John PrietoMicrosoft's Silent Update Checks Your Windows PC for Old Versions of Officeverified_publisherPCMag - Matthew HumphriesNothing is installed, no restart is required, but Microsoft will quietly collect some information about your system. UPDATE 2/6: Microsoft has now …
John PrietoAmazon Web Services adds computing power to Folding@Homedecrypt.co - Will HeasmanAmazon Web Services is now using its computing power to help Folding@Home find a coronavirus cure. It’s already ranked third. Amazon Web Services …
John Prieto10 Incredibly Useful Things You Had No Idea Your Apple Watch Could Doverified_publisherInc Magazine - Jason AtenYou already knew it was great for notifications, and, of course, the time. You probably didn't know it could do these 10 things as well. Maybe you were one of the lucky recipients of a brand new Apple Watch this holiday season. That wouldn't be that big of a stretch considering that they were on …
John PrietoWhy your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AIverified_publisherTNW - The ConversationIf you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t know how to do in artificial intelligence. “But my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,” you may think. And yet your cat knows how to walk, run, jump (and …
John Prieto5 milestones that shaped 50 years of internet historyverified_publisherTNW - The ConversationFifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent Stanford University researcher Bill Duval a two-letter message: “lo.” The intended …