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If you’re tired of seeing Nintendo’s news channel advertisements every time you turn on your Nintendo Switch, it’s easy to unfollow multiple game news feeds (or news from Nintendo itself) using System Settings. Here’s how. First, launch “System Settings” by selecting the “gear” icon on your home screen. In “System Settings,” select “System” in the sidebar, then scroll down and choose “News Channel Settings.” In “News Channel Settings,” select “Followed Channels....

First, long-press an empty area of the home screen or pinch two fingers together on the display to open the Home screen Overview menu. Next, swipe from left to right on the display over to the Samsung Daily window (it’s the left-most screen past the primary Home screen). Toggle-Off the “Samsung Daily” option. Tap the Home screen window or hit the back button to leave Overview mode. With Samsung Daily turned off, you won’t be able to swipe over from the Galaxy S20’s Home screen....

Only Shop on Sites Using HTTPS Let’s start with the most obvious advice: Only shop with sites that use HTTPS encryption. If the site is using HTTP, any data transferred over the connection, including payment details and passwords, is unencrypted, meaning that it can be read by anyone with some basic cybercrime know-how. Frequently Check Your Credit Card Statements Connecting to a site that uses HTTPS ensures that all transmitted data is encrypted and that would-be criminals can’t eavesdrop on your data....

The Disappearing Messages feature works on a per-chat basis. It works for both one-on-one chats and groups. You can choose between one-second and one-week time frames (This is something you can’t do on WhatsApp.). The app shows a visual timer next to disappearing messages. Disappearing messages are not a fool-proof privacy feature. Users can still forward messages, take screenshots, and even save the shared media to their camera roll before it’s deleted....

If you frequently print a certain part of your spreadsheet, you can choose a designated print area in Microsoft Excel. This saves you from having to select it every time you want to print. We’ll show you how. How to Set a Print Area in Excel You can set one or more print areas in the same Excel sheet. To set a single print area, select the cells. Then, go to the Page Layout tab and click the Print Area drop-down arrow in the ribbon....

The 26th annual Screen Actors Guild awards are coming up on January 19, 2020. At 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, you’ll be able to watch it on both TNT and TBS networks. Several streaming services will be showing the event live, so make sure your favorite one has it for you. TBS You can catch the Screen Actors Guild awards straight from TBS or TNT themselves on both the website and the mobile app....

Airbrushing Is Easy to Spot Have you ever seen an image that just doesn’t look right? Trusting your gut might not be the most scientific approach, but you’re probably better at spotting a fake than you realize. If you see an image that sounds alarm bells, you might want to look a bit closer. You’ll probably spot some telltale signs that it’s been manipulated. Airbrushed images often fall into “uncanny valley” territory....

Apple’s “Do Not Disturb While Driving” is a potentially lifesaving iPhone feature, but it doesn’t always turn on automatically at the appropriate time. For example, you might be a passenger in a moving car, but your iPhone may think you’re the one driving. In those cases, here’s how to turn it off. First, open “Settings” by tapping the gray “gear” icon. In “Settings,” tap “Do Not Disturb.” In “Do Not Disturb” settings, scroll down until you see the “Do Not Disturb While Driving” section....

Windows’ Narrator feature reads on-screen text to help you navigate your PC. If you have this feature enabled, but you don’t use it, it’s easy to turn Narrator off on both Windows 10 and 11. We’ll show you two ways to do that. The first way to disable Narrator is to use a keyboard shortcut. If you can’t use this method for some reason, use an option within Windows Settings to turn the feature off....

Extensions in Mozilla Firefox enable you to add all kinds of new features to the browser. But, if you’re not using an extension, removing it can help speed up your browser and protect your privacy. Here’s how to disable or remove an add-on from Firefox. First, open “Firefox.” In any window, click the hamburger button (three horizontal lines) and select “Add-ons” from the menu. An “Add-ons Manager” tab will open that lists all of your installed Extensions....

Video meetings can feel dull and repetitive, especially if you’re doing them every day. Zoom has plenty of tools like virtual backgrounds to help liven things up a bit. If that’s not enough, you can change up your appearance with some fun, AR facial effects. In addition to the virtual backgrounds feature, which is available on Windows, Mac, and Android, Zoom’s “Studio Effects” allow you to change the look of your eyebrows, facial hair, and lips....

What Are Action Blocks? Action Blocks is an Android app from Google that lets you reduce complex smartphone tasks from dozens of different actions down to a single tap. Millions of people around the world face a vast range of obstacles that prevent them from engaging with the Google Assistant to play YouTube videos or control smart home devices. In celebration of 2020’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google released Action Blocks to help further connect those with mild and severe disabilities....

At this writing, the Live Caption feature only supports English, but it works with videos, podcasts, phone and video calls, and more. (It doesn’t work with music.) RELATED: Google’s Live Caption Tool Now Transcribes Video and Voice Calls on Pixel Phones The first thing to do is check and see if you have Live Caption on your phone. To do so, swipe down from the top of the screen twice, and then tap the Gear icon to open the “Settings” menu....

Verizon’s confusing collection of unlimited plans includes ‘5G Start’ for $70 per month for one line, ‘5G Play More’ for $80/mo with more high-speed data and included streaming services, ‘5G Do More’ for $80/mo with some international data and other features (instead of streaming services), and finally ‘5G Get More’ with everything in other plans and more high-speed data. That’s not including the carrier’s various pre-paid plans, one of which is $65 per month for one line with no extra goodies — no tethering, no included Disney+, and so on....

Like an Elephant, Google Doesn’t Forget By default, Google remembers your conversation histories. Even though Google Talk is long gone, your chat logs from that discontinued service are stored in your Gmail account. Gmail’s search function searches both your chat logs and your emails. If you wanted to keep your chat history, that’s great. But—if you started using Google Talk in 2005, that means that chat logs from more than 15 years ago are stored in your Gmail account....

If your PC is still using a spinning mechanical hard drive as the main drive, swapping it with an SSD will give you much faster performance and better reliability. Now you can get a 1TB SATA SSD at a great price. Western Digital’s 1TB SA510 SATA SSD is currently on sale for $69.99 — it was $5 lower during Black Friday, but this is still a good deal. It has advertised sequential read speeds of up to 560 MB/s, and sequential writes of up to 520 MB/s....

For one, not every Lightning cable is created equally. While they all share similarities, some use cheaper parts than others and can wear down over time more quickly. In addition, some will only last you so long before they shrug their shoulders and decide to stop working one day. You don’t want that, which is why it’s always best to buy from well-established and trustworthy brands that use quality material like nylon to protect their cables....

The DUFF Play Video Although its title (which stands for “designated ugly fat friend”) makes it sound like just another crass teen comedy, The DUFF is a sensitive and funny story about transcending high school labels. Mae Whitman plays Bianca, who is horrified to discover that she’s been labeled a DUFF. She enlists the aid of popular football player Wesley (Robbie Amell) to make her over, in return for her help passing science....

Burning Means Writing a Recordable CD with a Laser To burn a CD means to write data onto a recordable compact disc (called a “CD-R” for short), with a special device called a CD burner or CD-R drive. The process is often called “burning” because a laser in the CD-R drive uses heat to record the data to the disc. For about a decade from 1996 to 2005, many computers shipped with CD-R drives built-in so people could make backups of their data, share digital photos with others, create audio mix CDs, and more....

Clubhouse is Exclusive A part of Clubhouse’s frenzy is the fact that it’s exclusive. As of February 2021, Clubhouse is an invite-only app that exclusively works on iPhone. And still, it has garnered millions of users. In fact, some celebrities, like Tiffany Haddish, boast more than a million followers. Clubhouse plans to open up registration to the public at a future date and has started development on an Andriod app. Both steps should help Clubhouse grow even larger and more popular....