| Only eight people have been made honorary U.S. citizens and among them, the only living honorees were Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa. Honorary citizenship is a gesture and does not infer upon the recipient the privileges of actual citizenship.  | |
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 Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update is scheduled for release in Fall, 2018. This major upgrade includes a clipboard history that syncs between your devices and a long-awaited dark theme for File Explorer. It was originally set to bring tabs to all your applications, but that feature may not make the cut. Read More »
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Outsourcing | |
| Outsourcing refers to the use of a third party to provide a given service or perform a particular task rather than the organization in question doing it themselves. Reasons for Outsourcing can include cost reduction, no desire to acquire and maintain the necessary physical resources (i.e. building space, hardware, software, and equipment), no desire to build up (hire) the necessary staff to do the work in question, etc. | |
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| Mavis Beacon, of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing fame, isn’t a real person, but a fictional persona created by The Software Toolworks (now part of Brøderbund). The original photo of Mavis Beacon on the 1987 release box was of Caribbean-born model Renee L’Esperance.  | |
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 The biggest problem with photography gear is that it's both fragile and expensive. This means that it's easy to break and potentially painful—to your bank balance, heart, and soul—when you do. Let's look at some of the ways you can protect your camera and lenses from bumps, bangs, and everyday life. Read More »
|  The Wi-Fi Alliance just announced WPA3, a Wi-Fi security standard that will replace WPA2. In a few years, when the laundry folding robots and smart fridges are forgotten, WPA3 will be everywhere making it harder for people to hack your Wi-Fi. Read More »
|  Excited about macOS Mojave, but don’t want to wait until the Fall? The public beta is now available to try; here’s how to install it. Read More »
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Output Device | |
| An Output Device is any peripheral device that is capable of presenting output/information from a computer. Examples of Output Devices are monitors, display screens, projectors, printers, plotters, speakers, headphones, etc. | |
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