Imagine you’re headed out of town for a weekend getaway. Maybe you’re going to a friend’s destination wedding or a family trip abroad, or perhaps in the village. You decide to bring your laptop with you because it’ll be nice to stream movies, get some work done, or play a PC game in your downtime. A laptop can help you feel at home when you’re away from home.
Premium Times On the night of February 28, a hacker operating from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), connected a computer to the university’s network and began a cyberattack on the website of PREMIUM TIMES. With a mobile phone as his backup, the attacker continued the operation for the next five days. At about 8:00 p.m., […]
As a Nigerian in recent times, you have received a scam call. Scammers call victims reeling out far more private information, enough to convince their targets they are real: full names, dates of birth, bank account details, etc. For phone numbers, bulk SMS marketing companies have access to GSM databases in Nigeria and readily sell […]
Small laptops are great, but for a blend of productivity and portability, 15-inch models are perfect. Two of the best manufacturers for laptops of that size are Dell and Lenovo, so picking between two of their flagship devices in that range isn’t easy. Shouldering that task though, we pitted the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 versus the Dell […]
ecurity camera systems can be beneficial to small businesses by acting as a visual deterrent for shoplifters and thieves, serving as extra eyes over employees, and by keeping a record of the activities going on inside and around the perimeter of the business. Camera systems may even reduce insurance premiums and help with insurance claims […]
European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control says probability of further transmission of ‘high’ despite efforts The Coronavirus outbreak could cause “huge economic and societal disruption”, the EU’s centre for disease control has warned. In its Monday update on the spread of the disease the ECDC said that “the risk associated with COVID-19 infection for people in […]
The University of Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group found that far more people in the UK could have contracted coronavirus than previously thought Coronavirus may have already infected more than half the UK population, researchers say. University of Oxford Professor Sunetra Gupta said it could mean less than one in a thousand people […]
Copper can effectively help to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, which are linked to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), new research shows. Animal coronaviruses that ‘host jump’ to humans, such as SARS and MERS, result in severe infections with high mortality. Researchers found that a closely-related human coronavirus […]
Let me lay it out simply: If you’re working from home during the coronavirus lockdown, you should get a laptop stand. Honestly. Your body will thank you. Anyway, onto my deeply, deeply uninspiring journey. Here at TNW we were asked to work from home in the middle of March. Now, one of the great things […]
Laptops keep getting smaller, and Asus has been at the forefront of that trend. Dell started things off with its XPS 13, which leveraged smaller bezels, but Asus has doubled down. Nearly every member of its premium ZenBook line is focused on packing as much computer into as small a frame as possible, and the ZenBook […]