Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years

A Windows hacker has found a never-before-seen Easter egg in the Windows 95 Internet Mail application, twenty-five years after the software was released.

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New Satellite Images Show Earth's Latest Gigantic Iceberg

Behold A-74, an enormous iceberg that broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica late last month. Here’s what we know about the new ‘berg and what could happen next. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey reported the birth of the new iceberg on Feb.

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Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon Sound' aims to boost wireless audio quality

Just days after it unveiled its project to bring advanced haptics to Android, Qualcomm has announced another ambitious venture aimed at bridging the gaps in device performance.

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Google promises to stop selling your browsing history to advertisers

In brief: Google explicitly says that when it phases out tracking cookies in two years, it will not be building an alternative tracking system. It insists that going forward it is focusing on more privacy-friendly ways for advertisers to serve relevant ads to users.

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Microsoft: Chinese Cyberspies Used 4 Exchange Server Flaws to Plunder Emails

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug four critical security holes that attackers have been using to plunder email communications at companies that use its Exchange Server products.

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover uses the same CPU as Apple's iMac from 1998

Editor's take: Conventional wisdom would suggest that when sending a robot to explore another planet, you’d want to outfit it with the latest and greatest technology available to maximize its potential. As it turns out, that wasn’t a top priority for NASA.

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Merck Will Help Johnson & Johnson Make Its New Covid-19 Vaccine With Biden Push

Johnson & Johnson is getting some help to make their newly available covid-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to step in and produce some of J&J’s vaccines, in order to address a potential shortfall in supply.

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Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 is now available with Windowing improvements, more

Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 is here and it comes new features including Windowing improvements, JSON fragment extensions support, read-only panes, and more as detailed by a recent blog post by Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft.

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