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[embedded content] The best thing about 2020 is we survived it. No need to say what the worst thing is, it’s hands down our collective stupidity in the choices we’ve made. That reality has forced us to refactor what we do moving forward. If we had correctly understood the massive…
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Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablets are $30 off right now
If you’ve been considering whether to pick up an Amazon Fire tablet, now might be the time to take the leap. They’re currently on sale, and Amazon is offering particularly decent deals on Fire HD 8 tablets. The Fire HD 8 is currently $60 (down from $… Source
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We’re getting closer to a Nintendo Switch-sized gaming PC
One year ago at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Alienware made waves with a modular gaming PC that worked like a Nintendo Switch, with a pair of gamepads flanking a powerful Windows 10 tablet. Sadly, Alienware’s UFO was just a concept, as was Lenovo’s take on the idea this year…
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Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media
The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. A day later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi — best known for authoring the open-source E2E-encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat (now discontinued) — had pulled in a pre-seed investment of $100,000 for his lightweight mesh-networked microservices concept, with support…
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It’s okay to let kids play Fortnite during a global pandemic
On Sunday, The New York Times published an article about the risks of sky-rocketing teenage device usage during quarantine — and as you might expect, they went straight for the guilty-parent touchstones. There are maudlin photos of a family ruined by gaming, and the quote “I’ve failed you as a…
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Hackers abusing this perfectly innocent Windows 10 feature to infect machines Hacked off
The Windows Finger command that is used to display information about users on a remote machine is being abused by cyberattackers to infect Windows 10 devices with malware. It has been discovered that the command can be misused to download the MineBridge malware on an unsuspecting victim’s device. Bleeping Computer…
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