Tag: Tech
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What is: Malware
What is malware? Basically, it’s any software that was written specifically to cause problems and hurt people. This can range from turning your computer into a brick, to accessing your online bank accounts and draining all your funds, to enlisting your electric toothbrush in an attack to take down the entire internet.
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What is: AI
“An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves”. So there you have it. That’s what AI is. The study of how to make machines talk, solve problems, and learn. Except not really?
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What Is: Blockchain
When it comes to hype, few technologies have made it like Blockchain. There’s just something about this software that captures people’s imaginations, while completely bypassing the part of their brain asking annoying questions like “wait, how does this work again?” and “are we sure we want to invest our life savings in this?” So today,…
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What is: The Cloud
At this point, each one of us has enough personal information stored on the Cloud to give your average privacy advocate a nervous breakdown. It’s therefore a bit worrying that so few people actually know what Cloud is. It’s even more worrying that it’s so hard to find a decent explanation. I discovered this recently…
