August 19, 2026

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Microsoft to end support for Office 2021 this year

It’s official: Microsoft is terminating future support for its popular Office 2021 suite of productivity applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While the computing giant claims that your apps “may continue to function,” it also warns of exposure to “serious and potentially harmful security risks” if you continue using their now unsupported software after Oct.

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I Found 29 Early Prime Day Deals That Are Worth Shopping Now (2026)

The Typhur Dome 2 is the best air fryer you can buy. Sure, it looks like a flying saucer from a bad 1960s movie, but it will crisp your wings, bake your pizza, and gently golden brown your fries like no other. The griddle function is even capable of actual Maillard browning to chops and

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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish is stressed out? It’s a

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5 Best Self-Hosted Photo-Video Gallery Options

Cloud photo storage is convenient, but it is not always the best fit if you want more control over privacy, storage costs, backups, or how your media library is organized. Self-hosted photo and video galleries let you store, manage, and share your media from your own server, NAS, or hosting environment instead of relying entirely

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NYT Pips hints, answers for June 20, 2026

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to

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Home Batteries: How They’re Installed and How Much They Cost

With electricity costs soaring, home batteries have never looked so attractive. Whether you want to store the excess generated by your solar panels or simply buy electricity at the cheapest possible rate to use later when power is most expensive, a home battery can help. It’s never been easier to get a home battery installed,

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He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as ubiquitous as his open source video software. Convinced that “hundreds of millions of robots and drones” will

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24B Records Exposed in Massive Leak of Emails, Passwords, and Login Data

A massive collection of stolen login credentials containing roughly 24 billion records was briefly exposed online, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews. Researchers say the publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster contained usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, and login URLs linked to a wide range of online services. The database was taken offline after its discovery, but

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Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on June 20, 2026

The Moon continues to get more illuminated each night as we work through the lunar cycle. Can you see anything tonight? Keep reading to find out what you might see. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Saturday, June 20, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent. Tonight, 44% of the moon will be be lit

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The Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2026: Compare the Air, Pro, Mini

Which Apple Pencil Should You Buy? Photograph: Julian Chokkattu The Apple Pencil is a must-have for any iPad owner who takes a lot of notes or likes to draw. (You can even use it to sign documents.) iPadOS also has handwriting support within certain search fields and apps (like Notes), so you don’t need to

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