Security
Have you ever felt a creeping sensation that someone's watching you? Then you turn around and you don't see anything out of the ordinary. Depending on where you were, though, you might not have been completely imagining it. ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Computer scientists have pioneered a new method that could be used to develop more "natural" automated virtual assistants to help people suffering from mental illness.
Sep 18, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
The security-conscious among us use a PIN, a personal identification number, to "lock" our smartphones so that if the device is lost or stolen, a third party should not be able to access our contacts, messages, and other ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Business
Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset—which the company hopes is a "revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment"—that begins shipping ...
Jan 30, 2024
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Business
Amazon on Thursday unveiled Luna streaming video game service, challenging Microsoft and Google in the fast-growing segment.
Sep 24, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
New research published in the International Journal of Technology Management, shows how people make the technology transition from one type of device to another following a period of using both classes of device in parallel. ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Business
IBM says it is breaking off a $19 billion chunk of its business to focus on cloud computing.
Oct 8, 2020
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Business
An international group of consumer advocates and NGOs denounced Google's bid for sports smartwatch-maker Fitbit Thursday, saying it would threaten privacy and grant Google unfair access to a new market.
Jul 2, 2020
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Business
Organizations' failure to properly manage the servers they lease from cloud service providers can allow attackers to receive private data, research my colleagues and I conducted has shown.
Apr 11, 2022
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Business
Microsoft on Wednesday named chief executive Satya Nadella as chair of its board, strengthening his grip on a pioneering US technology company he rejuvenated for a new age.
Jun 17, 2021
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A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator.
A personal computer may be a desktop computer, a laptop computer or a tablet computer. The most common current operating systems for personal computers are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, while the most common microprocessors are x86-compatible CPUs, ARM architecture CPUs and PowerPC CPUs. Software applications for personal computers include word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsers and e-mail clients, games, and myriad personal productivity and special-purpose software. Modern personal computers often have high-speed or dial-up connections to the Internet, allowing access to the World Wide Web and a wide range of other resources.
A PC may be used at home, or may be found in an office, often connected to a local area network (LAN). This is in contrast to the batch processing or time-sharing models which allowed large expensive systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time, or large data processing systems which required a full-time staff to operate efficiently.
While early PC owners usually had to write their own programs to do anything useful with the machines, today's users have access to a wide range of commercial and non-commercial software which is provided in ready-to-run form. Since the 1980s, Microsoft and Intel have been dominating much of the personal computer market with the Wintel platform.
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