Posts Tagged ‘computers’
The fact that there's a multitude of potential threats to your personal information whenever you connect to the internet isn't really a surprise these days. It actually might be more shocking that you're not using a VPN yet to protect your data ̵... ...
Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn noticed an unusual, mislabeled eBay listing for a rare beauty: an IBM System/360 in Nuremberg for peanuts. So they set out to do what any self-respecting IBM System/360 fan would do: buy it and fix it up. Thousands of Euros later, they've ... well, they've gotten it out of ...
Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor., The bugs are reminiscent of Meltdown and Spectre, which exploited a weakness in speculative execution, an important part of how modern processors work. Speculative execution helps processors predict to ...
This is pioneering computer scientist and US Navy read admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) explaining the concept of a nanosecond. From the Computer History Museum:
(Hopper) held a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Vassar College (1928) and an M.S. (1930) and Ph.D in mathematics (1934) from Yale University.
Hopper began her career teaching at Vassar and ...
Although MacBooks have grown in popularity over the past decade, Microsoft is making a bit of a comeback among consumers with the release of Windows 10 a few years ago. In fact, there are some benefits of using Windows 10 over MacOS X, such as functi... ...
True to form, Beyoncé once again broke the internet this month with the release of her "Homecoming" documentary and its accompanying live album. Oh, and don't forget about Lemonade's long-awaited arrival on streaming services. (Ugh, she's so gen... ...
Behold The Pasta PC, a computer that has a nutrition label in addition to a spec sheet, because he used sheets of pasta as the case. It works, but between the build (consider the thermals) and the antiquity of the Atom-based computer he sacrificed to make it, it's pretty hinky. [via MeFi]
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While laptops are wonderful for watching movies and TV shows, sometimes you just need a dedicated machine for getting the job done with no distractions. A great laptop for business needs to be versatile for an assortment of daily tasks, including wor... ...
The general consensus seems to be that IT pros spend their time cleaning up the messes resulting from plain, dumb human error. That much was confirmed in a couple of recent studies that revealed the majority of IT folks blame users for technical mish... ...
Pretty much everyone likes watching TV, right? It's a great escape from your daily routine and a wonderful way to decompress after a long and tedious day at work. However, sometimes your home life can get in the way of your precious TV time.
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