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Desktop tweaks in Windows can be fun, but watch out for risks

30-01-2023 20:39

Like many things, computer desktops are unique. Though large businesses tend to deploy a single image for all their workstations to lock things down (and limit customization), many small firms and home users want to make their desktop, well, theirs. Case in point: one of the first things I do after installing Windows 11 is move the bottom menu over to the left. After so many years of turning off my computer with the Start button on the left, I found myself always clicking on widgets to turn off

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'It's been a great ride': Longtime Balloon Fiesta executive director is ... - Albuquerque Journal

30-01-2023 18:15

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Apple wants to build a new computing platform with AR

30-01-2023 17:29

Apple’s plan to create an App Store and an easy way to create mixed-reality apps offers an important insight into its strategy and confirms that the company sees these devices as platforms, not peripherals. And when considering the business case for them, we need to see whether they hit that mark.To read this article in full, please click here

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US wins support from Japan and Netherlands to clip China’s chip industry

30-01-2023 12:08

The US has convinced two other countries to join it in expanding a ban on exports of chip-making technology to China, according to a report by Bloomberg. The move could cramp China’s home-grown chip industry as there are few, if any, other sources for the sophisticated technologies required for modern semiconductor manufacturing.As part of a broader trade war with China, the US sought for its chip technology embargo from Japan and the Netherlands, where some of the world’s largest m

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Study: When employees don’t have to commute, they work

30-01-2023 12:00

When employees are allowed to work remotely, they most often use the time they would have spent commuting to the office working.On average, employees save 72 minutes in commute time every day when they’re allowed to work from home rather than in the office, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA) study performed by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).“That’s a large time savings, especially when multiplied by hundreds of millions of workers a

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