What Does the RAM Slot Color Coding on Motherboards Mean? — www.howtogeek.com — Readability

What Does the RAM Slot Color Coding on Motherboards Mean? — www.howtogeek.com — Readability: "Yellow and orange, blue and black, green and red: you’ll find the RAM slots on motherboards in all sorts of  color pairs. But what exactly do those pairs mean and how does it affect you when system building or upgrading your current rig?"

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FBI posts $50,000 reward for 'Lover Spy' malware writer — www.pcworld.com — Readability

FBI posts $50,000 reward for 'Lover Spy' malware writer — www.pcworld.com — Readability: "The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cybercriminals, including an El Salvadoran national accused of selling a Trojan designed to spy on husbands or wives believed by their spouses to be cheating on them."

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Bugs and Fixes: Firefox 25 fixes security holes and adds web audio — www.pcworld.com — Readability

Bugs and Fixes: Firefox 25 fixes security holes and adds web audio — www.pcworld.com — Readability: "Securing browsers is a full-time occupation, and someone (likely a small army of them) was busy at Mozilla before releasing Firefox 25 on October 29th. The bugs fixed relate to Javascript PDF usage, spoofing the address bar, image decoding, the offline cache, and various memory hazards (e.g. null pointers, non-deallocated blocks)."

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How to set up two monitors — www.pcworld.com — Readability

How to set up two monitors — www.pcworld.com — Readability: "Ray Raulerson asked about running a computer with two monitors.

For years, I was quite happy with one monitor. I would see other people working with two of them, and it struck me as a waste of desk space and electricity. Three monitors looked like they would flap their wings and fly away."

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How to set up two monitors — www.pcworld.com — Readability

How to set up two monitors — www.pcworld.com — Readability: "Ray Raulerson asked about running a computer with two monitors.

For years, I was quite happy with one monitor. I would see other people working with two of them, and it struck me as a waste of desk space and electricity. Three monitors looked like they would flap their wings and fly away."

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‘PC settings’ gets major makeover in Win8.1 — windowssecrets.com — Readability

‘PC settings’ gets major makeover in Win8.1 — windowssecrets.com — Readability: "Microsoft made a host of changes to the commands and options on Windows 8.1′s PC settings page, adding new functions and moving or renaming others."

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Supercomputer Watson Will Soon Be Available To Everyone — www.theatlanticwire.com — Readability

Supercomputer Watson Will Soon Be Available To Everyone — www.theatlanticwire.com — Readability: "Two and a half years ago, in early 2011, an IBM-developed supercomputer named Watson won a Jeopardy! tournament against two human opponents. It was simultaneously fascinating (computers are cool!) and terrifying ("I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."). Until now, however, the high-level computations performed by Watson have been kept locked away, but on Thursday, IBM will announce that it is making Watson available to companies and individual developers through the Internet."

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Dangerous new virus hijacks your computer — www.bubblews.com — Readability

Dangerous new virus hijacks your computer — www.bubblews.com — Readability: "here are ways to get your computer back without paying up, though.

First, check to make sure the virus is the real thing. Some hackers are using fake ransomware to trick you into paying big bucks, even though your computer isn't really infected."

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So Your iPhone Was Lost or Stolen: Here’s What To Do — www.makeuseof.com — Readability

So Your iPhone Was Lost or Stolen: Here’s What To Do — www.makeuseof.com — Readability: "If your iPhone is no longer in your possession, you might never see it again and the last thing you want to worry about is data security. Here’s what you need to do.

Data theft can be just as damaging (if not more so) than losing a very expensive gadget. Your iPhone might be your pride and joy, but just imagine if someone gained access to your email, bank or social media accounts – wouldn’t that potentially be worse?"

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Xbox One vs PlayStation 4: Is there a performance gap, and can it be closed? — www.gizmag.com — Readability

Xbox One vs PlayStation 4: Is there a performance gap, and can it be closed? — www.gizmag.com — Readability: "With the launches of Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One now a matter of mere days away, excitement and hype levels have entered the stratosphere. On paper, the PlayStation 4 has arguably looked the more capable games console, with Xbox One tailored more as an all-in media hub. But with the first cross-format games emerging, some are concerned that the performance gap may be bigger than foretold. Why? And can the gap be closed?"

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