Choosing a new password can be a hectic task. What to enter? Your pet’s name? Your favorite teacher from high school? But you can’t be that careless. You want your data protected and personal information secured, which means it’s risky to rely on weak passwords like a family member’s name and a simple sequence like …

While there’s just one more month of summer left, last-minute travel plans are still ramping up. If you’re in the process of planning your next trip, you’ll want to take advantage of Google Maps and Google Flights, which can help make your trip a little less complicated. Google Flights can help you track prices for any dates you plan on flying …

A strong password is essential when it comes to your online security, and you need a unique one for each of your social media, bank accounts, streaming services and apps. But with so many accounts to keep track of, it’s tempting (and incredibly easy) to fall into the bad habit of using the same login credentials for everything.  If your data …

Okta, an authentication service used widely across the globe, is investigating a data breach Tuesday morning after hackers posted screenshots claiming to show the company’s internal systems. Any hack impacting Okta could have rippling ramifications for the other companies and organizations that rely on Okta’s authentication services to access their own systems. As listed on Okta’s website, JetBlue, Grubhub, T-Mobile, Peloton …

If you’ve made the jump to Windows 11, you’ll find a lot of new features to check out — from a more streamlined interface to the ability to download Android apps. Windows 11 began a phased rollout in October, but Microsoft said the company is ahead of its original mid-2022 rollout completion. That said, Windows 11 is a departure from …

No one wants to leak their private information as they browse the web. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other popular browsers can help keep your data away from prying eyes. The caveat, however, is that securing those browsers means setting up a few security-minded extensions or tweaking privacy settings in preferences. There is one browser — with its own privacy-focused search …

More than 93% of US web searches are done with Google, but Windows 11 is set to Microsoft’s Bing search engine by default. If you prefer the results you get from Google’s search engine, it’s easy enough to make Google search the default. We’ll show you how. Windows 11 doesn’t let you set a default search engine systemwide across all …

Sony is reportedly in talks to purchase US anime-streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T. The possible acquisition, reported by Nikkei on Friday, could cost Sony $957 million and bring the tech giant into closer competition with Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services. Sony produces its own anime, including Demon Slayer, but has reportedly been licensing it to streaming services. The acquisition would …

If you’d like to be somewhere else, at least digitally, you can now add your own background of a tastefully decorated room, for example, or a Minecraft farm to Microsoft Teams video chats. Designed for business and education, Teams includes group chat, video calling and collaboration tools, and has seen a spike in use since more people began working from …

Finishing the process it began earlier this month, Apple is no longer including a USB power adapter with higher-end Apple Watches, including the Apple Watch with the “handcrafted” leather watchband designed by Hermes. At a Sept. 15 event where it unveiled the Apple Watch Series 6, the company said it would no longer include power adapters with some of its watches. …