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How to pair Bose Bluetooth headphones to any device
A new pair of Bose headphones comes with the promise of blocking the world out and tuning into your favorite music, podcast, or audiobook. I can personally say that Bose makes listening easy, but the pairing and connecting process is a little less so. To avoid pairing frustration and skip...
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Save $100 on on this Samsung all-in-one soundbar
Having a great soundbar is an essential component of your home theater setup, and if you're living in a smaller space, you shouldn't have to fret about where to put a subwoofer. Samsung's HW-S60B 5.0 channel all-in-one soundbar can do everything a home theater system needs, while keeping the space used to a minimum. Best of all, it's on sale for $100 off.
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3 security gadgets I never leave home without
It only takes a second to be hacked or leak important data. Drop an unencrypted flash drive (here's an easy-to-use encrypted drive) or plug into the wrong outlet or click on a phishing link in a spam email and you could be in a world of trouble and not even know it.
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Razer's Edge Gaming handheld now available in Wi-Fi and 5G flavors
Razer's Edge gaming handheld is finally available in both its Wi-fi equipped and 5G-enabled versions, with Verizon at long last confirming exactly what buyers can expect to pay for the 5G version, and what financing options are available. The device originally debuted to the public back in October 2022 at...
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How to add multiple keyboards to the Gmail web app
Do you communicate with different people using different languages? You might have a bilingual family, or have contacts in America, Japan, and Germany and interact with them in their respective country's languages. When you go to email those contacts, how do you switch between languages? If Gmail is your email...
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Looking for a professional monitor for your home office? Lenovo's 31-inch ThinkVision monitor deal shouldn't be missed
With so many of us working from home now on a permanent basis, it's worth investing in the right kit to stay productive. We've found a monitor, geared toward professionals, that is included in a sale on Lenovo's website. The Lenovo ThinkVision P32p-20 monitor typically retails for around $1000 outside...
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Now could be a great time to trade in your smartphone: Here's why
Smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2022 declined 18.3% year on year to 300.3 million units, marking the biggest quarterly decline on record, according to tech analyst IDC. The fourth quarter has historically brought joy to smartphone vendors and retailers, but this year it did not deliver and the...
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7 fixes for missing Slack notifications on MacOS
I use Slack to talk to the folks at work. When you work remotely, you can't just pop your head over a cubicle wall or intercept someone at the coffee machine. Email is ever-present, but tools like Slack help provide the kind of real-time communications we all take for granted when we work inside the same walls as our co-workers.
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TP-Link Mesh home Wi-Fi router pack goes on sale at B&H
It's often the case that upgrading your router is the last thing you think of when you consider smart devices for your home. However, without the right connectivity backbone, your smart home products -- such as lights, appliances, and security systems -- won't always perform as well as they should. You may experience bottlenecks, for example, as devices fight for bandwidth. Still, these issues are easily resolved.
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Workers want more AI to get rid of their office busywork, says Microsoft survey
As AI assistants such as ChatGPT continue to cause a sensation, a survey by Microsoft of over 3,000 people has found that the vast majority of workers want more help from artificial intelligence to automate mundane daily tasks. Microsoft's WorkLabs survey attempts to size up worker and employee expectations at...
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Microsoft: More widgets are arriving for Windows 11
Meta's Messenger app is the first third-party widget to be available in the Windows 11 widget board -- but the support for third-party widgets is only for users running the latest Windows 11 preview. The widget system was one of the headline features of Windows 11. However, until now only...
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Microsoft CEO Nadella: 'Expect us to incorporate AI in every layer of the stack'
Tuesday night, on Microsoft's fiscal second-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts, CEO Satya Nadella offered perhaps his broadest vision to date about what the company's investment in the San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, creators of the wildly popular ChatGPT, means for Microsoft. OpenAI, he said, represents part of the...
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Gen Z embraces dumb flip phones, a smarter life hack than you'd think
Gen Z, the first generation to grow up with smart tech's evolution from novelty to everyday pocket accessories, is flipping the script and flocking to flip phones. With each new smartphone generation, companies like Apple and Samsung offer an arsenal of more advanced features all encompassed by bigger and brighter screens to glue our eyes to. But Gen Z wants less, not more from smartphones, to protect their mental health.
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How to change your username in Windows 11
You're probably using Windows 11 with either a local account or a Microsoft account. Either way, maybe you want to change the username associated with your account. The process is easier and quicker with a local account but doable with a Microsoft account. Also: Microsoft just made a huge investment...
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ChatGPT can write code. Now researchers say it's good at fixing bugs, too
OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot can fix software bugs very well, but its key advantage over other methods and AI models is its unique ability for dialogue with humans that allows it to improve the correctness of an answer. Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and University College London pitted OpenAI's ChatGPT...
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The developer role is changing radically, and these figures show how
Microsoft-owned GitHub says it now has more than 100 million developers using the code-hosting service to contribute to software projects. GitHub's user numbers are up from 73 million in 2021 and 40 million in 2019, which was a year after Microsoft acquired it for $7.5 billion, with 28 million users, and gained cross-platform desktop development framework Electron.
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Too many Google Chrome tabs open? Here's how to take back control
If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you're using Google Chrome. The browser is used to display some three-quarters of all web traffic. Take a moment to look at how many tabs do you have open in your browser?. Also: How to clear the cache on your Android...
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Memory safe programming languages are on the rise. Here's how developers should respond
Developers across government and industry should commit to using memory safe languages for new products and tools, and identify the most critical libraries and packages to shift to memory safe languages, according to a study from Consumer Reports. The US nonprofit, which is known for testing consumer products, asked what...
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Bowers & Wilkins' Pi7 S2 are music to my ears, but there's a catch
I'll cut right to the chase: The Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 earbuds are pricey at $399, not as slim-fit as your typical earpieces, and probably won't make the cut for best active noise-canceling buds on the market. But for what they are and not what they can be, these...
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How to uninstall Windows 11 on your PC
Microsoft has been pushing everyone to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 with one persistent (and annoying) message after another. OK, so maybe you took the bait and ran the upgrade. But now you decide you liked Windows 10 better than 11 and want to go back to your previous system. Is that doable?
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