“It was 3 a.m. Friday when Tyson Morris got a wake-up call that would send him into crisis mode for days. Atlanta’s trains and buses were expected to be running in two hours, but all systems were down, showing the dreaded “blue screen of death.””
5 Things You Can Build With Raspberry Pi Zero
“One popular way to harness the power of a Raspberry Pi Zero is to use it as the heart of a smart speaker, akin to an Amazon Echo or Sonos networked music speaker.”
T-Mobile launches ‘Home Internet Backup’ as its most affordable 5G broadband plan
“On the heels of adding a second tier to its 5G Home Internet in April, T-Mobile has launched another option for those who want a reliable internet backup at an affordable price. T-Mobile Home Internet Backup goes from as low as $20/month for 130GB of 5G data. Nearly 20% of U.S.”
We’ll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
“There was a time when ICQ—that’s “I Seek You”—was as ubiquitous as mIRC and a good FTP program.”
How to delete the data Google has on you
“Think about everything you do across Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, and everything else Google owns, and you get some idea of how much data you’re giving up to the company each day. For most of us, it’s… a lot.”
How to Stream Your Phone to a Hotel TV
“It’s hard to imagine a time when hotels didn’t have smart TVs. Not all that long ago, some even made their TVs a selling point, plastering “free HBO” all over their roadside signs.”
How to Upgrade Your ‘Unsupported’ PC to Windows 11
“A lot of people with perfectly good computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11. When Microsoft released the latest version of Windows, it put some stringent minimum system requirements in place, the toughest of which was TPM 2.0 support.”
Laid-off techies face ‘sense of impending doom’ with job cuts at highest since dot-com crash
“Allison Croisant, a data scientist with about a decade of experience in technology, was laid off by PayPal earlier this year, joining the masses of unemployed across her industry. Croisant has one word to describe the process of looking for a job right now: “Insane.””
The FCC just quadrupled the download speed required to market internet as ‘broadband’
“The FCC has raised the speeds required to describe internet service as “broadband” for the first time since 2015. The agency’s annual high-speed internet assessment concluded that 100 Mbps downloads and 20 Mbps uploads will be the new standard.”
