Zorin OS 16 looks great: the Linux distro that wants to appeal to Windows 10 and macOS users with as little friction as possible

The first beta download of Zorin OS 16, the Linux distribution that has been offering one of the friendliest user interfaces possible for a few years for those users who come from Windows 10, but also from macOS.

Zorin OS is very well thought out for the average user or even the most novice, to be accessible and put everything within reach generating the least possible friction when someone is migrating from something like Windows or Mac.

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You have it for 879 euros at a minimum price

If 64 GB is little capacity for you and you are thinking of going up a storage step to release a iPhone 12you will be glad to know that Amazon has cheaper than ever the smartphone of Apple, both in black and red in its version of 128 GB: if you buy it now, you can take it for 879 euros, thus saving about 80 euros compared to the official price.

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The tech side of how the Unabomber beat the FBI

It must have been May 23, 1978. A worker from the University of Illinois found a package in the Chicago campus parking lot. The sender was Buckley Crist, a professor at Northwestern University, so they sent it back. On the afternoon of the 24th they told Crist about it, but he did not remember that he had sent any packages.

Actually, there was only one explanation: drugs. For months it had been said that some students used the name of a professor to move drugs from campus to campus without raising suspicions. So when the package arrived at his office and he confirmed that the handwriting was not his, he called Officer Terry Maker of the campus police.

They opened the package together. That was the first bomb. It took more than 15 years of bombings, injuries and deaths before the FBI detained Ted Kaczynski in a lost cabin in eastern Montana. This story has been told many times, but how could a single man without specialized training build dozens of bombs and hold an entire country in check for a decade and a half? We investigated the technology behind Unabomber.

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What is the best smartphone in photography so far in 2021? We let you choose it … blindly

There are no right or wrong tastes and in variety, precisely, there is taste. In the great photographic comparison of mobile phones this year you saw what the results seemed to us and now You have to choose which mobile is the one that takes the best photos … Blindly.

That is, in this case we will see which smartphone of the seven we tested you like the most in general, but making a count of your votes without knowing which mobile has taken which photo in each of the scenes. We put several of them, both during the day and at night, but instead of labeling with the mobile models we do it with letters so that you can choose the photograph that you like the most in the questionnaire afterwards. At your discretion.

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