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In a perfect world, portable solid state drives would be just as inexpensive as portable hard drives. After all, the main feature of SSDs is they have no moving parts, which really makes them perfect for carrying data on the move. Hard drives are much more prone to failure when getting knocked around in your backpack or trampled on the subway. Unfortunately, were not there yet. Luckily this deal shaves some of that cost off the top and you get a really good product out of it. The Ultra Touch is...

Andar Wallets The Helm This case from Andar Wallets protects your MacBook in style. It snaps onto the notebook, giving it a sleek leather exterior, with a soft microfiber inside lining. The Helm style comes in brown, black, tan, and navy options and retails for $115. Apple Leather Sleeve Apple Leather Sleeve Sleeves are another popular way to protect your notebook on the go. Apple sells a premium leather one designed especially for its 13-inch MacBooks. The sleeve ships in black, midnight blue,...

How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one. Literary Gazette under the title “Certificate concerning social eugenics”, one of them read: Type: Zamiatin. Genus: Evgeny. Class: bourgeois. In the village: a kulak. The product of degeneration. Footnote: an enemy. With its threatening references to degeneration and eugenics, this ditty would not have been out of place in Der Stürmer, the Nazi tabl...

Mac computers are generally reliable. But as with any computer, sometimes things go wrong. Before you spend big on a new Mac, though, try a factory reset, which wipes your computer and reinstalls a clean version of macOS. A factory reset is also the best way to prepare your old computer for a new owner to make sure no leftover data falls into the wrong hands. The process has been the same for years on Macs with Intel processers, however, the move to Apple silicon has slightly altered the metho...

Puerto Rico nationalists opened fire in U.S. House March 1, 1954, Gazette front page, after five congressmen were shot in the U.S. Capitol, including Ben Jensen of Iowa. (Gazette archives) U.S. Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, in 1958 stands in the lane that led to his boyhood farm home in Marion Township, 4 miles northeast of Marion. The Iowa congressman was among five representatives wounded in a shooting at the U.S. Capitol in 1954. (Gazette archives) U.S. Rep. Ben Jensen, R-Iowa, 1954 photo This au...

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By Dave Moore | For The Transcript Jan 17, 2021 Dave Moore Last week, we discussed how the threat of ransomware is changing the way we backup our files. The standard ways we’ve used since computers were invented just can’t cut it, anymore. As such, I’ve decided to stop recommending people try to do it by themselves; we need help. File backup services are generally aimed at three groups: large, enterprise-class businesses with hundreds/thousands/millions of employees; ...

Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 13.22 EST This week, Prof Brittney Cooper from Rutgers University caused a small internet storm when she asked a simple question: “Why don’t modern college kids know how to send a formal letter/email?” She added that her students frequently email her simply saying “Hello.” Why don’t modern college kids know how to send a formal letter/email? I thought everyone knew to begin Dear Prof. X or Dear Dr. X. Instead these kids stay emailing me Hello There! ...

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