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Recent Windows versions are quite aggressive at tracking the things you do with your PC, both locally and online.
And as you might expect, Windows 11 does it big time.
For example, your Windows 11 machine takes note of the websites you visit, the ads you engage with and the things you search for in order to develop a customer profile on you.
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Do you take lots of pictures? If so, you know how frustrating it can be when it takes forever to transfer your photos from your camera or mobile device to your computer or cloud storage.
The good news is there are ways to speed up the transfer process and get your photos onto your computer as quickly as possible. Here are just a few of them: [Read more…]
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It’s no secret that some modern smartphones cost as much as a decent computer system. That’s why used phones are in such high demand these days.
Buying a used smartphone sight-unseen is a risky endeavor because there’s no way to know how much abuse the device has received or what kind of shape it’s actually in.
Even worse, if the phone you’re thinking about purchasing was lost or stolen it could well be locked in order to prevent it from being activated by a new owner – which could be you if you end up buying it. [Read more…]
Considering the continuous increase in cybersecurity-related threats around the world, the need for talented cybersecurity professionals has never been greater. And unfortunately, there has been a persistent talent shortage in various cybersecurity fields for quite some time now.
Part of combatting this wide-scale issue is by addressing a shortcoming that’s been evident in the industry for a large number of years – gender disparity. Currently, females only represent 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce. While the statistic historically had been due to an imbalance of women in STEM fields generally, the low participation of women in cybersecurity careers has persisted. [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: Rick, my two year old laptop wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.
Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new laptop.
The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead laptop’s hard drive that I desperately want to get off of it and onto my new Laptop. [Read more…]