The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...

Before the Crisis: How You and Your Relatives Can Prepare for Financial Caregiving

Beth Pinsker is a Certified Financial Planner®, a columnist for MarketWatch, and the author of My Mother's Money: A Guide to ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS wasn't supposed to be there — meet the astronomer who discovered it

Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During ...

How the RESISTORS Put Computing into 1960s Counter-culture

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...
Western Michigan University

Lessons in language: Mastering Japanese, computer engineering opens doors for WMU grad

When he graduated high school, Braasch enrolled at Kalamazoo Valley Community College to pursue an associate degree in ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Is spyware hiding on your PC? Here’s how to uncover it

Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you ...

Friday Night Lights: How Bixby team secretary Tori Chambers keeps a powerhouse running

Meet Bixby team secretary Tori Chambers, the behind-the-scenes organizer whose organization, care and culture-building keep ...

U.S. college athletics remain the closest thing sport has to a lawless frontier

But in U.S. college sports, cheating – even the most ridiculous sort – is just part of it. It has become the closest thing ...
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LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it

Somewhere between a cover version and a loving homage of the interface that helped shape the modern desktop LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the ...

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...
Racine County Eye on MSN

Homeland Security wants state driver’s license data for sweeping citizenship program

The Trump administration wants access to state driver’s license data on millions of U.S. residents as it builds a powerful ...