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If you’ve ever used a VPN you’ve likely come across the term “dedicated IP address.” But what exactly is a dedicated IP address, and do you need one?

With a typical shared VPN connection, many users are all connected to a server with the same IP address. A dedicated IP address on the other hand, is a fixed IP that is used only by you

It’s strange that while 4K resolution rapidly became ubiquitous in televisions, showing up even in the cheapest Walmart TVs stacked by the door, it’s still considered a premium feature for computer monitors. Well if you’ve been looking for a 4K upgrade on the cheap, Acer has your back. Today Amazon is listing a 28-inch 4K monitor

OLED monitors are the cream of the crop when it comes to gaming, and Samsung makes one of the biggest, widest ones out there. The Odyssey OLED G9 is 49 inches of super-saturated, perfect-black glory, but it doesn’t come cheap, with a regular retail price of $1799. But today Amazon is

Cookies aren’t just something sites have to annoy you about every single #$%&ing time you visit them because of the GDPR. They’re one of the most basic ways for sites to identify specific users, for better and worse. Stealing and spoofing those cookies is a popular vector for identity theft attacks, which is why the latest Chrome update tries to keep them

Microsoft not only introduces new features or programs with Windows updates, it also removes obsolete functions.

Many people don’t notice this until they need a specific feature or the outdated program. One example is WordPad, which will soon be removed from Windows, or Windows-to-Go and the Homegroup.

Starting a career in IT can be a difficult road. There are several certifications you need to earn, depending on the field you want to go into, and passing each exam can feel like a herculean chore. Fortunately,

Sometimes, you don’t want people to know your real phone number. Buying something on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, calling work clients from your personal phone — it often feels much better to have a private line. Fortunately, you don’t need to get a new phone, you can just add a Hushed Private Phone Line for an extra 20 percent discount throu

When Qualcomm showed off its benchmarks of its new Snapdragon X Elite chips last October, there was one flaw in its argument: Qualcomm was comparing the new Snapdragon platform to Intel’s older 13th-gen Core chips. That’s been fixed. Now Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon X Elite is faster than Intel’s 14th-gen Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) too.