Can whatever keep the Computer? The industry is giving it all it’s got – ultrabooks, quicker chips – but up to now, not anything’s operating. Shipment increase for Pcs has cratered,...
The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he...
If you are buying a laptop for a specific purpose, then you need to make sure that it does the job. In this case, the best source of advice would be economics department staff at the university you’re...
I don’t know of any live malware attacking Mac OS X, so you probably don’t need either anti-virus or anti-malware software at the moment. However, this does not mean you shouldn’t run...
What are the best, reasonably inexpensive hardware and/or software solutions to improve a PC’s crappy sound? We find the audio of TV programmes hard on our ears, bass too loud, and the high notes are...
Schools are being sold software to monitor pupils’ internet activity for extremism-related language such as “jihadi bride” and “YODO”, short for you only die once.
Several companies are producing...
The response to our stories about people being scammed by cold calls from Indian call centres has been remarkable. (A quick reminder: people get cold-called and told there’s a “problem with...
‘Why are we not doing more to have coding colleges and technical, vocational education alongside university education?” This question, raised by Labour’s Yvette Cooper during an interview with the...
An unprecedented systems’ failure was responsible for the air traffic control chaos that affected airports across London and south-east England on Friday.
Nats, the company responsible for controlling...
US and British intelligence organizations have efficiently cracked a lot of the online encryption relied upon through loads of hundreds of thousands of humans to guard the privateness in their private...
