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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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Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful Open Source multiplatform source code editor for your desktop. Visual Studio Code can be utilized to build Web applications and cloud programs and users will notice the functionality is similar to that of Visual Studio but with some additional features including multiple compiling utilities. [License: Open Source | Requires:
11|10|8|7|Linux|macOS | Size: 87-237 MB ]
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Code Verify is a Chrome extension developed to verify the code running in your browser matches what was released. A simple non-intrusive way to stay safe while using WhatsApp. [License: Freeware | Requires:
11|10|8|7|Linux|macOS | Size: Size Varies ]
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 Apple is planning to release a fix for an iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro camera bug that causes black boxes and white squiggles to appear in photos. CNN Underscored's Henry Casey discovered the issue in an iPhone Air review when snapping photos at a concert.
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At its annual developer conference on Wednesday, Meta showed several new smart glasses, which have been a surprise hit for the company.
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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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Sorry, but you're going to want a pair whether you know it or not.
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Meta's AR glasses, available Sept. 30 for $799, have a neural wristband and a wide range of AI and app functions. They dream big, but their future is unclear.
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 iOS 26 includes a new Home app feature called Adaptive Temperature, which is designed to adjust the thermostat automatically when you leave the house or arrive back home.
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One eVTOL caught fire while the other was reportedly fine.
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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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Apple's iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max pack a new design, upgraded camera, refreshed display and larger battery.
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Hyperscape Capture, a new app for existing Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets, can scan your space in minutes. It's available now.
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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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Apple's AI tech doesn't advance much in the company's new system updates, so if you're not using the features, you can disable all or some of them.
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With it being a mandatory update, the Windows Update system will periodically keep trying to install the update even if users have declined, reports Windows Latest. That's obviously a repetitive nuisance if the update won't properly install for whatever reason.
Windows Latest has compiled a list of the various error codes that can crop up during installation of the September update, including 0x800F0991, 0x800F0922, 0x80071A2D, 0x800F081F, 0x80070302, 0x80070306, and 0x8000FFFF.
In addition, some users are saying the update takes a lot longer to download than these monthly updates usually take, although that could just be due to the fact that this particular update is larger.
Normally, it's possible to get around Windows update installation problems by circumventing Windows Update altogether and manually installing an update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. However, with update KB5065426, even this method is throwing errors for some.
According to Windows Latest, the only workaround for this issue right now is to use the Media Creation
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 More than three years after Apple Ginza moved to a temporary location, the store is set to return to its original home in Tokyo's famous shopping district.
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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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