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Teenagers Already Know the Key to Protecting Your Privacy

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Anna Wolska-Rzewuska—Getty Images/iStockphoto TECHNOLOGY Teenagers Already Know the Key to Protecting Your Privacy Sean Parker Mar 29, 2017 IDEAS Bamberger is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Law, and Mulligan is an Associate Professor in the School of Information, at UC Berkeley; both are Faculty Directors of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. When it comes to protecting our  privacy , we can take a cue from teenagers. As WikiLeaks’ recent disclosures  revealed, the  CIA  and other agencies have designed and purchased hacking tools that can use your personal devices, including laptops and TVs, to secretly spy on you in your own home. Savvy tech users, as many teens are, know their laptop cameras are vulnerable to hacks. So they tape over them. We shouldn’t have to rely on duct tape to protect our  privacy . The ease with which the CIA and other intelligence agencies can turn our per

Ryzen rumors: Perception vs. reality with AMD's new CPU

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With the Ryzen 7 launch just two weeks old and Ryzen 5 nearly upon us, AMD’s comeback CPUs are generating as much controversy, confusion, and misinformation as they are excitement. We're cutting through the chatter to give you the real answers about AMD’s new CPU. Perception: Ryzen runs hot Reality: Not true Despite really low thermal design power (TDP) ratings, Ryzen chips have oddly been labeled as running hot. The problem seems to relate to how utilities are reading the new chips' on-die sensors. AMD, in fact, just disclosed that certain CPUs feature offsets that make it look like they're running hot. “In the short term, users of the AMD Ryzen 1700X and 1800X can simply subtract 20°C to determine the true junction temperature of their processor. No arithmetic is required for the Ryzen 7 1700. Long term, we expect temperature monitoring software to better understand our tCTL offsets to report the junction temperature automatically,” the company wrote in a  blog

AMD VS INTEL?

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AMD is back, can we say that? Yes of course the underdog has risen to challenge the top one,(intel) by introducing the RYZEN, if you must know RYZEN is the new type of processor that brought back Amd from Dead You can check the Processor here, it is the base model if Three Processors released   https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-1700