New Copilot Fully Integrated Into Windows 11; GM Sued for Selling Driver Data; Microsoft to Shut Down Skype, What About Excel?… and more! Every day, we scan the tech world for interesting news, sometimes from outside the tech world. Every Thursday, we feature news articles that grabbed our attention over the past week. We hope you find… Read More »
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Chemicals: The Top 12 to Avoid If you’ve ever looked at the ingredients in processed food, you’ll most likely see a list of chemicals that most of us have no idea what they are or why they’re in our food. Did you know that many of the chemical additives in our… Read More »
HFCS: A Killer On and Off the Cob In 2011, we wrote an essay entitled A Kllier on the Cob. It’s been 14 years and the prevalence of HFCS in foods and beverages produced in the United States has not changed – and maybe even worsened. Smuckers wrote us a letter about that article telling us… Read More »
Let’s Do Something Refreshing To understand why refreshing a webpage ensures you’re seeing the current version, it’s essential to grasp the concept of “caching.” Caching speeds things up but sometimes causes problems. When you visit a website, your browser saves copies of certain elements (like images, style sheets, and other files) on your device (cache). This… Read More »
Passwords Are Passé: The Brave New World of Passkeys Remember when passwords were simple? Maybe your dog’s name, or your birthday? Your phone number? Unfortunately, those days are gone. Hackers have become incredibly clever, and simple passwords won’t protect your accounts anymore. But wait! There’s a new, easier, and much safer way to log in and… Read More »
Saturday Bonus Questions and Answers – 030125 Here in our part of the Earth, we have reached what’s known as “meteorological spring” as opposed to real spring, also known as “astrological spring”. It matters not, since spring doesn’t arrive here until mid-April Besides all that, it’s Saturday and time for another edition of Saturday Bonus Questions… Read More »