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How to Protect Your Digital Identity While Gaming Online
Playing games online provides entertainment but exposes you to specific dangers during gameplay. Hackers and scammers specifically target your personal data, payment specifics, and gaming account information. Cybercriminals steal money and account credentials through phishing attacks, malware, and unsecured systems. Gaming carelessly can lead to possible profile loss and the threat of identity theft. Protecting…
A precision digital rheostat
Rheostats Rheostats are simple and ubiquitous circuit elements, usually comprising a potentiometer connected as an adjustable two terminal resistor. The availability of manual pots with resistances spanning ohms to megohms makes the optimum choice of nominal resistance easy. But when an application calls for a digital potentiometer (Dpot), the problem can be challenging. Wow the…
Digital Imperialism Analysis: Global Power Dynamics & Equitable Internet
Imagine waking up one day to find that every aspect of your life – from your morning coffee routine to your deepest secrets – is controlled by a handful of corporations halfway across the world. Your data, your choices, your very identity, all neatly packaged and monetized without your knowledge or consent. Sound like a…
Power Tips #137: Implementing LLC current-mode control on the secondary side with a digital controller
Current-mode control LLC considerations Inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) serial resonant circuits, as shown in Figure 1, can achieve both zero voltage switching on the primary side and zero current switching on the secondary side in order to improve efficiency and enable a higher switching frequency. In general, an LLC converter uses direct frequency control, which has only…
A digital TV antenna isn’t the answer to your streaming subscription woes
Summary Digital antennas offer free cable, easy setup, and flexibility without monthly costs. Setup can be tricky with different brands, unreliable signals, and channel limitations. Antennas may lack major channels, sporting events, and signal consistency compared to cable. Anyone wanting to cut the cord on cable is rightly justified. These cable contracts are unruly, locking…
Two hours of AI conversation can create a near-perfect digital twin of anyone | DailyAI
Stanford and Google DeepMind researchers have created AI that can replicate human personalities with uncanny accuracy after just a two-hour conversation. By interviewing 1,052 people from diverse backgrounds, they built what they call “simulation agents” – digital copies that could predict their human counterparts’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors with remarkable consistency. To create the digital…
Your ultimate guide to cybersecurity: Protecting your family in the digital world
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsWhy cybersecurity matters for familiesCommon cyber threatsKey security practices to keep in mindBuilding a robust cybersecurity plan for your familyInvesting in the best tools In today’s digital landscape, anyone can be targeted by cybercriminals . With so much of our lives now happening online, from social connections…
I'm a Digital Nomad. These 8 Gadgets Make Laptop Life Easy
The travel bug bit me early on in life. I was 10 years old when my mother sent my brother and I to Mombasa, Kenya. She’s Kenyan and wanted us to experience our culture and meet family, but she couldn’t travel with us because of work, so my brother and I traveled from Milwaukee as…
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