March Meetings 2021
March 4, 2021 - Amazon Alexa is Listening, Stopping Website Notifications on Edge, Troubleshooting Common Problems on Windows 10,
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Why Would You Trust Alexa?
We all want our lives to be easier, and Amazon Alexa professes to do just that, but at what cost? If you're not familiar with what Amazon Alexa is, it's a speaker you use in your home that allows you to talk to Amazon and lots of other online features. You can order products, look up information or even have simple tasks in your home done for you, "Hey Alexa, set my heating to 72 degrees." But all the "listening" comes with a cost, to learn more about how Alexa hears what you say, take a look at this article.
And as long as we're talking about spying, did you know that a majority of emails come with "spy pixels?" A recent BBC analysis found that spy pixels in emails have become endemic. To read more about how your emails may be spying on you, take a look at this article.
We all want our lives to be easier, and Amazon Alexa professes to do just that, but at what cost? If you're not familiar with what Amazon Alexa is, it's a speaker you use in your home that allows you to talk to Amazon and lots of other online features. You can order products, look up information or even have simple tasks in your home done for you, "Hey Alexa, set my heating to 72 degrees." But all the "listening" comes with a cost, to learn more about how Alexa hears what you say, take a look at this article.
And as long as we're talking about spying, did you know that a majority of emails come with "spy pixels?" A recent BBC analysis found that spy pixels in emails have become endemic. To read more about how your emails may be spying on you, take a look at this article.
How to Stop Notifications on Edge
If you're a user of the Edge web browser, and you're sick of those annoying website notifications that pop up all the time, there is a solution. HowToGeek has a great article that goes over how these notifications work on Edge and how you can turn then off or adjust them to your specific needs. Read all about it on this illustrated, step by step article.
If you're a user of the Edge web browser, and you're sick of those annoying website notifications that pop up all the time, there is a solution. HowToGeek has a great article that goes over how these notifications work on Edge and how you can turn then off or adjust them to your specific needs. Read all about it on this illustrated, step by step article.
Trouble Shooting Windows 10
Windows 10 is now on more than 1 billion devices worldwide, and Microsoft releases regular updates and security patches, but many users still run into some problems. Do you have a wandering cursor? or maybe uncontrollable scrolling? Or maybe just trouble updating to the latest version? Never fear, CNET has a great article complete with lots of links to official support and plenty of breadcrumb instructions on how to fix the most common glitches you might face. Read more on this article.
Windows 10 is now on more than 1 billion devices worldwide, and Microsoft releases regular updates and security patches, but many users still run into some problems. Do you have a wandering cursor? or maybe uncontrollable scrolling? Or maybe just trouble updating to the latest version? Never fear, CNET has a great article complete with lots of links to official support and plenty of breadcrumb instructions on how to fix the most common glitches you might face. Read more on this article.
