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| Your Google Data Is Getting the Auto-Delete Tool It Always Needed | Fast Company | While Google has spent years insisting that users are in control of their privacy, it’s never given users a way to wipe old data automatically. If you wanted to keep Google from building up a lifetime of personal information without opting out of personalized features entirely, you had to remind yourself to delete the data on your own. That’s about to change. | Collaboration Market Is Slack's to Lose, But Going Public Airs Struggles | CIO Dive | The temperament of the market is just half the battle. Slack needs paying customers to support its viability on the market and in the enterprise. | AWS, Microsoft, or Google: Which Cloud Computing Giant Is Growing the Fastest? | ZDNet | The cloud giants continue to surge ahead, but as customers get more sophisticated these tech companies will have to change their strategies. | Phishing and Security Keys | Medium | "Even highly targeted users like politicians and activists don’t fully appreciate the scourge of phishing, and many aren’t familiar with an emerging form of two-factor authentication known as 'security keys' that we hope can stop it in its tracks. To that end, here’s a brief primer adapted from my Twitter post on phishing, security keys, and online threats," writes Mark Risher, director of product management at Google. |
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| How to Manage Saved Passwords in Chrome | How-To Geek | Google Chrome comes with a handy password manager already built in. You can have your browser save and fill out passwords for different sites when you’re asked to sign in. Here’s how to manage all your saved passwords in Chrome. | How to Make the MacBook Pro Touch Bar More Useful: 4 Tips | MakeUseOf | The Touch Bar was a controversial addition to the MacBook Pro, and it’s a feature many Mac users ignore. A lot of people tend to forget that it’s there at all—until they curse the missing Escape key. But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can transform the Touch Bar from a forgotten strip above the keyboard to a useful tool you use every day. All it takes is a few tweaks. |
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