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“As the city’s museums, we have been eager to be able to share the multifaceted art collections and exhibitions, with airy galleries, and green park settings of the de Young and Legion of Honor with our Bay Area audiences again,” states Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “After many months of quarantine, we are thrilled to open our doors, and look forward to seeing members of our community engaging with art in our galleries....

Lila Volkas herself has a passion for food that fuels the body, eating consciously and balanced. She explores topics in the various ways we can nourish ourselves though her freelance food writing. Her articles are often accompanied by illustrations that capture the essence of everything from a turnip to the process of digestion with clean and whimsical lines. Much of Lila’s inspiration comes from her tremendous love for vegetables, as well as her knack for anthropomorphizing what she eats....

It’s easy to get excited about something and post it on social media for all your friends and family to see, and maybe even the rest of the world. But there are some things that you shouldn’t post online, even if it might seem obvious. Event Tickets Whether it’s for a concert or a sporting event, it’s generally not a good idea to post a photo of the ticket on your social media accounts....

Have you thought about expanding your knowledge by taking some courses? There are several colleges and other sites that offer free online courses, certificate programs, some degree programs, and education resources for teachers and professors. MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare offers free lecture notes, exams, and videos from classes at MIT. OpenCourseWare (OCW) was proposed by the MIT faculty in 2000 and they have been publishing educational materials from their courses freely and openly on the Internet since the first proof-of-concept site in 2002, containing 50 courses....

Once the TV is on and you’re watching your favorite show, you have something else to contend with: All that tracking. Yes, your TV is likely keeping tabs on you and sharing that data. Tap or click here for the steps you can take to stop the privacy invasion. After the inside of your set is cleaned up, take a look at the outside. A good cleaning goes well beyond just the screen....

Chances are good that you already subscribe to at least one streaming service (and it’s probably Netflix), but that service doesn’t have everything you want to watch. Netflix doesn’t have Game of Thrones, HBO doesn’t have American Gods, and Starz doesn’t have The Grand Tour. By the time you add up all the subscriptions you need to watch everything you want to see, it’s almost as expensive as cable (If not moreso!...

A Brief History of Fingerprint Scanners Fingerprint scanners first appeared on smartphones in the 2010s. Apple launched the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner in 2013, and Samsung followed suite with the Galaxy Note 4 a year later. These first fingerprint readers were using capacitive technology. The sensor is covered in tiny electrodes, and the capacity between the electrodes is how your fingerprint is scanned. It changes depending on the distance between ridges on your finger....

Dealing with computers day in and day out can be a harrowing experience. In difficult times, or even when things are idle, finding some spirituality can help cope with the experience—Techies: I give you the Eightfold Noble Geek Path. The Noble Geek Path outlines eight aspects that closely mirror the Buddhist tenets of the Eightfold Noble Path, and they are divided into three categories: wisdom, ethical conduct, and concentration. They’re just more geeky....

It’s a great idea to put your Windows PC to sleep when you’re not using it. There are many ways to do it in Windows 10 or 11, but we’ll show you a few of the fastest routes to slumber for both versions of Windows. Use a Dedicated Key or Button Most Windows PCs and tablets include a special sleep button somewhere on the body of the device. To find it, consult your device’s documentation, or look for a keyboard key with a small “Z” or moon icon on it....

When your hard drive starts to fill up, you don’t have to dig through File Explorer to see what’s using space. You can use a disk space analyzer to scan your drive (or just a single folder) and see exactly which folders and files are using space. You can then make an informed decision about what to remove and quickly free up space. RELATED: 7 Ways To Free Up Hard Disk Space On Windows...

The HDTV market is loaded with high prices, jargon, and more than a few pitfalls for the uneducated consumer. Save your money, spare yourself a headache, and get the best bang for your buck with our detailed HDTV buying guide. There has never been a point in history with a more dizzying array of television set options, add-ons, features, and technical and marketing terms. Between the legitimate specifications and the practically made-up marketing terms, it’s quite difficult for a consumer to keep everything straight....

There’s a lot packed into this new NVIDIA SHIELD TV update, but the thing that caught our attention the most is support for the highest tier of GeForce NOW. Using the power of the 3080 and the new Shield update, you can stream the latest video games in 4K resolution with HDR. The games also have immersive 7.1 surround sound, assuming you have the sound system to support it....

In the immortal words of Jacobim Mugatu, mini-ITX gaming PCs are “so hot right now.” While home-assembled gaming computers have generally been focused on the larger mid-tower ATX standard for decades, a recent wellspring of tiny, powerful components have made more compact builds worth considering. But what are you giving up if you decide to go for a smaller form factor? Not much, as it turns out. Even with high-power components, there are only a few things you need to look out for....

network marketing companies in India Unilever Herbalife Amway The Peoples Company Accenture PepsiCo Mastercard Microsoft Amway International Nestle how network marketing works Network marketing is a business model in which people from different parts of the world are joined together to sell products and services to other members. The basic idea is that each member signs up with another person, often a family member, to start a business together. The two of you work together to sell products and services to others in your network....

Food Pattern Bucket Hats Everyone likes food, right? And a lot of people like bucket hats? Well, bucket hats with patterns of food are apparently a thing. The hats are 50% off when you use code GSXQGABJ at checkout. Gamepad Flash Drive As long as flash drives have existed, companies have wrapped them in plastic shells resembling objects that aren’t flash drives. Some are Minions, some are sharks, but this one is shaped like a tiny game controller....

Windows 11 reintroduced widgets, which are now accessible with a dedicated button on the taskbar. They aren’t all that useful right now, but Microsoft has a few improvements in the works, including a change to the widget panel’s appearance. Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25201 to PCs on the Dev Channel of the Windows Insiders program. The main change is that the widgets board can be expanded to fill most of your computer’s screen, instead of the fixed side panel available on most PCs right now....

2022’s New iPads Make Things Extra Complicated Apple unveiled two brand-new iPads in 2022 — the 10th generation iPad and a new, Apple M2-powered iPad Pro. However, they were just the newest members in a lineup that has been getting increasingly confusing over time. Let’s explain why. First off, at the bottom of the barrel, we have the 9th-generation iPad. Apple didn’t discontinue this one with the launch of the 10th generation iPad, despite the newer one being a radical improvement in many regards....

Of course, the use of Cryptojacking has sparked debate. According to ArsTechnica, almost 2,500 Internet websites that use this method as an alternative to generate revenue to the usual advertising on their websites. Willem de Groot, an independent cybersecurity researcher, says that cryptocurrency miners integrated into Javascript code on web pages now add up to 2,496 websites, and their adoption is on the rise. The heart of this controversy is Coinhive....

Apple Working on Thinner Keyboards for its Next Products? In the patent, we find the description for a low-travel keyboard which could be used for a very thin computing device. That makes us think either laptop computer, netbook computer or the new kind of desktop computers. The key caps appear to be made from a variety of materials and take the shape of a flat slab. If you ask me, the actual keyboard used in Apple’s products is already thin, I wonder how much thinner can the designers and engineers at Apple make it....

The said service is Internxt, which is a zero-knowledge, encrypted, and decentralized platform that also happens to be open source. In fact, you can view and check out the source for not just the desktop and mobile clients, but the service itself. All of that code is hosted on the Internxt GitHub repository. Internxt has desktop clients for Linux, macOS, and Windows, as well as mobile clients for Android and iOS....