Lenin looses to Vader, make sure you buy the right USB-C cable, caffeinated peanut butter, and a long form discussion on trust with regards to computers, password managers, and SSL certificates.
Leung and his teammates at Google work inside of the Chromebook ecosystem, and as such, they’ve had lots of hands-on experience with USB-C cables. The Chromebook Pixel remains one of the very few notebooks on the market that directly supports USB-C. Nonetheless, in his experience, not all cables are built alike, and in some cases, cheap out-of-spec cables could potentially cause physical damage.
It’s such a big problem, in fact, that Leung began buying cables off of Amazon and leaving his feedback on each one. Ultimately, what the problem boils down to is that some of the specifications in a cable may be not well controlled. He notes that in some bad cables, incorrect resister values are throwing off power specs wildly – 3A vs 2A in one example.
When was the last time that you used a floppy disk? While still used as the save icon in modern software packages like
A company called STEEM is making a caffeinated version of the popular protein-packed spread. Two tablespoons of it offers the same dose of caffeine as almost two cups of coffee, the company boasts. But that fact isn’t a selling point to Senator Schumer, a well-established opponent of caffeine-boosted foods. On Monday, he called for the Food and Drug Administration to investigate
Using a password manager is one of the biggest
We now live in a world where a New York City sixth grader is making
Browser-trusted certificate authority (CA)
