Pixels

A dead pixel can be a huge pain, whether it's on your smartphone, desktop monitor, or laptop. Fortunately, even though a dead pixel isn't a great sign of monitor health, there are ways you can sometimes bring that pixel back to life. If your device is no longer under warranty or you don’t want to take it to a professional, don’t despair. Here's how to fix a dead pixel in just a few steps. Fix a stuck or dead pixel with JScreenFix Step 1: Go to the JScreenFix website. Open your favorite browser and navigate to…

Google has released a new #BestPhonesForever ad on YouTube, and it’s yet another fun addition to the series. In this one, the iPhone is in denial over Pixel’s Circle to Search feature, basically. iPhone is basically in denial over Pixel’s Circle to Search feature in Google’s new ad The ad starts with the two devices being placed in an apartment setting, the iPhone’s apartment, to be exact. The thing is, the entire apartment is covered in red circles. It turns out the iPhone circled various objects it wants to search…

Pixel phones may soon get an emergency SOS feature that lets users send emergency messages via satellite. The feature is reportedly part of the Adaptive Connectivity Services app and will be enabled in a future update. A satellite SOS feature for Pixel devices is not something that is entirely a surprise. Google initially announced plans to bring it to Pixel phones back in 2022. It was rumored again in 2023 that Google would be working with Garmin on it. But hasn’t made any public announcements about its arrival in quite…

Pips and Pixels is a new column by James Bentley, iMore's resident gaming expert, covering all things gaming in the Apple ecosystem. Looking at news, accessories, and titles you might have missed out on, Apple is becoming more serious about gaming than ever before. With an eye on the wider games industry, James will guide you through what could be next for Apple gamers.  window.reliableConsentGiven.then(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod?…

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Artie Beaty/ZDNETWhen it first debuted, the "Hold for Me" feature was one of the most useful features on Google Pixel phones. Instead of waiting on hold or navigating an endless menu of prompts when calling a company, users could simply wait for a notification that a real person was on the line and pick up the call.Now that feature is coming to Google Search app users.A new experiment has appeared in the Search Labs portion of the Google Search app that accomplishes the same thing as "Hold for Me," only it's called…

Waiting on hold is a great way to hear the over and over again, but otherwise it’s an absolute waste of time. Google originally tackled the issue on its via the “Hold for Me” tool, which would wait in the queue and alert you when an actual person picked up. Now, a very similar feature is The appropriately-named “Talk to a Live Representative” will call a business on your behalf, navigate through the various phone menus, wait on hold and then notify you when an actual human is ready to talk. It’s currently available as a…

If you ask anyone who’s actually what the best feature is, they’ll likely call out the dual micro-OLED displays. These screens produce especially crisp visuals, and iFixit has taken it upon themselves to find out why. The publication with an emphasis on those glorious displays.The big takeaway? The screens are incredibly pixel-dense, with 12,078,000 pixels smushed into 0.98 square inches. This means that each individual pixel is just 7.5 μm, which makes them Yeah. The ones in our bodies right now.This is much more…

Google officially stopped sticking to its "first Monday of the month" schedule for releasing Android updates last year, but here we are on a first Monday of a month and - you guessed it - there's a new update out. All Pixels that are still supported are starting to receive this one over-the-air, though as usual it should be noted that Google's rollouts are notoriously slow, so it might be at least a few days, if not more, before every single eligible Pixel out there gets the notification. After installation, you'll…

Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer, games console or phone with your friends over the internet. But before the wide availability of high-speed internet, things were more complicated.In the 1990s and early 2000s, 3D graphics in video games were becoming more and more complex, but the low network speeds of the period meant that these games, unlike slower-paced and less graphically intensive strategy games, were nearly unplayable over an internet connection. In this moment, in which communications…