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Stay Safer with 2FA and a YubiKey

In the past couple of weeks I've received three notifications from haveibeenpwnd informing me that a couple of organisations didn't do a good enough job keeping my info secure. While it's always going to be a good idea to change your login and password, any sites that use 2FA significantly reduce the value of stolen credentials (as long as you've

Kärcher FC5 Hard Floor Cleaner Review

Kärcher's bright yellow products will be well-known to many and the brand's almost synonymous with pressure washers: on any given Sunday, cars up and down the nation will be getting a clean aided by a Kärcher. Over the past few years, the company has been trying to increase its market with a range of household cleaning products and last year,

Flic-ked into Action

Flic is a battery-powered Bluetooth push button that can be stuck to a flat surface or clipped to clothing. What makes it really flexible and smart is the accompanying Flic app that elevates Flic from a dumb button to a smart accessory integration with over 100 services, applications and functions. The outer packaging claims that inside is the "World's Smartest

DiskaShur 2 Secure Encrypted Portable Hard Drive

Laptops are data gold mines that criminals love to target. Due to my regular travel schedule, I have always put the majority of my media on external secure drives. I have used just about everything in the book when it comes to encryption and many of those tools are painful to use and often slow. For many years I carried

Small Size, Small Price – RCA Mercury 7L Tablet

The RCA Mercury 7L Pro tablet is a 7″ Android tablet with budget specs and a price to match, at just GB£49. That’s about US$65 and it's right in there as an impulse purchase. But is it a case of buying in haste, repent at leisure? Let’s take a look. Sold by Asda in the UK, the Mercury 7L is the little

Homitt 20 Cans Soft Pack Cooler Review

We live a very active lifestyle here in Hawaii whether it be beach outings or sports events the kids are involved in. The folks at Homitt sent me their 20 Cans Soft Pack Cooler to review. Like any product we test here at Geek News Central it gets a real world use. Yesterday my son had a cross country meet

How Good Is Your Air? Foobot Knows

While air is all around us, colourless and odourless, we often seek a semi-mythical fresh air; at the seaside, in a spring meadow, after rain on a summer's day, on crisp winter morning. We all have our favourite. On the other hand, bad air can be difficulty to identify too. Unless there's mould on the wall or the smell of