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Wi-Fi 6: Amazingly fast internet is coming — what you need to know

Wi-Fi 6 will improve the efficiency of a single network by about four times, … A larger benefit, however, is revealed when there are multiple devices connected to the same network. … all connected devices should see significantly less battery drain. … There aren’t a lot of router options on the market yet… [the first wifi6 routers are expensive, but as always the prices will drop, eventually].

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Cybersecurity: You’re are over-confident or under-prepared for a breach

Sixty eight percent of people believe they’re doing all they can to protect themselves against cyberattacks.  …Perhaps surprisingly, it’s the older generations which has more confidence about how they’re protecting themselves online, with three quarters of those over 45 confident that they’re doing all they can to protect against data loss. …the higher confidence among older web users could be based on a naivety about the malicious threats that are out there on the internet, while younger users are aware of cybersecurity issues – but still aren’t addressing them.

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How hackers make money from your stolen medical data

The most expensive offering on the market is provider information which can be used to forge a medical background, an alarming prospect given the harm which could be done when someone who hasn’t qualified poses as a medical professional. … The cybersecurity firm also found a vast array of forgeries available and for sale. For between $10 and $120 per record, you can buy fake prescriptions, labels, sales receipts, and stolen healthcare cards.

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All The Apps You’ll Need to Run Your Small Business

With the right combination of software tools (plus the unavoidable hard work, long nights, and grit), you could find yourself with a thriving business…  [Here are some of] our favorite small business apps into each of these categories. All apps mentioned here have a 4+ star rating with more than 100 reviews (with only a few exceptions for awesome, lesser-known apps).

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7 apps that will let you hire people to do almost anything

You might not realize just how many tasks can be carried out via your smartphone, but if you’ve got the right apps, you can do pretty much anything. … we’ve collected some of the top apps that will turn your phone into an outsourcing machine.

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How to Set Up a Secure Phone

I’d advise the following ground rules to best prepare for doing battle against an unseen and dangerous foe.  Purchase a second smartphone as your secure communication device. If you’re on a budget, buy an older, used model from a reputable source. … Use your main smartphone for all of life’s normal, unsecured stuff like social media, email, online shopping, and casual text messages; ONLY use your second smartphone for secure communication — nothing else.  Ensure your second device an iOS device.

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This is how we might finally replace passwords

Here’s the thing about passwords: They’re terrible. Passwords are easy to hack, easy to lose and hard to use.

Worse still, passwords guard some of our most valuable digital assets.

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3 Ways Cryptocurrency Will Change Your Life In Near Future

Cryptocurrency is one of the man’s groundbreaking invention in finance, offering beneficial alternative avenues to the people who have limited access and benefit from what society presents. The rapid changes in cryptocurrency open an ample room for many possibilities in the near future.  Three ways it will change your life…

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How Steve Jobs Convinced Tim Cook to Join Apple

“In 1998, Steve jobs convinced me to leave Compaq behind to join a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. They made computers. But at that moment at least, people weren’t interested in buying them.  Steve had a plan to change things, and I wanted to be a part of it. He wasn’t just about the i-Mac or the i-Pod or everything that came after.

He was about the values that brought these inventions to life: the idea that putting powerful tools in the hands of everyday people helps unleash creativity and moves humanity forward; that we can build things that help us imagine a better world, and then make it real.”

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Will VPNs Become Obsolete In 2019?

If you just want your passwords and banking information to stay secure, then a VPN is already obsolete. HTTPS keeps your passwords and other information inaccessible for hackers by utilizing strong encryption, no VPN required. However, if you want privacy, you’ll need a VPN.

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11 Unproductive Habits You Want to Quit

When you want to become successful or productive, look at how you become the opposite. Turn things upside down. That’s what we’ve done… By simply avoiding these unproductive habits, you’ll automatically become more productive.

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These Navy SEAL tricks will help you perform better under pressure

The Navy SEALs use two breathing techniques that force the body into a more relaxed state when they’re in a high-pressure situation, and anyone can use them to control stress, says Everatt.  “Tactical breathing” is a technique to use when you feel yourself having a fight-or-flight response.

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The Weaponization Of Artificial Intelligence

In the competition to lead the emerging technology race and the futuristic warfare battleground, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the center of the global power play.

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The Unbelievable Demand for Cybersecurity Workers

Postings for cybersecurity had grown more than three times faster than other information technology (IT) positions and roughly 12 times faster than all other jobs. … There’s good reason behind the growth: Cybercrime caused an estimated $3 trillion in damages in 2015, according to research firm Cybersecurity Ventures. The company expects that figure to double to $6 trillion by 2021.

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The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least Sense

Imagine that you are sitting in the boardroom of a major global drinks company, charged with producing a new product that will rival the position of Coca-Cola as the world’s second-most-popular cold nonalcoholic drink. How would you respond? … I’m fairly sure nobody would say is this: “Hey, let’s try marketing a really expensive drink that comes in a tiny can…and tastes kind of disgusting.” Yet that is exactly what one company did.  …  That drink was Red Bull.

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Startups are capitalizing on DeepFakes’ powerful AI

Deepfakes … made it possible for anyone to master complex machine learning; you just needed the time to collect enough photographs of a person to train the model. You dragged these images into a folder, and the tool handled the convincing forgery from there. The anonymous user had sparked “a war on what’s real,”

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Wyze Sense review: Wyze continues its ‘too good to be true’ approach

Wyze, a company known for its inexpensive home security cameras that deliver far more than the $20 or $30 asking price, recently expanded its product lineup to include two different sensors.

The $20 Wyze Sense bundle includes a Sense Bridge, two Contact Sensors, and a Motion Sensor. Perhaps what’s more impressive than the small price, is just how small the sensors are themselves. From the Bridge to the Motion Sensor, everything in the kit is compact. I’ve spent a few weeks with the starter kit, and I have to say, Wyze has done it again. …

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Intel CPUs vulnerable to the new Zombieload attack

Academics have discovered a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors that can allow attackers to retrieve data being processed inside a CPU.  The leading attack in this new vulnerability class is a security flaw named Zombieload… academics say that all Intel CPUs released since 2011 are most likely vulnerable. Processors for desktops, laptops, and (cloud) servers are all impacted…

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The End of App Stores Is Fast Approaching

A new generation of Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), now taking root on desktop computers, may soon make the jump to your smartphone, changing how you download apps — and where they come from — forever.

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Your most sensitive data is likely exposed online. Good and bad people try to find it

Many software tools that help put databases on the cloud leave the data exposed by default. Even when the tools do make data private from the start, not every organization has the expertise to know it should leave those protections in place. Often, the data just sits there in plain text waiting to be read.

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Major Antivirus companies secrets being sold on dark web

A collective of Russian and English-speaking hackers are actively marketing the spoils of data breaches at three US-based antivirus software vendors. The collective, calling itself “Fxmsp,” is selling both source code and network access to the companies for $300,000 and is providing samples that show strong evidence of the validity of its claims. …

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Windows 10 is finally getting the ever popular “PowerToys”

Microsoft is rebooting and open sourcing PowerToys, the Windows 95 utilities that brought power users the popular Tweak UI, which allowed users to manipulate the Windows user interface, and over a dozen other tools. Microsoft is planning to publish previews of PowerToys utilities via GitHub this summer…

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How to secure your iPhone or iPad from hackers, snoopers, and thieves

Chances are high that your iPhone or iPad is an absolute treasure trove of personal information that you don’t want falling into the hands of others. And while iOS does a great job of keeping data safe, it’s possible to make the device a lot more secure.

Here are settings you should check (and change) and tweaks you should make to harden the security and lock down your device.

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Amazon’s secret new chip could be key to the future of AI

The chip on show at Amazon’s MARS event is many times more efficient than conventional silicon chips. … The chips, being developed … at MIT, … promise to bring powerful artificial intelligence to a multitude of devices where power is limited. … New AI chips could make warehouse robots more common or let smartphones create photo-realistic augmented-reality scenery.

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8 Timeless Skills to Change your Life Forever – in Under 8 Hours

You can learn valuable soft and hard skills in about 15 to 20 hours of practice. And I’m talking about starting from nothing. I’ve learned 39 new skills in the past 13 months. But I’m not the only one who has experimented with that. My original inspiration came from Josh Kaufman’s TEDx talk, The First 20 Hours — How to Learn Anything.

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The making of Amazon Prime the most successful membership program

Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs.

That same year, Amazon was under siege from multiple sides. Some of its biggest competitors were brick-and-mortar chains like Best Buy, which was still in expansion mode at the time, with sales growing 17 percent annually. Toys ‘R’ Us sued Amazon in a high-profile battle, alleging it had violated an agreement the two companies had for the toy store chain to be an exclusive seller on Amazon.com.

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Microsoft: We promise you’ll get better controls over your data

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will change how it collects data from devices when customers use its services, introducing the new ‘required’ and ‘optional’ categories for data collected, say, when enterprise customers use Office 365.

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Microsoft: WinRAR exploit gives attackers ‘full control’ of your PC

When this attack was detected by Microsoft, it’s likely a large chunk of the world’s 500 million WinRAR users hadn’t updated… Israeli security firm Check Point revealed that a malicious ACE file could place malware anywhere on a Windows PC after being extracted by WinRAR. The social engineering used in the campaign was crafted to ensure full remote compromise of a machine…

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Cloud database leaked private details of 80 million US families

The addresses and demographic details of more than 80 million US households were exposed on an unsecured database stored on the cloud, independent security researchers have found.  The details included names, ages and genders as well as income levels and marital status. …

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