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Rating: 6/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

The Control Center in macOS Big Sur and higher provides a one-stop location for system toggles and utilities ranging from Wi-Fi to keyboard brightness. You can also customize and add more features to the Control Center on Mac. Just like the Control Center on iPhone and iPad, there are parts of the modular Control Center…

Rating: 7/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…

Shutterstock/Cristian Storto The toughest data protection legislation in the United States applies to businesses everywhere. The CCPA protects the personal data of Californian consumers, wherever it is being processed. We explain how. The CCPA The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, with enforcement starting on July 1, 2020. It provides certain rights…

Fatmawati Achmad Zaenuri/Shutterstock The symbolic links on Linux are a fantastic feature, but they can become broken and left pointing at nothing. Here’s how to locate broken symbolic links, review them, and remove them from your system if you need to. Symbolic Links 101 Symbolic links, also called “soft links” and “symlinks,” are a form…

Change is in the air. With macOS 11.0 Big Sur, Apple has used the Mac’s upcoming CPU architecture shift as an opportunity to redesign macOS from the ground up with a lively, refined interface and completely overhauled apps. Here’s a look at what’s coming in Big Sur, arriving November 12, 2020. Enter 11: The End…

Yubico If securing your accounts is a top priority, you’ll want to enable extra options like two-factor authentication and security keys. Yubico is one of the leading names in the security key games, and now its latest YubiKey model turns your fingerprint into a key to all your passwords. Yubikey Bio will work a lot…

Walmart is teaming up with Cruise, a GM-owned autonomous vehicle company, to deliver groceries in self-driving cars. Customers in Scottsdale, Arizona may have their groceries delivered in Cruise-branded autonomous Chevy Bolts early next year, although Walmart hasn’t clarified how its autonomous delivery system will work. One thing we do know is that Cruise delivery cars…

Apple Apple’s MagSafe charger, which snaps to the back of your iPhone 12 series phone, allows you to quickly wirelessly charge your phone with up to 15W of power. Unless you have an iPhone 12 mini, in which case you’re looking at a max speed of 12W. Apple says you’ll need a USB-C power adapter…

Yahoo Japan/The Japan Times After repeatedly asking customers to avoid dropping wireless earbuds on train tracks, the East Japan Railway Company (better known as JR East) now accepts its role as an AirPod retrieval service. But JR East needs some high-tech help, because the aluminum grabbers usually used to pick up shoes and phones are…

Apple Apple redesigned the classic Mac interface with a transparent menu bar and sidebars that show the colors from the windows below. Thankfully, there’s a way to disable the distracting transparent menus on Mac. Overall, the design language introduced Big Sur and higher is a move in the right direction. Everything is more spaced out…

jonnyslav/Shutterstock.com Whether you’re looking for a gift idea for the lifelong audiophile in your family or for the friend who just loves music, you’ll need something that’ll put a smile on their face. We’ve scoured the internet and rounded up a list of all the best Christmas gifts you can give the music lover in…

Instead of researching and updating geographical data in your spreadsheets, save time by using the tools provided to you by Microsoft. The built-in Geography feature in Microsoft Excel will do the heavy lifting for you. With the Geography data type, you can retrieve details like population, time zone, area leaders, gasoline prices, language, and much…

Ever wondered what all the red, green, orange, aqua and dark blue bars mean in htop? Even if you are not familiar with htop, this article will introduce you to the great Linux task manager and it’s color key. Installing htop If you haven’t got htop installed yet, you can install itat the terminal prompt,…

While purchasing apps or media content with an Apple ID, most people enter a credit or debit card. But if you’d prefer to use PayPal to buy apps from the Apple App Store or the Mac App Store, it’s easy to set up on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Here’s how. How to Add PayPal…

TORWAISTUDIO/Shutterstock Gone are the days when we only had a hairdryer and a basic curling iron to work with when trying to copy the hairstyle of our favorite celebrity. Below is a list of 12 haircare tools you can gift your friends and family this holiday season and make all their styling dreams come true.…

Rating: 9/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…