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Hi, don't know if anyone can answer this but I can't find a decent answer on the usual tech forums: I just started using Bitdefender, and have got 2 or 3 pop ups (not all together, over a period of a week or so) about a "suspicious connection blocked" with the following detail: "chrome.exe...

Dull technical question, but can anyone make recommendations on speaker stands for some monitors, weighing about 7kg? I've got tired of reading online and every single time someone raising doubts about the quality of the stands...there must be some that are relatively inexpensive and do this...

I'd thought they'd have a lot in common. Cyberhacking doesn't seem so friendly. It's the latest in a seemingly endless succession of weird headlines. The world is really an odd place.

I didn't really know what thread to put this in, but I watched this documentary the other night, about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other of the 'new Democrat' candidates who challenged the Democratic establishment in the midterms of 2018: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81080637 I've...

May be a bit of an odd question to pose to a web forum, given the attention-grabbing capacities of these things, but - does anyone have good tips for concentration? The digital age has left my capacity to concentrate in tatters. What to do to recapture at least some of that pre-millennial...

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I feel like a complete technological ignoramus posting this but it's the first time I've had the problem: The battery of my laptop, purchased around 2 1/2 years ago, has suddenly become very unreliable when the machine is not plugged in. What I thought would be a simple procedure, i.e...

OK, at last I got round to doing this.... A space to talk about healing the body, in whatever way you want....Reich, Gestalt, therapeutic breathing, Alexander Technique, mindfulness/mentalisation, improving proprioception....where is trauma and sadness located, and how do you find it and heal...

As the title says - any recommendations gladly received, either fiction or non-fiction. Recently I've been enjoying Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen: An American Lyric' (apparently described by some as a book-length poem, but I'd describe it as poetic prose), while David Peace and Olivia Laing are...

Inspired by Nomos's much-appreciated posting of K-punk's great Londonunderlondon audiomentary, and this quote: "londonunderlondon, ruff-mixed as it is, needs to be seen as a work in progress. Naturally, it isn’t anything like equal to its inspirations – which number anything from Glenn Gould’s...

This stands out as particularly mad in a year of total madness. The augmentation of the unofficial policy that sees UK citizens subsidising government spending in Europe is only the most ironic part...

After the appalling tragedy yesterday, surely something different needs to happen if anyone is serious about preventing further such attacks and further such loss of civilian life. Not the same old stupid, belligerent responses. I thought this was pretty good in that direction...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-from-2017 - "Adidas to make shoes in Germany again - but using robots" I read this at the same time as I was reading "Inventing the Future" by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, which I'd recommend to anyone. The basic...

Please someone tell me more about this. It's amazing.

If you're in London this weekend, there's a free exhibition at IMAX in Waterloo of virtual reality documentaries for the Samsung Gear VR: pretty amazing (and pretty horrifying in its implications for what will happen when this technology becomes ubiquitous) if you haven't tried this before...

As I understand it, 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET) simply refers to the system used by most Western musics, of dividing each octave into 12 according to a strict mathematical series, so the player can transpose a piece into a different key (eg from C major to G major) and have it sound...

Interested to know - I'm looking primarily for sites with a mix of news and opinion, on the left wing side of things ideally. Anything beyond the obvious major newspapers please

Can anyone give recommendations for digital pianos under £1000? The choice out there is bewildering. I'm thinking of getting a Yamaha YDP162, as it seems pretty decent, but maybe there's a better option that I haven't come across yet?

I was shocked and appalled to (i) return to work at my office job today; and (ii) be told by two different people that they thought the break over Xmas had been 'too long', and that they were glad to be back at work. Given that said break had been between 10 to 14 days for all concerned (along...

All I want is a simple online app to order the stuff I need to do. Nothing fancy, just something that can pop up in the corner of my screen like a note on my fridge, to save me scribbling down endless stuff on paper or sending emails to myself. It seems like this should be a really easy...