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You store a ton of personal information in your Google account — bank account balances, email addresses and phone numbers, pictures of your face, your friends’ faces, your family. If you want to protect that sensitive data with the highest level of security you can get, consider the Google Advanced Protection Program. Google’s program makes …

Microsoft Teams , a workplace collaboration app designed to rival Slack, suffered an outage Monday after Microsoft failed to renew its authentication certificate. The tool was down for about three hours while Microsoft investigated and updated the certificate, according to the company’s Twitter account. By around 9 a.m. PT Monday, the service was back up for most users though the issue wasn’t fully …

Forget about carrying a bag full of USB chargers and AC adapters — it’s the 21st Century, and if you have a collection of relatively recent gadgets, you can probably keep them all topped off with a single charger. Many modern laptops — like  MacBooks, the HP Spectre, Dell XPS and Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 — can be charged through …

Windows 10 has been around for five years, but it’s only now that Microsoft’s support for Windows 7 is dead and gone that the question arises: How long will Windows 10 last before Microsoft replaces it? Will we see a Windows 11 at some point?  Luckily, we know the answer. Microsoft has a long-established Fixed Lifecycle Policy for many of …

Samsung’s Galaxy Book S turned heads when it was announced last August, but its long delay kept the $1,000 Qualcomm-powered Windows PC out of interested users’ hands for months. After a long wait from its initial September window, those still interested will finally be able to get one on Feb. 13.  In an announcement Thursday, Samsung officially started taking preorders …

There’s a growing consensus that it’s the browser’s job to protect our privacy on the web. But on Tuesday, a Google Chrome leader warned that trying to make that change too soon could actually hurt the web by driving developers to mobile apps instead. “At our scale, it’s not reasonable to move too fast, because it’s too destructive,” said Justin …

Google’s Chrome browser will work a little differently when it’s time to move tabs around thanks to software Microsoft has contributed to the Chromium project that now underlies both companies’ browsers. It’s an illustration of the power of open-source software — and of the increasing influence of Google’s browser technology on the web overall. The change this month, flagged on …

In late 2009, one of the worst-kept secrets in technology was that Apple planned to launch a tablet of some sort, probably within months. Would it be a locked-down device like the iPhone, launched just two years earlier in 2007? Or would it be a more traditional platform like the MacBook, following in the footsteps of personal computers since the …

When you wake up your phone, it’s instantly ready to work and your email, texts and notifications are all up to date because, even with your phone asleep, it’s still connected and updating itself — and it’s doing it without a big hit to your battery life. Modern Standby is Microsoft’s effort to bring that instant-on, ready-to-go feel to PCs …

Based on the same engine that drives Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft’s new Edge browser is now available for Windows and MacOS. A year in the making, the new Microsoft Edge browser will work with websites and not deal with the compatibility issues that browsers with a smaller share of the market can face.  More specifically, Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium, …