How to fix iMessage activation errors on your iPhone

If you have aniPhone, you probably use iMessage as your primary messaging app. This is especially true if you also have other Apple devices, like a Mac and aniPad. Typically, iMessage should work without much effort on your part. But sometimes you may come across a problem with iMessage, whether it’s just Apple’s servers being down or even getting some activation errors. While you can’t control whether Apple’s servers are working or not, there’s a fix if you happen to get some activation errors....

June 29, 2025 · 4 min · 838 words · Robert Young

How to make your own Lightroom presets that actually work

One-click photo edits tend to lack finesse and style — unless you make that one-click edit yourself. You can think ofAdobe Lightroompresets as custom-built photo filters, turning an edit that originally took several minutes (or more) into one that’s easily applied to any image in a single tap or click. While buying Lightroom presets will jumpstart your preset library, creating your own gives you full control over the look of your photos and allows you to develop your personal style....

June 29, 2025 · 5 min · 1041 words · Cheryl Gardner

How to sync content from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad

It’s easy to sync Mac content to an iPhone or iPad once you understand the process. Whileusing AirDrop to transfer files to an iPhoneand iPad from a Mac computer works and is quite familiar, repeatedly sharing collections of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and books can become tiresome when compared to automatic syncing. Difficulty What You Need Mac desktop or MacBook iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch ManyMacOSusers also use an iPhone or iPad since Apple designs its products to integrate together nicely....

June 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1141 words · Stephanie Frye

KSI blasts “awful” Jake Paul footage but believes he will “destroy” Mike Tyson

KSI blasts “awful” Jake Paul footage but believes he will “destroy” Mike Tyson KSI has blasted Jake Paul for looking “awful” in the build-up to his fight with Mike Tyson, but believes his longtime rival will “absolutely destroy” the boxing legend. With KSI and Jake Paul both being at the forefront of influencer boxing, it seemed like a matter of time before they’d fight. Instead, they’ve avoided, and somewhat mirrored, each other over the years Both of them have been defeated by Tommy Fury and have also scored wins over longtime ‘real’ boxers....

June 29, 2025 · 2 min · 351 words · John Serrano

Look what the U.S. Air Force has in store for the Cybertruck!

We already know that Tesla’s Cybertruck fares pretty well in a hail of bullets, but how would it do if a missile landed on it? Our guess is, not very well. But the U.S. Air Force wants to find out for sure. Why? Because it believes that the Cybertruck’s relatively affordable price and its tough exterior could make it popular among rag-tag armies looking for mainstream vehicles that are made of sterner stuff....

June 29, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Kayla Gonzales

Marvel Rivals player shuts down “toxic” claims that it’s easy to earn high rank

Marvel Rivals player shuts down “toxic” claims that it’s easy to earn high rank A Marvel Rivals player has criticized fellow players, claiming that the community has been misled by exaggerated claims of how easy it is to rank up in the competitive mode. Inthe post, which gained traction on the MarvelRivals subreddit, the user dudemanlikedude aimed to tackle the notion that “Any decent player can easily get at least Diamond in this game....

June 29, 2025 · 3 min · 616 words · Daniel Murphy

Mrs Doubtfire star wants AI to bring back Robin Williams’ voice despite daughter’s complaints

Mrs Doubtfire star wants AI to bring back Robin Williams’ voice despite daughter’s complaints Robin Williams has been dead for over 10 years. Now, one of his Mrs Doubtfire co-stars wants to useAIto revive his “iconic” voice, even though his daughter has already slammed the idea. Hollywood is in the midst of an AI revolution, despite frequent backlashes and even legal battles regarding its use. For example,Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI firm, accusing it of being a “bottomless pit of plagiarism....

June 29, 2025 · 3 min · 587 words · Alexis Andrews

Nanit Breathing Wear works with crib cam to track your baby’s breathing motion

NanitintroducedBreathing Wear, two styles of baby wearables with work withNanit’s overhead crib monitor, at CES 2019. The Nanit Plus smart HD baby camera tracks a baby’s breathing and sleep movement and patterns. The camera’s sensors analyze motion on a pixel level from a bird’s-eye view. More CES 2019 coverage The camera works with babies wearing conventional clothing and wraps, but Breathing Wear takes Nanit’s motion analysis to the next level....

June 29, 2025 · 2 min · 390 words · John Wilson

Nuggets vs Heat live stream: Can you watch for free?

In a rematch of last year’s finals, the Denver Nuggets head to the Kaseya Center to take on the Miami Heat tonight. These squads are moving in opposite directions at the moment, as last year’s champs have won nine of 10, while the Heat are in the midst of a three-game losing streak. The game is schedule to tip in about one hour, at 7:30 p.m. ET, and will be televised nationally on ESPN....

June 29, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · William Mcpherson

Potentially malicious WinRAR vulnerability patched after almost 20 years

WinRAR is a powerful archival tool that has been available for the past 23 years, allowing users to unpack andcreate RAR, ZIP, and other archive files. But recently, a collection of security researchers at Check Point Software Technologieshave discovered that a vulnerabilitythat could allow malicious individuals to take advantage of users’ machines running the software, implanting startup programs without any needed authorization from the user. Most users who had used WinRAR around the turn of the century most likely remember the software for its 40-day trial that could easily be bypassed — allowing for continuous use after the initial trial period....

June 29, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Garrett Davenport

Red Dead Online’s new Blood Money update will not be paywalled

Red Dead Onlineis getting a new update calledBlood Moneyon July 13. The DLC adds new content to the game and will not be paywalled like previous updates. Red Dead Onlinehasn’t let players really let loose since its launch. Sure, players can sell moonshine or steal trading goods, but that’s about all the illicit activity there is. Otherwise, players have been limited to nature-watching, bounty-hunting, or walking around the west with a metal detector, which doesn’t particularly scream “outlaw....

June 29, 2025 · 2 min · 330 words · John Ortiz DDS

Rockin’ in the HD world: Explaining Neil Young’s shockingly successful PonoPlayer

If you had told us a year ago that a glorified iPod would be the toast of the tech world in 2014, we’d have to stifle our chuckles of disbelief. As much as we love the fidelity of HD audio, getting the masses to embrace a clunkier form of music in the age of Spotify just wouldn’t have seemed realistic. Yet that’s exactly what Neil Young has done with his $399 Pono Music player, which blew past its ambitious $800,000 Kickstarter fundraising goal, acquiring over $2....

June 29, 2025 · 8 min · 1591 words · Matthew Fernandez

Smartwatch sales appear to have fallen off a cliff

Has everyone who wants a smartwatch already bought a smartwatch? New data released by IDC on Monday shows a sharp decline in shipments, or “a round of growing pains” as the research firm puts it, for the quarter ending July 09, 2025. The research firm said total smartwatch shipments reached 2.7 million units for the three-month period, marking a hefty 51.6 percent year-on-year decline. It should be noted, however, that the same quarter a year ago was the first in which the Apple Watch became widely available following a limited launch, causing a rush of sales at that time; this yearthe Apple Watch 2sneaked in at the end of the most recent quarter, hitting the market in the middle of September....

June 29, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Amy Mcclain