The tech you need to declutter your academic life

Regardless of the system you've picked, you'll want to make sure you never run out of space. Having to carry around an external hard drive defeats the purpose of decluttering in the first place. You can either go for a device with larger storage (1TB would be plenty but 500GB is adequate) or invest in…

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Samsung opens up Galaxy Note 10 reservations before official reveal

The company is also offering up to $600 of trade-in value towards a Note 10. Depending on your current device's condition, you can get that huge discount by swapping your Galaxy Note 9; Galaxy S10 series handset; Pixel 3 or 3 XL; or iPhone XS, XS Max or XR. You can still save if you…

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Local governments are still woefully unprepared to fight ransomware

A string of high-profile attacks over the past six years have brought the threat of encountering ransomware to the forefront of public consciousness. However, the practice of remotely encrypting data and holding it for ransom is nearly 30 years old. 1989's PC Cyborg virus, colloquially dubbed the AIDS Trojan as it initially targeted AIDS researchers,…

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Gadget Lab Podcast: Why New York’s Revenge Porn Law is Flawed

This week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill criminalizing the spread of nonconsensual pornography, or revenge porn.This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, WIRED’s Emma Grey Ellis joins Mike and Lauren to talk about what the law does, and what it still fails to address.Also in the news, Samsung says that…

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The $26.5B T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Moves a Big Step Forward

T-Mobile CEO John Legere and then-Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure agreed last year to combine their companies.TRIPPLAAR KRISTOFFER/SIPAThe Justice Department Friday cleared T-Mobile’s long-delayed $26.5 billion merger with Sprint, a deal that critics say will reduce competition for wireless service and lead to higher prices. To win approval, the companies agreed to sell assets to Dish…

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How to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money

If you're one of the 147 million people in the United States affected by the egregious Equifax credit bureau hack in 2017, you were probably resigned to getting some free credit monitoring out of it and moving on. But nearly two years later, attorneys general from 50 US states and territories, the Federal Trade Commission,…

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Why Big Banks Could Soon Jump on the Quantum Bandwagon

Researchers at IBM have recently figured out how to run a simplified risk calculation on an actual quantum computer.IBMIn the time it takes you to read this sentence, investment banks, hedge funds, and other investors around the world will have traded about $80 million in stocks.That adds up to more than $200 billion per day,…

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