How to Make Sure Information on Your Old Computer Is Really, Truly Deleted
It isn’t as simple as pressing ‘delete’ and emptying the Trash. Here’s a step-by-step guide. (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal
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Fast Company
iOS 18.1 will fix a bug that made it harder to free up iPhone storage
Wiped out by the iOS 18 upgrade, the ‘Review Personal Videos’ feature returns as the best tool to find and zap storage-hogging files that you can live without. (Read on Fast Company)
Wall Street Journal
How to Kill ‘Zombie’ Accounts to Protect Your Security and Privacy
You may have forgotten about these ‘zombie’ accounts, but their servers haven’t—leaving your information vulnerable to hackers. (Wall Street Journal)… Read the rest
Fast Company
EV battery fires are on the rise. They’re also totally preventable
There are ways to make e-bike and e-scooter batteries safer, from technological innovations to common sense storage techniques. (Fast Company)… Read the rest
Worth Magazine
AI-Generated Art Still Needs a Human Touch
Dall-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion produce impressive images on command, but perfecting them requires patient, skilled tending. (Read on Worth.)… Read the rest
Wall Street Journal
Little-Known Tips for Working Smarter With Your Office Software
You may think you know all there is to know about Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Excel, PowerPoint, Gmail, Outlook and other apps. But you probably don’t. (Read on Wall Street Journal)… Read the rest
Tom's Guide
The 3 best AI synthetic video generators you can use today — tested and compared
What Midjourney did for still images and ChatGPT did for writing, a new crop of apps is aiming to do for video — spitting out animated clips based just on a prompt. (read more on Tom’s Guide)… Read the rest
Wall Street Journal
How AI Will Change the Workplace
We asked some top thinkers from different fields to weigh in on what’s ahead, as the AI explosion compels businesses to rethink, well, almost everything (Wall Street Journal)… Read the rest
Wall Street Journal
The 25 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Now That ChatGPT Is Here
Society has to figure out which tasks AI is best for, and how to use it without breaking things. That’s especially tricky when we’re still trying to figure out what the technology can even do. (Read more on The Wall Street Journal)… Read the rest
Fast Company
How to leverage your skills to land jobs on LinkedIn
If you’re looking for a position, or just open to offers, highlighting your skills on LinkedIn plays a critical role. (Fast Company)… Read the rest