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Your browser can block trackers and scam sites. The strongest settings just aren't on by default.

Your browser can block trackers and warn you off scam sites. In Chrome the strongest settings are off by default; in Edge they are turned down. Five minutes fixes both.

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Your computer feels slow. Here's what to do.

Most "slow computer" problems aren't the computer at all. This is how to find what's really slowing it down, and fix it for free or close to it, on a Windows PC.

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Set up your phone to share your medical info in an emergency

Your phone can show your medical info and call your contacts without anyone unlocking it. Five minutes of setup, and you can confirm it works.

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How to capture fireworks with your phone

You have been following DSLR instructions your phone can't run. Here is the phone-native way to actually catch fireworks, plus the one manual button that finally nails the trail.

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Are those smart glasses recording you? How to tell

Smart glasses look like ordinary sunglasses, but they record video and audio, and the tiny warning light is easy to miss or defeat. What they capture, where it goes, and how to tell if the pair across the table is on.

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Share your Wi-Fi without ever spelling out the password

Your phone can turn your network into a QR code that any camera scans, iPhone or Android. Five minutes, and you never recite the password again.

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Who gets your photos and email when you're gone? Set this up in five minutes.

Your photos and email don't pass to anyone when you die. Apple's Legacy Contact and Google's Inactive Account Manager fix that in five minutes each.

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QuickBooks Desktop is going away.

Intuit is winding down QuickBooks Desktop one version at a time. I priced out your three real options before you're forced to pick one.

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Your TV has a side hustle, and you're paying for it

Free apps on smart TVs can turn your set into a relay for someone else's web scraping. Using your connection and your IP. Here's how to tell, and how to stop it.

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Why the robocalls about your Google listing won't stop

Put your business on Google and the robocalls never stop? Here's why it happens, why blocking fails, and what actually works.

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Your photos know where you live

I handed an AI a photo with nothing in it, a blank wall and a few trees, no signs. It named the state. Then I gave it a window view with the location scrubbed out, and minutes later it had the exact building and floor.

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Leaked Email

Your email address is in a leak. Probably more than one. So is mine. That sounds dramatic. The actual implication is not so much. At some point you signed up for an account at LinkedIn or Dropbox or some forum you've forgotten the name of, the company got