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Microsoft recently raised the price of its 365 subscription to $9.99/month or $99.99/year, marking a 45% increase for everyday users. If you'd rather avoid another monthly bill, this deal gives you full access to Office 2021 for a one-time payment.
Why 2021 is the Office for efficiency
Full access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access
Works offline without relying on cloud services
Streamlined interface without extra AI features you may not need
Lifetime license tied to your PC—no recurring charges
If you need the classic Microsoft tools without ongoing fees, this lifetime license is a practical alternative to endless subscriptions.
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 While the iPhone 17 series and the iPhone Air are still a few days away from launching, there are already some early rumors about the iPhone 18 Pro's design.
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 With watchOS 26, the Apple Watch Series 9 and later and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later support Hypertension Notifications to give Apple Watch wearers a heads up when chronic high blood pressure is detected.
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The Acer Aspire Vero is pretty typical for a budget-to-mid-range design, omitting such niceties as a touchscreen or a face-scanning webcam. But with a 13th-gen 10-core Intel processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM (the minimum I would recommend for Windows 11), and 512GB of storage, it's got more than enough juice to power through standard student and office tasks. You can upgrade that RAM and storage fairly easily, by the way, which is great to see. With integrated Iris Xe graphics, it can handle some light gaming, too, but don't throw anything Randy Pitchford made at it.
While 15.6 inches for the 1080p screen is on the larger side, that extra space means you have room for plenty of ports, including double USB-C, double USB-A, and full-sized HDMI (handy for using the TV in a hotel room). It also has a full-sized keyboard with a number pad and a fingerprint reader. But I think the most appealing thing about this thing is the color—the recycled plastic shell comes in a speckled dark green that looks really distinctive for a budget design. The 50-watt-hour battery should last through a cross-country flight, though probably not a full 12-hour day of work and doomscrolling.
Acer is selling this Aspire Vero as refurbished from the factory, which means a nearly-new condition verified by techs who know what they're doing. The two-year warranty period is great… the fact that it's serviced by Allstate, less so. Hey, it beats the 90 days you usually get with
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 It turns out that Apple's new Adaptive Power mode extends beyond the iPhone.
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Mozilla plans to release Firefox 144 on October 14th, 2025.
What's new in Firefox 143?
The biggest addition with this update is that Microsoft Copilot has been added to the AI chatbots available in the sidebar, joining ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Le Chat Mistral.
Firefox 143 also adds the ability to use Google Lens to search for information on images, but this feature requires Google to be set as the browser's default search engine. It's currently rolling out gradually to users. (Lens is already available in Chrome and Opera One, and Edge has a similar function that accesses Bing.)
To manually enable reverse image searches with Google Lens, navigate to the internal configuration page by typing about:config into the address bar, then search for the browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate flag. If the value of the flag is set to "false," double-click it and change it to "true." The change should take effect immediately.
On Windows, Firefox 143 can run websites as web apps that can be pinned directly to the Windows taskbar. There's a new icon on the right-hand side of the address bar for pinning. However, this doesn't work with Firefox installed from the Microsoft Store. Linux and macOS versions of Firefox will get a similar feature later on.
Other improvements include: the ability to pin tabs by dragging a tab to the designated area at the top of the tab bar; a camera pr
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NEW RESOURCES Chilean Memory and machine-translated from Spanish: Cultural criticism journal: the digitalization of a benchmark of the transition to democracy. "A new Memoria Chilena minisite presents the 36 issues of the […]
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What are the biggest security threats to UK small businesses today?
In June, the Home Office released its Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 report, detailing the most common cyberattacks experienced by UK small businesses in H2 2024.
Here are the most common ways hackers attempted to gain money or data from small businesses last year:
Phishing: 85% of businesses that reported cyberattacks identified phishing as a key threat. These scams trick employees into clicking on fake links - often via email - and inadvertently handing over sensitive data. Now powered by AI, phishing tactics are getting smarter than ever and more difficult to spot.
Employee impersonation: More than half (51%) of businesses said hackers had posed as company employees to deceive their ‘colleagues' into handing over information.
Malware on company devices: While AI-powered scams today grab the headlines, malware is still very much present and very much a threat. Many small businesses reported that viruses and spyware had been installed on company devices, enabling
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NEW RESOURCES UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World's First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. "Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an […]
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FastStream Video Player for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Waterfox replaces videos on websites with a custom player designed to play with minimal buffering. It uses automatic fragmentation and parallel requests to smoothen the playback experience. You can even download a clip while watching it with FastStream Video Player. [License: Open Source | Requires:
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Most professional chefs consider nonstick skillets niche pieces of cookware. Here are four things you should stop cooking in your nonstick skillet.
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The rocky rollout of the president's official presence on the social platform showcases the challenges he faces among younger people online.
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 iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max models in the U.S. feature an antenna window on the top edge of the devices, for mmWave 5G signals to pass through.
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NEW RESOURCES Free Press (North Macedonia): The "Macedonian State" digital library with over 150 years of Macedonian history begins operations. "The platform contains electronic books, historical documents and research covering more than […]
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