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Using AI to spot mail fraud

The world, as I am frequently forced to observe, is divided into two distinct groups of people: those with a fully functioning brain, and those who wander through life wearing crash helmets indoors because they find shoelaces too intellectually taxing. Normally, these two factions stay safely apart. But every so often, a phone call telling …

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The thing nobody asked for

This week, the Jolt drinking designer types and marketing gurus have outdone themselves. They have bestowed upon us a brand-new, sixteen-inch MacBook Pro. And its headline trick? You can touch the screen. Yes, really. They want you to reach across the keyboard—past the perfectly functional trackpad, past the perfectly good keys—and proffer a greasy, thumbprint-laden …

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Basic Mac Lingo

This may be your first Mac, it might be your hundredth, but there is a good chance that when a service person on the other end of the phone asks you to “find the Macintosh HD” or “add that application to your dock” or “look in the menu bar”, you’ll have no idea what they …

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Copy, Paste and Cut… oh my!

There are, in this world, a great many things that ought to be simple. Boiling an egg. Opening a jar of pickled onions. Folding a fitted sheet. Actually, no, scratch that last one. Nobody can fold a fitted sheet, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and very probably mad. And then there …

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Digital dumping ground

We live in a world obsessed with organising things into neat little boxes. We buy transparent plastic containers for our cereal, build floating shelves for books we will never read, and arrange our spice racks by country of origin. Yet, the moment we sit down in front of a computer screen, all sanity evaporates. Look …

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