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How to troubleshoot someone else’s computer remotely

If you read IMR, then you probably know your tech, and so it’s likely that you’re sometimes asked to help troubleshoot computer issues by friends, family, and / or neighbors. It can be something as simple as just turning on the Wi-Fi or as complicated as having to update a BIOS. Whatever’s wrong, it’s much harder to sort out …

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Samsung launches SmartThings Family Care

Family Care is similar to Amazon’s paid offering, Alexa Together, which the company quietly discontinued earlier this year. Samsung’s service leverages the smart devices in a person’s home and applies artificial intelligence to determine their daily patterns and send alerts to a caregiver if abnormalities are detected — for example, it can send a notification when there’s been activity in …

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Annual inflation rate slows to 2.9%, lowest since 2021

Signs reading, ‘please bear with us: we are currently experiencing interruptions in our supply chain which may affect the availability of certain products,’ is seen taped to the drive-up menu at a Wendy’s restaurant on May 06, 2020 in Miami, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation rose as expected in July, driven by higher housing-related …

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