Back in 2015 Microsoft announced that Windows 10 was the last Microsoft operating system that you would ever need. Fast forward 6 years to the present, and we learn that Microsoft’s announcement back in 2015 wasn’t entirely accurate. Scheduled to...
One of the people familiar with the hacking spree said the hackers made use of Microsoft cloud offerings while avoiding Microsoft’s corporate infrastructure. Microsoft Corporation has recently announced that it has identified a new malicious software in its systems. It...
“Don’t let the sun set on your anger” The old anecdotal saying that you should never go to sleep angry just got backed up by science, thanks to UMass Amherst neuroscientists. Their study concludes that if you have a negative...
On December 9, 2020 the Federal Trade Commission brought suit against Facebook alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anti-competitive conduct. “Personal social networking is central to the lives of...
Highly creative people have significantly more nerve connections between the right and left hemispheres Seemingly countless self-help books and seminars tell you to tap into the right side of your brain to stimulate creativity. But forget the “right-brain” myth —...
Memex, a powerful new search tool that goes beyond the realm of Google, Yahoo, and Bing, is launched by DARPA The inventor of Memex Chris White, sat down with Stahl and Bar-On and explained how Memex works–and how it could...
Nearly all of computer security boils down to one question: How can a device know that you are you? Passwords – are the most basic tactic for confirming your identity. If you can come up with your secret string...
The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir to prove it could...
For years, I’ve managed to keep all of my registered software on local machines, and in those years, I’ve been able to keep, or distribute freely, everything I’ve created, from web apps to customized databases, to web pages and...
Jeff Rothschild’s machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space here with racks of computer servers that were needed to store...