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Anfield plays host to the 243rd Merseyside derby on Saturday as in-form Liverpool take on struggling neighbors Everton.

A win for Jürgen Klopp’s men will see the home side head to the summit of the English Premier League for the first time this season.

Everton, meanwhile, come into the clash off the back of a 3-0 win over Bournemouth in their last game. That result saw them rise to 16th in the table. Today’s game offers a much stiffer test, with the Toffees having only won once against their local rivals at Anfield since 1999 — although Everton’s women’s team did win the corresponding fixture 1-0 last Sunday.

Below, we’ll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game live wherever you are in the world.

Liverpool vs. Everton: When and where?

Liverpool host Everton at Anfield on Saturday, Oct. 21. Kickoff is set for 12:30 p.m. BST (7:30 a.m. ET, 4:30 p.m. PT in the US and Canada, and 10:30 p.m. AEDT in Australia).

How to watch the Liverpool vs. Everton game online from anywhere using a VPN

If you find yourself unable to view the game locally, you may need a different way to watch the game — that’s where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and it’s also a great idea if you’re traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network, and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.

With a VPN, you’re able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. So if your internet provider or mobile carrier has stuck you with an IP address that incorrectly shows your location in a blackout zone, a VPN can correct that problem by giving you an IP address in your correct, non-blackout area. Most VPNs, like our Editors’ Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.

Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you’re streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions.

Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.

Livestream Liverpool vs. Everton in the US

Saturday’s Liverpool-Evertonmatch is on USA Network, which you can access as part of your cable package or at the NBC Sports website with a valid login, and can be streamed via Sling TV and other more expensive streaming TV services.

Livestream the Liverpool vs. Evertongame in the UK

Premier League rights in the UK are split between Sky Sports, Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports (previously known as BT Sport). The Liverpool-Everton game is exclusive to TNT Sports — showing on its TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports 1 HD and TNT Sport Ultimate channels.

Livestream the Liverpool vs. Everton game in Canada

If you want to stream Liverpool vs. Everton live in Canada, you’ll need to subscribe to FuboTV Canada. The service has exclusive rights for this Premier League season.

Livestream the Liverpool vs. Everton game in Australia

Football fans Down Under can watch this EPL fixture on streaming service Optus Sport, which is showing every single Premier League game live in Australia this season.

Quick tips for streaming the Premier League using a VPN

• With four variables at play — your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN — your experience and success when streaming EPL matches may vary.
• If you don’t see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the “search for city or country” option.
• If you’re having trouble getting the game after you’ve turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try for a quick fix. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs — like Roku — don’t have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you’ll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you’re using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.
• All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network’s sports app, you’ll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help, since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.
• And remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you’re using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommend Brave.

iOS 17 has been available to download and the brand-new iPhone 15 has been in stores for a few weeks now. This means that Apple fans can have been able to play around with the all of the exciting new features that the company has been teasing for months. These new upgrades have brought some exciting additions, including StandBy mode and the Journal app. Among the new-to-iPhone features is NameDrop, a contact-sharing feature that allows you to share your number with just a tap of your phone.

The release of iOS 17, and NameDrop, follows the announcement of the iPhone 15 series, the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 at Apple’s Wonderlust event in September.

Superfans likely know that NameDrop will be hitting Apple Watches later this year (although Watch OS 10.1 Beta gives users access to the feature now), but as of right now iPhone users are the only people who can broadly access the feature.

If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 17, you’re in luck, NameDrop is simple to use. Read on for everything you need to know about this feature.

What is NameDrop?

NameDrop is the newest way iPhone users can share contact information with each other. You no longer have to fork over your phone to strangers if you want to swap contact info. All you need to do is simply tap your phones together to swap information.

When can I use NameDrop?

If you’re an iPhone user, you’re in luck. NameDrop is available to you right now, or as soon as you update to iOS 17 — that is, as long as you have a supported iPhone.

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How does NameDrop work?

In a Newsroom post, Apple called NameDrop a “new AirDrop experience.” People with iPhones can “hold their iPhone near another to share their contact information with only their intended recipients.”

Apple clarified that you’ll be able to select what information you share with other people, so you won’t have to worry about accidentally sending super personal information to strangers.

Essentially, all you have to do is place your iPhone close to the intended recipient of your NameDrop, and you’re done. Once you’ve placed the phones together, a Contact Poster will pop up (this is the image that pops up when you call someone). After that, you’ll have the option to just receive the contact or send your own back.

So… how do I turn NameDrop off?

Not everyone is going to be a fan of this new feature, and if you fall into that category, Apple’s got you covered.

All you have to do is open the Settings app, and then tap on General. After that, navigate to the AirDrop tab. Once you open the tab, simply toggle the Bring Devices Together option off. And just like that, no more NameDrop.

For more iOS 17 details, check out everything you should do before updating to iOS 17 and five hidden iOS 17 features we think you should know about.

Formula 1 is heading to Austin, Texas, this weekend for the fan-favorite United States Grand Prix. This race promises lots of action and drama, especially since this upcoming Grand Prix weekend will follow the sprint race format, which means that 8 additional championship points are up for grabs.

Even though Max Verstappen wrapped up the Driver’s Championship in Qatar and Red Bull brought home the Constructor’s Championship in Japan, the rest of the 2023 season still has some big questions that could be answered in Austin. Will Lando Norris bring home his first race victory? Will Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton keep closing in on Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in second place? The United States GP will also see the return of fan-favorite driver Daniel Ricciardo, who has been absent due to a wrist injury sustained earlier in the season. No matter what happens, fans can expect some exciting race action from F1 this weekend.

The preliminary events take place Saturday, Oct. 21, starting with the United States GP Sprint Shootout at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT), followed by the Sprint itself at 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. PT). Both will be shown on ESPNews and ESPN Plus.

The main race, the United States Grand Prix proper, takes place on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Circuit of the Americas at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) on ABC and ESPN Plus.

The entire race weekend, including practice sessions and qualifying, will be shown in the US on ESPN’s family of TV and streaming networks. Those looking to follow all the drama will need access to the ABC and ESPN News channels on cable or live TV streaming services, or the ESPN Plus streaming service. We’ve broken down everything you need to know to stream today’s race, and all the other F1 races this season.

When, where and what time are the races?

Races are held on Sunday and are usually spaced two weeks apart. Here’s the entire schedule, all times ET.

Best option for streaming in the US without cable

How to watch F1 online from anywhere using a VPN

If you find yourself unable to view the race locally, you may need a different way to watch — that’s where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on race day by encrypting your traffic, and it’s also a great idea if you’re traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network, and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.

With a VPN, you’re able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors’ Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.

Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you’re streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions.

Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.

Livestream F1 racing in the UK

F1 in the UK is shown on Sky Sports and Channel 4 — Sky Sports airs the races, practice rounds and qualifying, while free-to-air Channel 4 offers highlights broadcast after the day’s action takes place. If you already have Sky Sports as part of your TV package, you can stream the game via its app, but cord-cutters will need to get the Sky Entertainment and Netflix package starting at 26 per month, plus an additional 20 per month to include Sky Sports.

Other options for streaming in the US without cable

Beyond ESPN Plus, numerous live TV streaming services carry channels with F1. Race weekends normally start on Friday with multiple practice runs and continue on Saturday with qualifying. The races themselves take place Sunday. ESPN typically airs practices and qualifying on a mix of ESPN 2 and ESPNews, while the races tend to air on ESPN. F1 events in North America often land on ABC.

Here are some of the best ways to catch the entire race weekend without cable.

If you have a supported iPhone, like the iPhone 15, you can download Apple’s latest iOS 17 software update. The new iPhone OS brings several new features to iPhones, like StandBy mode, interactive widgets, full-screen contact posters for phone calls, an improved and more personalized autocorrect and more.

Read more: iOS 17 Cheat Sheet: Everything to Know About the New iPhone Update

Though most of these features are welcome, if you’re like me, you might not love every single new offering from iOS 17. Sometimes I don’t want change, especially when it’s super drastic, because I get used to a way of doing certain things.

I wasn’t a fan of the new search button at the bottom of each home page when I upgraded to iOS 16, because I’d accidentally trigger it all the time. It isn’t necessarily a bad feature, I just personally didn’t like it.

And with iOS 17, there are also a few features I’m not a huge fan of. If you want to find out about some of the iOS 17 settings I sometimes find annoying, keep reading. And best of all, there’s a “fix” for all of them, so you can either get rid of them or at least never have to deal with them again.

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While you’re here, check out the iOS 17 settings you need to change ASAP and the best hidden features in iOS 17.

Stop NameDrop from automatically sharing your contact info

The new NameDrop feature on iOS 17 allows you to quickly swap contact information via AirDrop simply by bringing your iPhone near another iPhone or Apple Watch. Your name and Contact Poster (also new with iOS 17) are shared with NameDrop, along with your phone number, email address and other information.

However, some people have had issues with NameDrop sharing info when they don’t want to. For example, if you place your iPhone near another iPhone in general, NameDrop may attempt to transfer your contact information. If you carry two iPhones in your bag — one personal and the other for work — NameDrop could attempt to share contact info between the two, which can be annoying when you’re not trying to use the feature on purpose.

Fortunately, there’s an easy way to disable NameDrop completely. In the Settings application, go to General > AirDrop and toggle off Bringing Devices Together. Once the feature is off, you won’t be able to swap numbers and information via NameDrop.

Hide notifications in StandBy

The StandBy feature is arguably one of the biggest new iOS 17 features to the iPhone, turning your phone into a smart display when it’s charging horizontally and showcasing information, like the time, your calendar, photos and notifications, in large blocks that are easy to see. StandBy is a great way to quickly absorb information by glancing at your phone, but if there are people around and you want to keep some of your information private, you may not want StandBy to show notifications.

In Settings > StandBy, toggle off Show Notifications. Now when you’re in StandBy mode, you won’t see all of your notifications displayed. Critical notifications, like weather emergencies, will still be shown in StandBy mode.

Alternatively, you can hide notification previews instead of the entire notification. That way, you can still see what notifications you’re getting, you just can’t check out exact details unless you tap on the notification. For this to work, you’ll need to enable Show Notifications, as well as the Show Preview on Top Only setting underneath.

Stop Siri from activating so easily

Siri received a few major changes in iOS 17, including the ability to activate the voice assistant by only saying “Siri” — no more “hey” needed. It’s an easier way to quickly open an application or run a shortcut with just your voice, but at the same time, you might accidentally trigger Siri more often, since the new trigger is just a single word now.

If you want to go back to only having Siri activated when you say “Hey Siri” and not just “Siri,” go into Settings > Siri & Search > Listen for and choose the solo “Hey Siri” option. Your iPhone will no longer activate Siri simply when you say “Siri.”

For more on iOS 17, learn how to automatically delete multifactor authentication messages in texts and email and how to create Live Stickers.

Microsoft software has always been costly, no matter whether that’s Windows or Office. If it’s the latter that you need, we can help thanks to a great bundle that’s currently being offered over at StackSocial. Sure, you can use the free version of Office but that doesn’t always have all the features you need and buying a copy normally comes with a hefty one-time fee or a monthly subscription. But with StackSocial’s latest deal, you can nab a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2021 for just $30 And somehow that isn’t all — order now and you’ll also get a training course bundled in at no extra cost. No more trying to work out how to make those pivot tables from poor-quality YouTube videos.

We’ve seen a few deals for Office crop up at StackSocial in the past, sometimes offered alone for Windows or Mac, or bundled with Windows 11 Pro. But at $30 this is just about as low as we tend to see it go. And then you have to factor in the free training course as well, making this double-good value. Just remember that this deal is only for Office on Windows, so no Mac versions here.

Like those previous deals, the same caveats apply here. The Office license provided is valid for one computer, so you can’t install the apps across various machines in your home. And if that computer stops working or you upgrade to something else, you could run into a snag when trying to transfer it. For that reason, it’s best to see the “lifetime” part of the license as referring to the lifetime of your PC. But versions of Stack’s deal have been running for more than a year — the one we bought in early 2022, for instance, still works fine.

This Office package also doesn’t include any OneDrive cloud storage, or include any of the newest features like the fancy new Microsoft Copilot AI.

If you’re bored with word games like Wordle and want to try a new puzzle game, you should try Apple Arcade’s latest title, Crossword Jam Plus. If you subscribe to Apple Arcade ($5, 5 or AU$8 a month), you can play this game at no additional charge, and without ads or in-app purchases (hence this version being called “Crossword Jam Plus” on the App Store).

This title was developed by PlaySimple Games, which developed other word games like Word Search Explorer and Word Bingo.

Crossword Jam Plus is a cross between a word search and a crossword puzzle. The game gives you a handful of letters and a crossword puzzle, and you have to use the letters to fill out the crossword puzzle. The puzzles start off easy with two and three-letter words, but the puzzles get progressively more difficult as you solve more of them.

As you play, the game’s background shows nature scenes from around the world intended to provide a calming and relaxing atmosphere. Which is good because if you’re like me, sometimes figuring out the final word in a puzzle can be frustrating.

You can access this game, and many others, in Apple Arcade for $5 a month, or $60 annually. You can also try Apple Arcade for free for one month with your first sign-up, or you can get a three-month free trial when you buy a new Apple device. To access Apple Arcade, open the App Store on your iOS device and tap the joystick in the menu bar.

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If you want to inject some new energy into your generative AI images, turning text prompts into zany art, a new option arrived Thursday, as OpenAI released its Dall-E 3 technology to paying customers. The new artificial intelligence model is designed to better understand what your text prompts mean, produce detailed images and sidestep the legally fraught area of aping living artists’ styles.

In my testing, I found Dall-E 3 a big step up from Dall-E 2 from 2022. Images were more vivid, detailed and often entertaining. And they were more convincing, with fewer cases of distracting weirdness. New prompt-amplifying technology can make images more striking, but also sometimes go too far if you don’t want to turn the volume up to 11.

When it first emerged in 2021, Dall-E helped show the world the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence. Months later, OpenAI’s ChatGPT did the same for generative AI that could write poems and paragraphs of prose. With Dall-E 3, the image generation system is embedded directly into ChatGPT.

The technologies sparked an explosion of interest in generative AI, now showcased in the flagship tools from Google, Microsoft, Adobe and a pile of startups. At the same time generative AI has professionals spooked, worried that it’ll be cheaper than humans at jobs like summarizing legal documents and creating video storyboards, it could also help people without those skills get more done.

Dall-E 3 is available to enterprise customers and to those paying $20 a month for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription. The technology incorporates the text-processing abilities of ChatGPT and its underlying GPT-4 engine for a better understanding of the text prompts, OpenAI said.

OpenAI’s GPT amps up your text prompts

You can see how the GPT technology spruces up your text prompts. For example, when I typed “electric guitar with a spiky design,” GPT upgraded that to “Illustration of a distinctive electric guitar, where the primary design element is its multitude of spikes. The guitar’s body, neck and headstock are embellished with these sharp features, making it a statement piece for any rock enthusiast.”

It produces a quartet of expanded prompts. If its amped-up versions aren’t to your liking — for example, if you want to dial down GPT’s over-the-top wording amplification — you can steer it in a different direction.

“We are hoping the model will actually be able to understand natural language in a deeper way,” said Gabriel Goh, one of the OpenAI researchers who helped build Dall-E 3. The idea is to take some of the engineering out of prompt engineering, a specialty that’s emerged in technology circles among experts good at entering just the right text to cajole AI systems into producing the desired output. Instead of seeing just a jumble of words, the AI can better interpret phrases and descriptions, for example understanding that you want a mustache on a man in a scene and red hair on a woman.

Also helpful: Following ChatGPT’s more conversational interface, you can request followup refinements like “now add a light green psychedelic background,” and Dall-E 3 will update its previous output.

It worked well for me. For example, when Dall-E went a bit overboard with my request to show some happy worms in a box of compost, I reined it in with the request, “Make the worms a little less manic.”

Dall-E 3 can render tough details correctly

In my tests, I was happier with results in many cases than I was with Adobe’s second-generation Firefly AI for generating images. Adobe offers better controls for tuning your prompts, and it’ll suggest terms to complete a good prompt in an approach related to the OpenAI’s GPT’s text boost, but often Dall-E rendered problem areas better when constructing guitar strings and mountain bike spokes plausibly. Hands are a notorious trouble spot for AI, but Dall-E 3 did well.

The image quality improvements come chiefly from a new AI training session that uses more carefully, accurately labeled photos, Goh said.

It wasn’t perfect. One elephant had five feet, and mountain bike pedals seem impossible for AI to grok. Dall-E 3 sometimes made a giant white halo around a subject and sidestepped the much trickier job of convincingly compositing it with a background. Those worms sometimes had faces on both ends, and they often resided in a wooden box made with the kind of construction you’d only see with a cardboard box.

New work to stop Dall-E abuse problems

With Dall-E 3, OpenAI has expanded its efforts to thwart abuse and other problems, said Sandhini Agarwal, another Dall-E team member.

It already prohibited graphic content like sexual or violent images and blocked efforts to show public figures like politicians. That system is now improved after new human oversight, OpenAI said.

Indeed, when I asked for an image of a construction worker hanging dangerously from a safety cable, the system first created its more elaborate versions of my prompt, then stopped after three out of four images with this message: “I apologize for the oversight. Some of the requested images didn’t adhere to our content policy. As a result, I was unable to generate all the images. Safety and sensitivity are of utmost importance to us.”

Editors’ note: CNET is using an AI engine to help create some stories. For more, see this post.

If you want a budget-friendly yet powerful gaming monitor, this deal on the Acer Nitro is worth considering, giving you access to a high resolution and refresh rate without costing a fortune. While it usually goes for $350, you can grab it from Best Buy at the heavily discounted price of $170. That’s over half off, though we don’t know exactly how long this discount will stick around.

Graphics cards get a lot of the attention when talking gaming setups, but the importance of the monitor can’t be overlooked. The type of monitor you get will ultimately decide what GPU you’ll likely be running.

While the 27-inch Acer Nitro doesn’t run at 4K, but rather at a 2560 x 1440 resolution, it does something much more impressive, hitting a 170Hz refresh rate when the average is often 120-144Hz. That’s excellent for a budget monitor, and if you’re a fan of action-packed games or e-sports, having access to that higher refresh rate will make a big difference. It also has 250 nits of peak brightness which, though not the highest on the market, is perfectly fine for a budget monitor.

As for display technology, gamers will be happy to know that it comes with AMD FreeSync Premium, which helps avoid screen tearing and stuttering issues. The Acer Nitro also supports HDR10.

A few other smaller features that are nice to have are the 20 degrees of tilt and the integrated speakers, which save you from having to get a standalone pair if you’re going for an ultra-budget build. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that the Acer Nitro uses a VA panel, which means darker blacks and better contrast, though it also means generally worse viewing angles. If you’re sat right in front of it, that’s not a dealbreaker.