You get an ad for a free game that looks fun or an offer for music streaming at no cost. Awesome! Except when it's not. Cybercriminals are carefully hiding malware in copycat websites designed to trick you into thinking you've landed on the real thing. Read on for some ways to spot the fakes.

Starting up your computer shouldn't take more than a few seconds. If you have enough time to drain your morning cup of coffee, you might have too many apps launching on startup. Stop dealing with it and switch up your settings now while you're thinking about it. Here's how to do so on Windows and macOS.

There's not much worse than when the power goes out and you're in the middle of a project. It's stressful if you don't know when you'll be back up and running, not to mention the hours of work you can lose if you haven't saved recently. That's why an uninterrupted power supply, or UPS, is such a good investment. It gives you time to save work, close programs, or finish work projects uninterrupted — even when the power goes out.

When you run a business, every dollar counts. Don't go wasting your money on things you can get for free instead. From software to shipping materials to online learning, we rounded up some of the best freebies out there. Happy saving!

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Does your printer have enough ink for another year of work reports and tax forms? If you print a lot or wish you could print a lot without worrying about ink, it’s important to have the right printer.

Epson is changing the game with its cartridge-free EcoTank printers that have supersized easy-to-fill ink tanks and come with a ridiculous amount of ink — enough to print thousands of pages! EcoTank makes it easy, so make the switch today.

You're never too young to invent something amazing. A 23-year-old student just won $35,000 for developing an in-home, reusable breast cancer screening device.

After Judit Giró Benet's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to find the biological code for detecting cancer. That’s when she started working on the Blue Box, which she hopes will help women around the world.

"I believed this device is something that the world needed. I refused to stop until the world told me otherwise," she told TechNewsWorld.