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In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...

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There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...

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Microsoft says it has resolved a Windows 11 bug that caused some commercial systems to fail to boot with an "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error after installing recent ...

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