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9 ways to use Windows 7 (safely) when support ends
With Microsoft's support ending in January, our Windows 7 Survival Guide for 2020 offers ways to protect your older machines that can't or won't be upgraded.
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DiversyFund makes real estate investment accessible to everyone

Few investment opportunities are as lucrative as real estate. By buying low, renovating, and selling when the time is right, investors have the potential to make millions of dollars in profit. Unfortunately, this practice is typically reserved for the ultra-wealthy since buying a single property let alone building a real estate portfolio requires more than most of us have lying around. The good news for the 99% is that financial tech company, DiversyFund, is on a mission to change that. With DiversyFund, anyone can participate in building a diversified real estate portfolio, and all you need is $500 to get started.

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Apple will be the catalyst for North America5G adoption

Repeat after me: You&re only late to a party if you arrive after everyone else & but if you get there before the event is set-up, you&ll be in the way. 5G adoption during the next 12 to 24 months is going to be a little like that.

The 5G party hasn&t started

A motley collection of devices and a small number of 5G mast deployments in a limited number of locations does not a universally available service make.Adoption of new standards & no matter how exciting takes time.

It also takes services.

This is why the most recent GSMA report predicts it will be 2025 before 5G accounts for 46% of global connections, up from a paltry 1% this year and a tiny 4% in 2020.

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Windows 10: It's complicated

It was a far, far simpler time. There was just the one iPad. Iron Man was only up to 2. And Windows 7 scratched its way onto about a quarter of all Windows PCs.

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Master of disguise

Itabout 20 years ago, and this pilot fish travels around the U.S. demonstrating his companynetwork computer at trade shows.

&The device,& says fish, &was basically a dumb terminal connected to a PC server instead of a mainframe, and therefore capable of serving up Windows and web applications. Since the product was small and easy to miss, I would always attach an impressive 17-inch LCD flat-screen monitor that retailed for $2,000.&

In 1998, most people have never seen a flat-screen monitor, so conference attendees regularly flock to fishbooth at the exhibit hall. After answering a few basic questions about the display, fish would shift customers& attention to the network computer beside it and go into his spiel. The approach works every time, until fish works a government industry conference in Washington, D.C.

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Hundreds Of People Share Stories About Falling Down YouTubeRecommendation Rabbit Hole
YouTube's algorithm is designed to keep you watching for as long as possible, even if that means pushing out increasingly extreme content for you to binge.
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