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While federal student loan payments were paused, I continued paying monthly to chip away at my graduate school debt. Now, with student loan forgiveness on the table, I decided to request a refund from my student loan servicer to maximize my debt relief. But it’s also complicating my forgiveness situation.

I thought taking advantage of the temporary 0% interest rates was a smart move while payments were on hold. I didn’t anticipate President Joe Biden’s forgiveness plan would include relief for graduate school debt.

Since graduate debt is included, and because I received a Pell Grant, I should now receive up to $20,000 in relief. But in order to maximize forgiveness, I have to take a few more steps to request a refund and raise my student loan balance. The biggest issue for borrowers in my position is making sure to receive a refund before applying for forgiveness; otherwise, you might have to request forgiveness twice.

I’ve spent hours on hold with my loan servicer and talking to a financial aid expert. Here’s what you can learn from my experience.

Don’t wait to request a refund

In order to receive maximum forgiveness, I first needed to request a refund for part of the money I paid during the pandemic — and experts say it pays to do this soon. That would bring my balance back up to my full forgiveness amount of $20,000.

Here’s a quick look at my situation. I rounded up to make the math a little

The Amazon Photos app has been redesigned for Android users

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Amazon Photos on Android has been redesigned to make app navigation and sharing photos and videos easier for its users, bringing the service in line with a similar update that rolled out to iOS devices almost a year ago.

Now, Amazon Photo users can search a photo gallery from the home screen singlehandedly — emphasizing navigation options all being “within a thumb’s reach.” Swiping up within the Amazon Photos gallery on your device will open a new control panel where users can find curated features to filter photos by object, place, or year.

A mobile phone displaying the redesigned Amazon Photos app for Android. — *The new home screen can be navigated using just your thumb and features a new control panel, accessible by swiping up within the gallery.*

Tapping the Amazon Smile logo at the top-left-hand corner of the gallery page will also give users access to options such as customer accounts, uploads, and prints, while the “Paper airplane” button on the top right will take users to a page where images and videos can be privately shared with friends and family.

Amazon Prime subscribers have access to free, unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5GB of video storage on Amazon Photos, which can be easily showcased on devices such as the Echo Show and Fire TV. The Amazon Photos Android app will be automatically updated to reflect these changes for existing users.

These features aren’t anything new for iOS users but they give Amazon Photos on Android devices a much-needed refresh to compete with rival services such as Google

Too Many Slack Notifications? 4 Ways to Quiet Things Down

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Slack’s features help millions of people communicate in hybrid workspaces, but it might feel overwhelming trying to keep up with all the notifications across channels and chats. You probably need to know about an upcoming meeting. A meme from a reality TV show, though? Probably not.

Thankfully, there are ways to amplify and mute certain channels in Slack so aren’t bogged down with unnecessary notifications. Here’s how to do both on your desktop and mobile devices.

Manage Slack channel and chat notifications from desktop

1. Open and log in to Slack from a web browser or the Slack app.

2. Click into a channel or chat you want to amplify or mute.

3. Click either the channel name or the member names across the top of the window.

4. Click the middle drop-down menu with the bell icon across the top of the new window. The first time you see this menu, it might read Get Notifications for @ Messages or Get Notifications for All Messages depending on your settings.

5. From there you can choose one of the four notifications options:

All messages: Notifies you of every new message.
@ mentions: Only notifies you for @mentions, @channel and @here.
Off: You won’t receive any notifications.
Mute: You won’t receive notifications, but you will see the red badge icon if you are mentioned in the channel. This channel will also be moved to the bottom of your channels list.

6. Once you’ve made your choice, click the X in

NASA’s First Cubesat Reaches Moon to Show Artemis the Way

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While NASA eyes a planned launch of its first big Artemis moon mission early Wednesday, a tiny cubesat has officially arrived at the moon to serve as a pathfinder for the upcoming stages of the agency’s lunar program.

Capstoneshort for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, is the size of a microwave oven and designed to circle the moon via an eccentric elliptical orbit (formally known as a near rectilinear halo orbit) that’s never been flown by a spacecraft before .

Capstone is checking out the route in advance of NASA’s plans to build a space station dubbed Gateway to ply the same orbit. The Gateway will be a waypoint for astronauts in the Artemis program, designed to get humans back on the moon, and it will house equipment and supplies for trips to the lunar surface.

The small satellite performed its initial orbit insertion maneuver, firing its thrusters at 4:39 pm PT Sunday to enter the special orbital path, which will allow it to circle the moon along a very fuel efficient route, relying instead on the gravitational pulls of the moon and Earth to stay on course.

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It’s expected to take about a week for mission engineers to confirm and fine-tune the path of Capstone after orbital insertion.

Capstone’s journey to the moon has been tumultuous. The compact craft lost communications with Earth for a while in July and

Formula 1’s Toto Wolff, accused of running his team remotely, leans into software TechCrunch

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Toto Wolff, the 50-year-old Austrian chief executive, team principal and part-owner of the Mercedes Formula 1 team who was recently described by the New Yorker as someone who might breeze “past you in the airport, smelling good, wearing loafers and no socks,” talked openly yesterday about his team’s terrible, no-good year. Sitting with Oliver Steil, the CEO of the German company TeamViewera popular maker of remote support software, Wolff also described how the troubled racing team is counting, in part, on TeamViewer’s tech to give it an edge in its bid to recapture its former glory.

The two were speaking at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, and Wolff was cheered when he appeared before the crowd, owing in no small part to “Drive to Survive,” the Netflix series that has made him famous. (He finds this amusing, recounting to New Yorker writer Sam Knight how a young woman threw herself through the open window of his car to get her picture taken.)

Wolff also immediately acknowledged the obvious. “We won the championship eight times in a row,” he said, “but that is the past.” Mercedes, he continued, “just got the physics wrong . . . and got the concept of the car not in the right place,” he said, referring to the design of its floor, which he has previously pointed to as the root of the team’s lackluster year. (Every few years, the F1 teams — there are currently 10 altogether — are forced by the body