Author: Zach_Wilson
Excel spreadsheet blunder sees thousands of positive Covid-19 tests go missing Excel spreadsheet
A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet error has caused circa 16,000 coronavirus tests to be misplaced in the UK, playing havoc with official figures and contact tracing efforts. As a result of the blunder, tens of thousands of people that came into contact with coronavirus sufferers were not warned immediately, heightening the…
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You can get Western Digital’s 5TB portable drive for $100 at Best Buy
Best Buy’s deal of the day is on Western Digital’s Easystore USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a whopping 5TB of storage. Usually priced at $180, it’s down to $100 today only. This hard drive is perfect for people who have just an absolutely massive amount of data that they…
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The Studio home workout display works with your existing gym equipment
“Smart” workout equipment has gotten a lot of attention this year, what with the coronavirus shutting down gyms. Some of the more elaborate smart workout setups involve giant displays that stand in for a personal trainer, and a new one launches today… Source
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Major Arm licensee adopts royalty-free RISC-V core for next-gen processors null
The RISC-V open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) has become quite a phenomenon in the recent years as multiple companies that traditionally use Arm’s ISA or processor cores decided to join the emerging ecosystem. Renesas Electronics has now announced that it will use a 32-bit RISC-V core designed by Andes Technology…
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Tips to prevent your WhatsApp account being hacked WhatsApp
South Africans have been put on high alert after Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abraham’s WhatsApp has been hacked. While WhatsApp has tried to improve security through 2-factor authentication and end-to-end encryption, hackers can still get into your messages by getting around these protections. The South African Police Service have…
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Driving the 2021 Volkswagen ID 4, VW’s first all-electric SUV
When I first got to see Volkswagen’s new ID 4 electric SUV at an eerily empty launch event in Brooklyn last month, the company’s executives warned me not to make the obvious comparisons to other electric vehicles, namely Tesla. That was because Volkswagen’s real targets are popular gas-powered compact SUVs,…
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