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On or after October 5, your computer will offer you a choice: upgrade to Windows 11, or remain on Windows 10. You’ll probably want to stay put. Normally, feature updates are a no-brainer. Updating your PC from one Windows 10 version to another typically offers you security updates, bug fixes, and new features, justifying the hassle. You don’t really have the freedom to opt out of a Windows 10 update, either—you can only delay it for a short time. But Windows 11 offers you a true choice. Microsoft says that it will support Windows 10 until 2025, giving you the…
Blockchain game developer Sky Mavis has announced a $152 million Series B investment round. It was led by Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) with participation from Paradigm, Accel, Seven Seven Six (Alexis Ohanian), FTX, Samsung Next, Fabric and other investors. Sky Mavis closed a Series A back in May for $7.5 million.Going upLaunched in 2018, its game Axie Infinity has experienced considerable growth in 2021, especially in the past couple of months.Mainly accessed through sideloading an Android APK file, it now has 2 million DAUs, while over $2 billion of its NFTs have been traded. The game itself – a monster-battling game inspired by Pokemon – uses…
Bissell’s Myair Pro offers a compact option for small-scale air purification with minimal fuss. The all-white, cylindrical device—14 inches tall by 8.5 inches in diameter, and weighing less than 6 pounds—can live happily on a tabletop, but it’s not the most style-friendly purifier on the market. Stashing it in the corner might be a better fit.The device’s simple design (we reviewed Bissell’s model 3139A, there are four slightly different others in the Myair line) uses a small, cylindrical activated-carbon and H13 HEPA filter that pops into place through the bottom of the purifier, where a simple hatch offers easy access.…
Time rolls forward, the past recedes, and it all starts to fade, doesn’t it? Ten years ago, Steve Jobs died, and at the time I pondered how he’d be remembered. In the intervening years, his most notable product–Apple itself–has risen to unimaginable levels of power and influence. The fact that so much of Apple’s growth has happened since Jobs’s departure hasn’t reduced him at all. It would be relatively easy to argue that the success of Tim Cook’s Apple suggests that, despite everyone’s concern in the late days of 2011, the company actually could go on without Jobs at the…
More than six years after Microsoft launched Windows 10, Windows 11 is finally here. It’s been one of the longest waits between operating system versions in Microsoft history. Has it been worth the wait?More important, when (and if) you’re offered the upgrade through Windows Update, should you take the leap?I’ve put the operating system through its paces (with an eye to business use). Among the most significant changes I found are a smartly redesigned Start menu, tweaks to Search and Widgets, better integration with Teams (albeit for personal use, not business), enhanced security with TPM 2.0, and thoughtful fit and…
The COVID pandemic—and in much of the country, smoke-filled air caused by rampant wildfires—has renewed interest in a formerly sleepy sector of the gadget universe: the air purifier. For those of us in California, air purifiers have been essential companions in the fall months, helping to rid the unyielding stench of wood smoke from the air while (we hope) protecting our health from the potential damages of inhaling toxic gasses and particles.Updated October 5, 2021 to add our Bissell Myair Pro review. Like its larger cousin, the Bissell air320 Max, this air purifier isn’t long on of bells and whistles, but it…
TL;DR Google is launching a 500GB Google One plan next week. This is only available to Sprint and T-Mobile subscribers though. The Google One cloud storage service is available in a variety of options, ranging from 100GB all the way to 30TB. Need more than the existing 100GB and 200GB options but feel like 2TB is too much? That’s where Google’s newest plan comes in.The company has now announced a 500GB Google One storage plan, but the big caveat is that this offering is in partnership with T-Mobile. So only Sprint and T-Mobile customers can get in on this action.Nevertheless,…
What is going on with this map? (pic: YouTube)Ubisoft is teasing new games from within Far Cry 6 itself, as they also confirm a long established fan theory about Far Cry 2. Far Cy 6 is out this Thursday and review copies are already with reviewers and influencers, and one has decided to risk Ubisoft’s wrath by revealing an unsuspected new element of the game. It turns out that many of the crates in the game have real QR codes on them and when scanned in, by pointing your phone at the TV, they play videos or open up websites.…
The Honor Magic Fold device that is reportedly in the works received a new batch of rumor details via the latest leak. The phone is supposed to be a Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Flip 3 rival and is expected to hit the market sometime next year.The new leak comes from the Chinese network Weibo and it states that the Magic Fold will sport similar folding screen technology to the Huawei Mate X2. The name of the device is also mentioned in the leak, it’s supposed to be Magic X.Now, the credibility of the leaker – a Weibo account roughly…
One boring day during the pandemic, security researcher Craig Hays decided to do an experiment. He wanted to leak an SSH username and password into a GitHub repository and see if any attacker might find it. Hays thought he’d have to wait a few days, maybe a week, before anyone noticed it. Reality proved more brutal. The first unauthorized login happened within 34 minutes. “The biggest eye-opener for me was how quickly it was exploited,” he tells CSO.Over the first 24 hours, six different IP addresses connected to his honeypot a total of nine times. One attacker tried to install…