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Email is a terrific tool that brings together friends, family, and business connections. But, unfortunately, it also has a terrible underbelly — spam, often called junk mail.  Stopping junk mail requires diligence, patience, and following specific steps. Unfortunately, that might not be enough to eliminate or even cut down on the spam you receive on […]

Check Point Research (CPR) has released a new report which highlights the brands most frequently imitated in phishing campaigns in 2023 so far, and it contains some surprising results. The company's Brand Phishing Report for Q1 2023 found several big names, such as Apple didn’t even make the top ten list, with Walmart named as […]

Ah, the war of wired versus wireless. Bluetooth bandwidth is lossy, isn't it?  Even higher-resolution codecs such as aptX are no match for the clarity, neutrality, and detail you'll get from a wired headphone connection. Just ask Apple Music, whose 2021 Hi-Res Lossless rollout can only be enjoyed at its fullest with one of the […]

Mothers Day is rapidly approaching, and nobody wants to be the guy left standing in the middle of a pharmacy choosing from a section of picked over cards at the last minute because they forgot to purchase a gift for their mother or the mother of their children. You can save yourself a lot of […]

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints. And you might need them – because this popular online game takes the Wordle format and quadruples the difficulty. So if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you'll probably need some for Quordle too.  I'm a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who's been playing since […]

Audio mixing is not an exact science as even major movie studios can (sometimes purposely) get things wrong. To help out, Amazon is currently rolling out a new Prime Video feature called Dialogue Boost to specifically increase “the volume of [spoken] dialogue relative to background [noise]”.  You may initially think this is mainly for people […]

It's really the end of the road for the Netflix DVD. In September, Netflix will cease mailing those iconic red Netflix envelopes that devoted subscribers once collected three at a time. It's truly the end of a bygone era. If you're reading this and wondering what the heck we're talking about and why Netflix felt […]

Cybersecurity researchers from Infoblox’s Threat Intelligence Group have found a new remote access trojan (RAT) lurking in corporate networks around the world and claim it’s been operating in secret for roughly a year.  The researchers named the RAT Pupy, and were able to trace its toolkit back to Russia, and now believe a state-sponsored attacker […]

Not every image can be a gem and even those we love can, upon closer examination, be disfigured by blemishes or, worse yet, unsightly grain. Removing it isn't easy, but Adobe now has an AI-based denoise solution for this common image problem. Adobe has been on a tear lately rolling out updates to its various […]

It recently came to light that the next major release of iOS might include the ability to sideload apps, something that Android users have been able to do for a while, but a practice that has formally been met with a lot of resistance from Apple in the past. So what is app sideloading and […]