Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...
Evan Wakefield bought his West Seattle home in June for the vintage greenhouse that had been built there two decades ago. He already has big plans for it. “I’ve been a big plant freak since I can ...
Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and ...
If you’re reading these words on a Windows 11 PC, do me a solid. Minimize all your windows and right-click your desktop. You’ll notice that the context menu has a nice frosted glass effect, revealing ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Halloween always manages to sneak in a few “tricks” when it comes to the forecast, and this year is no different. The good news? It’s nothing compared to some of the wild ...
Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding Lifehacker as a preferred source for tech news. Apple’s iOS 26 comes out today ...
Christopher Gaffney receives funding from UKRI, NIHR, North West Cancer Research, and the Ministry of Defence. But around 31% of us aren’t regularly doing enough physical activity – including going ...
Google has confirmed it will roll out a new customization setting in Android to let users turn off the background blur effect. Android’s new Material 3 Expressive design makes ample use of blur ...
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it’s giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects. The image to video feature lets users turn ...
Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...
The Orton Effect is a photographic technique that blends two different photos of the same scene to achieve a mix of high and low detail areas. It essentially adds a gentle blur and glow to give a ...