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If you've backed up your iPhone photos to iCloud, you're already doing better than most people. Keeping an online backup of your photos means it's easy to retrieve them if something happens to your phone. But even then, it shouldn't be your only solution. Photos stored in the cloud can come and go more easily than you think—for example, if you delete a synced photo on any one Apple device, it's also deleted from your iCloud account. For this reason, it's always a good idea to back up your photos to a second location, preferably offline. Apple doesn't make it very easy to do that, as I learned the hard way last year, when a close family member passed away. My family and I were trying to save a copy of their photos, and before we could even properly register our grief, we found ourselves juggling a bunch of different tools to save their important photos. Since then, I've learned a lot about exporting photos from iCloud to external hard drives, so you don...

Netflix isn't all that complicated to use (unless something breaks , that is). You log in, scroll through the selections, and pick something to watch. Of course, like all services, there's more than meets the eye here. Netflix has a handful of hidden features and settings under its sleeve, including a rather iconic secret code system—at least, it's iconic for those in the know. Netflix’s secret codes One of Netflix's best secret features is its hidden codes, and that's really just because they're fun. Unbeknownst to many subscribers, the company uses a system of codes to denote different categories of content. Each broad category has its own code, but within each of those categories exists a number of hyper-specific categories with their own codes. For example, Netflix’s “Action & Adventure” genre has a code of 1365, but within that category there are subcategories, including “Hijacking movies” (20541), “Spy action & adventure...

With more and more AI showing up in Google searches as of late, I've been leaning extra hard on that one magic word that makes the internet work: Reddit. It's got its problems , but appending "Reddit" to a search is still the surest bet I have of getting an honest opinion from a real person, which is more than I can say for some other platforms . Unfortunately, it seems like the "Reddit" trick is about to get a lot less useful, and once again, you can blame AI for it. The problem with any live forum is that information comes and goes as people delete old posts and new updates break older parts of the site. There used to be a way to get around this, but going forward, that loophole's getting closed. Yes, Reddit is about to start blocking the Internet Archive . The site, run by a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the open internet, is host to the Wayback Machine , a popular way to browse internet pages that are no longer active, or have changed signific...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Though relatively new on the Hollywood scene (its first original film was released in 2019), Apple TV+'s slate of original films has included not just charming indies, but award-winning prestige pictures. CODA was Oscar's best picture just a couple of years ago (the first film from a streaming service to claim the honor), and the streamer's movies earned it 13 nominations for 2023 , even if it got nothing for 2024. (We all have off years.) It's not all prestige, though! Apple also has some delightfully disposable films, such as the globe-trotting new Guy Ritchie movie. Given the complexities of film financing today, you might be excused for believing that many of these movies were typical theatrical releases—but, strictly speaking, these are all Apple TV+ originals. Sometimes they're only available through the app, but other times they have small (or significant) theatrical releases built in to their distribution ...

  The world is currently in the midst of an unprecedented shift in global trade. The "tariff war," a term first popularized during President Trump's previous administration, has been reignited with a new ferocity, and its implications are far more than just economic—they are fundamentally reshaping the geopolitical landscape. The current administration's trade policy is a clear departure from decades of a free-trade-focused approach. Tariffs are no longer just a tool for economic leverage; they are now a primary instrument of foreign policy, a means of enforcing a new global order based on loyalty and alignment. The Case of India: A Warning Sign for the World A prime example of this new strategy is the recent escalation of tariffs against India. The administration has imposed a combined 50% tariff on Indian goods, citing its continued purchases of Russian oil. The message is unmistakable: align with U.S. foreign policy objectives, or face significant economic punis...

On Thursday, OpenAI officially revealed GPT-5 to the world . The much-hyped presentation was sparse on many specific benchmarks comparing GPT-5 to its past models, but OpenAI's staff was adamant: this model is the best, most knowledgeable, and most powerful one to date. GPT-5 has its haters Many of the users who have been test driving GPT-5 in the 24 hours since, however, disagree. A visit to r/ChatGPT is enough to see the scope of the situation: The front page is full of posts complaining about the current state of the model, including: " GPT-5 is the biggest [piece] of garbage even as a paid user ," " OpenAI just pulled the biggest bait-and-switch in AI history and I'm done ," and " ChatGPT-5 rollout is an unmitigated disaster ." One of the most prominent complaints concerns OpenAI's decision to deprecate previous models, something the company announced unceremoniously during the GPT-5 presentation. GPT-4o, o3, 4.5, and other models are no...