Lighting company Signify has announced a new feature coming to the Philips Hue app that aims to give users better control over brightness in their home, as well as a Hue bridge automation update that brings more nuance to motion sensor triggers. Philips Hue lights will soon include a brightness balancer that lets users customize the relative brightness of individual lights in an Entertainment area, instead of controlling the lights as a group. Signify says the new feature was developed following requests from Philips Hue's users who wanted to more control over their lights while watching a movie, listening to music or gaming. Using the brightness balancer, users can "make lights that have higher lumens dim lower than lights with…

Philips Hue customers will soon have a new way to control lighting around the home. Signify will a new brightness feature through an update to the Philips Hue app. Users will also have access to expanded automation tools. more… The post Philips Hue lights will soon gain a brightness balancer and automation enhancements appeared first on 9to5Mac.

With the upcoming iOS 17 release, Apple is introducing a new feature to alleviate eye strain. Here's how to enable it on your device.iOS 17 introduces Screen DistanceOver the years, Apple has introduced several beneficial iOS tools like Night Shift, True Tone, and Dark Mode to enhance eye protection by reducing blue light and bright apps. These tools can improve eye protection by decreasing blue light wavelengths, adjusting app brightness, and creating a more natural screen appearance in various lighting conditions. Read more...

With the upcoming iOS 17 release, Apple is introducing a new feature to alleviate eye strain. Here's how to enable it on your device.iOS 17 introduces Screen DistanceOver the years, Apple has introduced several beneficial iOS tools like Night Shift, True Tone, and Dark Mode to enhance eye protection by reducing blue light and bright apps. These tools can improve eye protection by decreasing blue light wavelengths, adjusting app brightness, and creating a more natural screen appearance in various lighting conditions. Read more...

With the upcoming iOS 17 release, Apple is introducing a new feature to alleviate eye strain. Here's how to enable it on your device.iOS 17 introduces Screen DistanceOver the years, Apple has introduced several beneficial iOS tools like Night Shift, True Tone, and Dark Mode to enhance eye protection by reducing blue light and bright apps. These tools can improve eye protection by decreasing blue light wavelengths, adjusting app brightness, and creating a more natural screen appearance in various lighting conditions. Read more...

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When you read a review of a smartphone, you will usually be hit with a long list of screen specs: the display type, its dimensions and aspect ratio, its resolution in pixels, its HDR support (or lack of it), and its brightness, for example. Too often, it’s assumed that everyone understands the significance of each of these specs. So in this article, we’re going to focus on the basics of the refresh rate, which you’ll see in the specs of monitors and TVs as well. It tells you how many times the display is refreshed per second, typically measured in Hz (hertz). In other words, a 90Hz display refreshes itself 90 times a…