A recent message from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to Google has allowed for the driverless car initiative to advance yet another step. The letter, written by NHTSA Chief Counsel Paul Hemmersbaugh, has stated that the regulatory body now considers the computer systems on board these vehicles to be the driver, according to Reuters.
Before you upgraded to Windows 10, you cleaned out unused programs, cleared the IE cache, did a disk cleanup, a defrag and a backup, right? What about after upgrading? Pretty much the same list again! (Excepting that SSD’s don’t need user-commanded defrags – the OS handles that regularly in an intelligent way if the drive reports as SSD, and being SSD’s, you don’t want to wear them out unnecessarily.)
Months ago, Microsoft released Windows 10 and offered free upgrades for users of Windows 7 and 8. While that created a lot of buzz, Office 2016 was released much more quietly. So, what’s new? Well, as suspected, nothing on the surface will be jarring or very unfamiliar. On the contrary, other than a very conspicuous “Tell Me” box that functions as the help menu on top and in the center, the changes in the interface have been minimal. But what has been addressed much more is the way people work now, as in collaboration and teams.
For anyone who still thinks that hackers are going after the mainframe, there's good news afoot: They're not. In fact, mainframes have been borderline obsolete for about a decade now. At this point, they're mostly good for spare parts.
