A computer is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations.
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Do 15-25% of all computer users worldwide (both vocational and recreational) have some computer-related injury (CRI)?
This news article from the The Economic Times claims that:
15-25% of all computer users worldwide (both vocational and recreational) are estimated to have computer-related injuries (CRI).
The same, unreferenced claim is echoed on many websites.…
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Can emails in draft box avoid detection?
At around the 28 mins and 13 secs of Season 3, Episode 9, of the TV series Strike Back, Major Oliver Sinclair (portrayed by Rhashan Stone) claims the following, the truth of which I'd like to know.
Any intelligence agency can monitor emails that…
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Will the bytes of data stored in 2020 be greater than the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches?
An article in The Independent covering recent developments in Big data contains the following, suspiciously precise, claim:
By 2020, it's thought that the number of bytes will be 57 times greater than all the grains of sand on the world's…
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking's accuracy improvement over versions
Dragon NaturallySpeaking's editor Nuance claims that Dragon 12 delivers up to a 20% improvement in out-of-box accuracy compared to Dragon 11. Nuance made similar claims in the past with previous versions. Are there any rigorous studies to verify…
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Did the Stuxnet virus attack the International Space Station?
Over at Extreme Tech
Last year, news broke that a virus sabotaged the Iranian uranium enrichment program. It seemed all too convenient at the time — and as it turned out, the virus, Stuxnet, was actually engineered by the United States and Israel.…
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Are Teslas with autopilot system safer than vehicles without it?
An AP article describes some recent crashes that may have been linked to the Tesla autopilot system. The article states that there have been three fatal crashes since 2016 potentially linked to the autopilot and implies it may be dangerous.
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Are there 200 billion lines of COBOL in production in 2019?
Cited in this article from ZDNet,
According to a COBOL consulting company, which goes by the delightful name, COBOL Cowboys, 200 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today and that 90% of Fortune 500 companies still having COBOL code…
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Does Windows 10 defragmentation damage your SSD?
I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues about installing Windows 10 on his machine, then he suddenly dropped a bomb that installing Windows 10 would reduce the life of his SSD since Windows automatically defragments the SSD which…
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Does Windows 7 make up almost 50% of the desktop operating system market share?
NetworkMarketShare claims that, as of July 2016 (after the free upgrade cutoff), Windows 7 still beat Windows 10 in terms of market share by over 20%.
Is this analysis that the Windows 7, which is at least two releases out of date, still retains…
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CPH4 is exist or not
what if our brain really works at more than 50%.In Lucy movie they were telling about the drug name CPH4 or they tell that it will produce at the time of pregnancy when women is at 5 or 6 months.Is this true a drug CPH4 really produce at the time of…
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Are Vertical key layouts more ergonomic?
One of the feature that kinesis advertises for their Kinesis Advantage Pro Contoured Keyboard is:
Vertical key layout - keys are arranged in vertical columns to reflect natural motions of your fingers
Typematrix keyboard get advised with the…
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Could Eurostar have implemented a Wifi network on their train for £600 (GBP)?
I'm watching this video by Rory Suterland in which he claims at 6:15 that Eurostar could have implemented a WiFi network for £600, but instead choose to spend £6,000,000 decreasing the journey time by 40 minutes.
Is this a substianted claim? This…
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Do some captchas record your mouse movements?
I have heard (I can't remember where I heard this unfortunately) that some types of captchas don't verify that the user is human by having them click on the correct images but rather examine the users pattern of mouse movements prior to, or while,…
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Is this measurement of data to grains of rice accurate?
This image purports that you can measure data in grains of rice - one byte being one grain of rice and one gigabyte then being three container lorries.
Byte of data : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of…
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