Facebook has effectively ushered in the death of encryption. With device-level and at-client snooping to be enabled on Whatsapp, our communications will be only a few keystrokes away for the company. This would mean a government or legal agency could subpoena those comms or bring a warrant to access all of them. What this means […]
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Voice matching issues with Google Home d...
I have recently purchased a couple of “Google home Minis”, excellent products by the way. Setting them up was a breeze with the bluetooth and “home” app on the phone. Training the voice was also very easy on the first device, but for some reason, the second device gave me a bit of grief. When […]
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Consumer Complacence is just as bad as B...
We often hear stories about many once successful corporations losing their market positions, their customer loyalty and decline at a precipitous rate, eventually going bankrupt or being swallowed by one of their newer competitors. There could be many factors that may push companies towards this state of affairs. Sudden changes in consumer habits, emergence of […]
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Deep Thinking : Garry Kasparov
I have had the pleasure of reading this seminal book by world chess champion Garry Kasparov. As the name makes it obvious, this book was mainly about Kasparov’s two matches with IBM Deep Blue supercomputer. As the reigning world champion at the time, Kasparov was the man to beat for intelligent machines to prove that […]
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Fixing formatting loss of WordPress site...
I have logged into my WordPress back-end after a long time to write some new posts. I haven’t written a blog post in a couple of weeks and because of that didn’t have to login to the dashboard. However, for some reason the dashboard and the entire back end lost its formatting, making it practically […]
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QOS setting on your router
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I have an ASUS RT-AC66u router, but any modern router will have an option called QoS, short for quality of service. This can be a great tool to manage your network bandwidth, particularly at home when download and upload speeds are not superfast, and you need to give priority to certain applications, like gaming and […]
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Why Pokemon Go turned out to be the best...
Unless you are living under a rock, its impossible that you haven’t not heard of the Pokemon go phenomenon that took over the world these past couple of weeks. Millions of grown men are reliving their childhood, chasing little monsters, by walking with their phones scanning the streets for poke-stops and poke-gyms. There were instances […]
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Mechanical problems in my Asus RT-AC66U ...
This is a classic example of the phrase “weakest link”, a 50 cent mechanical device failing a state-of-the-art electronics device. I was one of the early adopters of the 802.11AC protocol router from Asus, and I was extremely happy with its workhorse performance over the last 18 months or so. I mean, I can write […]
