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Many people assume a frozen, dim, or long-forgotten Kindle is finished, destined for a drawer or the recycling bin. In ...

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Learn how to transfer data from a Windows PC to a Mac using Migration Assistant. Follow this step-by-step guide for a ...

The SNES version of the USB cartridge slot can authenticate your carts and back up your games and save data.

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...

Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with NVentures (Nvidia’s venture arm), existing seed investor South Park Commons, and ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...