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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…

Marvent/Shutterstock Suits, ties, pocket squares, and all the other trappings of stylish business wear are a tough thing to pick out for someone. But that doesn’t mean the stylish guy in your life should be left wanting. Any of the chic accessories below are sure to be appreciated. Buying actual clothing for someone can be…

Nitro Enclaves are a new feature of AWS’s Nitro Hypervisor that manages EC2 instances. It allows you to provision a separate, isolated environment used for processing highly secure, often encrypted data. Data Processing in an Isolated Environment Nitro Enclaves is a new capability of EC2. Each Enclave needs an EC2 instance as its parent; you…

When you shop on Amazon, it’s important to remember the company also acts as a middleman for independent, third-party businesses. Most of these are trustworthy, but some sell counterfeit goods and items that aren’t as described. It’s important to know where a product is coming from before you click that Buy button. The Three Types…

Apple As smartphone cameras become more capable, technical photography jargon is slipping into mainstream conversations. An “f-stop” (or “f-number”) is a word you’re going to see more as smartphone manufacturers try to one-up each other when bragging about specs. Here’s what you need to know. Aperture and the Exposure Triangle Aperture is one of the…

OnePlus OnePlus has debuted a special Cyberpunk 2077 edition of its 8T smartphone, despite the game itself being delayed until next year. It features a custom design based on the upcoming game and will only be available to purchase in China. Pre-orders begin today. This edition sports a yellow accent with a speckled black colorway…

Apple Between four new iPhones, new Apple Watches, new iPads, and new subscription plans, you might think Apple would call its year of announcements done. But you’d be wrong. Apple just announced a “One More Thing” event, scheduled to take place on November 10 at 10 a.m. PST. November 10th #AppleEvent is on! pic.twitter.com/REVXtsyHdp —…

Warner Bros. Interactive Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor was released in 2014, and it was easily the best video game set in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe up to that point. Unfortunately it’s losing a few of its more interesting features, as publisher Warner Bros. interactive is (presumably) shutting down its support servers at…

LEGO LEGO’s ultra-popular Super Mario play set brings everybody’s favorite plumber to the real world, with customizable levels, obstacles, and goals. Now, just in time for Christmas, Amazon is selling most LEGO Mario add-on sets at a 20% discount. Each expansion set includes a new location from the Super Mario series, along with essential characters…

Google Nearly every Android device ships with the Google Play Store. It’s the official place to go to download apps and games. However, the openness of Android means you can install third-party app stores, too. The Google Play Store is, by far, the largest app store available to those who use Android. It’s also the…

Sony A few weeks ago Sony did a very YouTube thing: disassembling its own PlayStation 5 for the world to see. Gamers got excited about how easy it was to remove those big white covers on the PS5, and started designing their own decorative replacements. Apparently Sony doesn’t like that: the company has allegedly strong-armed…

Fozan Ns/Shutterstock Streaming sticks are an essential item in every home, and they’re often one of the best gifts that you can put under the tree. Not only are streaming sticks snappier, easier to use, and more reliable than typical smart TVs, but they can integrate with your phone and smarthome gadgets to make life…

Exponents are simply repeated multiplications. For example, four to the third power (4³) isn’t 4 x 3, it’s 4 x 4 x 4, which equals a total of 64. If that sounds complicated, fear not; Excel can do the heavy lifting for you! How to Display Exponents in Excel Before we learn how to use…

Netflix/YouTube Christmas lovers, this week is your week for Netflix launches. The streaming service is dropping even more holiday-themed content this week, but if you’re not ready for twinkle lights and carols just yet, don’t worry. There are also some Netflix originals coming as well. If you’re ready to start making your to-watch list, here’s…

Raspberry Pi Foundation The $40 Raspberry Pi 4 packs nearly enough power to take the place of a legacy computer. But it’s missing components you need, like a keyboard. Now the Raspberry Pi 400 takes care of that by shoving a Raspberry Pi inside a keyboard for just $70. A full computer kit with all…

While using Windows 10, you might see a list of “Most Used” apps in your Start menu. Whether you’d like to simplify to Start menu or conceal the list due to privacy concerns, hiding the most used apps list is easy. Here’s how to do it. When enabled, the “Most Used” section of the Start…

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…

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…

Shutterstock/ Mbok Menawa Learning what a sawpfile is and does, you will discover how to create and enable one on your Linux instance. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to ensure your system does not run out of memory again. What is a Swapfile? Let us start by a rhetorical question: what happens…

The reach of GDPR doesn’t stop at the borders of Europe. Using non-European cloud platforms and Software-as-a-Service from within Europe just got a lot more complicated. Data Protection and Cybersecurity Data protection and cybersecurity are different, but related topics. Cybersecurity is the collection of technologies, controls, and behaviors that combine to form an organization’s response…