Tech Talk – 9/28/13

Wikibooks for free books, adjusting fonts in iOS7, avoiding webcam hijacking, putting file name in Word footer, Profiles in IT (Ray Milton Dolby, founder Dolby Laboratories), NSA workers spy on lovers and exes, FISA court orders declassification of data requests, Windows XP nears end of life (installing Windows 7 is best option, increase RAM to at least 4GB), Obaamacare tech problems on launch (back-end data synchronization not working properly, beta test one day before launch, poor software management), webcam hijacker arrested (conrolled more than 50 computers, blackmailed girls with nude photos), hacker sentenced to 3 years (member of Anonymous, took down police servers to protest anti-piracy legislation), Google makes search mobile friendly (voice activated search designed to compete with Siri), artificial neural networks used for deep learning (Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all datamine, better ad targeting), and iOS 7 includes multi-path TCP (seamless transfer from one connection type to another).

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