I’m sure by now you’ve read an article or three about the best free cloud storage services. But unless you’re in a constant state of digital paring, you’ll quickly find out that no free storage service can actually house all your files.
And it’s when you start to look at paid plans across the popular storage players that things get interesting.
If we can agree that $10 a month is a reasonable outlay to back up your important files, here’
After a year of private beta testing, DuckDuckGo has made its email privacy tools available to everyone, so you can keep your real email address hidden and minimize tracking by marketers.
DuckDuckGo offers two main ways of protecting email privacy:
- Anti-tracking: Get a duck.com email address (mine’s

Two electrifying moves in recent weeks have the potential to ignite electric vehicle demand in the United States. First, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, expanding federal tax rebates for EV purchases. Then
In May 2022, the largest locust infestation in a quarter century descended on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, stripping 19,305 square miles of grazing land. With another swarm predicted for September (the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere), farmers in the vast 65,238-square-mile province have joined
Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the northern U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in the southern U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, sometimes covering thousands of mile
How many times have you heard your colleagues bemoan the tech habits of younger team members? How many times have you heard teachers or parents talk about how “kids today can’t pay attention” because their attention is the length of a TikTok video? It is easy to look at adolescents’ social media and texting practices in particular and shake your head at the drama without really understanding the intensity of coming of age in such a hyper-connected world, which comp
Last week, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Space Force, and the Air Force Research Laboratory released their fourth annual joint report on the state of the space industrial base.
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Listening to minimalist music helps me get into a working groove. In this post I’m sharing some of my favorite free listening resources. They don’t require you to register, download or buy anything.
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Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in July 2022, accusing the microblogging platform company of serious security failings. The accusations amplified the ongoing drama of Twitter’s
Facebook executives began hyping the term “metaverse” in 2021. That same year, Facebook even rebranded around the tech concept. But for mixed-reality tech, it’s still early innings, and some of the companies that will pl