Smart homes make sense. The devices that bring a certain level of automation to your home are exciting, and they can also ...

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Container made it easy to run Linux on my MacBook - here's how I set it up ...

There exists a Virtual OS Museum, and it is exactly what it sounds like. Andrew Warkentin, a developer who has been quietly collecting emulator images since 2003, has packaged the lot into a Linux VM ...

Google has announced a new OS verification tool for Android 17. In addition to looking for on-device red flags, the tool incorporates a verification mode that requires a second device. While not yet ...

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Most of us carry a tiny surveillance device in our pockets, which we call a smartphone. If that bothers you, your options have historically been limited. Buy a Google Pixel, install GrapheneOS, and ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

When you clean-install Windows 11, Windows Defender sets Smart App Control into evaluation mode. It analyzes the apps you run and determines trusted software. After a few days of use, it switches to ...

If you’ve ever had a bad Windows update or a system corruption, you’ll know it can be paralyzing for your OS, or operating system and render it useless. That’s why you need to create a restore point ...

If you're upgrading to a new iPhone 17 or installing the latest operating system, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble by making a good backup first. Here's how to do it. Jeff Carlson writes about ...