It has a 15.6-inch Full HD display with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700U CPU inside, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 256GB storage drive. It also supports WiFi6 while coming with a backlit keyboard and a fingerprint reader. And it has Windows 11 Home already installed. This is a pretty good deal on a more basic laptop that you could use for anything from web browsing to media to school or work....
Traditional Waodani culture bordered on the paranoid. All outsiders were presumed to be a threat—as most were, in one way or another, including culture-altering missionaries. The Waodani acted on this belief by making the concept of first strike a cornerstone of their survival plan; hence the killing of the missionaries. Their neighbors called them the Auca, a Quechua Indian word generally translated as “savage.” To get to Waodani territory I traveled as a journalist with the same organization to which the five murdered missionaries belonged, the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)....
The company indicates that the new features are in response to increased searches related to the virus. In particular, for at-home COVID-19 tests on Google Search. Those searches saw an upward trend at a rate of around 170 percent in May. The latter feature, now including travel restriction reminders via email directly from search isn’t necessarily new. Google rolled out the main feature last year. Now, in the US, users can set reminders for travel restrictions on a state-by-state basis, however....
Google fired dozens of its employees between 2018 and 2020, due to data misuse Google fired dozens of its employees between 2018 and 2020, due to data misuse It is said that the employees were fired for “abusing their access to the company’s tools or data”, while some of them seemingly accessed Google user or employee data. Such actions are not exactly new in the tech industry, as the source points out....
A recent study out of Israel looked at the impact of Internet use among different age groups and found—no surprise here— higher levels of satisfac- tion among the younger set. We’ve known for years about the digital divide: Worldwide, people over60 participate least in the information society. But that’s not the whole story, the study’s authors con- clude: After controlling for socio-demographic variables, sociability, and health conditions, those in the older group who do use the Internet see an overall increase in life satisfaction....
