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| Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the Galaxy Fold, Available April 26th Starting at $1,980 | The Verge | Samsung first teased its foldable phone back in November, and at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event, it’s further detailing its foldable plans. Samsung’s foldable now has a name, the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and the company is revealing more about what this unique smartphone can do. | A Third of All Chrome Extensions Request Access to User Data on Any Site | ZDNet | Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don't have a privacy policy. (With BetterCloud, you can view permission scores for third-party apps that users have installed within your domain, and then revoke or approve access.) | Google Play Apps With >10 Million Installs Drain Batteries, Jack Up Data Charges | Ars Technica | Is your Android phone feeling hot to the touch, acting sluggish, in need of frequent charges, or using dramatically more data than it used to? It may be a victim of DrainerBot, a major fraud operation distributed through Google Play apps with more than 10 million downloads, researchers said Wednesday. | Verizon Plans to Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network in 30 Cities This Year | Engadget | At Samsung's Unpacked event Wednesday, it emerged Verizon is getting a short-term exclusive on Samsung's first 5G phone, the Galaxy S10 5G. To make sure people can use the handset and other 5G phones as intended, the provider plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in 30 US cities this year. |
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| Android Apps for Chromebooks: The Essentials | Computerworld | Turn your Chromebook into a uniquely versatile modern computing machine with these Chrome-OS-enhancing apps. | How to Build a PowerPoint Organizational Chart With Excel Data | How-To Geek | Building an organizational chart in Excel makes sense because it’s easy to pull data from sources like other Excel documents or Outlook. When it comes time to show off that chart, you’ll probably want to use PowerPoint, though. Fortunately, bringing the Excel chart over to PowerPoint is fairly simple. |
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| 6 Ways to Equip Your Phishing Tackle Box | CSO | Like many of the threats in cybersecurity, using a comprehensive and business-driven approach to reveal risk can help you focus your efforts on what matters most. |
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| Easily Copy Your Gmail Holds to Hangouts Chat in Google Vault | G Suite Updates | Beginning on April 16, 2019, Mail retention rules and holds will stop protecting chat messages in classic Hangouts. Instead, Hangouts Chat retention rules and holds will protect chat messages in both classic Hangouts and Chat. Google is launching a new feature in Vault to help you copy your holds from Mail to Hangouts Chat, with a few clicks. |
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