How to Limit Gmail Ads

Gmail Scans Your Emails for More Targeted Ads (Here’s How to Limit What You See) Google recently updated their TOS to reflect the email scanning practices they use in Gmail, which are used to display more relevant ads, among other things. The actual scanning of Gmail emails is nothing new, but the update to Google’s terms of service… Read More »

Inexpensive Android Laptops Coming Soon

Microsoft continues to commit blunder after blunder — now it appears Microsoft is trying to get back the past — the next major Windows Update will make Windows 8 like Windows 7. Customers are exasperated – many people are throwing their hands up and starting to look for an alternative to Microsoft Windows. Yes of course there’s Apple… Read More »

Google Cracks CAPTCHAs

Google develops computer vision accurate enough to solve its own CAPTCHAs   Google has cracked the CAPTCHA. In a paper published this week, Google researchers say that they’ve developed an algorithm that can accurately solve Google’s own CAPTCHA puzzles — those obfuscated jumbles of letters and numbers you type in on websites to prove that you’re human —… Read More »

Microsoft Says: If you don’t install Windows 8.1 Update 1, you don’t get anymore Windows Updates

Microsoft confirms it’s dropping Windows 8.1 support   In what is surely the most customer-antagonistic move of the new Windows regime, Steve Thomas at Microsoft posted a TechNet article on Saturday stating categorically thatMicrosoft will no longer issue security patches for Windows 8.1, starting in May. Call this the “let them eat cake” approach to support for Microsoft’s… Read More »