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Video Overview Notebooklm Featured

How to Create Video Overviews with Google’s NotebookLM

NotebookLM now comes with a Video Overviews feature designed to transform complex notes and study materials into simple, narrated video slides.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 29, 2025

NPD site on a Macbook.

Why You Need to Remove Your Data From NPD Now

Do you remember the massive NPD breach? The site is back and still has your data.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 28, 2025

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Google’s Salesforce Data Breach Made Affected Contacts Vulnerable — What To Do Next

Google’s Salesforce data has been recently stolen using a vishing (voice phishing) attack. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe.

By Karrar Haider – Aug 27, 2025

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Firefox Finally Brings Progressive Web Apps – How to Enable and Use Them Now

Firefox finally comes with PWAs support in the form of Taskbar Tabs. Here’s how to use it.

By Karrar Haider – Aug 26, 2025

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Delete This Verified VPN Chrome Extension Immediately

The FreeVPN.One Chrome extension doesn’t put your privacy first. Instead, it spies on you.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 22, 2025

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7 Ways to Secure Your PayPal Account After Possible Breach

With reports of a massive PayPal breach, now’s the time to secure your PayPal account.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 21, 2025

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How to Avoid Fake Phone Number Scams in AI Overviews

AI overviews and summaries are convenient, but blindly trusting them could lead you right to scammers.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 20, 2025

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11 Funny Chrome Extensions to Prank Your Friends

These will totally freak them out!

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 19, 2025

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Google Gemini Will Soon Remember Your Old Chats: Here’s How to Stop It

Google Gemini is svaing your past chats by default. The good thing is, you can disable it.

By Henderson Jayden Harper – Aug 19, 2025

Google search on phone and desktop.

How to Add Preferred Sources in Google Search

Now you can add preferred sources in Google search to see more from the sites and content providers you like best.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 14, 2025

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Why I Return to Brave After Trying Perplexity’s AI Comet Browser

I tried the Comet browser, and I can say with certainty that it is not quite there yet. I am better off sticking with Brave.

By Anurag – Aug 13, 2025

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How to Lock Tabs in Firefox on Android

Make the Private tab in Firefox even more private.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 13, 2025

Firefox Ai Feature Causes Cpu Spikes

Firefox AI Feature Causes CPU Spikes: Why Users Are Frustrated and How to Fix It

The latest Firefox 141 update shoehorned in an AI tab groupings feature, and causes CPU spikes that slow down browsing and drain the battery.

By Henderson Jayden Harper – Aug 12, 2025

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Don’t Like ChatGPT 5? Here’s How to Revert to GPT 4o

If ChatGT 5 isn’t exactly to your linking and you have a Plus account, check here how to make the switch back to ChatGPT 4o.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 11, 2025

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Seeing a Gray Screen in Google Chrome? Here’s How to Fix It

Many users are facing a gray screen in Chrome after the latest version 139 update due to a rendering bug. Thankfully, you can fix the issue with a little workaround.

By Karrar Haider – Aug 11, 2025

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Restore uBlock Origin on Chrome Despite Google’s Restrictions

Use this workaround to restore full uBlock Origin functionality on Chrome.

By Henderson Jayden Harper – Aug 10, 2025

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Create a Custom AI Storybook with Gemini – For Kids and Adults Alike

If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing your stories come to life, now’s your chance!

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 8, 2025

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What is Man-in-the-Prompt Attack and How to Protect Yourself

A new attack lets malicious actors hijack your instructions, causing the LLM to return misleading or harmful responses that steal data or deceive users.

By Karrar Haider – Aug 8, 2025

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PXA Stealer Targets Sensitive Data in Your Browser – Here’s How to Stay Safe

Having autofill turned on in your browser isn’t just convenient for you. It’s a goldmine for hackers too

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 5, 2025

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6 Tips to Make It Easier to Read Company Privacy Policies and Terms of Service

If you are having issue with the lengthy fine print, you just have to zero in on the parts that matter.

By Karrar Haider – Aug 4, 2025

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

Jun 15, 2026

Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

Jun 11, 2026

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Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Jun 10, 2026

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

Jun 10, 2026

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