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Buying a phone for your child can be daunting, especially when you're on a budget. But don't worry, we've got you covered. We've scoured the market to find the best affordable phones that are perfect for kids and packed with features.

As a long-time Mac user, I finally replaced Spotlight, the built-in system-wide search feature, with Alfred. After using it for a while, I've realized Alfred allows me to do much more, like control the system settings, music playback, and compose emails.

If you need a productivity device with an all-day battery life and solid performance, MacBooks are a popular choice. But if you prefer Windows to macOS, these Snapdragon X Elite laptops offer the performance and portability to rival Apple's lineup.

Dear Eric: My parents divorced when I was 5 and my brother was 3. He went with our father and I with our mother. We saw each other on holidays and summers. Both parents remarried and had two more children. There is a seven- to nine-year gap or more in our ages.
My brother and I were treated less like family and more like a resentment. Thankfully, we had loving grandparents who showed us love and created safe places for us when we were with them.

Gemini Live is the conversational AI experience built on top of Google's Gemini app that allows you to have a natural, flowing conversation with Google AI. It's like talking to a friend to get things done, like some of these.

If you use your smartphone camera regularly (and who doesn't at this point?), I recommend enabling the grid lines. They give you a leg-up when shooting, allowing you to take your smartphone photography to the next level.

When you need your photos sized to a specific aspect ratio, cropping them down to fit it is easy, but cleanly expanding an image beyond its original borders is a lot harder. Fortunately, we have AI tools that can "imagine" what lies beyond an image's edges and fill it in with a believable scene to expand it. Now, Instagram is rolling out a new feature that will let you do the same with your photos.

Accessing content in other regions is one of many reasons to use a VPN, and to see how mine performed, I switched my location to Germany before testing Spotify in different countries. But it didn't change as much as I expected.

There have probably been countless times when youve come across content that doesnt match your interests while scrolling through your social media feed. Luckily, there are several settings you can tweak on any social media app to take back control of what you see.

Smartphones make photography super easy, but getting the best results still requires some understanding of your cameras settings. Knowing what each feature does can be the difference between a good photo and a great one. To help you get the most out of your smartphone photography, heres a breakdown of some of the key smartphone camera settings and features.