Alex Cranz
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A US ISP Tweeted Out Some Spectacularly Awful Security Advice
Charter Spectrum is a major US internet service provider, and the conduit between many Americans and their sweet, sweet internet. As such, one would think the company would have a basic grasp of how Wi-Fi security works — specifically, that it would know better than to tell its roughly 31,700 Twitter followers to change their…
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It Costs Less Than $600 To Build Your Own Mobile Phone Network
Sometimes, owning a smartphone feels pricey. There’s the hefty chunk of change you’ll need to spend on the phone itself, and then the monthly fee you’ll need to fork over to operate it. But for just $US400 ($530) and the cost of a few old Zack Morris-style brick phones, you can avoid those expenses and…
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Nintendo Switch: Everything You Need To Know About The Ambitious Shape-Shifting Console
In just a couple of short months, Nintendo’s first console since 2012, Switch, will be here. Nintendo made the console’s existence known last October, but until yesterday was completely mum on any and all details. Now we know a lot more about the company’s shape-shifting console. So here are the facts.
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Intel’s Incredibly Tiny Compute Card Could Make Obsolete Dumb Gadgets Upgradable
The Intel Compute Card is tiny. It has a motherboard, memory, storage, Wi-Fi radio and can even pack Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processor. Yet it’s only about with size and thickness of a few credit cards. You insert it into any dumb monitor and instantly have a computer as powerful as your laptop.