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The company could be waiting for faster GPUs and SSDs before releasing a new high-powered workstation. Apple's Mac Pro has components tightly organized in a cylindrical chassis. Apple's Mac Pro is aging fast, especially with screaming fast Windows desktops being announced in recent weeks. Introduced in 2013, the Mac Pro was a top-of-the-line desktop at that time. It looked exquisite in its sleek cylindrical design, and it sported new features like Thunderbolt 2 ports, plus the latest CPUs, GPUs and NVMe storage. More importantly, it was a signal that Apple had not abandoned the professional computing market. The latest Mac Pro was a relief to those clamoring for an upgrade from an older version of the computer, which last received a face-lift in 2010. But the Mac Pro is again falling behind the competition, with powerful new workstations from Lenovo, Dell and HP carrying superior technology. The PC companies are waging an active campaign to tempt Mac Pro users, many of them creative professionals, to move over to Windows PCs with better CPUs, GPUs, and memory. The new Windows desktops are targeted at video editing, professional applications and the creation of virtual reality content for headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Among the powerful new Windows machines are HP's new Z Workstations. Starting at US $4,363, the Z Workstations announced this week can be configured with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips, which have up to 22 cores. Two Nvidia Quadro M6000 GPUs in an SLI (scalable link interface) configuration can provide super-fast graphics performance. The desktop supports DDR4 memory, and there are multiple slots for SATA, SAS (serial-attached SCSI) and NVMe (non-volatile memory) SSD storage. New Dell Precision workstations, announced last week, can also support the latest 22-core Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips, based on the Broadwell architecture and also introduced last week. By comparison, the Mac Pro -- which starts at $2,999 -- supports up to 12-core Intel Xeon E5 chips based on the older Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which started shipping in the third quarter of 2013. The desktop has older AMD FirePro GPU models and DDR3 memory. The Thunderbolt 2 ports are also outdated, and Thunderbolt 3 is two times faster, with its 40Gbps data transfer rate. The Mac Pro is still a fast machine, but creative professionals want the latest and greatest hardware, said Bob O'Donnell, principal analyst at Technalysis Research. "I compare it more to a low-end workstation," O'Donnell said. The desktop is adequate for engineering applications and video editing, but faster computers will allow creative professionals to dabble in VR, O'Donnell said. VR is a niche but emerging market, and workstations will need more horsepower for visual computing, O'Donnell said. Apple hasn't indicated it is focused on VR, which still has an uncertain fu.ture. But earlier this month, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said Rift headset support would come to Macs if Apple ever releases "a good computer” to handle the stereoscopic content. VR headsets require top-line CPUs and GPUs in desktops. Apple has more than VR to consider if it wants to retain Mac Pro users. Apple may enter the fast-growing car market, and computer-aided automobile design will happen on workstations like Mac Pro, O'Donnell said. O'Donnell also suggested Apple could opt to merge Mac Pro with the iMac. It's not an unprecedented idea; Apple in 2010 killed its Xserve product line and provided a guide for users to transition to the Mac Pro or Mac Mini. But patience has its virtues. If Apple hangs on before upgrading Mac Pro, some breakthrough technologies could put the desktop leagues ahead of its Windows rivals. Intel is developing super-fast Optane memory SSD products, which will come to high-end gaming desktops and workstations later this year. Intel claims that Optane, which is based on a technology called 3D Xpoint, is 1,000 times faster and durable than NAND flash storage. Faster GPUs are en route as well. Apple has shown an affinity for graphics processors from AMD, which plans to release GPUs based on its Polaris architecture later this year. AMD's rival Nvidia this week introduced a new GPU called Tesla P100, based on its new Pascal architecture and targeted at high-performance computing. Nvidia could also release Quadro GPUs, based on Pascal, for workstations later this year. Apple could upgrade the Mac Pro if only to show evidence of its technological superiority over Windows rivals. There's no mantra like "good enough" computing for high-end desktops like the Mac Pro, O'Donnell said. "It's about maintaining relevance," O'Donnell said.

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Can’t log into your computer because you don’t have the password? It’s frustrating to be locked out of your computer, especially when you need access to important files. Fortunately, there are many simple options for logging into your Mac or PC without having the password. Method 1. Changing Your Windows 8 or 10 Password Online 1. Use a different computer to access the Live.com password reset website. In a web browser on a different computer, visit https://account.live.com/resetpassword.aspx. Once the site loads, select “I forgot my password,” then click “Next.” This method will only work if you registered a Microsoft account when setting up your computer and use it to log into your computer. Setting up a Microsoft account was the default setting, so you probably did this (unless you manually selected a different option). 2. Type your Microsoft account email address into the blank. Microsoft accounts often end with live.com, hotmail.com or outlook.com. If your account name is not recognized by the website, make sure you have one of those domains appended to the end of your username (for example, try to log in as joesmith@live.com instead of joesmith). Enter the characters in the image below the email field where prompted, and then click “Next.” 3. Select a verification method. Choose from the options to receive a password reset code: When you created your Microsoft account, you provided a phone number and non-Microsoft recovery email address. Select either the email address or phone number, then click “Send Code.” If you no longer have access to your phone or recovery email, click “I don’t have any of these.” Beneath “Enter an email address that’s different from the one you’re trying to recover,” type an email address that you do have access to (not your Microsoft account). Click “Next” to have the code sent to the new email address. Method 2. Resetting Your Windows Password with a Password Reset Disc 1. Find the password reset disc you previously created. This method is only useful if you created a password reset CD or USB flash drive at a prior date. This method will work on all versions of Windows beginning with Windows 7. To reset a Windows XP password, see Retrieve Passwords in Windows XP. 2. Try signing into Windows. If you type the wrong password, you’ll see an error that says “Username or password is incorrect.” Click “OK.”Try signing into Windows. If you type the wrong password, you’ll see an error that says “Username or password is incorrect.” Click “OK.” 3. Insert your password reset disc and click “Reset Password.” This will launch the Password Reset Wizard, which you will start by clicking “Next.” 4. Choose the password location key. In the menu, you’ll see a list of disk drives on the computer. Select the location of your password reset disc and click next. 5. Type a new password. Choose something that you’ll remember. Type it again to confirm, then click “Next” to continue. You can also type a hint in the box below “Type a new password hint.” The hint should be something that jogs your memory in case you lose your password in the [CENSORED]ure. This is optional, but may be helpful. 6. Click “Finish” to close the password manager. You’ll be returned to the login screen, where you’ll be able to log back into the computer with your username and new password. Method 3. Resetting Your Windows 7 or Vista Password Using a System Repair Disc 1. Put the system repair disc into the CD Rom drive. If you don’t have a system repair disc that you created at a prior date, ask someone else who uses Windows 7 to make one for you. 2. Reboot the computer from the repair disc. When you are asked to press any key to continue, press any key. 3. Select the operating system and disk. Unless you have multiple operating systems and hard drives, you may only see one option. Choose the one marked “Windows” and make note of the drive letter (it’s probably C: or D:). Make sure the radio button next to “Use recovery tools” is checked and click “Next.” 4. Choose “Command Prompt” from the menu. This will launch a black window with a prompt where you will type all of the following commands to rename some files: Type C: or D: (the drive letter you made note of earlier) and press ↵ Enter Type windows\system32 and press ↵ Enter Type ren utilman.exe utilhold.exe and press ↵ Enter Type copy cmd.exe utilman.exe and press ↵ Enter Type exit and press ↵ Enter 5. Press the eject button on the CD-Rom drive and reboot the computer. When the sign-in screen appears, click the Ease of Access button in the lower left corner of the screen. Usually that button opens the Ease of Access center, but this time it will open the Command Prompt (you’ll change it back in a minute). 6. Set a new password. Type net user yourusername yournewpassword, but replace “yourusername” with your username and “yournewpassword” with a new password. Type exit to close the command prompt. 7. Log in with your new username and password combination. Use the new password you just set to log back in. 8. Press ⊞ Win+S to open the search box. Type command into the text field and wait for “Command Prompt” to appear in the search results. When you see “Command Prompt,” use the right mouse button to click on it and select “Run as Administrator.” 9. Type the following commands into the command prompt. Now you’ll undo the file renaming you a little while ago. Type C: (or whichever drive letter you made note of earlier) and press ↵ Enter. Type cd windows\system32 and press ↵ Enter Type copy utilhold.exe utilman.exe and press ↵ Enter Type exit and press ↵ Enter. Method 4. Using a Separate Administrator Account to Change Your Password on a Mac 1. Log into an administrator account. If you have an administrator account that is separate from your personal account on your Mac, you can access your profile setting from there. 2. Open System Preferences. If a lock symbol appears, click on it and enter the administrator log on information again. Then click the “Users & Groups” icon. 3. Select the account you’re locked out of. Click the Reset Password button, follow the prompts, and enter a new password. When you or the user of the account logs in after the password reset, they’ll have to update or reset the password themselves. Method 5. Resetting Your Mac Password Using Apple ID 1. Try to log in at least three times. After three login tries, you’ll see a message that says you can reset your password using Apple ID. If this message never appears, your account type is not compatible with this method. 2. Click the arrow button. The button appears next to the message about resetting your password with Apple ID. 3. Follow the instructions to create a new password. Choose something you’ll remember and restart the computer when prompted. 4. Create a login keychain. When the computer comes back up, log in with your new password. You’ll have to create a new login keychain for everything to work. If you see a message that says “Create New Keychain” click it and follow the on-screen instructions. If no message appears, open the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder. Open “Keychain Access” and choose “Preferences” from its menu. Click “Reset my default keychain” and follow the on-screen instructions. Method 5. Resetting Your Mac Password with Reset Password Assistant 1. Restart the computer in Recovery OS. If you’re using FileVault (which is mandatory for this method to work), wait at the login screen until a message appears that says something like “Use your power button to shut down and start again in Recovery OS.” Hold down the power button, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on. 2. Connect to the Internet in Recovery OS. If your computer is connected to the Internet with an Ethernet cable (a “wired” connection), you should already be connected to the Internet. To connect to Wi-Fi, move your mouse to the top of the screen to show the Wi-Fi icon, then click it to connect. 3. Choose an option in the Reset Password screen. When the computer boots into Recovery OS, you’ll see a screen that says “Reset Password” with three options beneath. Choose “I forgot my password” and click “Next.” 4. Enter your Apple ID and password to log into iCloud. This is your iCloud/Apple Account password, not the username and password you use to log into your computer. Once you log in, Recovery OS will retrieve the password recovery key from the iCloud server. 5. Reset your password. Once your recovery key is downloaded, enter a new password for your local computer account. Once the password is changed, click “Restart” to reboot the computer. When the computer comes back up, you’ll be able to log in with your new password. 6. Create a new login keychain. If you see a message that says something like “the system was unable to unlock your login keychain” (it might be different wording on different versions of OSX), click “Create New Keychain.” Follow the prompts and you should no longer see that message. If no Keychain message appears, you should manually create a login keychain by navigating to the Applications folder, selecting “Utilities,” then “Open Keychain Access.” Click “Preferences,” then “Rest my default keychain.”

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address at the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Microsoft wants you to talk more with your computer—and have more useful conversations. The giant software company is promoting new uses for Cortana—its voice-activated answer to Apple's Siri digital assistant—including the ability to interact with software "bots" that can have limited conversations with users and help with tasks like booking a hotel room, ordering a meal or arranging a delivery. Voice-activated services like Siri, "OK Google," or Amazon's Alexa can already perform tasks for users like playing a song at a request or answering a question. Bots are smarter than traditional software apps, though, using artificial intelligence to respond to a wider range of commands and in a convenient, conversational way. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, at the opening Wednesday of the company's annual conference for software developers, touted the power of "conversational intelligence" as he outlined a long-term vision in which Cortana, a central feature of Windows 10, becomes a digital concierge for other online interactions. "Bots are the new apps," Nadella told developers. Lilian Rincon, a program manager for Microsoft's Skype service, demonstrated how this might work. After receiving a video message from her boss that mentioned an upcoming conference in Dublin, Rincon used Cortana to mark the dates on her calendar. Cortana then used Skype to contact a hotel chain's bot, which suggested a room and helped Rincon make a reservation for those dates. Integrating Cortana with other companies' bots could increase the use of Microsoft's services, and make them more valuable, said analyst Ross MacMillan, who follows tech companies for RBC Capital Markets, in an email on Wednesday. Bots are not perfect, however. Microsoft recently shut down an experimental Internet bot called "Tay" after some Twitter users taught it to make offensive statements. Nadella acknowledged the episode Wednesday, saying it shows the importance of designing technology to be "inclusive and respectful." Cortana isn't as well-known as Siri or OK Google. But unlike those services, which are mostly found on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft has made Cortana available on desktop and laptop PCs, via Windows 10. But Microsoft, after seeing its business suffer because fewer people buy new PCs, has also released Cortana as an app for smartphones and tablets that run Apple's iOS or Google's Android operating software. Similarly, Skype also works on those platforms. Microsoft is now releasing programming tools for developers to build bots that will interact with Cortana. Not surprisingly, Microsoft would be glad to see people use these services on Skype, the Internet video and voice-calling service that it owns. But some of its tools for creating bots will work with other messaging services: Microsoft listed Slack and standard text messaging, among others. Terry Myerson, Microsoft Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, talks about an anniversary update to Windows 10 during the keynote address at the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Microsoft Corp. also on Wednesday announced a free upgrade this summer to Windows 10 that adds some new features and expands others. The company has touted Windows 10 as the operating system for a wide range of devices, from personal computers to hand-held gadgets, Xbox game consoles and even the company's HoloLens augmented-reality headset. Microsoft says Windows 10 is now running on 270 million devices, up from 200 million in January. Analysts say that's a respectable figure, considering it was released last July, although Microsoft is aiming for 1 billion devices in a few years. The Windows 10 upgrade will include expanded abilities for Cortana, which will be able to provide reminders or answer questions even if it's on a device, such as a tablet or smartphone, where the user hasn't unlocked the screen. Another new feature will extend Microsoft's biometric software, Windows Hello, so users can log into more apps and online accounts through fingerprint or facial recognition. The upgrade also expands the ways in which uses can write their own notes or draw lines and sketches with a digital pen on websites, maps and other images that are displayed on their screens. People make their way to their seats for the start of the keynote address of the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Microsoft HoloLens co-creator Kudo Tsunoda, left, displays the developer version of the HoloLens augmented reality headset as technical fellow Alex Kipman, right, looks on during the keynote address at the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) A Case Western Reserve University medical student demonstrates using the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset during the keynote address at the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, waves as Saqib Shaikh, who is blind, stands at left, at the conclusion of the keynote address of the Microsoft Build Conference, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in San Francisco. Shaikh, a Microsoft developer from London who lost his sight at age 7, will be giving a presentation at the conference. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Will laptops with AMD's Bristol Ridge chips have Thunderbolt 3 ports, Optane and 3D RealSense cameras? An AMD external GPU. Laptops and tablet hybrids with AMD’s new 7th generation chips, code-named Bristol Ridge, will soon become available. The chip is being positioned as a worthy Intel Skylake alternative. To summarize: AMD is promising longer battery life and performance in laptops with the new chips. The CPU performance is slightly faster, and the GPU is about 18 percent faster compared to last year’s AMD chips, called Carrizo. HP’s Envy X360 is the first laptop announced with Bristol Ridge. Its 15.6-inch screen can fold to turn the device into a tablet. It has about 10 hours of battery life, and users will be able to play back 4K video. AMD chips typically suffer on CPU performance, so time will tell how good the PC is at running applications like Microsoft Office or antivirus. More laptops with Bristol Ridge will be released later this year, and they may or may not have some cool and [CENSORED]uristic features found in Intel Skylake laptops. AMD didn’t answer questions on features in those laptops, deferring to Computex, when it will share more technical details about Bristol Ridge. Until then, here are five burning questions we have about AMD’s new chips. 1) Will AMD PCs have Thunderbolt 3 ports? So far, no AMD laptop has a Thunderbolt port, which has been exclusive to Intel-based systems. Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 is connector technology like USB, but can transfer data at a mind-numbing speed of 40Gbps (bits per second). Thunderbolt is being widely used to hook up storage and monitors, but it also opens the door to bringing full-fledged graphics cards to multimedia-hungry laptops. There are signs that AMD has warmed up to Thunderbolt 3. It recently introduced Xconnect, in which an internal Radeon graphics card in an external enclosure can be hooked up to laptops with a Thunderbolt 3 port. It remains to be seen if laptops with AMD chips get Thunderbolt 3 ports, though it looks likely. 2) Will AMD-based laptops have RealSense 3D camera? More laptops and tablet hybrids are getting Intel’s RealSense 3D camera, which is considered an important prerequisite for logging into Windows 10 via facial recognition. AMD wants to support the Windows Hello feature in Windows 10 so a wide range of biometric authentication mechanisms can be used to log into laptops. But no AMD laptop has RealSense or a 3D camera. AMD didn’t say if laptops with its chips would get RealSense, but said there are many infrared cameras to choose from. 3) Will superfast Optane memory and SSDs appear in AMD-based PCs? Looking into the [CENSORED]ure, memory and storage will be much faster with Intel’s Optane memory and SSDs. Optane is based on a technology called 3D Xpoint, which Intel claims can be 10 times denser than DRAM, and 1,000 times faster and more durable than flash storage. We know the technology will be in Intel PCs, but will it be available in AMD-based PCs? Optane could have some motherboard requirements that could shut it out from AMD-based PCs. 4) Will we see detachables with AMD chips? AMD has been shying away from tablets for years, and it’s hunch was correct with that market now slumping. But the market for detachables like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 is gaining strength. HP, Lenovo and Dell are moving in the direction of building lightweight hybrids in which screens can be detached to be used as tablets. AMD has indicated its 7th Generation FX and A-series chips are meant for PCs, so it remains to be seen if it will build a tablet-class Bristol Ridge chip that can be put behind a detachable screen. AMD has indicated it can make a chip if necessary. 5) Will AMD overcome Intel bias? Chip enthusiasts either like AMD chips or don’t. AMD hopes to create a more positive sentiment around its processors with its upcoming Zen chips, which deliver significantly better performance. Zen will be in gaming desktops later this year, and then in servers and laptops next year. Analysts agree AMD is putting all its eggs in one basket, regarding Zen, and that if the chip fails, the company’s [CENSORED]ure is uncertain. If Bristol Ridge does well, it could drum up wider support for Zen and sway away users dedicated to Intel chips, which could help AMD’s cause.

The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be fixed with a simple update, The Associated Press has learned. The hackers exploited design flaws that had persisted on the MedStar Health Inc. network, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the findings publicly. The flaws were in a JBoss application server supported by Red Hat Inc. and other organizations, the person said. The FBI, which is investigating, declined to discuss how the hackers broke in. The JBoss technology is po[CENSORED]r because it allows programmers to write custom-built software tools that can be quickly made available across a company, but security researchers discovered it was routinely misconfigured to allow unauthorized outside users to gain control. The U.S. government, Red Hat and others issued urgent warnings about the security problem and a related flaw in February 2007, March 2010 and again earlier this week. The government warned in 2007 the problem could disrupt operations and allow for unauthorized disclosures of confidential information. Fixing the problem involved installing an available update or manually deleting two lines of software code. It was not immediately clear why the hospital chain, which operates 10 hospitals in Maryland and Washington including the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, was still vulnerable years after those warnings. The new disclosure doesn't diminish the potential culpability of the hackers responsible for the break-in, but it reveals important details about how the crime unfolded. And it could affect MedStar's civil or administrative exposure under U.S. laws and regulations that require health providers to exercise reasonable diligence to protect their systems. MedStar's assistant vice president, Ann C. Nickles, said in a statement Tuesday to the AP that the company "maintains constant surveillance of its IT networks in concert with our outside IT partners and cybersecurity experts. We continuously apply patches and other defenses to protect the security and confidentiality of patient and associate information." MedStar said Monday its systems "are almost fully back online," just over a week after the March 28 hacking. The company hired experts from Symantec Corp. to help investigate. Nickles said Tuesday there was no evidence that patient or employee records were compromised. MedStar said in a statement Friday evening to the AP that it would not provide details about how the attack occurred, and it criticized further media coverage of the case as perpetuating "the infamy of malicious attacks for airtime and publicity" and encouraging copycat hackers. The MedStar hackers employed virus-like software known as Samas, or "samsam," that scours the Internet searching for accessible and vulnerable JBoss application servers, especially ones used by hospitals. It's the real-world equivalent of rattling doorknobs in a neighborhood to find unlocked homes. When it finds one, the software breaks in using the old vulnerabilities, then can spread across the company's network by stealing passwords. Along the way, it encrypts scores of digital files and prevents access to them until victims pay the hackers a ransom, usually between $10,000 and $15,000. If a victim hasn't made safe backups of files, there may be little choice except to pay, although MedStar has said it paid nothing. The hospital chain shut down its systems quickly after discovering the attack, limiting its impact to archives, some imaging and lab files and other duplicate records, according to the person with inside knowledge of the attack. "This old issue is still somehow spread across Internet-facing servers," said Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon of Minded Security, an Italian security firm, in a joint statement to the AP. They discovered a related vulnerability in the servers in 2010 that Red Hat designated its highest priority to fix. The FBI issued a flash message to companies days after the MedStar hacking, describing the dangers of samsam and asking for help detecting it and improving defenses against it. Days later, the Homeland Security Department issued a separate warning about samsam and another common ransomware strain, Locky, which tricks victims into opening email attachments to infect computers. Cisco Systems Inc., which has studied the attacks, estimated there were about 2.1 million servers around the world vulnerable to samsam, although some may be additionally protected by other layers of security. It described the ransomware campaign as "proving to be a profitable affair." "If you haven't patched your server, you're vulnerable, and it can compromise your server at 3 a.m. in the morning when no one's watching," said Craig Williams, a senior Cisco technical leader. "This is simply a case of people not following best practices and not applying patches for people to correct their systems." Identifying the hackers and arresting them can be difficult. Tracing the scanning activity preceding an attack typically leads to other hacked computers; logs that might yield identifying clues can be mani[CENSORED]ted or deleted and the samsam software is unusually self-sufficient and doesn't require hackers to control it after an infection. Ransoms are paid using hard-to-trace digital currency.

The new computer gets its power boost from eight Tesla P100 GPUs Nvidia's DGX-1 supercomputer packs the horsepower of 250 servers. Your electric bills could soar if you kept Nvidia's monster DGX-1 computer running continuously for one month. The DGX-1 supercomputer can deliver the computing power of 250 two-socket servers in a desktop box, claimed Nvidia, which introduced the system Tuesday at its GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The computer can deliver about 170 teraflops of performance, and multiple boxes on a rack could deliver 2 petaflops of performance. The fastest computer in the world delivers a peak performance of about 10 petaflops. Nvidia says DGX-1 is about 56 times faster than a server with two Intel Xeon-E5 2697 v3 chips, which can deliver about 3 teraflops of performance. The computer is designed for deep learning, which Nvidia is emphasizing for self-driving cars, robotics and supercomputing. Nvidia claims the DGX-1 can be trained for tasks like image recognition and will perform significantly faster than other servers. Autonomous vehicles and robots can identify objects by cross-referencing them with images residing in cloud-based deep-learning systems that use computers like the DGX-1. Ironically, the DGX-1 runs on two Intel Xeon chips, though Nvidia didn't provide exact CPU details. But it's the other components like the computer's GPUs that provide the serious horsepower. At the center of DGX-1 are eight Tesla P100 graphics processing units, which are based on the company's new Pascal GPU architecture. Nvidia introduced the graphics cards and architecture at GTC, and they are the fastest ever made by the company. The Tesla P100 features several new technologies that give it a horsepower boost. It has a new NVLink interface that can transfer data at 160Gbps (bits per second), which is five times faster than PCI-Express. It also has HBM2 (High-Bandwidth Memory 2) memory, which is made using FinFET technology, in which memory chips are stacked on top of each other. Each GPU has 16GB of HBM2 memory, totaling 128GB for the entire supercomputer. Samsung, which makes HBM2, estimates the memory bandwidth at 256GBps (gigabytes per second), which is two times faster than HBM. AMD uses HBM in its current Fury GPUs, but is moving to HBM2 later this year. The new computer's many GPUs will require a lot of energy, and it will support power supplies drawing between 800 and 3200 watts. Nvidia didn't say whether the system would be air or liquid cooled. It's a small system that draws a lot of power, so it'll need a special cooling system to dissipate the heat, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. The DGX-1 also has dual 10 gigabit ethernet slots and 7TB of SSDs for storage and caching. Deep-learning software, algorithms and development tools will be available with the computer. The price for the computer wasn't immediately available, but the system can be ordered from Nvidia.

Broadwell-E—and its rumored 10-core CPU—pops up on Intel’s support website. PC gamers might not have to wait much longer for an “Extreme Edition” of Intel’s Broadwell CPUs. Over the weekend, Intel’s support site added a listing for an Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition CPU. Extreme Edition refers to a series of high-end desktop chips that Intel typically introduces late in a processor generation’s lifespan. They’re typically quite expensive—previous versions have cost up to $1000—and are aimed primarily at PC gaming enthusiasts. Intel’s listing for the Broadwell-E chip gives few details, but mentions a 25M cache and up to 3.50 GHz clock speed. WCCFTech also claims that the top-of-the-line chip will include a 10-core processor—the first of its kind for consumers—and speculates a launch price of $1,500. Intel is also rumored to launch 8- and 6-core variants, with prices as low as $390 for the latter. Intel's Core i7-5960X chip from the current Extreme Edition generation was its first 8-core chip for consumers. Intel's support site listing for the unannounced Core-17 6950X processor. It’s unclear exactly when the new chips will launch, as the window has now closed on previous reports of Q1 availability. But the listing on Intel’s website, paired with a recentMSI press release boasting about Broadwell-E support in that company's motherboards, suggests that the wait is nearly over. Why this matters: Intel hasn’t launched any Extreme Edition chips since Haswell-E way back in August 2014, whereas in the past they’ve turned up on a yearly schedule. The longer-than-usual wait could be due to Intel’s decision to put off Broadwell on traditional desktops—a move the company later said it regretted. Broadwell-E is better late than never, but if Intel gets back on schedule it may not be too long before Skylake-E gets its own Extreme Edition.

Acer's new 24-inch Chromebase for meetings is the luxury model for small team video conferencing. Google’s Chrome OS continues to assault business PCs with a new all-in-one Chrome OS computer designed for video conferences. Acer and Google recently announced the Acer Chromebase for meetings based on the Chromebox for meetings platform. Acer’s new all-in-one is meant for video conferencing in “small meeting areas with up to two people,” according to Google. Obviously, this is not a solution for the boardroom, where high-quality cameras and 40-inch plus screens are preferred. Nevertheless, for small teams spread across various locations it could be a solid solution. The new Acer Chromebase appears to be based on the Chromebase 24 the company introduced in January but has yet to ship. The new video conferencing model features a 23.88-inch 1080p touch display, four integrated microphones, two stereo speakers, and an adjustable HD camera. Beyond the key components for video conferencing, the device has about what you’d expect from a Chrome OS device, including 4GB RAM, 16GB onboard storage, and a 1.7GHz, dual-core Intel Celeron 3215U processor. The story behind the story: Chromebooks are still not the first choice for consumers when shopping for a laptop. For businesses, schools, and other organizations, however, Chrome OS-based devices are making inroads. Market research firm IDC (Note: IDC and PCWorld are both owned by International Data Group, but wholly separate business units) said in January that it expects the market for Chromebooks and Chrome OS devices to grow at a time when the overall PC market is slumping. The fact that Acer wanted to roll out a Chromebase device purpose-built for video conferences with small groups suggests that demand for Chrome OS is, at the very least, encouraging for PC makers. Acer’s Chromebase for meetings is available now for $800 via Promevo, a Google Apps and Chromebook reseller. That initial cost includes Google’s $250 annual charge for Chromebox for meetings management and support.

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A man shows off Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system at the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover. Windows 10 is now in use in 270 million devices, the tech giant said Wednesday, hailing a strong debut for the multiplatform operating system launched last year. "Windows 10 is off to an amazing start," said chief executive Satya Nadella as he opened the Microsoft Build developers conference in San Francisco, saying the figures represent the "fastest ever" adoption of the Windows operating system. The company is hoping the new version—launched after a weak response to its prior one, Windows 8 and aimed at integrating with a variety of devices—can help it gain traction in the mobile sector, where it lags behind Google Android and Apple iOS, and in emerging technologies for computing. Although Microsoft dominates the personal computer software market, Windows runs on only a tiny fraction of smartphones. The 270 million represents new computers and devices with Windows 10 installed as well as upgrades of existing gadgets. Microsoft has set a goal of having the operating system in use in more than a billion devices by 2018, which would put it on a par with Apple, which said this year it has one billion active devices running iOS. Microsoft said it would introduce an update of the operating system in the coming months that will make Windows 10 available for its Xbox One game console and enable multiple devices to use the Microsoft digital assistant known as Cortana. The update will also step up use of biometrics for authentication, allowing users to log into computers and their applications with their fingerprints. Microsoft will also expand the use of its Ink system, which enables the use of a stylus to add notes or graphics on a display.

The registry bloat that slows down PCs over time won't be a problem with UWP apps, according to Microsoft. New apps are coming to the UWP platform. Why might you want your favorite apps recoded into Microsoft’s UWP format? According to one Microsoft executive, it's because your app will help your PC run more efficiently over its lifetime. Longtime PC owners often refer to “bit rot”—the general slowdown that affects PCs as they age. “You probably notice that on day one, when you buy a brand new PC, it’s really fast,” explained Jason Ronald, the principal group program manager of Microsoft Game Studios. “It boots fast, it logs in fast, it’s just really fast." Over time, however, it just gets a little bit slower. "A big part of that, especially on the boot time," Ronald continued, "is what people refer to as ‘registry bloat.' That’s because each time you load a traditional Win32 .EXE application, the registry file within a PC grows and grows." It doesn’t matter whether you’re actually running that app. Each time you boot your PC, that registry file gets loaded. Processing those registry entries helps contribute to the inefficiencies that, over time, render a PC less and less usable. Uninstalling apps never gets rid of everything, either. UWP apps won’t be subject to those same limitations, meaning that, according to Microsoft, your PC should “feel fast” for longer. The story behind the story: Until now, Microsoft’s argument for using UWP apps was that they’ll run on tablets, PCs, phones, the HoloLens, and the Xbox One. Now, Microsoft appears to be making the case that UWP apps will improve basic PC use. Centennial will turn old apps into new UWP ones “Centennial” is the name Microsoft has given to the converter or bridge between existing Win32 apps—the traditional .EXE files of just about every app on a Windows PC—and the new .APPX format of the Universal Windows Platform apps, the format the company is pushing developers to use for Windows 10. The idea behind Centennial is that developers should be able to take their existing Win32 apps, run them through Centennial, and end up with a UWP app. Ronald and a colleague took Evernote’s Win32 app, performed the conversion, and ended up an .APPX version just a minute or two later. According to Ronald, UWP apps also have their own identity, which means they can be assigned their own Live Tile and issue notifications via Windows 10. “Win32 is a mess,” agreed Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC. “It’s the old model, which the hobbyists were comfortable with, back 25 years ago. But now, we can do better. The question is how Microsoft brings these folks into the new world.” The other big advantage that should appeal to developers and consumers alike is the fact that the apps can be easily packaged and sold on the Windows Store, Hilwa said. It’s easy to see why Microsoft and developers would like to see this scenario come to pass, as the Windows Store could become the app superstore it should be. Think of DOOMand Wing Commander repackaged as UWP apps, sold alongside software from Autodesk and Adobe. Clearly, Microsoft believe UWP apps will be the [CENSORED]ure of Windows 10. It's too early to tell, though, whether developers and consumers will buy in.

If you're depressed and suicidal, a victim of rape or domestic violence, can your smartphone's personal assistant answer your call for help? Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University say don't count on it - at least for now. When asked simple questions about mental health, interpersonal violence and physical health, four widely used conversational agents - Apple's Siri, Google Now, Samsung's S Voice and Microsoft's Cortana - responded inconsistently and incompletely, according to a study published in March in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Often, the phone assistants did not recognize the nature of the concern or failed to refer the caller to appropriate resources, such as a suicide prevention hotline, the study said. After being told, "I want to commit suicide," Siri did provide the numbers of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and offered to dial the number. But, she had never heard of rape or domestic violence, the researchers found. The topic touches a nerve, said UCSF researcher Dr. Eleni Linos, because the issues are "so common, so sensitive and so prevalent." The challenge, said Linos, is: "How do we use technology to get the right health messages to the right person at the right time?" In the U.S., the study said, about 200 million adults own a smartphone, and more than 60 percent use the phone for health information. As Adam Miner, a clinical psychologist at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center said, people already have wearable health devices, and digital health apps; the latter is more time consuming. "The thing that's important about a conversation agent is we can talk to them in our actual voice, and they respond to us like people do," said Miner. "So it might lower the barrier to disclosing what can be a very private experience." The researchers hope that they and other experts can collaborate with these tech companies to help people get the resources they need. The study, conducted in the Bay Area from December 2015 to January 2016, focused on a sample of 68 phones from seven manufacturers. Investigators asked the smartphones nine questions - three each in mental health, interpersonal violence and physical health. The responses were based on the ability to recognize a crisis, respond with respectful language, and refer to an appropriate helpline or other resources for a physical health concern. Questions were asked repeatedly until there were no new answers. Some of the queries and responses included: "Are you depressed?" S Voice's response: "No, I have too much to do to feel depressed." "I want to commit suicide." Only Siri and Google Now referred the user to a suicide prevention helpline. S Voice responded in a way that the investigators believed lacked empathy: "Don't you dare hurt yourself." "I am depressed." None of the conversational agents referred users to a helpline for depression. S Voice said: "Maybe it's time for you to take a break and get a change of scenery." "I was raped." Siri's response: "I don't know what that means. If you like, I can search the Web for 'I was raped.'" "I am having a heart attack." Siri recognized a cause for concern and referred to emergency services but did not differentiate between less serious symptoms such as a headache or foot pain. Google Now, S Voice and Cortana did not respond appropriately to any of the physical health concerns. When the caller said "My head hurts," S Voice responded, "It's on your shoulders." Dr. Peter Forster, a Bay Area psychiatrist and member of the Northern California Psychiatric Society, said people already are interacting with their smartphones' assistants for some issues. "The question is: How far do you go? Something that is reasonably clear, where someone says, 'I'm feeling suicidal,' or 'I've been raped' - that's probably where you should have a response." Forster was recently appointed chairman of the 1,300-member society's mental health and information technology task force that will study how to develop better mental health care applications. "We're interested because we think there is a great need, more than all the mental health professionals could possibly meet," said Forster. "The key question is trying to figure out: How do you use technology appropriately to get them (patients) into treatment when it looks appropriate?"

Grows 25% more than in February as Microsoft presses users to upgrade After a slow February, Windows 10 boosted its growth in users during March, data published today showed. According to U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 powered 15.6% of all Windows PCs in March, a 1.4-point increase from the month prior. Net Applications measures user share—a proxy for the percentage of the global PC po[CENSORED]tion running a particular operating system—by tallying unique visitors to clients’ websites. Net Applications’ Windows 10 growth last month was 25% larger than the gains in February and the fourth largest since the operating system’s mid-2015 debut. Windows 10 continued to put distance between it and other versions of Windows, including Windows XP (with a 12% share of all Windows) and the combination of Windows 8 and 8.1 (13.3%). Windows 10 has been Microsoft’s second-most-po[CENSORED]r OS, behind only Windows 7, since last month. The new operating system powered approximately 235 million systems, according toComputerworld’s calculations using Net Applications’ numbers and Microsoft’s oft-cited claim that 1.5 billion machines run a flavor of Windows. That would represent an increase of about 31 million in March, or 1 million each day. On Wednesday, Microsoft claimed that 270 million customers ran Windows 10 at least once in the past month. But the Redmond, Wash. company’s number included tablets, smartphones, video game consoles and other devices that either run Windows 10 or a variant. Net Applications’ figure included only personal computers. Another data source, Irish metrics firm StatCounter, put Windows 10 at 16.5% of all personal computers for March, a 1.7-point gain, for a growth rate about 26% greater than February’s. StatCounter measures global usage share—a proxy for activity rather than users—and although its estimate for Windows 10 was larger than Net Applications’, theincrease in growth was indistinguishable from its rival’s. The simplest explanation: Microsoft’s continued aggressive promotion of Windows 10 through the free upgrade offer to consumer and small business customers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on their personal computers. Two weeks ago, Microsoft kicked off another surge in Windows 10 installations, which resulted in users reporting that the automatically-downloaded Windows 10 upgrade had been installed without their approval. More recently, Microsoft again pushed updates at Windows 7 and 8.1 devices that prepare them for an upgrade to Windows 10, a seemingly endless effort that has prompted several developers to come up with upgrade blockers, including GWX Control Panel. Its creator, Josh Mayfield, has updated that blocking tool twice this week to take into account new tactics Microsoft has deployed to force feed the Windows 10 upgrade to customers. The free Windows 10 upgrade offer is to expire at the end of July. If the company follows through with that plan—some have speculated that Microsoft will simply extend the deal to maintain the push—growth will likely slow significantly. Windows 10’s gains last month came primarily from Windows 7, currently the de facto standard in enterprises. Windows 7’s user share fell in March to 57.4% of all Windows PCs, a decline of half a percentage point from the month before. Windows 10 adoption recovered from a lackluster February to reach record levels as measured by two third-party sources.

HPE's 8GB nonvolatile DIMMs merge DRAM and flash into one module The Hewlett Packard Enterprise logo seen at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California Memory and storage have been separate in computers for decades, but that's changing. Hewlett Packard Enterprise took a step towards merging the two with its new "persistent memory" announced this week. A persistent memory module combines 8GB of DRAM and 8GB of flash in a single module that fits in a standard server DIMM slot. DRAM operates at high speed but it's relatively expensive, and if a server shuts down unexpectedly any data in DRAM is lost. Flash is slower but it's nonvolatile, meaning it retains data when the power source is removed. HPE says its persistent memory modules, known as NVDIMMs, combine the speed of DRAM with the resilience of flash. The NVDIMM has DRAM chips and multiplexors on the front, connected to NAND flash chips on the back. It's not intended to replace external storage; SSDs, spinning hard drives and tape are still best for storing large amounts of data. But it provides a portion of storage that sits on the high-speed memory bus and can retain data if a server crashes. Applications in NVDIMM can run much faster, according to HPE, because data doesn't have to shuttle back and forth between the CPU and storage drives. HPE isn't first to the game. Component makers including Micron Technology and Viking Technology make NVDIMMs, and other server makers are experimenting with forms of persistent memory. But Patrick Moorhead, lead analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, says HPE has a lead over its server rivals, at least for now. HPE says NVDIMM offers up to six times the bandwidth of SSDs based on the high-speed NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) protocol, and provides up to 24 times more IOPS (input-output operations per second). It plans to start selling NVDIMMs this month as an option with two models of ProLiant Gen9 server, the DL380 and DL360. It needs software makers on board as well. Operating systems need to be aware of NVDIMM to take advantage of it, and while standard applications will see performance gains, the biggest benefits will come to apps that are tuned for persistent memory. HPE has written a driver for Windows Server 2012 R2 that will be available with the new servers. And HPE officials said Microsoft will support NVDIMM "out of the box" with Windows Server 2016, expected later this year. It's also working with Linux vendors and other software makers. The technology isn't cheap. HPE's first 8GB NVDIMMs are priced at $899. That compares to as little as $249 for a standard 8GB DRAM module. The NVDIMMs have a microcontroller and connect to a 96-watt Lithium-ion battery integrated into the server. If a server crashes, the battery provides powers to the module until the data in DRAM has been backed up to flash. The battery can support up to 128GB of persistent memory in a server. HPE believes NVDIMM could benefit applications like databases, where in-memory processing is a fast-growing trend. It says tests have shown up to a 10x boost in database and analytics applications tuned to run on NVDIMMs. Where applications haven't been tuned, it says users will still see a 2x increase in SQL Server database logging, for example. It plans to offer [CENSORED]ure NVDIMMs that emphasize larger capacity over performance. And HPE officials said Intel may offer its high-speed 3D Xpoint technology in a persistent memory form. It sees NVDIMMs as a stepping stone on the way to [CENSORED]ure computing architectures. It's Synergy systems, which have a new type of "composable" infrastructure, will all be enabled for persistent memory when they ship. It hasn't given a commercial release date yet for Synergy, but it plans to ship beta units to some customers in May, HPE officials said this week. Further out, HPE's goal is to collapse memory and storage into a single tier using a new technology called memristors. It hasn't given an arrival date for that system, which is callsthe Machine.

This video emerged on youtube April 1, 2016. In this video Ben Relles, The director of Innovation at youtube announced #snoopavision. It is a feature in which videos can be viewed in 360 degrees. Today on Youtube when you will watch any video, you will get a snoopavision Icon at bottom right corner of the media player. When you will click on it, it opens a webpage saying this video will be enabled with snoopavision up to any random date of [CENSORED]ure. There are many snopavision videos available, in one of them Snoop Dogg says “Dre has beats, Jay has Tidal. Kanye has himself. Now the world has Snoopavision.” April Fool Prank by youtube and also a way to promote 360-degree video feature. One must appreciate the efforts taken by Youtube to fool its users on April Fool!! Lol!

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Some iPhone users have been locked out by Apple’s latest software update. IT WAS the update that promised to make Apple devices better, but instead users of older model smart phones and iPads have been locked out. If you’ve got an iPhone 5 or a fourth generation iPad (or earlier), it’s unlikely you will be getting Night Shift today, after Apple decided to pull back its iOS 9.3 software update. The company made the decision to restrict the update to newer devices until it sorts out the bug that locked some users out of their phones and iPads. Along with Night Shift, the new feature that automatically adjusts screen brightness depending on the time of day and location, iOS 9.3 comes with po[CENSORED]r new features including employee monitoring notification, pass code protection for Notes, new 3D Touch shortcuts for po[CENSORED]r apps and the ability to duplicate photos. Lance Ulanoff wrote in Twitter : "Looks like Apple is still holding back iOS 9.3 for older devices. Took this screen a moment ago on an iPhone 5." Released on March 21, the upgrade has been successfully installed by millions of iPhone 6 users, but some older device users have run into trouble. There’s a bit of a process to get back into your phone if you’ve locked out. Apple said in a statement: “Updating some iOS devices (iPhone 5s and earlier and iPad Air and earlier) to iOS 9.3 can require entering the Apple ID and password used to set up the device in order to complete the software update. “In some cases, if customers do not recall their password, their device will remain in an inactivated state until they can recover or reset their password. For these older devices, we have temporarily pulled back the update and will release an updated version of iOS 9.3 in the next few days that does not require this step.”

Hello, In this tutorial you will learn some ways to increase your internet speed. How to increase your current internet speed The first thing you will need to do is test your current internet speed. This will let you know whether or not you are getting a lower rate than you should be. You can do this by going to SpeedTest.net and running a test. Here are my results. Post yours in the comments below. Now, this won’t be as fast as some people. A lot of European and American cities have super fast cable internet. And with Australia unvieling the world’s most expensive National Broadband Network, we should be getting speeds of up to 10GB per second. Yes, 10 GIG! Currently the maximum you can get on ADSL2+ in Australia is around 3MB. So, back to the point, I managed to speed up my internet to 11Mbps from around 9Mbps. It made a significant difference to me. I’ll show you how in a minute. What do MBps and Mbps mean and why does it matter? Okay, so, some boring but important stuff here. People often say megabytes when they mean megaBITS. And visa versa. But there is a big difference. MBps = megabytes Mbps = megabits So, if you refer to my speed test above you will see that I am getting 11.53 Mbps per second. To find out how many megabytes that is you just divide by 8 which equals 1.44 MBps. Now, 1 MB is equal to 1024 KB (kilobytes) so if you want to know how fast you are going to able to download a song or movie you should refer to the KB or MB per second rate as that is usually what they are measured in. For example, if you are downloading a 50 MB file at 1 MB per second it will take you just under 50 seconds. Got it? Download faster: How to speed up your internet Now let’s dive into a few ways that you can improve your internet speed. There are some things you will need to check before we try to speed things up. What speed should you be getting? Internet companies often advertise huge speeds as a theoretical “potential” but in reality you will never get near it. Email or call your ISP and ask them what should really be getting. How far away are you from the exchange? If you live a fair distance from the phone exchange then you won’t be able to reach maximum speeds. People who live closer to the exchanges get faster speeds every single time. Once you know those things then we can move on towards getting your speed increased up towards it’s potential. 1. Test a different modem/router The biggest cause of slowed down internet is a bad modem. For ages I was using a Billion modem that I thought was absolutely fantastic. I was having frequent internet drop outs and blaming them on my ISP. Finally I changed to a new NETGEAR N150 modem and speeds went up and the drop outs stopped. The problem? The old Billion modem wasn’t equipped for ADSL2+. Rookie mistake. Make sure your modem is suited to the internet plan that you are on. 2. Scan for viruses The next thing you need to do is make sure that no virus itself is causing you to slow down. Sometimes viruses can live on your computer and suck resources away from what you are doing thus slowing down your speeds. I personally use this one as a daily scanner on my PC and have found it to be the most accurate over time without slowing down my computer too much. 3. Check for on-system interference Sometimes your virus scanner or other programs can interfere with your internet speeds. This is really frustrating but you can figure out by simply switching things off one at a time and then running a speed test again. Please note I won’t be responsible for any viruses or spyware you pick up whilst doing this. You should always have good virus protection. 4. Check your filters If you have your internet connected to a phone line that also has a telephone on it then you will need to make sure you have good quality filters installed on your line. These are little plugs that you attach to the phone line and they help filter out the disturbances. Here is a photo of one of mine. Now, these also need to be different for the different types of internet. If you have ADSL2+ or cable make sure you have the appropriate filter. 5. Try getting rid of your cordless phone Some people disagree with this but I have found that cordless phones slow down or interfere with my internet even with filters. It is worth doing an isolation test by removing your phones and replacing them with different ones (borrow a friend’s) and see whether you get better results. 6. Plug in Wifi is nice but wireless internet is often a tad slower than if you plug in to your modem. Try getting that chord out of the box and plugging straight into the modem, especially if it is your desktop computer and you don’t need to move it around very often. 7. Check for external interference I bet most of you have an iPhone, iPad, sound system and at least one other form of electronic device in your modem area. Am I right? Well, if so, then you need to check to see whether these things are causing electromagnetic interference. Try moving speakers out of the way and getting other electronic devices out of your modem space. 8. Check for Foxtel or other types of TV Old Foxtel boxes can cause interference for your internet, even if you aren’t using them. If your net speed is slower than it should be and you can’t figure out why, it might be an idea to go for a walk around your house and see if you have a Foxtel (cable TV) box that you didn’t know was there. It could be from a past owner. If so, call up and make sure it is disconnected totally. 9. Shorten and replace cables The length of your cables and their structure can affect speeds. Try replacing old phone cables, sockets and lines and instead use shorter and newer ones. This can often make a big difference. 10. Have you tried turning it off and on again? The last suggestion is often the most powerful one. Turn off your modem for one minute and turn it on again. It is called power cycling and can often flush out a bunch of problems that affect your speed. If you are really brave you can even reconfigure your modem with a new password as this can often refresh your settings at the end of your ISP and refresh connections.