Microsoft Microsoft is apparently getting into the VPN game, too, with the Microsoft Edge Secure Network. According to a support page on Microsoft’s site, Microsoft is previewing the Microsoft Edge Secure Network, a service that sends your data through an encrypted tunnel to secure your browsing session. The service is powered by Cloudflare, the page …
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At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Easy to use No ads or watermarks No registration required for most tasks Cons Doesn’t allow you to edit existing text Limited fonts Our Verdict PDF Bob can accommodate the most basic PDF editing needs, but there are more capable free editors out there. Price When Reviewed PDF Bob …
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Intel We’re just starting to see Intel’s Arc series of discrete graphics cards arrive for laptops, initially dropping in some shockingly expensive models from Asus and HP. But what about the desktop graphics cards? They’re highly anticipated by a market in desperate need of a shake-up. According to Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger, they’ll be hitting …
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Google It’s a good day to get your hands on some smart home gear. Target has a killer deal on the second-generation Google Nest Hub. You can get the smart display for $50 (half off) when you purchase another Google Nest Smart Home product such as the always popular Google Nest Thermostat. The thermostat is …
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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is falling apartIt doesn’t appear to be learning from the mistakes it’s made, and it’s made a lot of them. (Foreign Affairs $)+ Meta’s attempts to curb misinformation about the war in Ukraine are harming local …
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Midnight, 6 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9 a.m.: these times are ingrained in Queeny Song’s mind. For over a week in April, the 24-year-old Shanghai resident had to get her phone out at these five points every day to refresh a different grocery delivery app in hopes of grabbing a hard-to-get delivery slot. During …
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Rivkin, who studied Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as an undergrad at MIT, is now a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is also a co-lead on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team, a Johns Hopkins–NASA joint mission to determine whether crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on …
Washington, DC, is dominated by the federal government and tourism, but Jeff Jamawat, MCP ’19, SM ’19, thinks that’s no longer enough. “We want people to also recognize DC as a tech hub,” says Jamawat, associate director of economic development and innovation at the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. The nonprofit is launching an innovation …
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Ralph Gillen/Shutterstock In 1997, a developer for Advanced Multimedia Products named Tomislav Uzelac took advances in compression technologies and new file formats to create the world’s first MP3 player, (per Encyclopedia). The burgeoning internet community took to the technology and innovated on top of it creating software interfaces and peer-to-peer sharing networks like Napster. Free …
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Inflationary pressures, component concerns, and a drop in demand dragged down Intel’s PC chip business by 13 percent versus a year ago, a black mark against what was an otherwise strong first quarter of 2022 results. That group, the Client Computing Group (CCG), reported revenue that fell 13 percent to $9.3 billion. Overall, Intel reported …
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