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| | | | | What Is Intel Evo? A Recipe for the Most Portable, Longest-Lasting Laptops | | PCMag | Alongside Intel’s announcement of its 11th generation “Tiger Lake” mobile processors, the chip giant today also outlined its Intel Evo initiative. Formerly "Project Athena," Evo sketches out a blueprint for what the company deems the ideal premium laptop, based on extensive research into how users employ their machines and people's big pinch points. | | How to Audit, Improve & Enhance Your BetterCloud Workflows | | BetterCloud Monitor | We surveyed a variety of BetterCloud product experts to find the answers to these questions. Here’s what they had to say (spoiler: They had very strong convictions on the importance of auditing your BetterCloud workflows and tips for doing so effectively). | | AlphaBay Dark Web Moderator Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison | | Engadget | Bryan Connor Herrell, a 26-year-old man from Colorado who served as a moderator for AlphaBay, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. His is the latest AlphaBay-related case to come to a close after authorities seized what was once the dark web’s biggest marketplace for guns, drugs and stolen identities and financial data. | | Microsoft Defender Can Ironically Be Used to Download Malware | | BleepingComputer | In a recent Microsoft Defender update, the command-line MpCmdRun.exe tool has been updated to download malicious files from a remote location. With this new feature, Microsoft Defender is now part of the long list of Windows programs that can be abused by local attackers. | | OneDrive for Android Now Lets Consumers Add Comments to Non-Office Files | | OnMSFT | Microsoft is expanding the way people can comment on OneDrive files. As detailed in a post on the Microsoft OneDrive Blog, the company has extended OneDrive’s mobile commenting functionality to support non-Office file types. The update has already gone live in the latest version of OneDrive for Android. | | Windows 10 Is Getting a New Touch Keyboard With GIFs, Emoji, and Better Voice Typing | | The Verge | Microsoft is planning to release some significant changes to its built-in touch keyboard for Windows 10. The updated touch keyboard design builds on the company’s work with Windows 10X, bringing new key press animations, sounds, and all the all-important ability to search for and insert animated GIFs. |
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| | | How to Organize Your Notebooks With OneNote | | MakeUseOf | A OneNote notebook is the main container for notes you capture within the app. It's like a specialized folder, but with its own interface and unique tools. You can put notes anywhere within a notebook, and sync them across your devices. | | How to Make a Dot Grid Paper Template in Microsoft Word | | How-To Geek | From bulleted journals for personal planning, to graph paper for designing complex mathematical charts, dot grid paper has many uses. If you don’t have any on hand, though, you can create a dot grid paper template in Microsoft Word. |
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| | | Quickly Add a Contact Into a Gmail Message on Android | | G Suite Updates | Gmail users on Android can now automatically add a contact to the “To” line of an email by typing "+" or “@” in the body of the email and then choosing the contact's name from the list that appears. |
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