Hard disk drives require a certain range of air pressures in order to operate properly. The connection to the external environment and pressure occurs through a small hole in the enclosure (about 0.5 mm in breadth), usually with a filter on the inside (the breather filter). If the air pressure is too low, then there is not enough lift for… Read more →
Imagine you’re trying to sign up to an account or service and at the ‘enter password’ step you reach a cul de sac because you cannot come up with a good strong password. With advancements in online security measures, websites and services simply do not allow you to keep a straightforward or easy password for the sake of your own data’s security. But at… Read more →
1. When was the first website created? The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August 1991: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. 2. Who wrote the first computer program? Augusta Ada King, Countess of… Read more →
1. How do capacitive touch works? They work with anything that holds an electrical charge – including human skin. (Yes, we are comprised of atoms with positive and negative charges!) Capacitive touch screens are constructed from materials like copper or indium tin oxide that store electrical charges in an electrostatic grid of tiny wires, each smaller than a human hair. There are two main… Read more →
1. What is URL? A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a form of URI and is a standardised naming convention for addressing documents accessible over the Internet and Intranet. An example of a URL is https://www.rem.my, which is the URL for this web page. 2. Cookies An HTTP cookie is a small piece of data sent from websites, stored on the user’s computer by the web browser of… Read more →
1. What’s Google Lens? Google Lens is a feature announced by Google during Google I/O 2017. It is designed for bringing up relevant information based on what your camera sees. For example, if you point your camera to a Wi-Fi sticker, the app will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi source that has been scanned. It is integrated with the Google… Read more →
Below are some fun facts on technology security facts that I have compiled from various resources. 1. How is websites made secure from hackers? Website developers use a technology called cryptography to protect information from unintended audiences and encrypt it. Cryptanalysis, in turn, is the art and science of breaking encoded data. Modern cryptography uses advanced math (algorithms) equations and… Read more →
Torrents are the transfer protocol between peer and peer data. This means that the download files that are submitted by others are not a central source (in real-time). Seeds: Number of colleagues who have already downloaded and uploaded the files. Peers (or Leechers): A leecher is a peer who has no file in its entirety and downloads the file. Trackers:… Read more →
One factor that sometimes causes people to get confused is the difference between a Megabyte (used for file size) and a Megabit (used for download speeds). People also believe that a transfer rate of 1 megabit per second (1 Mbps) would allow them to transfer a 1 megabyte file in one second. This is not the case, a Megabit is… Read more →
Until now, online communication has included only two of our senses, a sense of sight and a sense of hearing. The third, the sense of smell using the nose, will soon be involved. The main application of e-nose is digital smell technology. With digital fragrance technology, it is possible to detect, transmit, and receive scent through the internet. In order… Read more →
