Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Have you ever wondered where your “random” password came from? Is there such a thing as a not-random-enough password, or maybe a too-random password? How long should that password be, anyway, and why won’t some platforms let it be longer? Oh, and which VPN should you use, and how should…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Two major trade organizations representing global vaccine manufacturers are officially backing a proposal submitted to the G20 and G7 countries in July that they claim offers practical solutions for future pandemics to avoid the inequities that have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Berlin Declaration was proposed in July 2022 by the International Federation…
Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files include images, text documents, music, games, shareware, videos, and…
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing new hardware to encourage more developers to start using and supporting the Arm version of Windows. Dubbed “Project Volterra,” all we knew about it at the time was that it would use an unnamed Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and NVMe-based storage, that it…
The OnePlus Nord N300. [credit: OnePlus ] OnePlus is showing off a new low-end smartphone, the OnePlus Nord N300 5G. This is a $228 phone you can get at T-Mobile starting November 3. The highlights include a surprisingly handsome design for this price point, 33 W charging, and a 90 Hz display. First up: specs….
You’ll have to plug in the pencil to charge it—one of the 10th-gen. iPad’s little idiosyncrasies. Stan Horaczek We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Change can be hard, especially when it comes to devices many of us use every single day. Apple’s…
Amanda Reed We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › We all get to a point in our lives where we are elated and overjoyed to receive basic essentials like socks, underwear, and a pack of T-shirts. If you’re the gift giver, these indispensable…
It can be frightening to see your plants leaves looking like this. Vi Tran / Unsplash One of the most frustrating things about plant parenthood is the guesswork. You will, with time, get better at figuring out if your leafy little ones are thirsty, getting too much sun, or just not happy with their location—but…
Bono is really sorry for that time he forced U2’s album onto everyone’s iTunes library. In an excerpt from his memoir published in The Guardian, Bono, the lead singer of U2, looks back on the band’s ill-fated 2014 collaboration with Apple that he thought would be the ultimate rock n’ roll move. Instead, it became…
The Season 1 finale of House of the Dragon ended with a devastating, dragon-toothed crunch that shook the realm and set in motion the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. But with that epic cliffhanger comes the horrifying realization that we have to wait for Season 2 to find out what…