Category: Computers & IT

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, April 26 (game #1553). Quordle…

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It appears that all of life is becoming one big subscription fest. There’s Netflix, Spotify, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, food order subscriptions, Duolingo, Amazon, and YouTube. Can you believe there’s even a subscription for buying socks? Look, the list could go on, but I don’t want to bore you or myself…. Check out the…

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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, April 25 (game #1552). Quordle…

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If you’ve read many of my pieces on TechRadar, you’ll know I’ve been threatening to buy a new MacBook for a long while now. In part, this is because my laptop was a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017 and its performance was getting decidedly dicey during demanding tasks. A far bigger motivation was the professional embarrassment…

Read More “I upgraded to the MacBook Air M5 at last — and, boy, is it fast” »

We may be living in a world of remote and hybrid work, but there’s no doubt that paper documents and printing still have their place, especially in smaller businesses. Whether you’re printing marketing materials to take on sales trips, churning out postage labels or producing secure documents in the medical or legal fields, sometimes it’s…

Read More “5 essential features for small business printers — Check your chosen printer has these if you’re printing from the office or home office” »

On April 15, the European Commission announced its age verification app was “technically ready. ” A week on, the app is already facing its first privacy and security hurdles — but the problem may go deeper than just one bug in the system. President Ursula von der Leyen maintains there are “no more excuses” to…

Read More “The EU’s age verification app has a privacy problem — and it may be more than just a ‘bug in an app’” »

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, April 23 (game…

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Attackers now call helpdesks instead of sending phishing emails to breach networks Impostors pose as executives to manipulate support teams into resetting MFA settings Personal details scraped from LinkedIn make the deception more convincing for callers Attackers are no longer trying to break into corporate networks through email phishing or malware, and are now targeting…

Read More “Your IT helpdesk is getting weird calls from people pretending to be your boss using LinkedIn data” »

NASA has released an enjoyable free tool for Earth Day It lets you spell your name using landscape features in satellite photos You can share your creations or download them and print them later You’ve heard of writing your name in the stars, but what about writing your name on Planet Earth? That’s what’s NASA’s…

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