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Workshop: Moodle essentials for faculty
A hands-on hour on gradebooks, quizzes and course pages. Bring a laptop and a course to work on.
Watch for phishing emails
Fake "grade update" and "mailbox full" emails are circulating. Here's how to spot them.
Short course: Account and Wi-Fi security
Four short lunchtime sessions on passwords, two-step verification, phishing and safe Wi-Fi.
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Hinge tests a cheaper plan as users become more fed up paying for dating apps
At a time when people are increasingly tired of dating apps, Hinge is testing a cheaper subscription plan.
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The reason why some iPhone calls don't have a decline option, and others do
Sometimes your iPhone lets you decline a call and sometimes it doesn't. Here's why that happens, and a few easy ways to handle the calls you'd rather skip.
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"At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has all of its "space" back open.
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Why it's important to never plug power strips into each other
Power strips are lifesavers when you don't have enough outlets to power all of your electronics and some also offer protection from power surges.
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Apple says it’s ‘hard to predict’ when iPhone Duo constraints will improve
Apple says iPhone Duo production is ramping up, but it still can’t say when supply will catch up with demand as shipping delays stretch into next year.
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Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
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Apple’s inventory surges 154% as memory chip costs climb
Apple says unprecedented memory chip costs will continue to rise, raising questions about future device prices as its inventory climbs to $14.5 billion.
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How to use your phone's camera to translate anything
With the aid of a quick picture, you can use your phone's camera to translate pretty much any text while you're traveling across the globe.
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Apple is ‘not able to predict’ when it’ll have enough iPhone Duos to go around
Apple CEO John Ternus doesn't have a timeline for when iPhone Duo supply constraints could lift. During an interview with Reuters, Ternus said the company is "working hard to get it to as many customers as quickly as…
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Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
Plus invisible tattoos, medieval skeleton gets an ID, trapping a single antimatter particle, and more.
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Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
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Apple set an iPhone sales record even without a new standard iPhone
Apple had a record-breaking quarter for iPhone sales - despite not releasing a standard model during its latest refresh. In its fourth-quarter earnings report released on Monday, Apple says it earned $57.58 billion in…
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Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock
The threat is still considered to be low, but the virus continues to spread.
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Meta will end Quest 2 OS updates in 2027
Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets by March 2027, the company announced today. The last OS update for those devices is planned to be v213, and after that, Meta wil…
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How long could HDDs and SSDs remain expensive?
Thanks to shortages of microchips and other computer components, we've been experiencing high prices for years.
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One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet
Google says one of its Android manufacturing partners secretly built a backdoor in 1.3 million devices and turned them into a botnet. The company says it has now dismantled the backdoor and "cut ties" with the manufac…
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BMW is taking on Tesla’s FSD with urban driver assist starting in 2027
BMW says that it will expand its navigation-guided, partially automated driving capabilities into urban environments starting in 2027, launching first in Germany with other markets to follow. The new system can help s…
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Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
"The flow of time is always cruel."
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Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware
German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.
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Casio's new keyboard lets anyone play along to songs without ever hitting a wrong note
Casio's new Feel Sync technology helps keep new players in tune.
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Your Apple AirPods' chirping noise doesn't just mean low battery
Learn why your Apple AirPods are making a noise - and how to turn the sound off.
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Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
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The Apple Watch Ultra 4 is $100 off, matching its best price to date
The Apple Watch Ultra 4 is the company’s most capable smartwatch. Whether you intend to put its many tracking features to the test, or you simply want the longest battery life of any Apple Watch, it’s currently on sal…
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Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree
A big study with very little beyond negative results still gets published.
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Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit to avoid trial
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was due to testify in the upcoming trial.
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Ford promises not to sell your driving habits to data brokers
Ford vowed to never sell customer driving data to third-party data brokers as part of a new privacy promise aimed at setting the automaker apart from competitors that have faced legal and regulatory blowback for shari…
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Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web
AI agents can be a great tool to help make purchases for you online - but it can become a frustrating problem if the website you're using blocks their access.
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Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompila…
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
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