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You can kick the alpha tires on System76’s Cosmic, a new Linux desktop
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It’s not worth paying to be removed from people-finder sites, study says
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Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release
Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. Samuel Axon After a 14-year journey of various states of availability and usefulness amid the shifting policies of Apple’s App Store approval process, MS-DOS game emulator iDOS is back on the iPhone and iPad. It’s hopefully here to stay this time. iDOS allows you to run…
Report: Apple’s external DVD drive is up burning discs in dongle heaven
Enlarge / Apple’s external DVD-burning SuperDrive may be fading away. Apple Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack. Mid-2010s MacBooks and MacBook Pros came with USB-A ports. And the…
