Month: February 2020
UK government investing £65m for rural communities and creative industries
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has detailed how it will allocate £65 million of the £200 million it has pledged to the development of 5G networks and applications. Nine projects have been awarded a share of £35 million after their proposals were selected as winners of an…
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A Former Cambridge Analytica Employee Was Thrown Out Of Facebook’s New York Office
Facebook security prevented a former employee of Cambridge Analytica from entering its New York headquarters for a happy hour last week, raising questions about the scope of the social media giant’s security blacklist and its policy toward people associated with the infamous data firm. According to Robert Murtfeld, formerly the…
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Which Microsoft Office product is each Democratic presidential candidate?
On Wednesday night, six Democratic presidential candidates took the debate stage in Las Vegas and we didn’t really learn anything new except that former mayor Pete Buttigieg loves Microsoft Word. At the beginning of the night’s events, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tore into Buttigieg discounting his healthcare plan as just…
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The Most Popular YouTube Videos About The Coronavirus Are Being Made In India — And They’re Full Of Hoaxes
YouTube / Via youtube.com A screenshot of the most popular YouTube video about the coronavirus. The most popular YouTube video in the world about the coronavirus was created by a channel called Wonderful Secrets of the World, which typically publishes Hindi-language videos about sports and cars, as well as roundups…
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Five lessons from the Justice Department’s big debate over Section 230
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is widely criticized, widely praised, and widely misunderstood. The policy allows basically every major website — from YouTube to Wikipedia — to exist in its current form. Depending on who you ask, this is either a wonderful development or a complete disaster. That’s…
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AMD graphics cards are allegedly overheating because the screws are too loose
The last thing on my mind when building or upgrading a PC is whether my graphics card’s screws are tight enough. But it turns out that even a few slightly loose screws could cause a GPU to overheat, because if the cooler isn’t tightly pressed against the silicon, it can…
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