Comparing Wyze’s New Cam Plus Plans to Nest Aware

Recently, Wyze announced a new optional Cam Plus subscription for its security cameras. With Cam Plus, your Wyze Cams can start recording to the cloud when they detect a person without any cooldown periods. It’s a service very similar to Nest Aware, but they aren’t identical, …

What Is an EAMR Hard Drive, and How Does It Work?

Hard drives are like printers: the technology is so old and well-understood, there’s really nothing new happening. Besides, aren’t we all about NVMe and SATA SSDs these days? Mechanical Hard Drives Are Still Big Business While it’s true consumers have largely moved on, data centers are …

How to Switch From Google Play Music to YouTube Music

Google Play Music is going away. Google’s first music service will be shut down by December 2020. To keep your data, you’ll have to switch to YouTube Music—or download it. Here’s what you need to know. When is Google Play Music Going Away? Google has announced …

How Are Security Vulnerabilities Ranked? (CVSS)

If you’ve been reading about security bugs online, you’ve probably ran into scores given to exploits. These are scored based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, used to categorize exploits into the Common Vulnerability and Exposures database. We’ll discuss what makes up the score. What Affects …

Wyze Unveils a New Cam Plus Subscription Service

Wyze has bee saying for some time that a new subscription service was on the way, and now it’s official. The new Wyze Cam Plus service combines the features of Complete Motion Capture and Person Detection into one subscription for a modest $15 a year. Wyze …

How to Compress Images in Microsoft PowerPoint

Compressing images in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation can help reduce the overall file size of the presentation and save disk space on the device it’s stored on. Here’s how to compress images in Microsoft PowerPoint. Note that this feature is only available for desktop versions of …