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In the past, phising was more common, done through emails. Now, as the e-crime prosecution has announced, fraudulent mobile phone messages are used to steal personal data, for example bank account login details by pretending to be the bank so that we trust them. They usually inform us, falsely, of the compromise of ...
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Birthday of Charles Matthew " Chuck" Geschke | Co-founder of Adobe Inc | Techday, September 11th On this TECHDAY in history, on September 11th 1939, Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke was born. He was a businessman who helped to develop computer science in the U.S. He is mainly known for being the co-founder ...
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How to clean your computer quickly and easily Do you keep seeing messages on your computer screen that the available storage space has been significantly reduced? Or have you noticed that lately your disk performance has decreased significantly and is not as it used to be? If yes, then a first step you can take is ...
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The first Internet search engine, Archie | Techday, September 10th The launching of the world’s first Internet search engine, Archie, happened on this TECHDAY in history, on September 10th 1990. It was suitable to catalogue FTP archives. That made it easier for people to find files. However, since the technology ...
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Lately, a large percentage of people have been using video conferencing apps to adopt to the new circumstances brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic. Matters of privacy and security, thus must be taken seriously. Video conferencing apps can have security concerns and there's the risk that the person you're talking ...
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The first "debugging" | Techday, September 9th On this TECHDAY in history, on September 9th 1947, the first reference to the term "bug", concerning a computer, came through. It was the recording on a logbook page of the operation of a Harvard Mark II computer by Grace Hopper. Apparently, the first recorded bug was ...
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Hacked smartphone and how to handle it There are some signs to help you understand if you are a victim of hacking. When able to recognize them, you could deal with them in a more timely manner. One of the most common ones is your phone's performance has been decreasing and it can get difficult to use at times. ...
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Birthday of Alexander Neckam | The Western "discoverer" of the magnetic compass | Techday, September 8th On this TECHDAY in history, on September 8th 1157, Alexander Neckam was born, the first European "discoverer" of the magnetic compass. He was English and his interests included math, poetry, theology and ...
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Spectravideo SV 328 | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1983 Technical Specifications: Processor: Zilog Z80 A, 3.6 MHz RAM: 64 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Eight octaves, three channels Connectors/Ports: RGB, cassette, serial, parallel, two joystick, cartridge Case: Keyboard type Monitor: Color ...
