It's a horrible thing to think about but you are a commodity. All your personal details, from your name and address to your bank account information, are worth something to someone. It can be traded on, and used against you. For what purpose? Most commonly, for identity theft or even blackmail.
At the annual F8 Facebook developer conference in September, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled something new coming to your News Feed. It's called 360 Videos, and Zuckerberg thinks it's the future of watching videos. In a nutshell, 360 Videos is Facebook's name for 360-degree videos, a new type of interactive video that is gaining...
This brief guide will show you exactly how to create a custom message that's displayed before anyone can sign in to your Windows 10 laptop/desktop/tablet. One of many reasons you may want to do this is so that you can include information about how to return your laptop or tablet if it's lost or stolen (ie.
The cross-platform Open Source encryption software TruPax was designed to create TrueCrypt containers that match the size of all files added to them. As you may know, TrueCrypt does not ship with options to add files to volumes during the creation process which always meant that you had to guess or calculate the storage requirements of containers.
Did you know the Print Screen button used to actually buffer what was on your screen and send it to the printer port? The screen would literally be printed. Meanwhile, taking screenshots has become more convenient and hence more common. Whether it's a journalist like me doing an article, IT support needing to see a user's screen,...
Facebook has gone down a few times recently, and though there are many things to do when this happens, they aren't always apparent. Here's a quick list for next time. First, make sure Facebook is actually down. It's not uncommon for your Internet connection to stutter or die.
It was one of the most requested features from Windows Insiders. Still, Microsoft decided not to add Aero Glass back to Windows 10, after removing it in Windows 8. Here's how you can get it back. The Aero Glass theme introduced in Windows Vista and refined in Windows 7 was (oddly) withdrawn by Microsoft for Windows...
Robots are cool. Robots that operate at a molecular level? Those are even cooler -- and there's no limit to what they could accomplish. While science has been fascinated by the impossibly small building blocks of the world for hundreds of years, it's only been since the 1980s that scientific understanding and technological development has truly...
Today, many of us use a thumb drive or email to transfer files between computers mere meters away from one another - but there's a better way. Network file transfers may take a few minutes of setup, but it's well worth having invested that time in the long run.