PCWorld explains how to navigate Roku's biggest home screen redesign in over a decade, featuring recommendation rows, quick action tiles, and genre subsections. The permanent update aims to improve content discovery but may frustrate long-time users with limited customization options and automatic changes. Key adjustments include hiding recommendation rows, pinning favorite apps to Quick Access, and manually updating subscription lists for better accuracy. Detailed instructions are provided below. Roku is shaking up its home screen with its most substantial changes in over a decade.

The Imilab C30 Dual is feature-rich indoor camera that delivers wide coverage, sharp video, and smart alerts--without charging extra for the essentials. We've reached a point where most indoor security cameras offer the same basic mix of features--HD video, motion alerts, and cloud storage--wrapped in a similar-looking plastic shell. It's an indoor camera with a (literal) twist: two separate 3K (3072 1728 pixels) lenses that let you monitor two areas at once, in high detail, from a single device. One lens is fixed for wide-angle coverage, while the other pans and tilts to cover the entire room. The C30 Dual adds a layer of on-device artificial intelligence that can detect people, pets, loud noises, and even a crying baby--all without any requirement to pay for a cloud subscription.

It's easy to feel like new ML technologies for us to rethink everything about UX design, but that's not quite true. The emergence of ML doesn't change the fact that the most usable, delightful UIs are those that embody principles of good design--like habituation--that many designers and researchers (Don Norman, Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, and Jeff Johnson to name a few) have been writing about for years. Evaluating recommendations or visually searching the interface for content counts as a navigation step, just like a tap or click. No ML-based suggestion will be "helpful" enough to offset breaking your user's flow state and muscle memory. But if you're confident that the user has a more open-ended goal like exploration, you have more leeway to put dynamic, ML-based features at the forefront of your UI.

Google may strike me down, but I'm going to say it anyway: Some of the best Android apps I've used come from Microsoft. I'd even go so far as to say that as an Android developer, Microsoft has done what it couldn't with its own mobile platform--actually make you a Microsoft phone. If you use a Windows PC, there's ample reason to explore the company's suite of apps and services, as it can streamline the work you do between the desktop and your mobile device. It's not yet nearly as smooth as what Apple offers between the Mac and iOS, but Cortana and some other Windows 10 tools can make the experience pretty seamless. The most critical piece of the link between the desktop and mobile is Cortana.

Entire medical labs built on a computer chip, humans with superhero vision and smart sensors that can detect pollution at the speed of light are just a few predictions IBM has made about life in 2022. The New York firm has released its '5 in 5 list', revealing new innovations that could change the way we work live and interact with each other over the next five years. Humans should expect to see advancements in artificial intelligence, smart sensors, telescopes, sensors and medical devices. IBM predicts that technology that will'listen' to speech patterns and then analyze them with a text analysis algorithm that can identify any issues. Technology will analyze patterns in speech and text that could hold clues to mental illness.

Add reading your mind to the list of things Google is now trying to do. In the last several weeks the internet giant has added a handful of slick features into its G Suite--Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar--which use machine intelligence to automate tasks. Here are several intuitive new tricks you can play around with if you use these platforms. This is a little button you can click on to get insights, design tools and research recommendations while documents, spreadsheets and presentations are being created. In Sheets, you can ask a plain-speak question to Explore about your data and Google will automatically crunch the numbers and makes charts for you.

If you spend your work days toiling in Google's productivity apps, the first thing you might notice today is that Google for Work is now called "G Suite". Once you get past the new label, you might also notice a slew of smart updates across the board that ought to save you time and keep your workflow moving. First up: Docs, Sheets and Slides got a new "Explore" feature that uses natural language search to help you research reports, organize data or design better looking presentations. In each of the main apps, an Explore button brings up a new sidebar with contextual options based on the app you're using. In Docs, this means Explore will search and suggest images, web links or other Drive documents that appear relevant to the content you're writing.