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Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise will soon receive a new feature quite useful for companies and power users. This is Windows Sandbox, a new lightweight desktop environment created especially to run applications in isolation. The main purpose of this, as explained by Microsoft, is to offer greater security in certain situations, such as when we download an .exe file and we are afraid to execute it, or when we need a clean installation of Windows but we do not want to create and configure a machine virtual. Windows Sandbox offers the solution for both cases, it works as an isolated environment in which you can run software that you do not trust without having any impact on your Windows installation. Everything you download or install in the sandbox stays in the sandbox and does not affect anything else. Windows Sandbox is an isolated environment within Windows 10 that self-destroys everything you download or install in it once closed It is basically a lightweight Windows disposable with...

It is December 19 and the year can still be very long to Facebook. Beyond how their actions have evolved in the stock market during the year, it is impossible to remember a worse course for the company, not so much for what they have done in it (as well) but for collecting the harvest of the bad practices carried out during so many years . After scandals like Cambridge Analytica, multiple security breaches or public knowledge and means of bad practices as a result of the publication of internal documents, comes the final culmination. Hand in hand with The New York Times (NYT), which recently published an extensive report on the company where the worst stop was Sheryl Sandberg, comes the publication of an investigation based on hundreds of pages of internal documents and interviews with more than 50 employees showing how Facebook would have reached agreements to allow access to data to 150 companies among which are large technology companies such as Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Apple...

Each city has a unique character, and many times we are able to identify them simply by seeing an image. In an increasingly globalized world, what makes a city like Paris recognizable at first sight? That is precisely what many scientists have asked of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris). It seems that they have found the answer, but they have had to resort to an algorithm to decipher this enigma. Large avenues, double-paneled windows, names of the streets in blue and green signs, street lamps and subway entrances with a characteristic design ... all these elements help Paris to have its own identity. Thanks to this study carried out by both universities, we now know that in the French capital there are a series of elements that appear much more frequently than in other cities. These objects that appear behind every corner, in every block, help Paris to be Paris. Analyzing the streets of the city through Street View, they began to collec...

Until not too long ago, Twitter offered a timeline in which the tweets appeared in chronological order. Or what is the same: the last messages were the first we saw. From then on, we were moving from the most recent tweets to the oldest ones. The logical for a large number of users. However, one day that changed and through an algorithm Twitter modified our chronology in order to highlight certain outstanding tweets. Although there were tricks and options provided by the social network itself to avoid this altered experience, as of today Twitter allows you to return to the chronological order in a simpler way and from the timeline itself. It is an option that we were able to meet a few weeks ago when it was advanced by Jack Dorsey. This new way to control the timeline of Twitter is based on a button that will appear in the iOS application today and in the Android, soon. Also in the Twitter Lite and web mobile.twitter.com soon. Without it being necessary to go to the configuration o...

Finally, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update seems to have come out of almost all its problems and now, more than two months after its initial release, it is available to any Windows 10 user who seeks to update from Windows Update. The famous version that was deleting files of some users was withdrawn just a few days after being released and relaunched officially five weeks later, but not without being stopped from following the problems, so Microsoft had blocked the update on some computers with software or hardware not compatible. This version will probably be remembered as one of the worst updates of Windows 10 in its relatively short life, but not because of the lack of news or features, but because of the accident of its launch and all the failures that were presented, before, during and after of its launch. The infamous Windows 10 October 2018 Update is officially available to all users near the end of December While the critical bug of file loss was solved, others such as inc...

Trend Micro security researchers have identified a new threat that they have called "malicious memes." Basically, it's a new type of malware that receives its code instructions hidden in memes posted on Twitter. Cybercriminals exploiting this use an old technique (stenography) to hide malicious code in images and evade security, the novelty here is that they are using the technique in images that are shared in the social network. Now, the malware itself is not downloaded from Twitter and the mechanism used to infect users, or where it comes from, or the intentions behind it has not yet been identified. It is a remote access Trojan that when infecting the computer can take screenshots and steal other system data that it then sends to its control server. It seems to be an experiment The authors of the malware identified by Trend Micro published two tweets with malicious memes last October through a Twitter account created in 2017. The memes contained an embedded command...