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Venessa Wong is a personal finance reporter for MarketWatch based in New York City. She previously covered business, inequality and culture during her tenure at BuzzFeed News, and reported on the food ...

In day two of our seven-part playbook to get your finances in top shape, we discuss the easiest way to increase your saving rate. Take control of your money so it works harder for you in 2026. If you ...

Welcome to Day 2 of MarketWatch’s 7-day money challenge. We’ll be publishing one tip a day for seven business days. Don’t forget to check back Tuesday for Day 3. There’s an adage that investing, or ...

One of the changes that we've seen in phones over recent years has been more control over the file systems. Having previously hidden away a lot of the local storage structure, Android and iOS now both ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Have you ever sent an Excel file to a colleague, only to realize they couldn’t open it because of compatibility issues? Or perhaps you’ve spent hours perfecting a spreadsheet, only to see its ...

Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

When you save a file that starts with #! (a shebang), this extension automatically makes it executable (similar to chmod +x). No more manually making your shell scripts, Python scripts, or other ...

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Platforms Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta Platforms Epic says I can change baby, I promise, as it ...