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Is Windows Hello safe? Microsoft makes a point of saying just how safe Windows Hello is. The company says that you can use your fingerprint, face or iris to login with "enterprise grade" security with nothing that hackers or other nefarious individuals are able to steal. Lire la suite

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1992: The First Smartphone

IBM announced the first smartphone in 1992, which wouldn't be available for purchase for two more years. Called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC), it included many features familiar to modern smartphone users, such a touch screen – that required a stylus.
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The Light Phone II is a smartphone created to "be used as little as possible," according to its creators Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang. The unlocked 4G LTE mobile phone, which costs $350 and comes in either black or light gray, has two primary functions: calling and messaging. There are absolutely no apps or news feeds. Lire la suite

Some of Google's URLs include www.google.com, adwords.googleblog.com, and http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy. Just as buildings and houses have a street address, webpages also have unique addresses to help people locate them. On the Internet, these addresses are called URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). Lire la suite

Intel Core i3 is a dual core CPU with hyper-threading. It has 2 cores and 2 threads per core. The Pentium Quad Cores have only 4 cores and don't have hyper-threading. Lire la suite

After more than a yearlong absence from Apple's App Store, Fortnite is coming back to iOS devices. But Epic Games' battle royale blockbuster won't be returning to the App Store — instead, it will be playable via Apple's Safari web browser through Nvidia's GeForce Now game-streaming service. Lire la suite

5 Examples of APIs We Use in Our Everyday Lives

  • Weather Snippets. Google utilizes APIs to display relevant data from user search queries.
  • Log-in Using XYZ. Taken from Buffer's social login.
  • Pay with PayPal.
  • Twitter Bots.
  • Travel Booking.
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One of the key advantages of REST APIs is that they provide a great deal of flexibility. Data is not tied to resources or methods, so REST can handle multiple types of calls, return different data formats and even change structurally with the correct implementation of hypermedia. Lire la suite

Blu-ray is an optical disc format designed to display high definition video and store large amounts of data. Blu-ray is the successor to DVD. The standard was developed collaboratively by Hitachi, LG, Matsushita (Panasonic), Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson. Lire la suite

From Yahoo Mail, click the Compose button. In the "To" section, type the name of the person you want to email. Alternatively, click CC/BCC to additional recipients. Click Send once the email is complete. Lire la suite