If Your Laptop Checks Any Of These Boxes, It Could Be Obsolete In 2026

You might think your laptop is old but reliable, only to find that it suddenly became obsolete in 2026. Here's what you need ...
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Don't Blink: How I Chased the Soon-to-Vanish 3I/ATLAS Comet With a Smart Telescope

I've taken incredible photos of this interstellar comet for more than a month using two tiny iPad-connected scopes in my ...
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Yes, your expensive wireless headphones sound worse on Windows — here's why

Windows 11 still uses old Bluetooth codecs that reduce audio quality to enable microphone use, but there's a fix.
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I replaced the Windows volume mixer with this app and it's so much better

In Windows, audio routing feels like an afterthought. To change your audio output, you must click the tiny sound output icon ...
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Rethinking the rhythm: Strictly’s state-of-the-art sound room upgrade

Sound supervisor Andy Tapley details the ambitious overhaul of the sound control room at Elstree Studios, delivering a ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...