Facebook’s Telescope on Human Behavior

One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was. Every month more than 845 million people record and share traces of their daily lives, relationships, and online activity through their friend connections, messages, photos, check-ins, and clicks. The richness of that information goes some way to explain why… Read More »

Using a common Windows tool to check your system performance

Most of you have used Task Manager before — usually to close a program that is frozen or to see what processes are running in the background. But there’s another use for Task Manager that can really help you diagnose your Windows miseries 🙂 . That’s right – that common everyday program that’s built into every version of… Read More »

The Infamous Microsoft Phone Phishing Scam

Raymond almost falls for the Microsoft Phone Phishing Scam I guess I’m just gullible. I received a call from a man with an Indian accent claiming to be from Microsoft. He told me that my computer had come up as “infected” and gave me a code that would allow me to connect with a Microsoft technician to clean… Read More »

Researchers say crab-based computing possible, lobsters throw up claws in disbelief

IBM’s Holey Optochip? Yawn. Fujitsu’s K supercomputer? Yesterday’s news. Forget about boring old conventional computing stuff, the future of computer technology lies in crabs — lots and lots of crabs. Researchers at Kobe University and the University of the West of England’s Unconventional Computing Centre have discovered that properly herded crabs can signal the AND, OR and NOT… Read More »