Today marks the 40th anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh, which would be the first successful mass-marketed computer with a graphical user interface. The original Macintosh, released in 1984 introduced and popularized the computer mouse, allowing for a new type of navigation that was still a novel concept to most people at the time. […]
If you’re stuck at home and wishing there was something you and your Mac could do to help with Coronavirus/COVID-19 research, or medical research in general, this might come in handy. The amazingly cool cats at the Folding@Home project, a long-standing distributed computing project organized by Washington University and Stanford has created a client that […]
A group of security experts has stated that if your computer has been infected with malware, it’s best to avoid restarting it. Instead, users should turn off their Wi-Fi, power off the computer, and begin looking for IT help. A recent survey of 1,180 U.S. adults shows that 30 percent restarted their computer to deal with […]
You can add “helping to detect sleep apnea” and “helping to detect hypertension” to the list of nifty things the Apple Watch can do. A new study released from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that wearable devices like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately […]
The good news is that the current Apple Watch features one of the most accurate heart rate monitors on the market. The bad news is that its calorie counting feature could use some work. A new medical study from Stanford University published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine on Wednesday sought to determine the validity […]