Month: October 2013
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Stop CryptoLocker Virus by Showing Extensions
There’s a deadly new Windows virus going around: CryptoLocker. Take all the usual precautions. But if you haven’t already done so — change your Windows folder options to show file extensions. Then don’t click open anything that looks like a data file (PDF, JPG, DOC, etc.) but ends in .EXE. Because then it’s a wolf…
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Rubik’s Robots: Real Life Transformers
Real life is increasingly — incessantly — inexorably invading what was once the privileged domain of science fiction. “Rubik’s Robots” — real life transformer robots based on principles of the famous Rubik’s Cube — are in the works at MIT! Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, is one of the fascinating people I follow…