This week, the attention of the country — and the world — has been on the US presidential election. While the results were up in the air, we kept you informed on key topics: how election officials and others were tackling cybersecurity, what social media companies were doing to fight misinformation, and how tech is …
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Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer cloud computing in spacecraft and fleets of satellites through its Azure service, the tech giant said Tuesday. The move comes four months after Amazon announced that its Web Services unit is expanding into space. The company is also expanding its partnership with Luxembourg’s SES SA, which has a network of larger …
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Google Doodle marked the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on Monday by honoring Dilhan Eryurt, a Turkish astrophysicist and NASA scientist. Eryurt, born in Turkey in 1926, studied mathematics and astronomy at Istanbul University. In her extensive career as an astrophysicist, Eryurt worked with Alastair G.W. Cameron at NASA to study the properties and evolution of the …
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Has your once shiny and speedy Mac lost a bit of speed? If you are seeing the spinning beach ball more frequently as your Mac struggles to keep up, then it’s time to perform a bit of maintenance to put a little pep back in its step. In a previous version of this article, I recommended that you replace your …
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No matter how large a hard drive or solid-state drive you have in your PC or laptop, there will come a time when you run out of space. If you’re bumping up against your PC’s physical storage limit, here are some quick tricks you can use to reclaim a couple of gigabytes’ worth of storage space. These options will take …
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We’ll get to see the last full supermoon of the year on May 7. This one’s dubbed the “super flower moon” and if April’s “super pink moon” was any indication, it should be a real barn burner. Last month, I went up to my roof with the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, iPhone 11 Pro and my first ever DSLR, the Canon …
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The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra‘s telephoto camera is capable of 100x zoom, a feature the company dubs “Space Zoom.” So I found out when and where the International Space Station was going to pass by my apartment and tried to find it — space, meet zoom. I also pitted Space Zoom against the iPhone 11 Pro‘s zoom to see how …
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One of the coolest-sounding features of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 line of phones is the ability to capture video in 8K resolution. That’s four times the capture resolution of the Galaxy S10 and the Apple iPhone 11 for example, which both max out 4K video, and 16 times as much as HD. Sounds like a lot, right? Maybe you’re thinking …
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When my husband rushed me onto the back porch claiming we would be able to see the International Space Station passing over our house one night, I didn’t exactly believe him. We’re far enough out in the country to see stars, but we haven’t completely escaped the city’s light pollution. Still, I looked up. While I didn’t expect to see the …
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Today’s deal is a rerun, but it’s my favorite kind: More bang for the buck. It was already a steal back in January and now it’s even stealier. Read more: The best storage devices for 2019 This is about data, specifically your priceless photos, documents, contacts and the like. All it takes is one virus, ransomware attack, flaky OS update …
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