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Happy National Email Day, fellow tech nerds! https://zurl.co/KVtp

Happy Pi Day from your favorite Nerds! Want to read some surprising Pi facts like the most Pi digits ever calculated? https://zurl.co/Dwq5

Wishing all of you and your families a lovely Christmas, happy holidays, and a joyful new year!

Today is Ada Lovelace Day! Founded in 2009, it is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. https://zurl.co/Fxmc

Ada Lovelace Day One of history’s most influential figures, Ada Lovelace helped invent the computer. Honor her contributions by learning about her and other pioneering women.

What will you do tomorrow to celebrate the accomplished women in your life?

It's Find Your Inner Nerd Day! https://zurl.co/l903

On this National Web Designer Day, Extra Nerds wishes to thanks all of our very creative, talented Designers and Developers and all those out there who make our world more interesting and colorful. https://zurl.co/0ReD

Web Designer Day It's Web Designer Day and it’s time to celebrate these individuals who have made our lives a little more colorful.

May the Fourth be with you, from your friends at Extra Nerds!

To have hope of preventing further damage to our planet, we need to make some changes and technology can be at the forefront. According to the International Telecommunications Union, digital technology could help reduce the world’s carbon emissions by about 17%.

The term 'easter egg' was coined around 1979 by an Atari software development director to describe a hidden message in their Adventure video game in reference to an Easter egg hunt, all in an act of corporate rebellion. # techtrivia

The first ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion When Atari’s video game designers were stiffed on credit for their work, they expressed their dissatisfaction through hidden messages.

Did you know how common it is for people to lose all of their files? Just one little accident or failure could destroy all of the photos and files you care about! Today is World Backup Day - learn how to protect your data at worldbackupday.com

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Some humor for the programmer nerds amongst us. https://zcu.io/lY7g

40 Painfully Relatable Memes And Jokes About Everything Programming And Computer Science (New Pics) After you boot up a computer, there is a myriad of ways in which you can ruin your day. But before you download a Trojan or delete System32, imagine how much energy and stress someone spent to code it.

Watch for this sneaky malware! https://zcu.io/5JPz

This sneaky malware hides on your PC for a month before going to work Cybersecurity researchers warn about a campaign that infects PCs via bogus software downloads.

Most fake reviews are easy to identify, but some are cleverly disguised and I'm sure we've all missed a few. I guess Amazon has finally had enough (again). https://zcu.io/jaOH

Amazon sues Facebook group admins over fake reviews – TechCrunch If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so much copypasta, there’s a good reason: Fake reviews abound and people are getting paid to post them. Amazon filed a lawsuit Monday against the administrators of more than 10,00…

If you're a prime day shopper, watch out for scams! https://zcu.io/tL5d

How cyber criminals are targeting Amazon Prime Day shoppers Check Point Research is already seeing phishing emails and suspicious domains designed to scam prospective Amazon Prime Day shoppers.

Here are six tech tips for a fun Independence Day! From our families and friends to yours, have a fun but safe holiday weekend. https://zcu.io/yrJE

6 tech tips for a fun and festive Fourth of July The Fourth of July is one of our nation’s oldest rituals but tradition shouldn’t stop you from taking advantage of a few new technologies. We rounded up some of our… Read More

Adobe may block antivirus tools from monitoring PDF files. https://zcu.io/Kvsz

Adobe Acrobat may block antivirus tools from monitoring PDF files Security researchers found that Adobe Acrobat is trying to block security software from having visibility into the PDF files it opens, creating a security risk for the users.

Photoshop on the web, free to everyone...? https://zcu.io/GSna

Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone The goal is to hook artists who could subscribe down the road.

Gamers and lit nerds unite! https://zcu.io/Qxpi

‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

RIP Explorer. You were mediocre at best, but now you'll be looked upon with nostalgia as you slip into the zeitgeist of the past. https://zcu.io/yZPF

RIP, Internet Explorer Microsoft's much-maligned internet browser will soon be officially retired.

15 most exciting game reveals for 2022! https://zcu.io/xsei

Apple's iOS 16 will allow users more freedom to uninstall built-in apps from their iPhone and it's about time. https://zcu.io/oDjw

iOS 16 will allow you to uninstall more built-in apps from your iPhone | Cult of Mac iOS 16 will allow you to delete the Find My, Health, and Clock apps from your iPhone (or iPad).

How responsible should tech companies be for mis/disinformation? https://zcu.io/V2jd

Tech Companies Need to Be Held Accountable for Disinformation, Experts Say RSA panel including former CISA Director Chris Krebs says the truth continues to be threatened by the spread of misinformation and disinformation.

The US is home (again!) to the world's top supercomputer on the semiannual list of the world's 500 most powerful systems. https://zcu.io/dUfF

June 2022 | TOP500 The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s.

For a little Friday levity - Is tech making it easier for us to get more irritated than ever before? https://zcu.io/RHNF

Study: Technology Making It Easier For Mankind To Get More Annoyed Than Ever A new study from the American Psychological Association has found that advances in technology have simplified and streamlined the ways in which humanity becomes completely infuriated.

Probably none of you have heard yet that Elon is buying Twitter! In all seriousness though, what do you think of the move? Some, including Dorsey, seem to think it's positive. Others wonder whether $44B could have been spent on something more meaningful. https://zcu.io/p6JE

Elon Musk sold around $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares this week as he moved to buy Twitter Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Is LinkedIn worth the risk? https://zcu.io/eDmr

LinkedIn was the most exploited brand in phishing attacks last quarter Phishing attacks aimed at stealing LinkedIn account credentials surged during the first quarter of 2022, says Check Point Research.