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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows for just £23.20 (reg. £177.24) when you buy a lifetime license at the Mashable shop.

Are you ready to finally get your digital life in order? Then this offer on Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows might just be part of the solution.

For just £23.20 (reg. £177.24), you’ll score a lifetime license to all the Office classics you know and love.

Unlike subscription-based models like Office 365, this one-time purchase gives you unlimited access to heavy-hitting productivity tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Whether you’re a freelancer drafting client proposals, a small business owner crunching numbers in Excel, or just someone tired of those “You’ve hit your free tier” notifications, this promotion lets you work to your heart's content without ongoing fees.

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If you were to look at Saturn through a teelescope today, you’d be forgiven for being disapopinted: the rings that define the icon look of the planet have temporarily disappeared. But why?

Want to do more with the Linux terminal? You might not instinctively put videos and the command line together, but with FFmpeg you can actually do a lot with a video file just by typing a simple command in your terminal.

Tesla is facing an unprecedented boycott.

Protests at showrooms and acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles have popped up around the world due to CEO Elon Musk's affiliation with President Donald Trump and other far-right parties. Musk has also been a driving force behind the "Department of Government Efficiency," his government project behind the mass firing of federal workers and potential future cuts to Social Security. And, of course, throwing up a so-called "Roman salute" gesture has also affected Tesla's sales. 

The boycott has resulted in Tesla's EV car sales dropping by as much as 76 percent in some markets. However, it's not just Tesla's potential customers who are turning away from the company. Tesla owners want out now, too.

SEE ALSO: Tesla is somehow missing $1.4 billion

According to new data from online car inventory platform Edmunds, March 2025 saw the highest monthly share of Tesla trade-ins on record. Drivers have traded in a record number of Tesla vehicles this month. Tesla models from 2017 or newer have made up 1.4 percent of all vehicles traded in as of March 15.

That's up by a full percentage point from last March when Tesla cars only made up 0.4 percent of trade-ins.In addition, Edmunds analysts said that number is likely to go up as the second half of the month rolls on and they receive more trade-in data. 

Edmunds says that in February 2025, Tesla made up 1.2 percent of all trade-ins, so this month's numbers have already exceeded last month's, and there is plenty of time left to go. According to Edmunds, this data excludes trade-ins towards new Tesla purchases, so these aren't cases of customers trading up for a newer Tesla vehicle.

Edmunds' data also showed that interest in buying new Tesla vehicles has dropped to its lowest levels since October 2022. Car buyers who are considering a Tesla vehicle now sit at 1.8 percent of shoppers. It previously peaked in November of last year with 3.3 percent. 

As for Tesla owners looking to sell their EVs, Mashable previously reported how Tesla user car prices have cratered due to Musk. On average, the price of used Tesla vehicles has fallen by 10 percent, which is a much bigger drop in value than used cars made by other automotive brands.

The ancient Greeks thought meteors were fiery shooting stars originating from the tears of goddess Iris. They weren’t technically right, but meteors do produce quite a fiery spectacle in the sky as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up.

Over a year ago, I started using my phone as my PC, relying on Android desktop modes in conjunction with a lapdock or external monitor. I no longer own a conventional computer. Here's what I miss most.

In a perfect world, phone carriers would offer amazing deals that are genuinely fair and beneficial to you. We don't live in a perfect world. Carriers are always trying to rope you in with a deal that sounds too good to be true—these are the things you should keep in mind about such deals.

TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription to BitMar’s content finder for A$23 (reg. A$237) through 27 April with code BITMAR5 at checkout.

Here’s a challenge: cut the cord with your streaming services. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ — all of them. You’re likely paying hundreds each year in subscription fees and, chances are, you still can’t find the one movie you want to watch on any of them.

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Wait…how does Bitmar work?

BitMar is powered by the Bing search engine, but it only has eyes for free streaming content. You’ll use a far more user-friendly interface to plug in a channel, genre, actor, or a specific movie or TV show you have in mind, then this content aggregator scours the web to find it.

Is it legal? Yes. BitMar is fully compliant with copyright laws — and it’s simply locating content already available on the web.

If you’re wondering why you wouldn’t just spend the time searching for it yourself, that’s the reason right there — it saves you time. BitMar also filters out the garbage to leave you with high-quality, ad-free content.

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AI is stealing your content. We know this is how AI companies have built their highly-valued businesses – by scraping the web and using your data to train their chatbots.

Web scraping isn't new. In the past, websites could rely on simple protocols like robots.txt to define what could, and could not, be used by web crawlers. Those guidelines were respected by the companies doing the scraping to, say, build results for search engines. AI companies, however, are not abiding by this social contract and are ignoring those instructions.

Cloudflare, a global network service that helps some of the biggest websites in the world deliver content to users, has devised a new plan to deal with AI companies' web scrapers. And the idea is as positively devious as it is ingenious. 

In a new blog post, Cloudflare has shared how it's now "trapping misbehaving bots in an AI labyrinth." Basically, bots that don't follow the rules laid out for them via protocols such as robots.txt, a simple text file that lays out what web crawlers are allowed to do on a site, will be messed with in order to waste the time and resources of the company in charge of the bot.

"AI-generated content has exploded…at the same time, we’ve also seen an explosion of new crawlers used by AI companies to scrape data for model training," Cloudflare said in its post. "AI Crawlers generate more than 50 billion requests to the Cloudflare network every day, or just under 1% of all web requests we see."

Cloudflare says it previously just blocked AI web crawlers and scrapers. However, doing so alerted those behind the bots that their access had been denied, and as a result they would shift strategies in order to continue their scraping campaigns.

So, Cloudflare came up with an idea to build a honeypot: a series of fake webpages created with AI-generated content.

The fact that Cloudflare is utilizing AI-generated content to fight AI web scrapers isn't just for schadenfreude. When AI trains off of AI-generated content, it actually degrades the AI model itself. The industry even has a term for it: "model collapse." Cloudflare is essentially making sure that bots that break the rules are punished for doing so.

Cloudflare's post gets into the technical details of building the AI labyrinth. But, the main gist of it is that Cloudflare devised things in a way where a human visitor shouldn't ever see these AI-generated honeypot pages. In addition, humans would notice the "AI-generated nonsense" on these pages. Bots, however, would fall down the rabbit hole, wasting computational resources as they go deeper and deeper through the multiple pages of AI-generated content.

Cloudflare customers are able to opt-in to using the AI labyrinth right now to protect their content from web scrapers.

Wondering about the missing always-on display (AOD) customization features on your Samsung Galaxy phone? You're not alone. The options aren't in the AOD settings menu anymore. So where are they? Let's find out.

If you run any type of home server, then you've likely needed to access it when away from home. I know I have. That's where running a VPN at home comes in, and here's how I do just that.

Announced within the space of a month, the Google Pixel 9a and iPhone 16e are premium mid-range phones that come in under the $600 mark. If you're in the market for a high-quality but somewhat affordable device, these will likely be at the top of your list. So how do they compare?

Greenwashing exists in all industries, audio tech included. Some headphones and earbuds are marketed as being sustainable or eco-friendly, but the facts behind the buzzwords are key to consider.

Whatever the reason, shopping for a new car head unit can quickly introduce you to terms like "single-DIN" and "double-DIN." What do they actually mean? And more importantly, does one offer a better experience than the other?

I use my phone all the time, and I don't just mean I'm glued to my phone. With the help of a few accessories, my phone has replaced virtually all of my own personal gadgets.

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable

Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Sunday, March 23, 2025:

AcrossWomen's World Cup team that had a rivalry with the U.S. during the 2010s

• The answer is Japan.

Napoleon's punishment during the 1810s (twice!)

• The answer is Exile.

Component of muscle tissue

• The answer is Sinew.

Wreck beyond repair

• The answer is Total.

Like the air at a hookah lounge

• The answer is Smoky.

DownJoking remarks

• The answer is Jests.

Statement of truth

• The answer is Axiom.

Kind of bean used in refried beans

• The answer is Pinto.

Spring ___ (start dripping)

• The answer is A leak.

Afresh

• The answer is Newly.

If you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

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In this economy, every cent you can save counts, but many of us are overpaying for our phone bills without even realizing it. You could fight for a much better deal if only you knew that you were overpaying in the first place. To find out if you're getting a fair shake, consider these tips.

Modern-age telescopes have offered us a tantalizing view of what lies in the vast expanse of space, while also giving us glimpses of the universe’s past. However, making telescopes that can peek deep into the cosmos is an incredibly technical and expensive task—but thanks to new research, that could change.

Movies based on video games have a reputation for being bad—the likes of Borderlands and Assassin's Creed make that hard to deny. Rather than wasting time with them, you should instead turn your attention to TV, where there are some genuinely great video game adaptations.

I don't currently own a laptop. Instead, I use the hollowed-out shell of one—and in some ways, it's better than the real thing. You might not need a fully functioning laptop, either.