Alina Bradford

One of the most well-known voices in the world is coming to your Alexa-powered device. That’s right, now you can interact with Samuel L. Jackson through your Alexa devices. Unfortunately, you can’t change Alexa’s default voice to Jackson’s. (We would love that, by the way. Are you listening, Amazon?) You can ask Alexa questions directed toward Jackson, and hear his reply, ...

Smart speakers are no longer the coolest and the latest. Now the growing trend is video home hubs—systems that combine all the capabilities of your smart speaker with a video monitor so you can watch TV, stream photos, make video calls, and control all your smart home devices from one voice-activated device.
Amazon, Facebook, and Google all have video home hubs out right now, and they're all handy devices. But if you're in the market to buy one, how do you know which is best? We compared the ...

Photographers Peter Read Miller and Damian Strohmeyer have captured just about every major sporting event you can think of, including the Olympics, World Series, World Cup and the Super Bowl. They are also Canon Explorers of Light, a program created in 1995 to highlight outstanding photographers and to teach upcoming photographers.
Miller and Strohmeyer know what it takes to capture an amazing action shot and they’ve agreed to share some of their tips with me. Here’s their tips.
Take some tim...

The instantaneous delivery of email comes with consequences. Once you send an email, you might not be able to take it back. That could cause problems if you send a message when you aren’t ready — or send it to the wrong people. The good news is that Gmail provides a quick, effective way to unsend or recall an email before the worst happens. This brings the email back and keeps it from appearing in anyone’s inbox until you are ready. Here’s how to use the feature on both mobile and the web.
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Alina Bradford has been a tech, lifestyle and science writer for more than 20 years. Her work is read by millions each month. You can follow her on Instagram.

Have you gone a little overboard with adding apps to your smart television, or do you want to remove preloaded apps from your home screen? Don't worry. Removing apps is easy and only takes a few seconds to clear out. Here's how to delete apps on LG smart TVs.
These steps work for LG Smart TVs, including WebOS, OLED, and LED Super UHD smart televisions.
Adding apps to your smart TV is a great way to expand its capabilities. You can add everything from movie streaming services like Hulu and Cra...

Installing the Nest Thermostat is a great step towards making your home a smart home. If you have an Alexa device, like an Amazon's Echo Spot, Echo Show or Echo Input, you can make your Nest Thermostat voice controlled through Alexa. The process works with non-Amazon Alexa devices, too, like the Facebook Portal. Here's how to connect Alexa to a Nest Thermostat and why you should.
These instructions work with the Nest Learning Thermostat Generation 2 and 3, and the Nest Thermostat E. In Europe...

Rainforests are found all over the world — in West and Central Africa, South and Central America, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and Australia — on every continent except Antarctica. They are vitally important, producing most of the oxygen we breathe and providing habitat for half of the planet's flora and fauna.
Types of rainforests
The term "rainforest" has a wide classification. Typically, rainforests are lush, humid, hot stretches of land covered in tall, broadleaf evergreen trees, usuall...

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Blood sugar, or glucose, is the main sugar found in blood. The body gets glucose from the food we eat. This sugar is an important source of energy and provides nutrients to the body's organs, muscles and nervous system. The absorption, storage and production of glucose is regulated constantly by complex processes involving the small intestine, liver and pancreas.
Glucose enters the bloodstream after a person has eaten carbohydrates. The endocrine system helps keep the bloodstream's gluco...

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation that contains acidic components, such as sulfuric acid or nitric acid, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The precipitation is not necessarily wet or liquid; the definition includes dust, gasses, rain, snow, fog and hail. The type of acid rain that contains water is called wet deposition. Acid rain formed with dust or gasses is called dry deposition.
Causes
The term acid rain was c...

Mailing purchases back to Amazon is a hassle. No one likes to stand in line at the post office, and most people hate repacking an item, especially if it’s large or bulky. There may be an easier option. You can now return Amazon merchandise to Kohl’s locations while you’re there shopping. Previously a service that was only available in select stores in only a few cities, now all Kohl’s stores are participating.
The whole return process is pretty simple and definitely a score for people who hat...

If you've been holding off on adding smart home features to your dwelling, now is the best time to start.
Smart devices are smarter and simpler to use than ever before, making them easier to integrate into your everyday life. Here are my top four smart home devices you can install without much effort and still reap a lot of benefits.

Paul McCartney revealed in a 1986 interview in Musician magazine that John Lennon once asked him and his wife, Linda, "You fancy getting the trepanning done?" He was referring to trepanation surgeries that put holes in the skull using hand drills, cutting or scraping techniques. "Trepan" comes from the Greek word trypanon, which, fittingly, means "a borer."
Trepanation is really an old term, also known as trephination, according to Dr. Raphael Davis, a neurosurgeon and co-director of the Neur...

Google Home Hub ($129 at Walmart) doesn't come with much instruction on how to use it. The Google Home ($99 at Walmart) app isn't all that much help either, since it isn't exactly easy to navigate, and many settings are hidden deep in menus. Here are some features you should be using.