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Sling TV is intent on keeping everyone entertained while we practice social distancing by staying at home. Now, thanks to its latest offer, you don’t have to pay a cent to watch live TV channels like Fox, NBC, FX, Syfy, Comedy Central and more. With Sling’s “Happy Hour Across America” promotion, the Sling Blue plan is free to watch for everyone between the hours of 5p.m. and midnight EST every single night. Though this opportunity surely won’t last forever, there’s no known end to the promotion, so take advantage of it while you can.

Free Streaming

Sling TV

Sling is curing our quarantine blues with free access to its Sling Blue live TV streaming plan during 5p.m. and midnight EST every night. That includes over 45 channels, over 50,000 on-demand movies and shows, and a free Cloud DVR. No credit card required.

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Not sure what to watch tonight? The on-screen guide at Sling makes it easy to see what’s airing and when, so whether you want to stream Property Brothers live…

Max data, domestically

Visible

From $40/month at Visible

Pros

Unlimited talk, text
Unlimited data
Unlimited hotspot (5Mbps)
Bigger Verizon LTE network
Simple plan

Cons

No Canada or Mexico option
No international roaming

Visible offers a simple plan with unlimited talk, text, and data in the U.S. With Verizon’s robust network providing the backbone, you’ll be able to confidently stay connected even on the move. However, you might have some issues internationally.

Max data, even in Mexico

Boost Mobile

From $30/month at Boost Mobile

Pros

Mexico service
Unlimited talk and text
Save with more lines
Multiple plans

Cons

Smaller hotspot
More expensive for unlimited
Smaller Sprint LTE network

Making use of Sprint’s LTE network, Boost mobile offers a lot of data at a great price. If you’re covered, this can be a great network. Boost is also a much stronger option for customers that may want to call or travel to Mexico.

Visible offers the strongest overall …

Parks and Recreation is returning to the air five years after the show’s finale for a new 30-minute reunion special on Thursday, April 30 and we have all the details on how you can watch the original cast return on TV or online. Staying connected with family and friends is more important than ever during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and that is exactly what Pawnee’s most dedicated civil servant, Leslie Knope will be trying to do in the new reunion special.

In addition to Amy Poehler, all of the show’s original cast including Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Heir, and Retta will return along with a few special guest stars from the Parks & Rec universe.

If the news that the show is returning for a special reunion episode isn’t enough, it will also help raise funds for Feeding America’s Covid-19 Response Fund. State Farm, Subaru of America and NBC will be making a total of $500,000 in matching donations to raise …

When it comes to putting up a security system in your home you want to make sure you purchase the right one for your needs. With many options on the market, it can be hard making sure you’ve picked the one best suited to you. Familiar brand names such as Nest and Ring are ones most people gravitate towards, but there are other great brands out there that you may want to consider as well. We’ve rounded up a selection of outdoor cameras to help you decide.

Bright floodlights

Ring Floodlight Cam

Staff pick

If you want a quality security camera/lighting combination with great Amazon Alexa integration, then the Ring Floodlight Cam is a good pick. When motion is detected, the floodlights come on, you’re notified, and the camera rolls. There’s 2-way audio to speak to whoever is on the other side of the lens and the ability to activate a siren to ward off intruders. The two floodlights shine at 1,800 lumens, casting a bright light on your chosen area. The camera is weather-resistant …

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.

Kōkua …

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…