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The Kōkua Festival is back and bigger than ever before. Held in celebration of music and environmental awareness between 2004 and 2010, getting to the festival previously meant having to find a way to get down to Honolulu. However, Kōkua Festival 2020 is bringing the event worldwide with a livestream that’s set to be hosted right from Jack Johnson’s front porch later today.

Today’s livestream is set to last for two hours and will feature live performances from musicians like Ben Harper, G.Love, Ziggy Marley, Jack Johnson of course, and several others. You’ll even be treated to home cooking lessons from some of Hawaiʻi’s top chefs, Ed Kenney and Mark Noguchi.

The festival has always served as a fundraiser for the Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports environmental education in schools and communities of Hawaiʻi. Donations made during the livestream will benefit not only the foundation but also local COVID-19 relief efforts across the state.

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The NFL Draft 2020 is already under way, and to kick off the third day of picks, Luke Bryan will be offering up a free live performance. The “Play It Again” performance will stream directly before the picks begin, and will be available to anyone who tunes in and watches on the same networks as the draft takes place. This is part of Verizon’s #PayItForwardLIVE series of performances, where singers put on a show from the isolation of their own home.

Wondering how you can tune in and watch the performance for yourself? We have all the details below!

Luke Bryan NFL Draft 2020 Performance: When & where?

Luke Bryan’s ‘Play it Again’ performance will take place during the 2020 NFL Draft on Saturday, April 25. The singer will take the stage at noon Eastern and it will stream on ESPN, NFL Network and ABC, plus the ESPN app and NFL app as well as streaming on Sling TV and YouTube TV.

How to watch Luke Bryan’s 2020 NFL Draft performance from anywhere

The options listed below make it ea…

You may have heard the term Voice over LTE or VoLTE and not realized exactly what it was or why your phone would need to use it. VoLTE is just a fancy way of saying that your phone is using a portion of the LTE data spectrum for voice calls, which should result in a more consistent signal and clearer calls. Most modern phones will have this setting turned on by default, though there may be reasons why an OEM or carrier didn’t have it activated to begin with (having to do with the phone’s internals or the telecom network). The good news is that it’s an easy setting to enable, and once done, you can enjoy clearer calls and better signals.

How to enable VoLTE on your Samsung Galaxy phone

Open the Settings app on your home screen or app drawer, or slide down from the top of your screen.

Tap on Connections.
Tap on Mobile networks.
Toggle on VoLTE calls.

From here on out, your phone calls will be handled via LTE data as long as that’s an option where you are. Whenever it’s not, yo…

TVs all kind of look the same these days, and not in a good way. They add a lot of visual clutter to a room, particularly when not in use, and with some of the sizes they come in these days, they really dominate the room they are in. That’s a problem Samsung set out to solve with its The Frame. Instead of being a blank black slab, it’s a 4K UHD TV set that, when not in use, transforms itself into a work of art and today only Woot has select factory reconditioned models on sale starting at $759.99.

Though these TVs aren’t brand new, they’ve each been inspected directly by Samsung to ensure they’re in like new condition and properly working. Samsung even includes a 90-day warranty with the purchase. Log in with an Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, or start a free 30-day trial.

The unique feature of this set is its Art Mode. When you aren’t using the TV, it basically becomes the frame of a work of art (hence the name). You can choose your favorite art, even buy some of the on…

What is contact tracing? Should I be concerned about it? How does it work?

With the coronavirus pandemic perhaps showing signs of letting up in some countries throughout Europe and beyond, you might have heard a good deal of conversation around contact tracing. Particularly, in the context of reducing lockdown and stay at home measures as countries look toward life after COVID-19. But what is contact tracing? How does it work? What’s that thing Apple and Google are doing? Should I be concerned about my privacy? For answers to all these questions and more, check out our deep dive into the world of contact tracing.

Tracing contact

In essence, contact tracing does exactly what it says on the tin, it traces contact. It’s used the world over to chart and manage the spread of infectious diseases (including sexually transmitted ones) by establishing who an infected person has had contact with. This, in turn, allows people who’ve potentially been exposed to a disease or virus to be notifi…

Features are great but having a way to use them without typing cryptic commands is even better.

Android is, always has been, and always will be jam-packed with software features. Even the most bare-bones software as seen on something like the Pixel phone will have features that you never knew you needed until you did need them. And it will also have features you didn’t even know existed because they are hidden without any sort of user interface to actually use them.

Thankfully, Android 11 brings two of these very useful features to the light with a proper — and easy — way to use them: screen recording and wireless ADB (Android Debug Bridge, a way to communicate with a computer).

Here’s everything new and changed in Android 11 Developer Preview 3

You’ve probably seen something on the internet about these “new” features, but what most people don’t know or remember is that neither is new at all. That’s a failure on Google’s part; when something users or developers (or both) want…

Android’s best deal

Google Pixel 3a

$370 at Amazon

Pros

Fantastic camera
OLED display looks great
Performance is fast and fluid
Clean, up-to-date software
Has a 3.5mm headphone jack

Cons

64GB is the only storage option
Guaranteed updates stop in May 2022

The Pixel 3a wowed us back in May 2019 when it was released, and all this time later, it continues to be one of the best Android deals around. Just about everything about the Pixel 3a is as strong as ever, including its excellent camera, colorful display, and smooth performance. Oh, and it’s also the only phone here with a headphone jack.

The phone for everyone

iPhone SE (2020)

From $400 at Best Buy

Pros

Insanely fast performance
Reliable camera
Wireless charging
Multiple storage options
Backed by years of software updates

Cons

Screen may be too small for some people
Camera lacks a night mode

Believe it or not, we live in a world where Apple has created a phone that’s a better value that almost all of…

The pair strongly rebuffed calls to support centralized contact tracing technology.

What you need to know

An EU official has said that Apple and Google are holding EU states hostage.
That’s after they rebuffed calls from France and Germany to back their contact tracing solutions.
Apple and Google will not accommodate solutions that involve holding personal data on a central server.

An EU official has said that Apple and Google are holding EU states hostage after they rebuffed further calls to support contact tracing solutions offered by France and Germany.

As Reuters reports:

A standoff between the two largest nations in the European Union and Silicon Valley escalated on Friday as Apple and Google rebuffed demands by France and Germany to back their approach to using smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections.

Countries are rushing to develop apps to assess the risk that one person can infect another with the coronavirus, helping to isolate those who could s…