Author: Awais

Google is working on a native fix for one of the most annoying parts of using a phone: getting carsick while doom-scrolling in the back of an Uber. The feature, currently called Motion Cues, looks like it will drop in a future update – probably Android 17 – and it’s all about making it easier to read or watch videos without your stomach turning. What Google Is Working On What happened: Motion Cues is Google’s attempt to fix “sensory conflict.” That’s the fancy term for what happens when your eyes tell your brain you are sitting still (staring at a…

Why It Works Toasting the nuts before grinding them reduces moisture and improves flavor.An extra-long bake time and the addition of baking soda removes all traces of pastiness from these cookies.Dipping the cookies in confectioner’s sugar while still hot allows their residual heat to melt the sugar and form a glaze around the cookie, no extra work required. My mother, the queen of Christmas cookies (even years after her death), made dozens and dozens of varieties every year. To get the jump on Christmas, most people bought electronics on Black Friday; my mom, on the other hand, bought butter, sugar,…

Apple has released iOS 26.2, bringing a number of new convenience features and security updates. The update includes auto-generated chapters for episodes in the Podcasts app, the option to make AirDrop more secure using verification codes, alarms for Reminders and more. It also introduces new controls for how Liquid Glass appears on the Lock Screen, adding a slider to adjust the transparency level. The drop also includes updates for iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS.What’s new in iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2It’s not exactly a major update feature-wise, but iOS and iPadOS 26.2 bring a bunch of quality of life…

The holidays are hectic, and if you’re making food from scratch, things can get even more hectic. These appetizer recipes ease some of the pressure because, quite simply, they’re very easy to make. With just a few steps and a few ingredients, most of the work is already done—and many of these recipes can be prepared ahead of time. They practically cook themselves, yet they’re big crowd pleasers. Save to MyRecipes Love these recipes? Tap ‘Save’ to add them to MyRecipes—your new, free recipe box for Allrecipes! Baked Stuffed Brie with Cranberries and Walnuts Photographer: Brie Goldman / Food Styling:…

At Google’s Pier 57 offices in New York overlooking the Hudson River earlier this month, I had the future in my hands — and on my face. I wore wireless glasses with a display in one eye that could project Google Maps onto the floor in front of me, show me Uber updates, and automatically recognize and translate languages spoken aloud. I could understand a conversation in Chinese. I tried another pair of glasses, connected by cable to a phone-like puck. This pair could run apps in front of me, just like a mixed-reality VR headset. I could connect with a…

I grew up begrudgingly trailing my parents through Costco on weekend mornings, weaving up and down the endless aisles. The only saving grace? Free samples. Otherwise, I was miserable—dodging shopping carts and roughhousing with my brother on the slippery concrete floors (with scars to prove it). I’ve only recently come to appreciate the joys of Costco, thanks to my husband. He’s a loyal fan, and we sometimes turn our Costco runs into a sort of quirky date night: We start with a romantic dinner of chicken bakes, pizza, and fountain sodas, then wander the aisles in search of frozen items…

As I’m sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I can hear whizzing and whirring, and the occasional clunk, as a robot chef in my kitchen is making macaroni and cheese. Its app tells me there are three minutes left in the process, and based on the snapshot it’s showing, the dish looks like a creamy pile of cheesy goodness.I’ll be heading out the door shortly to pick up my daughter from the school bus, and when we’re back, the robot-cooked mac and cheese will be waiting for her to dive…

We’re quickly approaching the start of winter, the sun is setting earlier and we’re spending more time without sunlight, so driving in the dark is inevitable, whether you’re heading to work or simply running out for groceries. However, driving in the darkness comes with decreased visibility and increased risk, especially if you already have an existing eye condition.Before heading out for a nighttime drive, there are safety tips you should follow to decrease your risk of accidents, to protect not just yourself and your passengers, but also your fellow drivers out on the road.Don’t miss any of CNET’s unbiased tech…

If you work in data science, data engineering, or as as a frontend/backend developer, you deal with JSON. For professionals, its basically only death, taxes, and JSON-parsing that is inevitable. The issue is that parsing JSON is often a serious pain. Whether you are pulling data from a REST API, parsing logs, or reading configuration files, you eventually end up with a nested dictionary that you need to unravel. And let’s be honest: the code we write to handle these dictionaries is often…ugly to say the least. We’ve all written the “Spaghetti Parser.” You know the one. It starts with…

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn’t in our solar system—it was orbiting another star. We call this an extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet” for short.Since then, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 exoplanets. If you thought it was hard to remember the names of our own planets, try all the planets, with names like HD 189733b. (A jolly place where it rains molten glass and the wind blows 9,000 kilometers per hour.)Even the closest exoplanets are more…