The History of Laptop Computers
It is a little hard to determine which was the first portable or
laptop computer since the earliest portable computers to arrive did not
look anything like the book-sized folding laptops that we are familiar
with today. However, they were both portable and can sit on a person's
lap and did eventually lead to the development of notebook style
laptops.
With that in mind, I have outlined several potential firsts below and how each might qualify for the honor. Many of the off-site links provided below include excellent photos of the computers so that you should be able to see the progression in design.
The First Laptop? Maybe
The Grid Compass was designed in 1979 by a Briton named William Moggridge for Grid Systems Corporation. It was one-fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA as part of the the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. As far as technical specs, it featured a 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer system with a die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.
With that in mind, I have outlined several potential firsts below and how each might qualify for the honor. Many of the off-site links provided below include excellent photos of the computers so that you should be able to see the progression in design.
The First Laptop? Maybe
The Grid Compass was designed in 1979 by a Briton named William Moggridge for Grid Systems Corporation. It was one-fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA as part of the the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. As far as technical specs, it featured a 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer system with a die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.
Microsoft is working on a new design language for Windows 10 codenamed Project NEON
Microsoft has made several adjustments to its design language over the
last few years, starting with Windows 8 and evolving into what we now
know as "Microsoft Design Language 2" or MDL2 in Windows 10.
With MDL2 being the current design language used throughout Windows 10,
Microsoft has plans to begin using a much more streamlined design
language with Redstone 3, codenamed Project NEON.
zuckerberg & T-shirtnya
t-shirt yang CEO pakai bukan T-shirt bodoh-bodoh kosong jer..
ada makna di sebalik baju yang dia pakai.tambah pulak selesa, siapa tak suka kan? paka t-shirt round neck aje masuk bilik meeting.
tapi ceo facebook itu printing logo yang sesuai dengannya, pada baju tersebut tertampal logo:
1.people
people yang melambangkan perhubungan setiap manusia,sesama kita biarpun dialam maya, dan perhubungan itu tentulah sesuatu yang menyeronok kan, kan?
disamping itu,ada juga yang bertemu jodoh dialam maya, betul bukan? tak masa zaman dahulu, hendak cari sorang calon terpaksa meredah ke satu negeri ke satu negeri, tu pun belum tentu jumpa lagi, sekarang, semuanya di hujung jari sahaja, dari hujung rambut sampai lah ke hujung kaki.
2.Mention-it
yang ini tentulah di sebalik foto dan video, perlulah beserta dengan caption masing-masing supaya setiap dari kita tahu apa yang ingin disampaikan, bukannya foto atau media sahaja, kalau tak, manusia ni suka buat cerita sendiri dan di tambah tokok, tambahan pulak facebook sekarang sedang fight it misinformation campaign sejak menangnya trump sebagai president amerika selepas obama.
3.world
yang ini pula facebook sedang bertungkus lumus menerajui bisnes ini dengan menghubungkan seluruh manusia didunia ni dalam satu laman sahaja.
dan seterusnya menjadikan people-mention it-world kepada satu yang nyata iaitu facebook “everyone connected.
walaupun kurang cerdik,janji ada facebook, dan korang pandai-pandai la tapis maklumat dalam laman itu.
Cyber hackers target ATMs, Europe and Malaysia hit
CYBER criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB.
Diebold Nixdorf and NCR Corp, the world's two largest ATM makers, said they were aware of the attacks and have been working with customers to mitigate the threat. The newly disclosed heists across Europe follow the hacking of ATMs in Taiwan and Thailand that were widely reported over the summer.
Although cyber criminals have been attacking cash machines for at least five years, the early campaigns mostly involved small numbers of ATMs because hackers needed to have physical access to cash out machines.
The recent heists in Europe and Asia were run from central, remote command centres, enabling criminals to target large numbers of machines in "smash and grab" operations that seek to drain large amounts of cash before banks uncover the hacks.
“They are taking this to the next level in being able to attack a large number of machines at once,” said Nicholas Billett, Diebold Nixdorf’s senior director of core software and ATM Security. “They know they will be caught fairly quickly, so they stage it in such a way that they can get cash from as many ATMs as they can before they get shut down.”
Group IB declined to name banks that were “jackpotted,” a term used to describe forcing ATMs to spit out cash, but said the victims were located in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Britain and Malaysia.Indeed, Dmitry Volkov, head of threat intelligence with Group IB, told Reuters he expects more heists on ATMs.
MORE HEISTS EXPECTED
Hackers have moved from stealing payment card numbers and online banking credentials to more lucrative hacks on bank networks, giving them access not only to ATM machines, but also to electronic payment networks.
A February attack on servers at Bangladesh's central bank that controlled access to the SWIFT messaging system yielded more than $81 million (64.98 million pounds) in one of the biggest digital heists on record. Russian banks lost over $28 million in a series of wire-fraud cases that were identified earlier this year.
"What we are seeing demonstrated is the new model of organised crime," said Shane Shook, an independent security consultant who helps banks and governments investigate cyber attacks and reviewed Group IB's findings.
Diebold Nixdorf and NCR both said they had provided banks with information on how to thwart the new types of attacks.
"We have been working actively with customers, including those who have been impacted, as well as developing proactive security solutions and strategies to help prevent and minimize the impact of these attacks," said Owen Wild, NCR's global marketing director for enterprise fraud and security.
Disclosure of the campaign follows two ATM hacks in July: $2.5 million was stolen from Taiwan's First Bank and $350,000 from Thailand's state-run Government Savings Bank.
Hackers remotely infected ATMs at both banks, forcing them to spit out cash that was collected by teams of "money mules," who authorities say travelled to Asia from Eastern Europe.
ONE CRIMINAL GROUP?
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month sent a private alert to American banks, warning them to be on the lookout for attacks on ATMs following the heists in Taiwan and Thailand, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the attacks in Europe.
Group IB released a report describing its findings late on Monday, saying it believed the attacks across Europe were conducted by a single criminal group which it dubbed Cobalt.
It named them after a security-testing tool known as Cobalt Strike, which the perpetrators used in the heists to help them move from computers in the bank network that were infected with tainted emails to specialised servers that control ATMs.
Group IB believes that Cobalt is linked to a well-known cyber crime gang dubbed Buhtrap, which stole 1.8 billion roubles (22.46 million pounds) from Russian banks from August 2015 to January 2016, because the two groups use similar tools and techniques.
Buhtrap stole money through fraudulent wire transfers, not ATM jackpotting.
The ATM Security Association declined to comment on Group IB's findings.
Members of the group, which works to improve ATM security, include ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf as well as banks ABN Amro, Bank of America Corp, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Wells Fargo & Co.
Representatives of Europol, which coordinates investigations of cyber crimes across Europe, had no immediate comment. - Reuters
Next Windows 10 Update To Cut Down On Bloatware
Latest Preview build allows users to uninstall some of the default Windows 10 apps.
For many Windows 10 users, some of the system apps that come preinstalled with Windows 10 by default, qualify as little more than Microsoft’s own unique brand of irremovable bloatware.Trying to remove some of these apps, originally involved power users having to run Powershell commands to remove the apps they didn’t want. Fortunately, after a while, thanks to programs like Geek Uninstaller, everyone else could uninstall the sometime cumbersome apps as well.
But now the latest Windows 10 preview (14936) that is currently out for testing, has given an uninstall option for some of these apps. Before, the uninstall button was an annoyingly untouchable greyed out icon. Users have thankfully been given some more control of what they do and don’t want to have installed on their computers when it comes to Windows 10.
According to the Ghacks website, who seem to have noticed this development first, Microsoft are giving users the ability to uninstall five default apps, namely Mail, Calendar, Calculator, Groove Music, Maps, and Weather.
Some apps, such as Cortana, for instance can still be disabled, but it would appear that Microsoft won’t be giving its customers the uninstall option for that anytime soon, if ever.
Ordinary users of Windows 10 on the current stable live version will have to wait until Preview 14936 is pushed out to everyone before they are given the choice whether they wish to get rid of one or all of the five Microsoft apps that can be uninstalled.
Curiously, Microsoft never provided a reason as to why certain apps couldn’t be removed from Windows 10 before build 14936, but some websites have postulated the theory that some Windows Apps are essential parts of the Operating System’s core functionality, and as such essential for Windows 10 to run.
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