SEATTLE — The National Labor Relations Board notified two women fired by Amazon last year that it will pursue unfair labor practices claims against the company unless it settles. A lawyer for the agency notified the fired workers — Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who both worked on user experience design at the e-commerce giant […]
After long last, iPhone owners are now able to get a piece of a settlement linked to a class-action lawsuit against Apple’s throttling of devices with older batteries. Users can submit a form to claim roughly $ 25 per device from the company’s proposed settlement. In March, Apple agreed to a preliminary settlement of up […]
Enlarge / Although an undeletion utility may occasionally save your bacon, it’s never been a good idea to rely on one. AFP via Getty Images / Benjamin Esham / Jim Salter Although it isn’t yet built into Windows, Microsoft has finally released its own file undelete tool—it’s called Windows File Recovery, and it works with […]
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is planning to file antitrust charges against Google as early as this summer, said two people with knowledge of the situation, in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s. The Justice Department is still investigating the internet company and has […]
While it’s typical to put off filing your taxes for as long as humanly possible, filing them on time is still something you should do if you don’t want to risk paying late penalties or exuberant interest costs on top of what you might owe. You can even potentially lose your refund after three years […]
Enlarge / Google offers a suite of cloud collaboration services, but Drive is at the heart of it all. Google Soon, Google will add one of the most commonly requested features to its Drive file hosting, sharing, and collaboration service: shortcuts. These will allow users to create pointers to files from either the same drive […]
This is what Dropbox looks like now. It used to be a folder, now it’s a file manager. Ron Amadeo You can make the Dropbox icon open with your normal file manager by changing this option in the Dropbox preferences. Ron Amadeo MacOS users get this lovely new dock icon every single time they reboot […]
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview that removes a feature: Friendly Dates in File Explorer. The update bumps Windows 10 from build 18885 (made available to testers on April 26) to build 18890. These builds are from the 20H1 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update that will arrive in the first half […]
Supported by Uber Is Said to File for an I.P.O. as It Races Lyft to a Public Debut ImageDara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of Uber, which is racing its rival Lyft to the public markets.CreditCreditBrendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Mike Isaac, Kate Conger and Erin Griffith Dec. 7, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — Uber […]
Just because your co-worker sent you a PDF file — instead of the Excel document you wanted — doesn’t mean you have to stick with it. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to convert a PDF into an Excel document using a few quick and easy steps. We’ll even teach you a few different […]
PDFs are great when you’re trying to send out a form or rules for a game, but sometimes you really need to make a few changes without going back to the source document. Thankfully, there are a couple of ways to quickly change your PDF files into easy-to-update Word documents before saving and redistributing them. […]
Ooooh, I like new things! What’s so “Special!” about this new Zelda? That’s… not the usual starting screen. It’s dangerous to go alone. Take all of this stuff! Best read in a Robin Leach voice. Subscribers to Nintendo’s paid Switch Online service got an unexpected surprise today. Alongside the expected released of three new downloadable […]
Typical compression schemes strip data away from files, and when it comes to photos, the results are often splotches, color banding, and other unpleasant artifacts. Try this experiment: Take a snapshot with your smartphone and upload it to Facebook or Twitter. Download the uploaded (and now compressed) image from the web and compare it to […]
Enlarge / Adding an SMB location to Files. François Beaufort Chrome OS 70 will include native support for SMB file shares (spotted by Paul Thurrott), giving it built-in access to files stored on Windows servers. With this, Chrome OS users can add SMB file shares to the Files app and use them to store and […]