Computing
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Former Mozilla Dev: Uninstall Your Antivirus, AV Companies ‘Are Terrible’
Running antivirus software is just common sense… until it causes a few blue screens. Or constantly detects false positives in your favourite applications. Or makes your programs crash with unhelpful, mysterious errors. Is there an argument for not installing antivirus software? Perhaps.
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Windows 10’s ‘Game Mode’ Will Optimise Your PC For You
We previously saw strong signs that Microsoft was working on a “game mode” for Windows 10, but it wasn’t exactly clear what that mode would do. Microsoft has since provided some details, via platform engineering head Mike Ybarra.
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Turn Your MacBook Pro Into Kitt From Knight Rider, Compute Like David Hasselhoff
Ever since Apple dropped its latest MacBook Pro with a cool but mostly unnecessary Touch Bar, programmers have been jumping at the chance to make cool but mostly unnecessary apps to run on it. This new one does not break from that tradition but it does turn your MacBook Pro into Kitt from Knight Rider.
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Samsung’s CFG70 Is A Curved, Quantum Dot-Powered 144Hz Gaming Monitor
“Quantum Dot”. I know it sounds like a TV show where a guy jumps backwards through time, taking over the bodies of other people and helping them with the grammar and punctuation, but it’s a real technology. Honest. In fact, Samsung was one of the first off the mark to integrate quantum dots into its…