Tag: Computers
How to Take Care of Your Laptop: 6 Easy-to-Follow Tips
The longevity of your laptop depends on proper care and careful use. The better you take care of your device, the longer you will use it. Want to watch Netflix movies or YouTube videos, play a live blackjack, and create work projects as long as possible? Follow these helpful tips. Clean the Dust Off Your…
Benefits of Data Replication in Database Management Systems
As the name suggests, data replication involves keeping identical data sets in more than one database node. There are two types of data replication in a database management system: Full replication Partial replication Full replication is the process of taking an organization’s entire data pool and placing it in different sites, while partial replication involves…
Global IT spending slips as companies focus on essentials
The Coronavirus outbreak has caused global IT spending to slip 8% this year, with thousands of companies cutting their technology and service budgets and financing only essential IT costs. Although the entire sector is forecast to shrink, IT devices and data centre systems are set to witness the most significant drop in consumer spending this…
REVEALED: Tech Terms Baffling Millennials
70% of millennials don’t know what ‘spam’ means. Over a third (34%) don’t know how to delete their search history. 76% can’t define ‘malware’ and 67% can’t define ‘phishing’. Over 38,000 people search ‘what is a VPN’ every month. Generation Z have grown surrounded by tech and the internet, and are often crowned the masters…
Best budget laptops for college in 2020
If you are currently studying at college or planning to sign-up for a new course in 2020, a laptop will undoubtedly be a must-have item. Investing in a new laptop can be a costly business, with the leading manufacturers eager to cash-in on the continuing boom in the technology industry. However, the marketplace is also…
WIN! WIN! WIN! THREE COPIES OF HUMANS VS COMPUTERS TO GIVE AWAY
Our lives are increasingly tracked and monitored by software. In this brave new world, humans can’t cope with information overload. Instead, governments and companies rely on computers to automatically detect fraud, predict behaviour and enforce laws. Clever marketing tricks us into believing that phones, TV sets and even cars are somehow smart. Yet all those…
Beautiful maple keyboard reaches $300K on Kickstarter – smashes target
Understandably we don't tend to get too excited by keyboards here at Tech Digest. But here's one that looks quite exciting - and certainly more beautiful than most (I think it's reminiscent of a butterfly somehow). Manufactured by Keyboardaudio, it's called the Model 01 and has already smashed through its Kickstarter fundraising target (target was…
HP to axe thousands of jobs
Up to 16,000 more workers at computer-maker Hewlett-Packard face job losses after the company posted one per cent drop in quarterly revenue. Reuters reports that HP has struggled to maintain its grip on the shrinking PC market while protecting profit…
Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, dies aged 88
Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the early computer mouse and a web pioneer, has passed away aged 88. Englebart's early mouse was made of a wooden shell housing two metal wheels, patenting it so early in the 1960's that the patent…
HP Slate21 is part all-in-one desktop, part oversized Android tablet
With their bread-and-butter PC market being ripped apart by rising tablet sales, HP's new Slate21 looks to bridge the gap between both product areas. A 21-inch touchscreen computer that can be set up to act like an all-in-one PC, it's…