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How to mute a tab in your browser

Websites can become distracting if they begin playing unwanted audio. Here’s how to make your web browser experience a bit more peaceful with a few clicks.
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How to enable group tabs in Google Chrome

Google released a feature to help you sort your web-based workspace. Here’s how to sort group tabs by color and name to stay organized and find what you need.
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How to secure your phone before a protest

If you’re headed to a protest or demonstration, you’ll want to keep your smartphone and its private data safe. Here’s how to prepare yourself and your gear.
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The 5 best new features in iPadOS 14: Sidebar, better call notifications, more

At Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Develop Conference, the company announced the release of iPadOS 14 for iPad tablets. Here are the best new features headed your way.
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Apple Glass may be coming soon. Here’s everything we know

Apple has long been a mysterious company when it comes to future products, but we have info on the upcoming Apple Glass project. Here’s what we know so far.
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How to share games on Steam

Are you getting bored of playing your own games? Here’s how to use the Steam Family Sharing feature and share your favorite titles with family and friends.
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How much is a Tesla?

Wondering how much money it will cost to purchase one of Tesla’s latest electric vehicles? We take a close look at the Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y.
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OnePlus 8 vs. Samsung Galaxy S20: Which is better for you?

Looking between the Samsung Galaxy S20 and OnePlus 8? Both companies are neck-and-neck with their smartphones, but which one comes out ahead, and at what cost?
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How to play Jackbox over Zoom

Looking to play a game with family and friends remotely? We’ll show you how to Have fun streaming The Jackbox Party Pack collection from PC or Mac using Zoom.
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How to set Netflix parental controls

Are you enjoying your Netflix subscription, but wish to keep the kids from accessing more mature, adult-themed content? Here’s how to enable parental controls.
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How to make thumbnails for YouTube

Here's how to easily create eye-catching YouTube thumbnails to get more views, gain new subscribers, and engage a wider audience to help grow your channel.
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How to get coronavirus-related alerts on your phone

Attempting to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic? We show you how to receive alerts on your phone using Google Alerts and info newsletters from the CDC.
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How to add a Flash Briefing to Alexa

Always asking for the weather and news on your Alexa device? Here's how to set up a Flash Briefing, so you can obtain information with a single voice command.
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Best cheap drones to get you up in the air

We take a look at the best cheap drones to get you in the air without breaking the bank, from kid-friendly drones to aerial photography machines and more.
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The most expensive turntables in the world

These turntables are among the most expensive in the world - find out which models can cost you more than a house and send your bank account into a vinyl panic.
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How much is Adobe Photoshop?


Looking to obtain Adobe's Photoshop application for editing photographs and creating digital art? We take a look at how much the popular software will cost you.
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Huawei denies renouncing Google and Android, wishes to ‘maintain relationship’

In a recent interview with Digital Trends, Huwaei VP, Tim Danks, commented on a report that the company would abandon Google Android, calling it 'incorrect.'
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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra to sport 108MP camera, 1.5TB of storage

Samsung's upcoming S20 Ultra smartphone will feature a 108MP primary camera sensor, a 48MP secondary camera sensor with 40x optical zoom, and up to 1.5TB of storage space thanks to a 1TB SD card compatible expansion slot. However, we may have seen the same sensor released on a Xiaomi phone in 2019.
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Apple sends out invites for WWDC 2019, and unicorns are involved

Apple developers and fans alike look forward every year to the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, better known as WWDC. Apple has confirmed the conference will take place on June 3-7 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and the company just sent out invites to media.
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Microsoft says hackers were able to view Outlook.com emails

Microsoft's Outlook.com email platform saw a massive breach that caused confidential data to be accessed by hackers for months due to leaked customer support login information. Now, it appears the problem might have been much worse than initially thought, and worse than Microsoft admitted.
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Apple may take Face ID to the next level, scan retinas for increased security

Apple might take Face ID to the next level in an upcoming device update as new patent filings with the European Patent Office show the company exploring retina scanning. Face ID is already extremely secure, but retina scanning might bring an additional layer of enhanced security to the platform.
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Apple to break apart iTunes in MacOS, introduce music, podcasts, and TV apps

With the next release of MacOS, Apple is rumored to finally distribute iTunes' multitude of tasks and features across separate apps including music, podcasts, and TV. The new applications will likely be similar to their iOS counterparts, being based on the company's Marzipan technology.
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If you have $5,200, Apple has 256GB of RAM for your iMac Pro

Professionals looking to run intensive applications will be able to push their work a bit farther with Apple's latest iMac Pro offering, an impressive 256GB of DD4 ECC RAM for $5,200. Here's who might need such a vast amount of RAM and exactly why it costs so much to upgrade your iMac Pro.
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Grab 1 terabyte of SSD storage for just $100 with this sale on Amazon

If you're looking for an excellent opportunity to pick up a 1TB SSD at a low price, Amazon has you covered with Samsung's 860 QVO 1TB 2.5-inch SATA III Internal SSD. Offering a massive 1 terabyte of storage at around $100, this is an excellent offering for both multimedia enthusiasts and gamers.
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Amazon and Nvidia bring artificial intelligence to the cloud with T4 GPUs

Nvidia announced the availability of new mainstream servers optimized to run the company's latest T4 GPUs with Turning architecture. Amazon has jumped on board immediately, announcing that new AWS EC2 G4 instances will offer the technology in addition to scalability with AWS ECS for Kubernetes.
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Intel and Facebook team up to give Cooper Lake an artificial intelligence boost

Intel's upcoming Cooper Lake microarchitecture will be getting a boost when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning processes, all thanks to a partnership with Facebook. The results are Core and Xeon CPUs that are able to work faster due to a new Bfloat16 data type for A.I.
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Microsoft continues open-source effort, releases Windows Calculator code

Microsoft is showing its continued goodwill to the open-source community, a group that was once shunned in the company's early days. With the company's latest decision, Windows Calculator code has been made available, but that might not be the most important news coming from the company.
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Microsoft Security reports a massive increase in malicious phishing scams

Microsoft's most recent Security Intelligence Report has found phishing scams on the rise by up to 250 percent. Despite the advent of machine learning to fight such scams, phishing attacks are becoming more complex and remain a security threat to both individuals users and large enterprise organizations.
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Apple MacOS hit with yet another critical system security issue

Apple, a company normally held in high stature for its software's security, hasn't had quite a smooth journey over the last few months. Now, the Project Zero team at Google has discovered a severe flaw within the MacOS kernel that could allow data to be manipulated without completely notifying the OS.
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Prone to web surfing? Google Chrome’s new Focus Mode fights internet distractions

Are your finding yourself distracted by the web when you need to get work done? A newly discovered flag in Google Chrome could hint at a new Focus Mode. Little detail is known about the new feature, but it may allow users to block distracting websites or bothersome notifications while we're working on a computer.
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Potentially malicious WinRAR vulnerability patched after almost 20 years

WinRAR, a popular piece of Windows software for managing archival formats, has been harboring a nasty vulnerability for nearly two decades, potentially allowing malicious software to insert items into a computer's startup folder without any needed user permission. Now, it has been patched at a cost.
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Microsoft security chief outlines perils of continuing to use Internet Explorer

Has anyone ever suggested that you stop using Internet Explorer and move onto a better web browser? Now, even Microsoft's Worldwide Lead for Cybersecurity wants you to stop using the old solution. Microsoft wants enterprises to use another browser, citing poor support for modern web standards.
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Flickr to drop the ax on free users, will begin deleting old photos in March

With SmugMug's acquisition of popular photo sharing site Flickr, the company announced that free users would be losing their 1TB of storage and will be limited to 1,000 photographs. Soon, the company will begin deleting photos of free users who are over the limit. Here's how to save your photos.
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Hacker discovers a MacOS exploit that is able to access system passwords

A new exploit for MacOS, known as KeySteal, was discovered by security researcher Linus Henze. The hack can extract passwords and other information from MacOS' Keychain without requiring any form of permission or administrator authentication. As of now, all MacOS systems are vulnerable to the attack.