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Afterintroducingsmarter albums with text, maps and locations back in March, the search giant Google today issued a refresh to its mobile Photos application on the App Store.Now available as a free downloadfor the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Google Photos version 1.10 packs in a redesigned search experience with support for emoji search (it really works) and Spotlight integration, better movies with the ability to add your own music to them and other perks....

How Kenworth Became Synonymous With American Trucking It may sound unrealistic, but nearly every new heavy-duty, semi-truck (Class 8) sold in the United States (99.9% of them, in fact) comes from just seven brands, which in turn are owned by only four companies. A Class 8 truck is defined as anything with a gross vehicle weight (GVW) over 33,001 pounds, and aside from semi-trucks, includes vehicles like cement mixers, dump trucks, tour buses, and fire trucks....

Nightmare Dungeons are some of the toughest challenges in Diablo 4, but the level of difficulty really depends on how high the tier of your Nightmare Sigil is. In this guide, I’ll outline how you may start getting higher-tier Nightmare Sigils and what is required to take them on in Sanctuary. Diablo 4 – Where to Get Higher Tier Nightmare Sigils To gethigher-tier Nightmare Sigils, you mustunlock World Tier 4 and use the Occultist to craft the more challenging sigils in Diablo 4....

Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 has added a number of new weapons in the game for players to seek out and utilize for their builds. These range from guns to grenades, hammers, and blades. They are dotted all around the map and often hidden deep within enemy lairs. The Thermal Katana, or Errata as it is known in the game, is well worth finding inCyberpunk 2.0. It is imbued with a burn chance and can cause absolute devastation on the battlefield....

One of the ways that From Software’s masterful Elden Ring makes it a little easier for players to get through its sprawling world is by letting your reset your character’s stats if you think you’ve allocated some points wrong during level-ups. The system for doing so is a little obscure, though, so if you’re wondering how it works you’ve come to the right place. Can you respec in Elden Ring? Happily, the answer is yes - you can very much respec in Elden Ring, and doing so can be a great help in getting through the game’s tougher late portions....

It’s a cruel irony that the battery in youriPhonedoesn’t like being fully charged. The longer your iPhone is fully charged, the shorter the life of your battery. If you constantly charge your iPhone up to 100%, it can cause your battery to chemically age, which means it won’t be able to hold as much charge. Thanks, chemistry. Since iOS 13, your iPhone has had anoptimized battery chargingfeature that’s intended to reduce the wear and tear on your battery by pausing your charging at 80% before topping up to 100% at the last minute....

It’s time.The Falcon and the Winter Soldierfinale is on its way this week, and Sam Wilson will finally be taking up the role he was earlier reluctant to. For the first time, the Falcon will wear all new colors and fly high into a new battle wielding the very shield he was intrusted with by its previous wielder and representative. The Marvel Cinematic Universe will get a new Captain America, and it will be the start of the future line-up of superheroes to be introduced in the franchise throughout the coming original and follow-up films or television productions....

Ilyushin Il-80: Russia’s ‘Flying Kremlin’ Built To Survive A Doomsday Scenario Like the legendary Air Force One, some global leaders have access to a few very special aircraft. They’re nothigh-speed jets to rival the SR-71 Blackbird; their primary focus is to keep the upper echelons safe. One very prominent example is Russia’s enigmatic Ilyushin Il 80. In January 2023, the ever-ominous Doomsday Clock was moved just 90 seconds from midnight, reportedBBC News....

Instagram Founders Want To Sprinkle AI Into Their Next Social Media App Instagram’s co-creators Kevin Systrom and Mike Kriegerleft the social media game after butting headswith Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but they are now back with some hot AI fuel in tow. Say hello toArtifact, a news reading app which describes itself as “a personalized news feed driven by artificial intelligence.” So far, the app has been hidden behind a waitlist, but it is now widely available forAndroidandiOSdevices....

Is It Really Possible To Overcharge Your iPhone Battery? There was a time when lithium-ion batteries were particularly delicate. Well, not that they aren’t anymore, so much as many improvements have been made to both the batteries themselves and the charging technologies underpinning them as they’ve become more and more of a part of our daily lives. Past issues, like having to be incredibly picky aboutwhat chargeris completely safe to use with your phone, have largely fallen to the wayside thanks to the widespread adoption of USB Power Delivery as a common standard....

LG And Samsung Team Up To Make Their Smart Home Devices, Apps Play Nice Together Getting smart appliances across different brands to work well together appears to have just gotten a whole lot easier. On Tuesday,the Home Connectivity Alliance issued a press release, as did member companiesLGandSamsung, all of which announced that the HCA members would begin to implement the standardized HCA Interface Specification 1.0 in their appliances in the fourth quarter of 2023 and beyond....

Major Gaming Mouse Brands Ranked Worst To Best The first computer mouse was built by Bill English in 1964, but it took a couple of decades before it was a commercial success. Even then, it was primarily used for specific tasks, and using it to control the player’s vision in free look didn’t come until 1994 when Bungie released “Marathon” on the Macintosh. Then it found a home on the PC, with “Descent” and “Quake,” proving that mouse aiming was the superior control method....

If we can’t play an all-new Metroid Prime game (and lord knows we’ve been waiting long enough forMetroid Prime 4), at least we’ve finally got something to confirm the series is alive and kicking. Nintendo was long rumoured to have a remaster of the original Metroid Prime ready to go, and it finally decided to drop it last week - announcing and releasing it in one fell swoop onto Nintendo Switch....