Updater and Tuneup Technology Preview
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Maintaining your computer can be a chore sometimes, especially if you’re the kind of person that’s always on the go. Keeping all the programs on a computer up-to-speed with the latest updates can be a hassle. Periodically ‘housecleaning’ the system (like defragging the hard drive) in order to optimize performance is even less exciting. So we’d like to help with that. We…
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From Computer World UK (here) There is little doubt that advances in technology have radically changed many aspects of our lives, from healthcare to manufacturing, from supply chains to battlefields, we are experiencing an unprecedented technical revolution. Unfortunately, technology enables the average person to leak personal information at a...
I don’t know which is more exciting: that someone is trying to break the squid record, or that there is a squid record in the first place. An Auckland scientist is attempting to break his own world record for rearing deep sea squid in captivity. Neither, actually. This is what’s exciting: The project is a warm-up for Dr Steve O’Shea…...
A potential new forensic: To determine how similar a person’s fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer keyboards and compared bacterial gene sequences with those from the fingertips of the keyboard owners. Today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they conclude that...
We have a beta of a new product available for download on our beta pages . F-Secure PC Booster optimizes the performance of your Windows computer and cleans up old junk from it. Try it out! We’d love to hear your feedback on the new product. On 29/06/10 At 11:18 AM
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Interesting research: Target prevalence powerfully influences visual search behavior. In most visual search experiments, targets appear on at least 50% of trials. However, when targets are rare (as in medical or airport screening), observers shift response criteria, leading to elevated miss error rates. Observers also speed target-absent responses...
Someone named me as one of the top 10 science and technology writers of all time. Flattering though it is, I don’t think I belong in the company of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Asimov….
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This seems like a solution in search of a problem: MagTek discovered that no two magnetic strips are identical. This is due to the manufacturing process. Similar to DNA, the structure of every magnetic stripe is different and the differences are distinguishable. Knowing that, MagTek pairs the card’s magnetic strip signature with the card user’s...
An article from The Economist makes a point that I have been thinking about for a while: the modern technology makes life harder for spies, not easier. It used to be the technology favored spycraft — think James Bond gadgets — but more and more, technology favors spycatchers. The ubiquitous collection of personal data makes it harder to...
Beijing, China – April 1, 2010 – The Chinese government announced that effective immediately all US based technology firms and associated products and services will be banned from all Chinese government and state-run agency IT environments. The ban is expected to include critical infrastructure, such as military, finance, utilities,...
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and there are important updates being released. From Microsoft, of course, but also from Adobe. There’s a critical security issue in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and earlier. It’s important that organizations deploy these updates before the Christmas holiday reduces IT staffing. Fortunately,...
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