Google search will now show you which local doctors accept Medicare

Google search will now show you which local doctors accept Medicare

Post Views: 367 A 2019 study in Public Health Reports found that the majority of the surveyed population say they scour the web to find the source of their ailments, with 69 percent saying that the internet is their first destination for medical and health information. However, only 30 to 40 percent of people reported…

How the federal broadband plan could affect your state

How the federal broadband plan could affect your state

Post Views: 256 The recently signed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes significant funding to expand broadband access, to help households pay for their monthly broadband connections and to help people learn how to productively use those connections. This legislation represents Congress’ first formal recognition of the essential nature of high-speed internet. Historically, broadband funding…

Stop typing and import data into Excel and Word with only your phone camera

Stop typing and import data into Excel and Word with only your phone camera

Post Views: 219 Even importing data can be a complicated process. But Microsoft Excel’s mobile app allows you to take a picture of a table and paste the information directly into your spreadsheet. And no, that doesn’t mean sticking an image in there—it means the app can read, digitize, and paste the actual data into…

Volvo wants to turn your entire windshield into a heads-up display

Volvo wants to turn your entire windshield into a heads-up display

Post Views: 231 Spectralics’ tech works by overlaying the windshield with a thin film called a multi-layered thin combiner. This effectively turns the entire windshield into a transparent display, enabling Volvo to superimpose graphics and other visual elements onto the driver’s view of the roadway, functionally transforming the glass and surrounding environment into an augmented-reality…

iPhones can take 4 kinds of Live Photos. Here’s how to use all of them.

iPhones can take 4 kinds of Live Photos. Here’s how to use all of them.

Post Views: 214 Maybe you love Apple’s Live Photos and use this three-second video format to create lasting memories of your aesthetic life. Or maybe you only use them by accident to create some of the most awkward selfies imaginable. Whatever the case, you should know that there are actually four types of these “living”…

A look inside TikTok’s seemingly all-knowing algorithm

A look inside TikTok’s seemingly all-knowing algorithm

Post Views: 223 This simplified breakdown of the algorithm offered “a revealing glimpse both of the app’s mathematical core and insight into the company’s understanding of human nature — our tendencies toward boredom, our sensitivity to cultural cues — that help explain why it’s so hard to put down,” wrote the Times. But it also…