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A small town figured out a way to help neighbors despite state law. The state of North Carolina told the town of Wilson they couldn’t sell high-speed internet service to nearby towns, so the town is providing access for free while appealing to the state General Assembly, according to Ars...

Have you ever “purchased” an ebook, mp3, or video only to found you can only access it on a certain number or type of devices, or that it must be played through a specific player, or only accessed when you’re connected to the internet? Maybe that’s the sort of thing you’d like to know before you...

2016 is proving to be the year of privacy debates between the tech world and the US government. In the latest clash, Microsoft has sued the US Government over the right to tell its users when federal agencies request access to private data. Reuters reports that Microsoft has opened a suit...

Microsoft is making its Wi-Fi service for Windows 10 official today. We’d heard the company was working on the service, but now Windows 10 testers will have access to try it out using the latest 10166 build. Microsoft Wi-Fi works by providing Windows 10 users the ability to purchase access to...

My son keeps messing with my desktop and settings. Is there any way to limit his access to those things? Ideally, I would like to prevent him from being able to delete things, stop him from downloading stuff and in general make him leave everything alone. I can't afford any expensive software...