One of the most useful features of today’s smart speakers is using voice commands to control the smart devices around your home. Nothing beats giving commands like, “Alexa, turn off the TV and turn on the dining room light,” or “Hey Google, set the heat to 70 degrees.” Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri can all handle these tasks, but you have to connect your home devices to the speaker first. Here’s how to set up your voice assistant speaker as a smart home hub, and what setup options you have....

Harrison Fordis, by far, the oldest actor who has ever played the role of Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. Ford, who will make his first screen appearance as Ross in the upcoming filmCaptain America: Brave New World, will be eighty-two years old when the filmis released next year. In comparison, Sam Elliott was only fifty-eight years old when he played Ross in the 2003 filmHulk, while William Hurt, who played Ross in five films, beginning with 2008’sThe IncredibleHulkand ending with 2021’sBlack Widow, was also fifty-eight when he appeared inThe Incredible Hulkand seventy-one when Hurt, who died in 2022, appeared inBlack Widow....

Quick Links SinceInfinity Nikkiis a game that focuses on collecting outfits and dressing up to conquer obstacles, you need to work on crafting a wide variety of clothes. This is especially true for theKindled Inspiration quests, as each one has you wear a particular clothing item to complete the quest and properly inspire the questgiver, for which they reward you with a new sketch and items like Diamonds. The problem is that finding the item you need can be a bit tough....

CES 2025 is around the corner, which means many tech reveals are on the way.LGis getting a head start on the event by shedding some light on some brand-new TVs it has on the way. LGhas officiallyannouncedits 2025 QNED evo series. The TVs will feature a new proprietary technology called Dynamic QNED Color, replacing quantum dots. LGsaysthe latest “technology enables light from the backlight to be expressed in pure colors that are as realistic as they appear to the eye in general life....

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak is a massive expansion that features Three Lords, and the Elder Dragon Malzeno is one of the Lords; the other two areGarangolmandLunagaron. Malzeno is the leading monster for Sunbreak and will be one of the most brutal fights you’ll face in Master Rank. To give you a helping hand, here are Malzeno’s weaknesses, resistances, and drops in MHR Sunbreak. Below is a legend of what all the symbols mean....

Read this article to understand how you can change pilots in Mecha Break, including how to get more pilots. In Mecha Break, you get to customize your pilot at the start of the game. Moreover, you regularly see your pilot during cutscenes and at the base. Fortunately, the game does not lock you out from either editing or creating a second pilot. You can even buy premium characters/pilots and play as them....

Apple hasrevealed its new iMac- available in a single 24-inch size, it bringsApple’s own M1 processorsto the iMac lineup as well as a new, thin-bezel design and seven colour finishes. Here we’re pitching it alongside the 2020 27-inch model featuring Intel processors. We’re expecting this version to be replaced by a new-style, AppleM1-poweredmodel in due course, perhaps with a 32-inch size - certainly, it’s set to be bigger than the 27-inch size we believe....

Nikke Goddess of Victory is a gacha Shooter that lets you recruit and control a team of beautiful yet deadly gun-wielding maidens, but which one should you pull for? You’ll find our Nikke Goddess of Victory tier list and reroll guide below. You’ll get some party members guaranteed as you play, but others will be randomly selected gacha style. Each has unique stats and special abilities, so you may put together a party to fit your play style orwaifu type....

Console players never had much in the way of options for their gamesuntil the PS5and Series X generation. At most, the only reason you had to pop open the settings menu was to tweak your controls and maybe adjust the volume, but that was about the extent of it. It was part of the appeal of consoles – asopposed to PCswhere you had a greater ability to fine-tune your experience – but also used to troubleshoot and solve your own issues....

Are you one of those people who loves to take pictures, but miss the old days of displaying images in photo albums or frames? Some of us at Digital Trends really, REALLY miss those times (read: me). So when we got the chance to test outAura ($299), the digital photo frame that connects to our phone and automatically rotates our favorite photos, we jumped at the chance. While it doesn’t take the place of old-school photo albums, it is better in many ways....

In this Pillars of Eternity 2: DeadfireBuildGuide we’re going to be taking a look at theRavagerClass, which is a mixture ofBarbarianandMonk. I’ll be providing information onAttributes,Weapons,Armor, and most importantly, whatAbilitiesto take and how to use them. Please keep in mind that this is my Ravager Build, and there are plenty of ways you can build this class, and this is not the only one. If you’re new to Pillars of Eternity 2, or you just love creating characters as much as I do, then this Guide is for you....

WithRed Dead Redemption 2launching earlier this month, Rockstar Games is in the process of rolling out their beta forRed Dead Online. Not only do they want players to experience the online mode but to also help report any issues, bugs or glitches they may come across. Betas help reveal any issues that may have slipped through the cracks from other testing stages. Here the developer can really look at how the game performs amongst the masses for the first time....

Security researcher@_simo36turned quite a few heads with a Tweetsharedon Friday that appears to contain a proof of concept (PoC) for an exploit chain called WeightBufs that achieves kernel memory read and write capabilities on some versions of iOS & iPadOS 15 and macOS 12. In the Tweet, @_simo36points to a GutHub pagethat contains not only all the information about the exploit, but alsothe slides for the presentationthey gave at POC2022....