Even the technology news was again filled with a lot of politics. I tried to sort through it to find news that wasn’t political and that wasn’t easy. You’ll also find a couple of great tutorials that should be especially interesting to designers. Do dogs have a music preference? Mine seems to sleep through all of it. But researchers looked into it and they found what the dogs prefer! Click on the headlines of interest below to read the full articles.

• The digital artist’s guide to switching from Mac to Windows
• AT&T’s multi-gigabit wireless over power lines heading to trials this year
• Weekend Project: It’s Time to Clean Your Computer, Inside and Out
• Ransomware is about to get a lot worse, by holding your operating system hostage
• Thieves now use “Shimmers” to grab Chip/PIN card data
• GoPro gives the Karma drone another try
• The Designer’s Guide To Responsive Logos
• Forgotten passwords are bane of the Internet. Facebook wants to fix that
• How Facebook is approaching its ‘video first’ strategy
• Robot baristas now serving up coffee at San Francisco mall
• Four years at Microsoft: My ringside seat to unprecedented transformation
• Dogs ‘prefer reggae and soft rock’ to other music genres, research suggests

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