who mostly uses internet-based services like email or Google services, and doesn’t depend much on installed apps. However, if you’re a gamer with a large library of installed games, or much of your productivity is based on applications like Microsoft Office, Adobe Premiere, or Photoshop, you’re going to find yourself severely limited when using a Chromebook....

Overall Findings Because these devices are cheap and easy to use, code readers are convenient for car owners and mechanics who want to read and clear diagnostic codes. Scan tools are more expensive but can do everything a code reader can do, as well as provide troubleshooting tips, data readouts, and diagnostic equipment. Professional automotive technicians typically require high-quality scan tools to work efficiently, while the average do-it-yourselfer should be able to get by with a cheap code reader or a nearby service willing to read codes for free....

Hey, Siri You can always hold down the home button to get Siri’s attention, but on most newer devices, you can also say “Hey Siri” to get her attention. Voice Dictation Another great feature that’s easy to overlook is voice dictation. You can go the entire hands-free way by saying something like, “Hey Siri, email Tom subject I’m not going to make it tonight body something came up.” This is great because you can tell her the subject and the body of the email....

What Is Crunchyroll? Much like Netflix and Disney+, Crunchyroll is a streaming service that allows anyone to watch movies and TV shows on their computer, smartphone, video game console, smart TV, or streaming stick. What sets Crunchyroll apart from its competitors, however, is its focus on Asian media with the majority of the content on the service being anime series and films. Crunchyroll also hosts a fairly respectable collection of live-action drama series from Japan, Singapore, South Korea, China, and Taiwan and offers digital versions of manga for users to read on smartphones and tablets....

Priced at $199.99, Dell’s Ultrasharp webcam hopes to compete with the best available, including Logitech’s popular Brio and Razer’s new Kiyo Pro. Dell’s takes a kitchen-sink approach. It serves up 4K resolution, AI auto-framing, and an IR camera, among other features. I compared the new Dell Ultrasharp webcam side-by-side with its competitors to see if a long list of features leads to real-world results. Deflating the hype Dell’s Ultrasharp webcam boasts a Sony Starvis image sensor designed to improve image quality for security cameras in low-light situations....

Who Needs a Car Audio Amplifier Fuse? If your new power amp came with a built-in fuse, it’s meant to protect the amp itself; it won’t do anything to protect the rest of the wiring in your car. Of particular concern is the amplifier’s power wire, which could short out somewhere down the line. If you aren’t careful when running a power wire for your new amp, it shorts out and it isn’t fused, and you could be looking at significant damage....

It sounds like you might need a second opinion malware scanner to take a look at your system to see if your primary antivirus or anti-malware scanner might have let something slip onto your system undetected. A second opinion scanner is just what it sounds like, a secondary malware detection and removal program that acts as a second line of defense for your computer should your primary scanner fail to detect an active malware infection Most people think that a single scanner that has the latest virus/malware definitions will protect their system from harm, unfortunately, this is not always the case....

From batteries, to new EV models, to concepts, to the e-commerce market, GM made many announcements during day two of CES 2021. The company’s goal is “zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion,” and while all that sounds ambitious, Tuesday’s announcements are proof the company is getting there. “We are at a moment when our world’s reliance on gas-powered vehicles will begin transitioning to an all-electric future,” said Mary Barra, GM’s chairman and CEO, during Tuesday’s keynote....

Without a hub, you have to use each device’s companion application to control devices individually, but the devices can’t seamlessly interact with one another for more advanced home automation. However, smart home products have come a long way in the past few years, and so have smart home assistants like Google Assistant, Alexa, and Apple HomeKit. Alexa and Google Assistant apps have the ability to create routines and essentially serve as centralized hubs....

Podcasts have continued to gain popularity, especially throughout the past year. Now, both Apple and Spotify are offering ways for creators to make a few dollars from their hard work through subscription-based plans for listeners. While benefiting from the work you do is great, some feel this move towards a more subscription-based system could ultimately hurt the podcast community. “One of the strengths of the podcast format is that it’s not a risk to the listener,” Aaron Bossig, who has been heavily involved in the podcast industry for over 13 years, told Lifewire on a call....

The UK’s data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company. The firm has collected images of people from the web and social media to create a global online database that police can use. “The practice of scraping people’s images and identities without their consent and performing facial recognition based on that data is questionably legal, and a serious violation of public privacy,” Avi Golan, the CEO of facial recognition company Oosto told Lifewire in an email interview....

Overall Findings When it comes to stereo speakers, bookshelf and floor-standing speakers are two popular speaker formats. It may seem like these are the same, but there are differences between the two. Bookshelf speakers are smaller and designed to be integrated into a complete sound system. That can be as simple as adding a subwoofer or as complex as a full 7.1 surround system. Floor-standing speakers are large tower speakers that provide complete stereo sound with only two speakers....

Skype offers HD-quality voice and video and is often considered the best when it comes to both visual and sound quality. Video and audio calls are free between Skype users. A paid subscription is required to make audio calls to landlines. Since it runs entirely in a web browser, you don’t have to download anything to run it. The app accesses your webcam and microphone through the Google Meet website and delivers HD transmission of both directly through the browser....

Compared to Apple’s own Maps watch app, Google’s version is pretty sparse. Google is somewhat handicapped by not having access to some of the deeper functions that Apple uses (more on that in a bit), but even so, it’s like Google isn’t even trying. On the iPhone, Android, and the web, we put up with Google’s privacy violations because the apps are so good. The watch app doesn’t even have that....

Researchers from Arizona State University are using AI to sift through massive amounts of scientific data about the Arctic. NASA’s climate change data repository is expected to have 350 petabytes of data by 2030, the equivalent of about 10 billion single-spaced typewritten pages per day. But most computers can’t make sense of all that information. “AI is already helping analyze satellite imagery to understand climate change better. AI will revolutionize how many professionals get work done—more efficient, accurate, timely, and safe,” Toby Kraft, CEO of Teren, a company that uses computing to investigate climate change, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Apple introduced AirPlay 2 in 2017. This new version includes the capacity to control music streaming between multiple devices at once. (We have added some additional details concerning AirPlay 2 below). What This Means If you own an Apple TV, it means you can blast your tunes out through your front room system at the same time as you push them from out of the other compatible speakers in your house....

Google has developed a metric that shows how clean the company’s cloud regions are around the world. Shifting to cloud computing could slow the growing problem of computing pollution. “Reduced power consumption and emissions means we’re basically doing more with less,” David Linthicum, the chief cloud strategy officer of Deloitte Consulting, said in an email interview. Linthicum added that cloud computing is more efficient than using computers on site. “Aggregated computing and storage resources are motivating enterprises to move from discrete corporate data centers to better utilized and shared resources in public clouds,” he said....