Brain Hacking Is Having Incredible Effects, and It’s Just Getting Started (Morris MacMatzen/Reuters) With a jolt of electricity, you might be able to enter a flow state that allows you to learn a new skill twice as quickly, solve problems that have mystified you for hours, or even win a sharpshooting competition. And this just scratches the surface… Read More »
Windows 8.1 August Update Download Links Removed Due to Issues: How to Uninstall the Update Last week, Microsoft announced the latest iteration to Windows 8.1 Update named as August Update, integrating security features and improvements. A number of users who have installed the update seem to be facing issues such as blue screen and system instability. Microsoft is… Read More »
Healthy Heart Needs More Than Pinch of Salt, Study Finds Photograph: Getty Images People who eat the least salt may be hurting their hearts, according to a study causing controversy because some of its findings clash with public-health efforts to lower sodium consumption. The results published yesterday in theNew England Journal of Medicineshowed the expected link between heart… Read More »
Computrace back door could make millions of PCs vulnerable Almost all recent PCs have Absolute Computrace embedded in their BIOS. It’s a product designed to allow companies to track and secure all of their PCs from a single cloud-based console. But researchers at Kaspersky lab have revealed that it often runs without user-consent, persistently activates itself at system boot, and can be… Read More »
Another Comcast call recorded, another Comcast apology Is recording the only answer? Ash Semvalavich/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET This call is being recorded to improve customer service. It’s being recorded by the customer. Perhaps this is the message that every Comcast customer should prepare after another unhappy man decides to record a call with the company’s service staff. In… Read More »
These States Have the Fastest Internet Virginia tops the list, and Alaska comes in last Virginia tops the list of the states with the fastest Internet, with an average Internet speed of 13.7 megabits per second (Mbps), according to Akamai’s “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2014. Massachusetts and Delaware tied for second at 13.1 Mbps,… Read More »