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Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Windows has a hidden backup tool in Windows 10 and 11. It can save files to discs, drives, or network locations. Deprecated by Microsoft, so expect occasional errors. Regularly backing up your files is always a good idea, just in case any important or irreplaceable ones go missing. For …

A group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades by developing a new gene-editing tool that can precisely manipulate millions of base pairs – the building blocks of DNA. The innovation has been hailed as “very significant progress” by Professor Yin Hao, a gene editing specialist at Wuhan University’s medical research institute, who was not …

Schager/Shutterstock If your idea of racing games is based on Pole Position or Hard Drivin’, you’ll be shocked at how much modern sim racing is like jacking into the Matrix. In my office I have a VR headset, Logitech steering wheel, gated shifter, and a gaming PC more powerful than the holodeck …

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Keep is starting to roll out a new sort feature in its Android app. You can now sort notes by custom order, date created, or date modified. The update appears to be rolling out in version 5.25.302.02.90, but it may not be widely available just yet. Google Keep is one of those apps …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a region known as Wallacea. Located beyond mainland Southeast Asia, Wallacea includes a group of islands between Asia and Australia, among which Sulawesi is the largest. Previously, researchers have …

Back in February we told you about Ludocene, a forthcoming project that was setting out to become the perfect game recommendation machine. And crucially, it was aiming to do this via human curation, rather than any ghastly AI. Well, following a successful Kickstarter and the gathering of a wide selection of gaming experts, it’s out today. Combining a dating app …

Your Gmail inbox is probably drowning in subscription emails right now. Shopping deals, newsletters, app notifications, and promotional messages pile up faster than you can delete them. Gmail’s subscription management tool changes that by giving you a central hub to see exactly which senders are flooding your inbox and how often they’re doing it. Instead of hunting through individual emails …

When clinicians talk to patients about preventing heart disease, they typically describe risk in dry percentages such as “eight out of 100 people like you may have a heart attack in the next decade.” Many Americans find that hard to grasp – and the numbers do not always move them to action. A research team at Northwestern University Feinberg School …

At first glance, a three-hand, time-and-date watch feels wildly out of place in Seiko’s Speedtimer collection, home of its most storied chronographs. Upon closer inspection, one detail connects the dots, and it is something you don’t often see from the Japanese masters of horology. The SPB513 and SPB515 have inner rotating bezels with a countdown scale. Seiko The new SPB513 …

The Google Photos editing suite is often evolving, but for many users, the perspective correction tool has recently vanished. Available for years at this point, the perspective correction tool in Google Photos has allowed users finer control over their photo. While the tool can be tricky to use, it’s a handy part of the editing suite as a whole as …