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Learn TikTok

Posted by Jane

IT’S BEEN MORE than three years since the lip-syncing app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, first became popular among tweens and teens. The social network has since spread far beyond Generation Z: TikTok has been downloaded over 1 billion times, including 96 million in the United States, according to estimates from the research firm Sensor Tower. It’s also owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, now considered one of the most valuable startups in the world. The app itself revolves around sharing 15-second videoclips, which are set to music often licensed from artists and record labels.

Read: A Beginner’s Guide to TikTok on Wired

5 Musical Skills You Can Learn Online for Free, With or Without Instruments

Posted by Jane

Since you have some extra free time at home, how about learning a musical skill? You can get free music lessons online, with or without instruments, to pick up a new art form

In this article, you’ll learn to sing and beatbox, play the guitar like a pro, or even produce an entire song.

Read the full article, 5 Musical Skills You Can Learn Online for Free, With or Without Instruments, in MakeUseOf

Test your movie trivia knowledge

Posted by Jane

Here are 100 classic movie trivia questions, ranging from easy to obscure. Here are the first 3

1. Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
Answer: “Rosebud”

2. Question: Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Answer: Anne Bancroft

3. Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

For the complete list, visit: 100 Fun Movie Trivia Questions (With Answers) to Stump All Your Film-Loving Friends

Play Hidden Through Time

Posted by Jane

The Verge has a detailed article about this game, Hidden Through Time is a relaxing yet challenging puzzle game.

Hidden Through Time is a game where you locate hidden objects in a scene, similar to 2017’s Hidden Folks, the Where’s Waldo? books, and the puzzles inside the Highlights magazine at your childhood doctor’s office. It’s about as simple as a game could be: it presents you with some objects, animals, and / or people at the bottom of your screen, which you have to locate. Once you’ve found enough of them, you then move onto the next level.

Here’s the trailer.

Hidden Through Time isn’t free, but you can get it for $1.99 on iOS and $2.99 on Android.

View 3D animals in your own home

Posted by Jane

An article in 9to5Google, Google 3D animals: Which ones are available and how to use them explains what it’s all about.

At its I/O conference in 2019, Google announced that it would be adding augmented reality objects to Search. Over the year since, Google has a bunch of 3D animals you can view in Google Search using AR …

Google’s AR objects in search are incredibly easy to access. The objects are added to search in the belief that the easiest way to learn about something is to see it. By seeing things in augmented reality (AR), users can see the scale of an object and also details they might not notice from just a simple picture

Read the article for a lot more information and how to use your smartphone to view the 3D animals in your own –  but here’s their hands-on video.

Learn about the Constellation in Your Sky

Posted by Helen

Stellarium Web is an online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source stellarium web project.  Using the desktop, web or mobile version, you can identify the constellation of stars in your sky. The app combines a realistic and accurate night sky simulation with a large amount of online imaging and sky objects catalogs so now you can look up at the sky and identify the stars and planets!