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Gavin Phillips-Technology Explained Section Editor

Gavin Phillips

Technology Explained Section Editor

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About Gavin Phillips

Gavin is the Technology Explained Section Editor, co-host on the Really Useful Podcast, and a frequent product reviewer. He has a degree in Contemporary Writing pillaged from the hills of Devon, and more than a decade of professional writing experience. He enjoys copious amounts of tea, board games, and football.

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What Does the Windows 10 "Creators Update" Do for Security?

What can we expect in the upcoming Windows 10 "Creators Update," set to arrive in early 2017? Where is the security boost coming from? Let's cast a security minded-eye over Windows 10 Build 1703.

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Themes Are Coming to the Windows Store: How to Get Them Now!

Windows 10 themes are coming to the Windows Store. Right now, Windows Insiders can only preview them. However, we'll show you a workaround that allows you to actually use the new Windows Store themes.

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Why Is Global Cyber Security Confidence Falling?

Do you trust cyber security in all its manifestations? Has there been a general decline in global cyber security confidence? And if so, how can that trust be regained?

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OnlyOffice: An Open Source Microsoft Office Contender Worth Your Time

Are you searching for a Microsoft Office alternative? OpenOffice is free, open source, cross-platform, and feature-rich. Let's see if it suits your office suite requirements.

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How Doxing Continues to Be a Threat to Online Privacy

Disregarding online privacy can lead to your personal details being shared online. This is known as "doxing" and can be an extremely painful experience. How can you stop doxing from happening to you?

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Web of Trust Data Breach: Accident or Money-Grab?

The Web of Trust browser extension has been silently and forcibly removed by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Did the popular privacy and security extension collecting and sell your data to third-parties?

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Do Insurance Companies Breach Your Privacy?

Insurance companies use increasingly invasive tactics to investigate and verify a potential claim, keeping fraudulent and other malicious claims low. How far do they go? Is it too far? And most importantly, is it legal?

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How Social Media Platforms Battle Extremists

Social media networks present a powerful tool to terrorist groups, primarily for propaganda and recruitment. So what are Facebook and Twitter doing about this? How can social networks combat terrorism?

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Crime, Terrorism, and Security: The Dark Side of Social Media

Social media isn't just cat memes and prank videos. Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr users can just as easily run into darker material distributed by technologically-skilled terrorist groups. What should you do about it?

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Zombie Mods Turn These Games Into Halloween Nightmares

Want to stay in and game on Halloween night? These eight mods will turn your favorite games into zombie-infested nightmares!

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Free Bitcoins: Fact or Fiction?

Free bitcoins -- they sound too good to be true, but are they? We did some research to find out if you can get free bitcoins, how many, and how hard they are to come by.

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Compete to Be the Excel World Champion: Pass the Trials This Week

Microsoft launched the Excel World Championship this week. We show you how you can qualify to compete. Pass the trials with our tips!

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Yahoo Messenger and 6 More Windows IM Apps Still Kicking Around

The rise of chat rooms and instant messengers was a hallmark of the early internet. These tools continue to define our everyday virtual interactions. Do you know which of the pioneers are still around?

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How to Make a Slideshow in Windows

If you want to share your photos with the world, a slideshow is just what you need. Here's everything you need to know to create the perfect slideshow.

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Yahoo! We Lost Your Data! Two Years Ago...

Web giant Yahoo has suffered an enormous data breach. The breach, which took place in 2014, resulted in the information of 500 million Yahoo users being offered for sale on the dark web.

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When Governments Attack: Nation-State Malware Exposed

A cyberwar is taking place right now, hidden by the internet, its results rarely observed. But who are the players in this theater of war, and what are their weapons?

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This Windows Bug May Have Accumulated Junk Files on Your PC

Junk files could accumulate on your Windows computer and take up precious drive space. We show you how to fix the Windows bug that's causing this issue.

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3 Essential Security Terms You Need to Understand

Confused by encryption? Baffled by OAuth, or petrified by Ransomware? Let's brush up on some of the most commonly used security terms, and exactly what they mean.

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Xbox Play Anywhere Brings Console Titles to Your Windows 10 PC

Xbox One titles come to Windows 10 courtesy of the Xbox Play Anywhere service! Find out how it works, what games you can buy, and what the future holds for Xbox and Windows.

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Pegasus Vulnerability Means It's Time to Patch Your Apple Device

Just received an unexpected iOS update? It's a response to the Pegasus spyware: actual iPhone malware. We explain what it's all about, whether you're a target, and why you should update.

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