Thinking about upgrading your slow PC? Are you unsure how much RAM you actually need? Here's what this tech reviewer thinks....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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ZDNET found the best cheap tech gifts -- and deals -- for under $25, so you can save on gift-giving for everyone on your list this Cyber Monday shopping weekend....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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Many of the best Sam's Club Cyber Monday deals are already live, and there's still time left to save on tech, laptops, TVs, and household appliances....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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Users will appreciate the Eero 7's straightforward installation and consistently fast performance. You can get the 3-pack for less than $300....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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Cyber Monday is tomorrow, but Best Buy has some excellent deals live now, like the Hisense Canvas TV for 35% off....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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If you're in the market for a new TV to watch movies or football over the winter, don't miss some of the best TV deals of the year happening on Cyber Monday....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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Fitbit's latest Charge 6 model adds key fitness tracking features that blur the lines with smartwatches. As part of a new promotion, you can get one for 38%....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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I'm live-tracking best-of-2025 deals on the most popular streaming services for Cyber Monday - but hurry, these deals will disappear quickly....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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Cyber Monday is almost here. You can find great PlayStation deals now from Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others. I've collected some of the best for you....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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These amazing Costco deals are already live for Cyber Monday. Here's what we've found so far....
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Published on: 2025-12-01
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This Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season—a time when heightened cyber awareness is especially important. One of my favorite cybersecurity stories is centered around an unlikely beginning: a discrepancy of just 75 cents. While many would have dismissed this as an insignificant accounting error, one astronomer...
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Published on: 2025-11-28
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It’s the American tradition of food, family and football, better known as Thanksgiving. I’d like to take this time to thank you for your continued support. I laughed when I saw a post reminding people that as they gather with their loved ones over the holidays there are some key...
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Published on: 2025-11-27
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ISSUE 22.47.1 • 2025-11-26 By Susan Bradley It’s a little rocky. For the most part, the November updates have gone well, albeit with a few expected hiccups. That includes the first suite of updates that are included with the Windows 10 ESU enrollment. A lowering of the MS-DEFCON level to...
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Published on: 2025-11-26
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In my writings here, I have continuously praised Perplexity, saying that I would pay for an annual Pro plan as soon as my year-long free trial expired. I didn’t do that. Why? Because I think Copilot is getting better at Web searches. I came to that conclusion because six weeks...
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Published on: 2025-11-25
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There were some difficulties with the Free newsletter this week, one an internal technical issue and the other an error I made. My goof was skipping a production step accidentally, for which I apologize. The Free edition is now correct online. Thanks to the many readers who alerted me to...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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ISSUE 22.47 • 2025-11-24 FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Every day, someone gives me information I will need tomorrow. Every day, I don’t write it down because — of course — I’ll easily remember it. Every day, I forget what I didn’t write down the day before. In this newfangled...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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WINDOWS 11 By Chris Hoffman Windows 11’s Task Manager is a grab bag of features, some useful and others pointless. The Task Manager isn’t just a way to end misbehaving processes. It’s a way to monitor your system’s resource usage, see hardware details, and take control over startup apps. It’s...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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WINDOWS 11 By Mary Branscombe The Quick access feature of File Explorer is smarter than it used to be but also slightly more confusing. Do you want to open a file that was open just ten minutes ago? Or that you were working with on Friday, when you walked away...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley The idea behind Secure Boot is that attackers can’t gain access to your system through the boot process. As Microsoft puts it in a support post: Secure Boot is a security feature in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) based firmware that helps ensure that only...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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What do you go online and use? According to a recent survey, it’s most often YouTube. Years ago, I remember being at a business group dinner meeting, During the chitchat watercooler talk about which television show was the rage at the time, I remember someone saying that they never watched...
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Published on: 2025-11-21
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