Computer Safety & News

Network World shares an informative slide show of 11 innovative features found in Creators Update for 2017 http://www.networkworld.com/article/3136213/windows/check-out-these-11-new-windows-10-features-microsoft-sneakily-revealed.html There’s a new music app coming, a revamped Windows Defender, and more Microsoft showed off a handful of marquee features for next year’s Windows 10 update on Wednesday, but the company sneakily hid 11 more new releases […]

John Maxwell shares that we need to focus on the exciting changes, as well as the harder ones needed for personal growth as a leader.  http://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/the-worlds-most-important-building From the day you are born until the day you die, there is one constant throughout your life: CHANGE. From your physical appearance to your intelligence, from your emotional […]

Congress and technology companies are evaluating new laws, controls, and preventative measures to improve internet safety in light of recent attacks https://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2016/10/assessing-the-damage-ddos-attack.aspx In addition to law enforcement, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who joined Republican Cory Gardner of Colorado over the summer in forming the […]

John Maxwell notes that success or improvements to team members do not come all at once.  But it is based on experience and personal growth that is more inch-by-inch in nature.  http://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/the-worlds-most-important-building One of the most stunning buildings in the world stands in the middle of the New York City skyline. At 1,776 feet tall, […]

Mozilla has announced Project Quantum to support multi-core CPU processing for the future generation of devices  http://www.pcmag.com/news/349128/mozilla-quantum-aims-for-big-leap-in-browser-performance https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a3b7174b3c12#.zbfv5v1df Mozilla is developing a next-generation Web engine, dubbed Project Quantum. For the uninitiated, a Web engine basically runs all the content you receive as you surf the Web. Most browsers today are still built for a single-core […]

Mobile devices are now more of a security target than ever — as online activiy moves away from traditional PC and laptop computing  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-internet-mobilephone-idUSKCN12S29L Seventy-five percent of internet use will be mobile in 2017, up slightly from this year, as a growing number of consumers around the world access the web on smartphones and tablets, media buying […]

Future devices are using newer hardware standards and some will no longer easily support older devices, as laptop technology further evolves  https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-macbook-pro-usb-c-thunderbolt-decision/ Someday we’ll live in a truly wireless future, where everything is interconnected. Speeds will be so fast — 5G and WiGig — and the chipsets so cheap and plentiful that everything from your […]

Some of the new “smart devices” in IOT family were used to cause massive website outages recently.  IOT Security will likely be improved in future to prevent or reduce impacts.  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/technology/daily-report-hackers-have-new-tools-to-bring-down-websites.html The bad news? Hackers also have new tools to take those sites down. Friday morning, Dyn, a New Hampshire company that hosts critical portions […]

Tesla is pilot testing solar powered innovations that may show up in future homes http://www.pcmag.com/news/349159/tesla-shows-off-solarcity-solar-roofs-for-homes To the surprise of everyone gathered on the Universal lot, each of the four set homes had been outfitted with solar roofs, which are made up of glass tiles that are embedded with solar cells. They had been redone over […]