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Tech Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in History …

QWERTY Keyboards. Mightier Than The Gun?

In a world where typing has long outstripped writing, few people know the story of how the Qwerty keyboard came about or that famous gun manufacturer Remington was involved

On June 23rd, 1868, the Sholes and Glidden typewriter was patented. This...

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Security Stop-Press : Office Open XML Signatures Have Security Flaws

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany have reported that the Office Open XML (OOXML) Signatures, an Ecma/ISO standard used in Microsoft Office applications and open source OnlyOffice, have security flaws that could allow attackers to modify the content in signed documents, while the signatures are still displayed as valid. The researchers have...

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Tech Tip – How To Use ChatGPT As A Collaborative Brainstorming Tool

If you're working alone but need to brainstorm, you can use ChatGPT as an effective collaborative brainstorming tool, inspiring innovative thinking and generating fresh insights. Here's how:

- Set the Context: Open ChatGPT, set 'New chat' and introduce the brainstorming topic or challenge.

- Engage in Dialogue:...

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Tech Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in History …

Consider all the atoms in 10 million galaxies ...

At midnight on June 18th, 1997, the DESCHALL Project bore fruit. The challenge had been to use ‘Brute Force’ to discover the meaning of a message which had been encrypted. Going through up to seven billion possibilities per second, the key...

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