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How to Save Your Messenger Desktop Chats Before the App Shuts Down

With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.
Fast Company

Snapchat is now charging for storage, drawing ire over ‘subscription creep.’ Here’s what to do if you don’t want to pay

Snapchat rankled some of its most loyal (and heavy) users when it announced last week it will begin charging for storage plans for Memories, its version of a digital archive for Snaps and stories.
Polygon

EA tackles Sims 4 save corruption: "We've committed to transparency"

The Sims 4 has been having a rough go of it lately, with a recent game update leading to corrupted saves and a frustrated playerbase. In September, EA unveiled a fix-it roadmap, detailing plans to ...
The Boston Globe

Mass Save was redesigned to better reach low-income residents. But there’s a problem.

Early this year, the state’s nation-leading energy efficiency program adopted a broader strategy to encourage more low-income households and tenants to tap into its benefits for heat pumps, insulation ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
thecooldown

Harvard Law School lecturer issues stark warning as 'city-sized' data centers threaten to inflate utility bills: 'Costs … are going to increase for everyone'

No thanks to inflation, costs are ballooning across the United States. However, some prices are increasing faster than others. At the beginning of September, Geoff Bennett of PBS News spoke to Ari ...
The Washington Post

Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Six hours before she collapsed from the heat in the South Florida ...