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These 10 Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts will boost your productivity

Keyboard shortcuts are efficiency’s greatest secret weapon. Yes, they can take a bit to learn and yes, sometimes you’ve got to—gasp!—take your hand off your mouse to reach all the keys.

But man, oh man, once you’ve mastered the best ones, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.

If you want to navigate Windows 11 faster, work smarter, and minimize unnecessary clicks, these are the 10 shortcuts worth memorizing.

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Have social media platforms rolled back the promises they made after George Floyd’s death?

Five years ago, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer after Floyd was suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill. His death ignited a series of protests in the United States that gave new energy to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and which seemed—at the time—to reshape society, online and offline.

As the protests that were born out of Floyd’s death reached their zenith in June 2020, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

This smart new internet speed test blows Ookla out of the water

These days, our tech experiences are all about speed—and our expectations for instant action are actually kinda insane.

Think about it: Not so long ago, phones, computers, and especially the internet were all painfully slow (at least, by today’s sonic-speed standards). Things have come a long way in a short time. And for most of us now, if something doesn’t load within a fraction of second, we grow impatient and maybe give up entirely—like when a webpage has the a

Use this Google Flights “anywhere” hack to see where you can travel on your budget 

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, marking the unofficial start of the summer vacation season in America. Yet, a recent Bankrate survey from late April found that only 46% of Americans plan to travel domestically or internationally this summer, with costs cited as the primary concern. Dwindling U.S. consumer confidence

Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack

Want to watch history being preserved in real time?

The Internet Archive, the digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts, has started 

What’s actually driving the protein boom?

There’s a quiet transformation underway in how we eat. It’s not being led by chefs, influencers, or climate activists. It’s being driven by a new class of pharmaceuticals that are changing the way millions of people relate to food itself.

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy work by altering hunger signals in the brain. These medications don’t just help people feel full sooner. They are reshaping consumption patterns across the board. When hunger changes, everything from portion siz

‘Bro invented soup’: People are rolling their eyes at the water-based cooking trend on TikTok

On TikTok, soup is getting a rebrand. It’s now water-based cooking, to you.

“Pov you started water based cooking and now your skin is clear, your stomach is thriving and you recover from illness overnight,” one TikTok post 

9 of the most out there things Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just said about AI

You may not have heard of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, but he’s one of a handful of people responsible for the current AI boom. As VP of Research at OpenAI, Amodei helped discover the scaling laws that project how much smarter an AI gets when given increasing amounts of computing power. He holds PhDs in physics and neuroscience and is probably a genius. Amodei, who left OpenAI in 2021 to found Anthropic, which claims to be a more safety-conscious AI company

Sorry, Google and OpenAI: The future of AI hardware remains murky

2026 may still be more than seven months away, but it’s already shaping up as the year of consumer AI hardware. Or at least the year of a flurry of high-stakes attempts to put generative AI at the heart of new kinds of devices—several of which were in the news this week.

Let’s review. On Tuesday, at its I/O developer conference keynote, Google demonstrated

Elon Musk is using his Grok chatbot at DOGE to analyze sensitive data belonging to millions of Americans

Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on million


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