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What the f****!!  These were my exact words when this appeared in my news feed. i9? Could not believe it all these years we have been praising and bowing down to the great i7 little did it know that it could be shelved sooner or later. Before we even dive into the i9 story line there is still a new baby in town. AMD is back with the mighty Ryzon 7. This baby is no joke she harbors the following specs: ·          8 core processor ·          16 threads ·          Turbo max of 4GHZ ·          L3 cache of 16MB ·          2667MHZ of memory speed. If you planning to buy a desktop definitely consider this processor. I know AMD have been in the hide out for a while but now we have seen what has been cooking. In this regard Intel on the other hand is not accepting any def...

For the last several years windows has been pushing updates for windows 10 to all system, but as time goes by Microsoft has been capping updates for older hardware. Systems using  Intel's Clover Trail atom CPUs and  are running windows 10 will no longer receive  both creature update and major update. They will only receive security update till January 2023.  Most systems using these cpu’s were shipped with either windows 8 or 8.1and were also set to receive updates till 2023. The same systems were also eligible to get a free update to windows 10. For one to receive these security updates you have to periodically keep up with  the operating system update of which are supported for 18 months then if you haven’t upgraded you no longer get the security fixes. This is a problem for the Clover Trail machines, because those systems are prevented from installing and using the Windows 10 Creators Update, leaving them stuck on last year's Anniversary U...

Almost by now half of Kenyan youths either know or are using the public likes platform to make some extra cash on the side. Personally I have no objection on these and its actually a good path to follow. The sad part is a couple of friends have sent me the referral links for me to join but when I ask them how these platform work, almost no of the have a clue they always say “click the envelop , the airplane or whatever image then click send ” How it works? To some extend this is very true. Now let’s get into Nitty gritties of how the website works. Public likes is a social media advertising tool. It’s the middle man between the advertiser and the customer. Advertisers place their ads on public likes platform and members intern are paid to view them. They also swank of elevating startups by using social media platform as a way to increase the number of eyeballs to your company. Apart from Facebook they also get you through to twitter, Instagram, google+ and YouTube...

HA- Lizard This a high availability software for citrix and Xenservers . its also open source and can be accrued from Halizard . Some of its fictions include:    Auto-start of any failed VMs Auto-start of any VMs on after reboot Detection of failed hosts and automated recovery of any affected VMs Detect and clean up orphaned resources after a failed host is removed Removal of any failed hosts from pool with takeover of services Fencing support for HP ILO, XVM and POOL fencing (forceful removal of host from pool) Split brain prevention using heuristics from external network points and quorum Have a visit and explore all the cool functionality that the app can do and handle. Freecodecamp Its a nonprofit that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms, Medium publications, and local organizations that intend to make learning web development accessible to anyone some of the coding languages les...

The word out there is that there is a lot of money online and worse is that they even told that they can make this money in the comfort of their bed. So as an online guy I had to sort through all these crap just to find and differentiate the real from the fake, and if possible jump in to this work on your bed. I mean who would not like such a life (wake up at 10am sit up in bed grab my laptop tap, tap, tap, tap…. And Bank some $$$$$$. For these article my main focus we be on YouTube. Lots and lots of people have been told that they can make money from YouTube.  This is very true a lot of YouTube personalities are making a crap tone load of cash from it, but not at the comfort of their bed. It involves a lot of reach on the area of focus/ niche that you decide to concentrate. Once you have the material you need to upload your content constantly to a point where people care enough to subscribe to your channel. This requires originality as well. Monetisation ...

This is an ongoing cyber-attack of the WannaCry ransomware computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system.  The attack started on Friday, 12 May 2017, infecting more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries, with the software demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrencyBitcoin in 28 languages. The attack has been described by Europol as unprecedented in scale. Basically what happens is that a user data is locked, encrypted or even stolen and held at ransoms . The attacker then asks for pay in various forms mostly in bitcoins (it’s hard to retract the money back) and once paid they give you the decrying key or send back your data. (Not 100% guaranteed) It’s discovered over a million internet-connected devices that expose SMB on port 445. Of those, more than 800,000 run Windows,  given that these are nodes running on the internet exposing SMB – it is likely that a large percentage of these are vulnerable versions of Windows with SMBv1 still...

A couple of months ago we discussed about Drones ecosystem. As said earlier this technology has been around for a while but not explored for the consumer market. Now Tech companies are now dipping their heads on the drone jar and fetching out any idea that is drone related but the Dubai self-flying taxi has topped them all. Flying taxis The days of sitting in a taxi while it's stuck in a traffic jam could soon be a thing of the past for people in Dubai, assuming there is traffic there. Dubai is now developing a self-flying taxi drone of which is to be launched and out in the market soon. The head of Dubai's transportation agency said that self-flying taxis would start taking people across the city starting from July. These egg shaped drone is purposely to ferry humans within various parts of the city. its has a sitting capacity of one person and can fit a small load.  Maximum load including human is 100KG it’s not yet clear on the fly time but it’s sai...

Meaning : E ncryption   is the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it This technology has been around for decades and has been used by various agencies, individuals and independent parties to transmit information between themselves. One thing to note is that this prevent intermediate intervention but does not take into consideration the integrity of the information. I.e. if a third party may be able to decipher and alter the message this will not be noted by the receiver. End-to-end encryption : this is still encryption but it makes sure that encryption is carried out on both parties, sender and receiver. With this not only is the message scrambled but only the sender and receiver can only decrypt the message. How encryption work This is a very complicated process that basically happens behind the scene but I will try and explain it in simple terms. First you create a message that you woul...

Both companies pride themselves in having state of the art encryption systems and ensure their users that the communication between each other is secure and no man in the middle attack will happen. Sadly enough this was put to test and several security companies have opposed to these after finding loop holes in these encryption systems WhatsApp has the ability to force the generation of new encryption keys for offline users, unbeknown to the sender and recipient of the messages, and to make the sender re-encrypt messages with new keys and send them again for any messages that have not been marked as delivered. The recipient is not made aware of this change in encryption, while the sender is only notified if they have opted-in to encryption warnings in settings, and only after the messages have been re-sent. This re-encryption and rebroadcasting effectively allows  WhatsApp to intercept and read users' messages. This loop hole discovered by a security rese...

Pixilated images are images that have been zoomed to a point that the picture is no longer clear and one can’t tell what the image is about.  Most science fiction movies use this their scene. In their control room they get a satellite image of an individual and display it in a big screen but usually not clear and there is this IT geek with glasses keys in a few keys on the keyboard and walla a clear image of the individual is seem. Goggle has now brought these to reality. By the use of deep machine learning project Google brain software is able to analyze the pixilated image and be able to recreate a better image that will be easy to use. Google Brain's software does this with two stages of neural network training. The first stage involves a "conditioning network" that cross references the 8 x 8 pixelated image with similar-looking images that are higher resolution and then downsized, checking for patterns and colors The second stage, called the "...

For long unqualified impostors have roamed the streets terrorizing and destroying what for years what we the professionals have been building in whatever industry that one is involved. They had even gone to the extreme to creating market prices for commodities that they have no clue how they operate. You may wonder as to why am ranting, this is the pain that I and many professionals out there are felling seeing some random forks taking our  piece of cake by issue of a certificate. For those who have happened to go to school. (In this article we will narrow down to technology experts) it takes and average of 3-4 years for campus. Once this is completed depending on what ever industry you go to there are a couple of systems that you have to learn how to use e.g oracle systems, Cisco equipment’s and the likes. This requires more funds and brainpower so as to acquire these hands on experience. Compare this to a  guy who runs to river road and print a couple of ce...

A few years ago 3D televisions were to take over the world. Every tech company was developing either the screens, glasses, games or movies for them.  This went on for a while until profit margins were going down the cliff thus production reduced and some company are no longer producing them. To be on the same page a 3DTV is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. – Wikipedia This technology had been around for years but it was around 2010 that most companies rolled out their TV sets.   We were all excited when they come out but later off this died off slowly as getting all these factors together was expensive and by extension not worth it.To fully experience the 3D reality a couple of things has to be in place. First and obviously you need to have a TV screen  that has this capabilities and tweak the setting to...

Ever wonder what happens your digital life when you die? This is one of the few things that people do not take into consideration. I purely understand the pain and grief that the family and relatives go though. It would be hurting after one is laid to rest and once in a while notifications pops up to that reminds you of the deceased. Mostly by now everyone or 80% of people by now have a social media presence. We all use this to interact meet lost family members, school mates and random people who end up being friends. With this groups are created and the echo system gets bigger and bigger. When a dear one passes away their online presence is still up and running and some people may even be commenting on their profiles, send friend requests, DMs and even tag them in photos. The worst being birthday notifications. The pain can be unbearable. As some huge pieces of land and property go undeclared  same applies to the digital world lots of accounts including bank detail...

For decades contracts have been written, sighed and all parties involved felt safe until one side breaks its pledge and third parties are involved to analyze and issue penalties to the   defaulters.   Likewise other contract go through well and both parties go home a happy lot. As IT forks we were obviously created to think out of the box. Firstly our hand writing sucks and we need something that works fast with less complications and this gave birth to smart contracts. Smart contracts Basically these are contracts in a digital format meaning that its machines/bots are responsible for the approval, maintain and concluding of the contracts. Sadly enough this technology has been around since 1994 (how old were you?). A dude called Nick Szabo had this idea and till recently is when some of us are grasping the concept Now I would like to bring blockchain technology in this. By no if you have been reading most of my post you have a grasp of what blo...

Before we even dive to what the hell is Chabot lets recap on the source of all of these. Artificial intelligence is the birth of all of these.  This is whereby a machine is able to think and act like human. One has to learn complex programs which I will mention below to be able to write relate programs codes. This has led to the birth of several products that we do use today which include: Google alexa, siri and the amazon echo. As a user its very simple you do not need to learn all complex programs to use it. Lets say you have siri in your phone you just need to talk to it and you done. Example:”siri call James” and automatically it call him. Chatbots A Chabot (also known as a Talbot, chatterbox, Bot, chatterbox, Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods This programs basically are designed to simulate human behavior and conversation pattern. This are being introduced in customer...

Now we see the light at the end of the tunnel. First we were promised digital Identification cards and as law abiding citizens we waited to no avail. They rolled the so called “new generation” identity cards that were apparently colored, looked like an ATM card and had an additional picture of the holder at the back. New generation Driving licenses Are you over 18 years and have a valid driving licenses?  If yes keep reading. If no find a driving school near you. Anyway NTSA has announced that in the next two months it will be rolling out its new smart driving license. Before I even dive into the tetchy stuff we can all agree that the red book like driving license is no fun at all? I mean whose idea was it to begin with? It’s bulky and for the older folks the books much older than them. The one thing that was taken off our shoulders is the fact that we can renew online. If you have not been e-citizen website open a new tab and have a look. One of the best government w...