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1. Use a password rather than a PIN for local accounts. Whether you use a local account or Microsoft account, make sure you use a strong, alphanumeric password. 2. You don’t have to link your PC with a Microsoft account. You can create a local account instead. This avoids sharing data about your account, although you lose the ability to share data across devices. How: Settings > Accounts > Sign in with a local account instead 3. Randomize your hardware address on Wi-Fi. Enabling random hardware addresses makes you less prone to tracking across different Wi-Fi networks. Note that not all devices support this. How: Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi 4. Don’t automatically connect to open Wi-Fi networks. Windows 10 can connect to suggested open Wi-Fi hotspots automatically. Disable this setting to give you more control over your network connections. How: S ettings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi 5. Disable Cortana to keep voice data private. Using Cortana, the vo...

  Step 1. Download DuckDuckGo on all your devices With just one download you'll get tracker blocking, private searching, increased encrypting, and privacy grading on all of your browsing. Our mobile app for iOS/Android (DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser) and browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials) has all of this in one seamless package. Privacy, simplified. Step 2. Update your software Your device operating systems get out-of-date over time, and old software can contain security bugs or settings that leak personal data. Set your devices (and the apps on them) them to update automatically. That way you'll always have the latest, safest versions. Step 3. Update your privacy settings Make sure your devices are using the best privacy settings. Here are step-by-step instructions for all the major device types. Especially make sure you adjust per-app location settings, so that your location history isn’t leaking where it shouldn’t. For extra bonus...

  Google trackers are lurking behind most websites. Google can (and does) track your activity across many non-Google websites and apps. That may be surprising, even if you already know that when you use Google products like Google Search, Chrome, and YouTube, they collect a shocking amount of personal information about you. Google Analytics — a free Google service used by millions of websites and apps — is actually the biggest cross-site tracker on the Internet, lurking creepily behind the scenes on around 72.6% of the top 75k sites. While “analytics” sounds harmless and is in fact something websites need to improve their services, what’s happening underneath the hood with Google Analytics is anything but harmless or necessary. Unlike privacy-focused analytics services, Google uses their Google Analytics tracker for more than just providing information about site visitors and app users to the sites and apps themselves. In many cases Google also adds that same information to Google’...

Work-life balance: what really makes us happy might surprise you Black Salmon/Shutterstock Lis Ku , De Montfort University Finding the right work-life balance is by no means a new issue in our society. But the tension between the two has been heightened by the pandemic, with workers increasingly dwelling over the nature of their work , its meaning and purpose , and how these affect their quality of life . You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, narrated by Noa, here . Studies suggest people are leaving or planning to leave their employers in record numbers in 2021 – a “ great resignation ” that appears to have been precipitated by these reflections. But if we’re all reconsidering where and how work slots into our lives, what should we be aiming at? It’s easy to believe that if only we didn’t need to work, or we could work far fewer hours, we’d be happier, living a life of hedonic experiences in all their healthy and unheal...

 How little we know about the dangers. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand. Some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising concerns about how this is affecting our democracy, mental health, and relationships, we haven’t seen biologists and ecologists weighing in as much. That’s changed with a new paper published in the prestigious science journal PNAS earlier this month, titled “ Stewardship of global collective behavior. ” Seventeen researchers who specialize in widely different fields, from climate science to philosophy, make the case that academics should treat the study of technology’s large-scale impact on society as a “ crisis discipline .” The authors warn that if left misunderstood and unchecked, we could see unintended consequences of new technology contributing to phenomena such as “election tampering, disease, violent extremism, famine, ra...

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance of the experiment. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment. Proper preparations should be made and...

COVID-19 will probably become endemic – here's what that means Hans Heesterbeek , Utrecht University We can’t say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there is little reason to believe that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 will go away any time soon, even when vaccines become available. A more realistic scenario is that it will be added to the (large and growing) family of infectious diseases that are what is known as “endemic” in the human population. With the worldwide spread of the disease increasing again, it seems unlikely that the currently available measures can do more than bring that spread under control – except in countries that can effectively isolate themselves from the outside world. The fact that the vast majority of people are still susceptible to some degree means that there is sufficient fuel for the fire to keep burning for quite some time. This will be the case even if specific locations reach what ...

HIGHLIGHTS  Safe Folder in Google Files will allow users to keep private files locked  It can only be accessed by a 4-digit PIN Code  Safe Folder will start rolling out in beta for Files by Google സ്വകാര്യ ഫയലുകൾ പ്രത്യേക, പാസ്‌വേഡ് ലോക്കുചെയ്‌ത ഫോൾഡറിൽ അപ്ലിക്കേഷനിൽ ലോക്കുചെയ്യാൻ ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ അനുവദിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പുതിയ സവിശേഷതയായ ഗൂഗിൾ ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ Google ഫയലുകൾക്കായി സുരക്ഷിത ഫോൾഡർ സമാരംഭിച്ചു. 4-അക്ക പിൻ കോഡ് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് മാത്രമേ ആക്‌സസ്സുചെയ്യാനാകൂ, ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഏതെങ്കിലും പ്രമാണം, ഫയൽ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മീഡിയ ഫയൽ അപ്ലിക്കേഷനിലെ സുരക്ഷിത സ്ഥാനത്തേക്ക് നീക്കാൻ കഴിയും. Google ന്റെ ഫയലുകൾ‌ക്കായി സുരക്ഷിത ഫോൾ‌ഡർ‌ ആരംഭിക്കും, മാത്രമല്ല വരും ആഴ്ചകളിൽ‌ കൂടുതൽ‌ ആളുകൾ‌ക്ക് ഇത് ലഭ്യമാക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും നിങ്ങളുടെ ഇമേജുകൾ‌, വീഡിയോകൾ‌, ഓഡിയോ ഫയലുകൾ‌, പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട പ്രമാണങ്ങൾ‌ എന്നിവ മറ്റുള്ളവർ‌ ആക്‌സസ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ‌ നിന്നും സുരക്ഷിത ഫോൾ‌ഡർ‌ സംരക്ഷിക്കുന്നു, Google പറഞ്ഞു. അപ്ലിക്കേഷന്റെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിൽ ആയിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ നിങ്ങൾ സംഭരിക്കുന്ന ഉള്ളടക്കം ആക്‌സസ്സുചെയ്യാനാകില്ലെന്ന് ഉറപ്പാക്കിക്കൊണ്ട്...

 COVID-19 pandemic teaches us something, it is important to be healthy and have a strong immune response. In addition to old age, people with diseases such as diabetes and heart disease are at an increased risk of complications caused by it, and it has been found that obesity is the most important determinant after old age for whether a patient will need to be hospitalized. Obesity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease According to researchers from the Grossman School of New York University, obese patients and COVID-19 are at greater risk than patients with cardiovascular disease or heart disease . This should come as no surprise, given that previous studies have linked obesity with reduced immune function and an increased risk of infection. “Adipose tissue is now considered an extremely active endocrine organ that secretes cytokine-like hormones called adipokines, either pro- or anti-inflammatory factors that bind metabolism to the immune system. Historically, leptin is on...

View this post on Instagram The last two weeks I’ve stayed inside. When I returned from my trip around Central Europe I isolated myself (in a borrowed apartment away from my mother and sister) since the number of cases of COVID-19 (in Germany for instance) were similar to Italy in the beginning. Around ten days ago I started feeling some symptoms, exactly the same time as my father - who traveled with me from Brussels. I was feeling tired, had shivers, a sore throat and coughed. My dad experienced the same symptoms, but much more intense and with a fever. In Sweden you can not test yourself for COVID-19 unless you’re in need of emergent medical treatment. Everyone feeling ill are told to stay at home and isolate themselves. I have therefore not been tested for COVID-19, but it’s extremely likely that I’ve had it, given the combined symptoms and circumstances. Now I’ve basically recovered, but - AND THIS IS THE BOTTOM LINE: I almost didn’t feel ill. My last cold was ...

Tip one, but the most difficult.  You need to put the phone on a shelf and get distracted Of course, this is very difficult to do, especially for people who regularly read the news and suffer from FOMO syndrome - fear of missing out, literally "fear that you are missing something."  We made cards to deal with this.  Promise yourself that after reading these tips, take the phone away at least for a while. Tip two.  Need to take care of your body Take a deep breath, stretch or meditate.  Yes, we regularly hear tips on eating healthy foods, constantly doing sports, sleeping, not smoking cigarettes, and not drinking alcohol.  During a pandemic, these tips become several times more relevant.  Quarantine is an excellent reason to take care of your body, order delivery (!) Of a sports mat, do simple exercises at home, monitor your diet and try to quit smoking.  In addition, after quitting smoking, the lungs recover very quickly. Tip three.  Take tim...