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Black Friday VPN deals: What to expect, early sales

Black Friday VPN deals: What to expect, early sales

Image: IDG It might seem early, but VPN deals have already begun for Black Friday — and these early deals from VPN providers look to be among the best ever. What’s more, you can make your purchase now and rest assured you’re getting the best price. Most VPN services start their discounts early and run

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Enjoy the real deal forever—get MS Office 2021 for just

Enjoy the real deal forever—get MS Office 2021 for just

Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Stop struggling with free office tools—get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for just $39.97 (MSRP $219.99). If free productivity apps just aren’t cutting it anymore, this is your chance to upgrade to the real deal. For a limited time, you can grab Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows with a lifetime license for

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Your giant monitor needs a giant VESA arm, and this

Your giant monitor needs a giant VESA arm, and this

Image: Huanuo As a dedicated member of both the triple-monitor club and the standing desk club (I’m very conflicted at the annual softball game), a solid VESA-compatible monitor arm is something I find essential. That goes double if you have a big, oversized monitor, like this one I just highlighted on sale. Today Huanuo is

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Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules

Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules

Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will also introduce accounts for limited app distribution and will allow users to install apps from unverified devs. As announced in August, Google was planning to introduce what it called "Developer Verification" starting in 2026 to block

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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

Transmeta was the last big IPO of the dotcom era, launching Nov 7, 2000. Some analysts call its $273 million IPO the last successful tech IPO until the Google IPO in 2004. Transmeta didn’t completely fit in to the dotcom era, because they were a hardware company. But they were still a technology company, and

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It’s now only $20 to get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and

It’s now only $20 to get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and

Skip to content Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2019 lifetime license for Windows for only $20. Microsoft 365 subscriptions aren’t the only way to get access to Microsoft apps. If you get a Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 lifetime license, you get many of the same apps for life with no recurring costs. It’s also

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A perpetual license for this PDF editor used to be

A perpetual license for this PDF editor used to be

Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Get a SwifDoo PDF Editor perpetual license for only $30 with code PRO. PDF editing shouldn’t require a monthly subscription. If you only need to edit text, combine files, or export to Word, Adobe Acrobat is overkill. A cheaper alternative is SwifDoo PDF Pro. This new PDF editor has a perpetual license on sale for only

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It’s official: Windows 11 26H1 isn’t for you

It’s official: Windows 11 26H1 isn’t for you

Image: Microsoft On Friday, Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 26H1—and as suspected, you won’t need to worry about it. Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel, the most experimental of the four Windows Insider channels. “With this build today, Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel will see the

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Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better

Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better

Right now, we probably don’t have the ability to detect these small changes in phenomena. However, that may change, as a next-generation version of the Event Horizon Telescope is being considered, along with a space-based telescope that would operate on similar principles. So the team (four researchers based in Shanghai and CERN) decided to repeat