How to protect a single Microsoft Office file with a password to stop others from opening and/or modifying it. You don’t even have to download anything.

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The NX is coming out in March 2017. It may not be around the corner, and it may not be a for a little while, but it will come, and now we’ve finally got a roadmap for when Nintendo gets to leave the troubled Wii U behind. It’s been a rough few years for Nintendo: it’s had to watch as the strange little Wii U foundered first on its own, and then in the face of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s ascendant PS4. The company had had an idea with the Wii that turned out wildly successful, but an attempt to apply the same sort of left turn logic to something entirely different proved a big black eye for the venerated gaming company. Despite some excellent titles and a strong(ish) showing from Nintendo’s first party studios, the Wii U just couldn’t hack it.

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Three years ago I wrote a piece on electricity theft in BC Hydro’s service territory. The utility serves a huge area, equal to the geography of Washington, Oregon, and California combined. At that time theft was a big problem, and growing. The utility estimated that losses had metastasized from 500 gigawatt-hours (GWh – a gigawatt-hour is a thousand megawatt-hours) in 2006 to approximately 850 GWh by 2013. The total cost was estimated to be in the order of $100 million annually (Canadian).

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A new start-up uses machine learning to test whether mechanical equipment is breaking down so that companies can repair it before it breaks

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I’ve had a long love/hate relationship with the digital article page, a main source of revenue for any news organization. It delivers news efficiently, but is little more than a pixelized reincarnation of its century-old newspaper predecessor. Digital know-it-alls have tried to bury it with every disruptive twist and turn. Twitter would kill it. So would apps. Facebook, too. It lives on. I believe the smartphone will eventually be its undoing. Mobile consumers like short information bursts and video, not 1,000-word stories. That’s why we’re building a card-based phone experience — 450 characters of info with a photo, chart, video and ad that can be configurable for mobile swiping behavior. Alas, as the article page hangs on for dear life in the face of the inevitable, it’s actually mutating!

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The higher quality YouTube videos get, the harder it is to connect them to their intended audience.

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Facebook is far more than just a social network: It’s a tool for logging into other apps, sending money to friends, and one of the primary ways in which we consume content. In other words: You better believe its myriad tentacles turn it into an appealing target for hackers.

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The time to strike is when an enemy is at its weakest. That might be a simple piece of strategy, but one that I hope Samsung takes to heart over the next few months. Samsung’s ascendancy is kicking in just as Apple hits one of its roughest patches of the decade.

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