潘晓峰
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A Surveillance Primer: 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, 14 Eyes
As awareness of global surveillance grows, more people are looking for information about the Five Ey...
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Why Upgrading a Gaming PC Right Now is Almost Pointless
Earlier in the week, we were discussing why building a new gaming PC right now isn't a bad idea, as...
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Dual Booting: Windows and Ubuntu
Dual booting is a great way to get the best of both worlds of Windows and Linux. It’s relatively str...
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Explainer: What is SSD Trimming?
Have you ever noticed when you go into Windows to optimize your storage drives, it says retrim for S...
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10 Most Memorable Fictional Technologies
Science fiction books, movies, games, TV shows and other media have long been home to amazing techno...
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The Evolution of Ransomware
These days, not a month goes by that we hear about a new major ransomware attack. Initially, the ran...
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What Ever Happened to GeoCities?
In the mid 1990s, the internet had no Facebook, Google or even Wikipedia. If you wanted to use the w...
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Did You Know? 14 Strange But True Tech Facts
In the grand scheme of things, it could be argued we're still in the infancy of the Information Age....
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How to Keep Using Internet Explorer in Microsoft Edge with IE Mode
This year, Microsoft finally and officially retired Internet Explorer, the legacy web browser. If yo...
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50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineeri...
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Making a Fast Quad
In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performanc...
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Revisiting 8
Game systems from the 8-bit and 16-bit era weren't exactly the graphical powerhouses that modern con...