computer architecture
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Always Do This Before Letting Someone Borrow Your Phone
Smartphones have transformed our lives, mostly for the better, but they’ve also increased the access people can potentially have to your private information the moment you hand yours over. When you allow someone else access to your phone to make a call, swipe through a few pictures, or try out a new game, you might…
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What to Do If WhatsDrop Is Dropping Support for Your iPhone
WhatsApp is the most popular chat app in the world, hosting over two billion active users. A lot of us rely on the app’s fun and unique features to communicate with friends and family across the globe, so it’s imperative the service continue to work on our iPhones. Unfortunately, WhatsApp is preparing to stop support…
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How to Stop Windows 11 From Updating Automatically
Windows 10 gained a bad reputation when it came to updates — the internet is full of frustrated anecdotes about Windows rebooting to install an update at exactly the wrong time, like right when you’re about to start a presentation, or when you’re working on a tight deadline. This is one of the things that…
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You Need to Patch These 128 Security Bugs on Your PC
Cybersecurity is constantly in the news, and for good reason. Bad actors are always on the lookout for vulnerabilities in software to exploit for personal gain: Your PC, running Windows and an assortment of apps, is in the crosshairs, so when Microsoft drops updates to patch security flaws and vulnerabilities as they’ve done this month,…