Read This Article on NPR.org about the U.S. federal appeals court judge who sided with consumers in the Net Neutrality case recently. Net Neutrality is the set of rules that say that Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Suddenlink aren’t […]
There’s big money in advertising. Until now advertising meant putting up a billboard or a spot on the radio. Now advertisers get their products directly into the palm of your hand. Also, until now advertisements provided information in one direction […]
Cities like Lafayette got tired of paying too much for slow internet and decided to create their own municipal internet connection. Read This Article on Arstechnica about why a city would want it’s own fiber network, and think about what […]
Every computer has to store data somewhere. In the early days of computing they used paper punch cards. Then reel-to-reel tape drives. Then magnetic floppy disk drives. Then mechanical hard disk drives (HDD’s for short) which is still the standard. […]
More new Ransomware viruses discovered this week. Ransomware hijacks your computer by encrypting all your important data and forcing you to pay a fee before you can access it again. Once you’re infected you HAVE to pay, or your data […]
In case you wondered what it would be like if a computer algorithm wrote a movie script, wonder no more, because “Sunspring” is here – a movie written completely by a computer program… a Long Short-Term Memory Recursive Neural Network, […]
A lot of clients have complained to me that updating their computer to Windows 10 slowed down it’s performance significantly. There’s a reason for this: if you open your Task Manager, you will see that your Disk Usage constantly hovers […]
An Article On ComputerWorld.com reports on how major PC manufacturers have been using unsecured updaters. Updaters are programs used to update other programs, and hardware manufacturers use them to keep the drivers and software on their machines up to date. […]
Windows 10 upgrades are being aggressively pushed on computer users. Many people wonder why Microsoft is so eager to provide their customers with this “free” operating system. The answer is, Microsoft is now in the data mining game, and older […]
If you use an iPhone or iPad you may have come across a website like this: Don’t panic! Your phone hasn’t been infected with a virus, and you don’t owe the FBI any money. All you need to do is […]