What is a Hard Disk Drive? A hard drive is a 3.5″ or 2.5″ square metal box that is contained within many desktop and laptop computers. The drive contains a magnetic flat circular plate, normally made of aluminium or glass and contains a magnetic coating. This plate is used to store the data, through magnetic […]

DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that, similarly to Google or Bing, enables a user to input a search term and identify websites that relate to it. DuckDuckGo claims to differ from most mainstream search engines by not tracking the user activity or websites visited as a result of those searches. DuckDuckGo also claims that […]

On January 4th 2023, it was reported by The Washington Post that 211 unique email addresses relating to Twitter accounts had been published onto underground hacker forums. The email addresses that had been compromised have been added to the database https://haveibeenpwned.com that allows users to assess whether their email address had been involved in a […]

What Is NFC and Bluetooth Technology? Bluetooth and NFC are used by digital devices, including phones and computers, to pass information from the device to another via radio waves. Both technologies enable the connection between two devices over short ranges, providing a reliable communication path for devices to transfer the data. However, whilst they both […]

What is Unix Time Stamp? The Unix time stamp is the number of seconds, excluding leap seconds, from 1st January 1970 at midnight UTC. Unix time is also known as Epoch time or Posix time and is a system for identifying a point in time. Unix time does not reflect UTC as it does not […]