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Firefox 85 is dropping very soon with a major privacy upgrade Network Partitioning is coming to Firefox The next Firefox build is scheduled for release in January 2021 and will come with a new privacy-enhancing feature that should please fans of anonymous browsers, the company has revealed. Firefox 85 will come equipped with a Network Partitioning feature that means third-party services will find it more difficult to track users across multiple sites. Essentially, the new partitioning feature works by keeping stored user data separate depending on which website it was sourced from. Usually, browsers pool user data together but this allows websites, advertisers, and web analytics platforms to track users by scrutinizing this shared pool. Take a look at our list of the best VPN services Here are the best Windows 10 VPN services Also, here's our roundup of the best business VPNs With the Network Partitioning feature enabled, Firefox will store data like website caches, CSS files, images, and TLS client certificates on a per-website basis. Privacy over performance Firefox is not the first browser to employ some form of network partitioning. Apple’s Safari browser began separating the user’s HTTP cache all the way back in 2013 and Google Chrome followed suit more recently. However, although network partitioning does deliver privacy benefits, there are some performance drawbacks. When Chrome partitioned its HTTP cache in October, it rendered Google Fonts largely useless as the service could no longer speed up the loading process by storing fonts in a website’s cache. Other new features coming to Firefox 85 include the ability to disable a homepage and new tab override for an extension without disabling the extension, a tweak to the “undo closed tabs” feature, and notably, it will be the first Firefox build not to offer Flash support. The latest Firefox update is scheduled for release on January 26 next year.

LG IPS Monitor With FreeSync Hits $89 Perfect for a budget setup Simple 24-inch, 1080p monitors in the $90 - $100 price range are a dime a dozen in the (well, not literally). But throw in an IPS panel, AMD FreeSync and other gaming features, and you’ve got something that stands out in the ultra-budget category. The LG 24MK430H-B may not be on the best gaming monitor, but at $89.99, it's a great deal on a screen that can also moonlight in gaming. LG 24MK430H-B Monitor: was $146.99, now $89.99 at Adorama This monitor sets itself apart by bringing an IPS panel and FreeSync into the sub-$100 price point. While its refresh rate is just 75 Hz, it makes a great budget pick for gamers or those seeking a secondary display. The LG 24MK430H-B stands out by including FreeSync and an IPS panel at a price where those features aren’t always guaranteed. That makes it one of the best monitor deals for gamers who are building on a budget or anyone who needs a second display and still wants strong color accuracy. LG's 24MK430H-B also comes with bonus features, like the ability to overlay a virtual crosshair on the screen, and will work with 75 x 75mm wall mounts. This monitor connects over either HDMI or DVI, has a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 5ms response time and 75 Hz refresh rate. Visit Adorama to check out the LG 24MK430H-B in more detail, and be sure to check back daily as we continue to post the best holiday tech deals we can find.

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Junkyard Gem: 2007 Mercury Mariner Hybrid Once hybrid vehicles from Honda and Toyota proved to work well in the real world of American streets during the early 2000s, other U.S.-market manufacturers climbed aboard the gasoline-electric bandwagon. Ford introduced the Escape Hybrid for the 2005 model year and sales proved quite strong; its Mercury-badged sibling, the Mariner Hybrid, appeared the following year. The Mariner Hybrid never induced many vehicle shoppers to sign on the line which is dotted, despite gasoline prices going absolutely ape in 2008, though it remained available all the way through the Mercury brand's 2010 demise. Here's one of those rare trucks, found in a Denver-area yard last month. The Escape/Mariner Hybrids got amazing fuel economy for tall, truck-shaped machines, though the serious penny-pinchers with long commutes skipped anything built in the 21st century and began driving up the prices of the once-scorned Geo Metro XFi, gas-sipping champion of the previous decade. The Mercury brand was on the ropes by this time, with not much to distinguish the once-distinctive Mercury machines from their near-identical Ford counterparts. The 1999-2002 Cougar was the last Mercury sold here with no twin brothers over in the Ford showrooms. I do see the occasional Escape Hybrid in places like this, though such gas-saving small SUVs tend to retain their value well enough that it takes a crash to retire one. This Mariner Hybrid hit something hard and either flipped on its side or scraped a guardrail for some distance. The airbags deployed and, presumably, spared the occupants from serious injury. That's the good news. The bad news is that fixing this kind of damage to a 13-year-old vehicle made by a defunct brand just isn't worth it to insurance companies, hybrid-electric powertrain or not. We can assume that the battery pack lives on in another Escape/Mariner.

Canelo Alvarez teaches Callum Smith a brutal lesson in boxing humility Smith had no solutions, no magic tricks to counter Canelo’s masterclass of precision, belief and desire The greatest fighters make the most difficult things in the prize ring look easy and Saul Canelo Alvarez is a great fighter. On Saturday night in Texas, the Mexican idol won 11 of the 12 rounds to take Callum Smith’s WBA super-middleweight title. It was a masterclass of precision, belief and desire. By the way, a whole stack of other belts was also on offer, but the tedium of listing the bauble haul is becoming a boxing curse. Canelo was six or seven inches shorter, his reach is eight inches shorter, but he was able to give the previously unbeaten Smith a lesson in boxing humility, a textbook show of guile and power to ruin any physical advantages the man from Liverpool had. Smith had believed his size would be a factor, which was a decent assumption, and that his craft would be enough against Canelo’s wits. He was wrong and he knew it from very early in the fight. He had a torrid night in Texas, make no mistake. It is a lesson that hurts as much as any punch and a lesson that is often harder to come back from than a knockout loss. Smith had no solutions, no magic tricks to counter Canelo’s brilliance and at the end, as he battled with his mixed emotions, he refused to hide behind a badly damaged left bicep. Smith is a real fighter, not a man for excuses. A two-armed Smith would have pushed more, but still not had enough to win. “He was very, very good tonight,” Smith said when his night was finished. He had that vacant look of confusion on his face and in his eyes; it is a look I have seen on the faces of the men that Canelo beats. It seems that the Mexican does things to you in the ring that you never imagined, things you believed that you were safe from. He hurts your confidence badly, takes away your faith and hits you with every shot from both hands. And he hurts. “He’s the best fighter on the planet,” said Eddie Hearn, the fight’s co-promoter, at the end. Hearn sounded as awed as Smith looked; that’s the Canelo way. Canelo won for the 54th time in a career that started when he was just a kid of 15. He has held good world titles - beaten the very best men - at four different weights. He is paid vast sums, adored in Mexico where Mariachi bands serenade him with tearful odes of love and respect. However, what he does in the ring, the genius of his eye, is impossible to calculate and stick in a category. On Saturday night it was his very best and it was a thing of beauty. Many of the rounds were close, neither fighter wanting to offer much of a target, but Canelo never needs much of a target. His jabs found ways to be quicker and longer than Smith’s own version; his body shots slid through arms and gloves. Smith found himself pinned to the ropes, often coming to rest in the vulnerable position after nothing more lethal than a few tidy sidesteps and feints from Canelo. It was fight management as an art.

DIY: How To Make Your Own Daily Planner Stuck trying to find the perfect planner to fit all of your needs? Recently I was going from site to site trying to find the perfect daily planner to track the many “hats” that I wear. I started the search in August knowing soon I would be scheduling dates into 2017. Sticky notes in the back of my planner could only last for so long before I would start to lose them. The search was extensive, there were parts from one planner I loved but didn’t like other parts. The cycle continued. The planners I loved the most also cost the most and I wasn’t sure if I could commit to the cost. For just $20 I was able to completely customize my daily planner and I didn’t have to stress over the cost. Today, I am going to show you how I did it and how you can create your own planner too. Step #1: Find a binder to hold your planner. I’m not sure about all of you but Target is a very dangerous store for me. At our local Target stores, the dollar section is the first area you walk by once you enter the store. In a blunder of trying to choose a planner, I walked into the dollar section and had the “a-ha” moment I’ve been waiting for. The pink polka dot binder spoke to me saying, ‘Kayla, make your own and here is everything you need.’ Step #2: Customize the months you need. I was able to create my planner starting with October 2016 and continue until December 2017, this way I won’t have to carry around two planners. [RELATED: A Simple One Year Plan To Improve Your Career] Step #3: Choose your binder tabs for each week. The different packets I purchased had binder tabs. Behind the first tab was a weekly calendar where each week was broken down vertically with plenty of room to write in my schedule for each day. The binder feature also allows me to be able to move a completed week to the end of the year so the current week is in the front and I can still access past dates easily. Step #4: Create calendars for specific projects. The next tab is my monthly calendar; this calendar will solely be used to fill in my Thirty-One party dates and mileage. I love this feature because it is out of the way and not plugging up my everyday calendar. Step 5: Add extra note paper. The three remaining tabs I filled with notebook paper to have my to-do lists, grocery lists, notes, and other things broken down. I also purchased a couple sets of stickers that were available that can be used for notes and reminders throughout the planner. The Result: I love my new and affordable planner. I plan to buy up the supplies so I am able to do the same for 2018. I hope this gives you an idea of how you can create your own affordable planner. The photos I have included are the styles that I purchased, Target had a few layouts available. Finding the perfect planner can be hard and you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get the one that is perfect for you. Sometimes what you need is closer than you think. There are so many planners out there that I thought would be perfect for me but couldn’t get past paying so much money for a planner. Now, I found a way to get an affordable planner and still have the perfect planner for me in the end and you can too.

EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears Deep into a crucial weekend of negotiations, a breakthrough on fishing rights remained elusive for the European Union and Britain, leaving both without a trade agreement that would dull the edge of a chaotic, costly economic break on New Year's Day. With hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake throughout the economy, the tiny sector of fisheries continued to drive a wedge between the 27-nation bloc and the UK, highlighting the animosity that drove them to a Brexit divorce over the past four years. Britain left the bloc in January, but a 11-month economic transition period ends on Dec. 31. “We continue to work hard," EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said in a statement as light faded over EU headquarters on Sunday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said Sunday that the EU is “continuing to make demands that are incompatible with our independence. We cannot accept a deal that doesn’t leave us in control of our own laws or waters." Barnier didn't question that both sides “have the right to set their own laws & control their own waters." But, he countered, “we should both be able to act when our interests are at stake." It left little hope a full deal could be found before midnight, which the European parliament had set as a deadline if it was to have enough time to vet and approve the deal before New Year's. Officials on both sides said positions had hardly moved throughout the weekend of near-continuous talks. The almost mythical sense of Britain's rights to rule its waves was an essential part of what drove Brexiteers to victory in the 2016 referendum. Johnson is seeking to make sure that as much as possible of the shared British waters are now returned to U.K. vessels only. The EU has always maintained that those waters have been shared for decades, if not centuries, and insists if too many fishing rights are taken away, it will punish Britain by imposing hefty import fees to the mainland market, which is essential to the U.K. seafood industry. The stalemate has left the overall talks inconclusive with businesses on both sides clamoring for a deal that would save tens of billions in costs. Johnson, though, could not be budged. “We need to get any deal right and based on terms which respect what the British people voted for," his office said. One official from an EU coastal nation said the EU was refusing to yield more than a quarter of the fishing quotas the bloc stands to lose now that Britain is regaining full control of its waters due to Brexit. Britain is also steadfast that a 3-year transition period would be long enough for EU fishermen to adapt to the new rules, while the EU wants at least six years. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were still ongoing. A failure to reach a post-Brexit deal would lead to more chaos on Britain’s borders with the EU at the start of 2021, when new tariffs would add to other impediments to trade enacted by both sides. The talks have bogged down on two main issues over the past days — the EU’s access to U.K. fishing waters and assurances of fair competition between businesses. A trade deal would ensure there are no tariffs and quotas on trade in goods between the two sides, but there would still be technical costs, partly associated with customs checks and non-tariff barriers on services. While both sides would suffer economically from a failure to secure a trade deal, most economists think the British economy would take a greater hit, at least in the near-term, as it is relatively more reliant on trade with the EU than vice versa.

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Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting FF7 And Geno Mii Fighter Costumes Nintendo showcased a handful of new Mii Fighter costumes that are coming soon to the Switch fighting game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai shared more details on the game's next DLC character, Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth, during Thursday's video presentation, but that wasn't all he discussed. Sakurai kicked off the broadcast by revealing an assortment of new Mii Fighter costumes that are coming to the game very soon. Five more costumes are being added to Smash Bros. Ultimate this week, all of which are based on Square Enix characters. Fittingly to coincide with Sephiroth, three of the costumes are inspired by Final Fantasy VII characters: Barret (Gunner), Tifa (Brawler), and Aerith (Swordfighter). The remaining two include a Chocobo Hat and a Gunner costume based on Geno from Super Mario RPG. Each costume will cost 75 cents. As for Sephiroth, the new fighter joins the roster next week, on December 22, but you're able to unlock him a few days early if you can beat him during a limited-time event. He'll arrive alongside a new stage, music tracks, and Spirits. You can get the One-Winged Angel as part of the game's $30 Fighters Pass Vol. 2 or pick his character pack up individually for $6. Sephiroth is the third new fighter from Smash Bros. Ultimate's second wave of DLC, following Min Min from Arms and Steve/Alex from Minecraft. Three more DLC fighters are still on the way, although Nintendo hasn't yet shared any details about who those will be or when they'll release. In other Smash Bros. news, Nintendo is giving away another free item pack for the game. For a limited time, Switch Online subscribers can grab the Spirit Board Challenge Pack 7. This pack comes with an assortment of items aimed at making it easier to challenge tough Spirits in the game's Spirit Board mode. Like other Smash Ultimate freebies, however, you can only claim the item pack if you have a paid Switch Online subscription.

The 3 fastest VPNs we've tested: NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark compared Three top VPNs battle it out to see which takes the privacy and speed crown. You're working from home. You're binging Netflix, you're listening to music, you're gaming -- and if you're reading this, chances are you're looking for a VPN that can handle the massive flood of data going through your coaxial cable. That's where this list comes in. We've tested out the top VPN performers to find you the fastest VPN that will meet your needs and won't slow you down. Keep in mind, however, that it's tricky to speed test a VPN in a way that translates to practicable consumer advice. First, the speed of a VPN can change from day to day, prompting some review sites to create automated monitoring processes. Second, the use of any VPN, no matter how fast, will somewhat reduce your browsing speeds. Then there's the impact of underlying internet speeds in the US, which vary widely according to state and provider. Finally, if you eliminate all potential variables -- from network interference to individual machine quirks -- to create a lab-like test setting, you're essentially testing a product in a digital environment that bears zero resemblance to the operating environment most of us live and work in. Surfshark 16.9% speed lost (faster than 27% loss in previous test) Fastest VPN connections: US Slowest connections: Australia As a relative newcomer in the VPN world, Surfshark ended 2019 with just 27% speed loss in my review, positioning it far ahead of all of its competitors -- except for the seemingly uncatchable speed leader ExpressVPN, which dominated my 2019 testing with less than 2% speed loss. But at the close of 2020, Surfshark was surging ahead of the pack with 17% speed loss, as ExpressVPN speeds fall to 52% speed loss in my most recent tests. The remarkable thing about Surfshark's speed is that its average speeds aren't fighting to overcome major speed losses in any particular test region. This thing showed up on race day and stole the gold, seemingly without breaking a sweat. During testing, my base non-VPN speeds averaged 194 megabits per second, while Surfshark's overall average was 161 Mbps. After taking the averages of five testing locations, not one of the averages from those locations fell below 100 Mbps. That's an across-the-board win against its competitors in every test column. While the competitors below seemed to struggle with US speeds, Surfshark clocked a 204 Mbps average on US connections. Because Surfshark allows you to choose which server to connect to (with a handy visual icon to signal each server's overall crowdedness), one way I could have juked the stats here is by hand-picking servers across the US with the least VPN traffic load. And I would have loved to report New York speeds, for example, specifically for you. But that wouldn't have been fair; NordVPN still frustratingly lacks that feature, so I used Surfshark's automatic server selection option (as I did with the other test subjects). NordVPN couldn't get close to Surfshark's American speeds during testing, though, averaging just 89 Mbps on US connections by comparison. Surfshark again outperformed its peers during UK and European tests, averaging 165 Mbps and 171 Mbps in each, respectively. While future tests might include other regions in Europe, I currently go for a mix of German and French connections. Usually, no matter the VPN, Frankfurt speeds weigh down the average, while connections in Orange and Paris bring on a major numbers boost. That was still the case with Surfshark's speeds, but even Surfshark's German numbers were higher than the average speeds of its competitors. Australia is normally where we see numbers take a dive -- the continent's distance from my test site in Kentucky provides for major latency. Latency was still high, but Surfshark seemed unfazed, clocking a 126 Mbps average download speed. For comparison, that's close to the 122 Mbps average I measured for ExpressVPN's European connections. Singapore is where speeds always get competitive. The speed testing site that I and most other reviewers use, Ookla, ranked Singapore's internet speeds the fastest in the world in 2018 with an average national speed of 181 Mbps. How did Surfshark do there? An easy, breezy 142 Mbps average. Was it a fluke? Was my VPN connection just having a great day? Was Surfshark's overall server traffic particularly light that day? All of those things are possible. That's why I aim to keep retesting this newly crowned speed queen, and why I always recommend you opt for VPNs that offer money-back guarantees and allow you to test their services in your own non-lab settings for 30 days. But these are speeds I haven't seen from any VPN I've tested so far. ExpressVPN 51.8% speed lost (slower than previous 2% loss in previous test) Fastest VPN connections: Western Europe Slowest connections: US It killed me to see ExpressVPN's pace fall from the jaw-dropping speeds I clocked for it last year. It's not only our Editors' Choice for VPNs but -- because it's one of the few VPNs proven to keep no usage logs during a geopolitical trial-by-fire -- it's my own personal favorite VPN. Its history and durable encryption, combined with its then-untouchable speeds, non-Five Eyes jurisdiction and streamlined user interface made this VPN worth the higher-than-average subscription cost. Last year, ExpressVPN gave me a less than 2% speed loss overall. This year, I clocked a 52% speed loss. Though that's a major dip, it's still a better-than-average score compared to other VPNs. To be clear, ExpressVPN is still a speed demon that consistently ranks in the top 10 for sites with massive automated VPN speed-test processes. Just because Surfshark beat it to the finish line this time doesn't mean ExpressVPN is at all sluggish. It still flies, and most people will have no problems gaming, streaming or even torrenting heavily. During testing, my non-VPN speeds averaged 193 Mbps, and ExpressVPN's overall global average speed was 93 Mbps. Peak speeds were reached on European connections, averaging about 122 Mbps between Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris. Australian speeds outperformed the UK with averages of 101 Mbps and 86 Mbps, respectively. Between the two, however, the UK caught the better individual high score, topping out at 157 Mbps in a single test compared to Australia's highest single-round score of 136 Mbps. Singapore's scores also edged out the UK's by just three points at 89 Mbps. US scores were where ExpressVPN's averages got dragged down: US speeds averaged just 66 Mbps, despite reaching up to 134 Mbps on a single test round. Because of ExpressVPN's history of smoking its opponents on speed tests, my first instinct was to check for a testing issue on my side. So I walked back through my testing process, double-checked my setup and retested to make sure I wasn't accidentally dipping ExpressVPN's numbers. When my results appeared consistent, I checked in with a couple of sites whose automated speed testing I trust and compared notes: Sure enough, as of late October, both Top10VPN and ProPrivacy speed tests show that ExpressVPN has struggled with consistency and slipped down the rankings in the past couple of months. I reached out to ExpressVPN to find out what's happening with the recent dips in its speeds. The company looked into it, and said several of its in-house tests were seeing speeds between 200 and 275 Mbps using OpenVPN protocol. Those results were far above my own. "We think one possible explanation is that there was network saturation between your ISP and our data center during the time period that you tested, which again should not be a typical result," an ExpressVPN spokesperson said. The company also pointed to its new protocol, currently in development. "We are transitioning our legacy OpenVPN infrastructure to Lightway, a VPN protocol that we developed in-house to deliver WireGuard-like speed but far superior security," the spokesperson said. "It's in beta right now as we're still applying tweaks so we can provide the Lightway benefits to our customers at scale, but once it goes into full release within the next couple of months, we are confident it will deliver speeds on par with or better than the fastest Wireguard setups from other providers." NordVPN 53% speed lost (slower than previous 32% loss in previous tests Fastest VPN connections: Singapore Slowest connections: US Right out of the gate, it should be said that NordVPN has been steadily improving its speeds since I tested it for the first time last year. While my latest tests show the VPN provider falling 2 percentage points behind ExpressVPN, other speed testing sites have seen it routinely surge ahead. Since its embarrassing third-party server breach last year (which appeared to cause minimal damage), NordVPN has gotten aggressive. Along with a suite of fleet-wide privacy improvements to its servers, it's revved up its engine. Granted, some of that may have to do with a new security protocol NordVPN rolled out, called NordLynx. It's built on the still-developing protocol WireGuard, which some argue is less secure than OpenVPN (an option available in all the VPNs listed here, and one I use in testing), but which ultimately creates a faster VPN tunnel. The improvements earned it recommendations from both Ookla and AV-Test. Even with the accolades of others, NordVPN's overall global average speed was 91 Mbps during my testing, in a dataset with average non-VPN speeds of 194 Mbps, for a speed loss of roughly 53%. While it's normal for a VPN to cut your internet speed by half or more, the notable context here is that across the averages of my five test zones, I never saw NordVPN fall below 85 Mbps. It's still one of the most consistent, stable VPNs I've worked with.

DisplayPort vs. HDMI: Which Is Better For Gaming? We look at bandwidth, resolution, refresh rate and more to see the differences between DisplayPort and HDMI connections. The best gaming monitors are packed with features, but one aspect that often gets overlooked is the inclusion of DisplayPort vs. HDMI. What are the differences between the two ports and is using one for connecting to your system definitively better? You might think it's a simple matter of hooking up whatever cable comes with your monitor to your PC and calling it a day, but there are differences that can often mean a loss of refresh rate, color quality, or both if you're not careful. Here's what you need to know about DisplayPort vs. HDMI connections. If you're looking to buy a new PC monitor or buy a new graphics card (you can find recommendations on our Best Graphics Cards page), you'll want to consider the capabilities of both sides of the connection — the video output of your graphics card and the video input on your display — before making any purchases. Our GPU Benchmarks hierarchy will tell you how the various graphics cards rank in terms of performance, but it doesn't dig into the connectivity options, which is something we'll cover here. The Major Display Connection Types The latest display connectivity standards are DisplayPort and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface). DisplayPort first appeared in 2006, while HDMI came out in 2002. Both are digital standards, meaning all the data about the pixels on your screen is represented as 0s and 1s as it zips across your cable, and it's up to the display to convert that digital information into an image on your screen. Earlier monitors used DVI (Digital Visual Interface) connectors, and going back even further we had VGA (Video Graphics Array) — along with component RGB, S-Video, composite video, EGA and CGA. You don't want to use VGA or any of those others in 2020, though. They're old, meaning, any new GPU likely won't even support the connector, and even if they did, you'd be using an analog that's prone to interference. Yuck. DVI is the bare minimum you want to use today, and even that has limitations. It has a lot in common with early HDMI, just without audio support. It works fine for gaming at 1080p, or 1440p resolution if you have a dual-link connection. Dual-link DVI-D is basically double the bandwidth of single-link DVI-D via extra pins and wires, and most modern GPUs with a DVI port support dual-link. If you're wondering about Thunderbolt 2/3, it actually just routes DisplayPort over the Thunderbolt connection. Thunderbolt 2 supports DisplayPort 1.2, and Thunderbolt 3 supports DisplayPort 1.4 video. It's also possible to route HDMI 2.0 over Thunderbolt 3 with the right hardware. For newer displays it's best to go with DisplayPort or HDMI. But is there a clear winner between the two?