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How effective are security solutions against ransomware?

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Almost every developer of information security solutions claims their products repel ransomware attacks. That’s true: All of them do provide some degree of protection against ransomware. But how strong is that protection? How effective are those technologies? Those aren’t idle questions: Partial protection against ransomware is a dubious achievement. If a solution can’t stop a threat in its tracks, then where is the guarantee that it at least kept critical files safe? With that in mind, independent company AV-Test put 11 endpoint protection platform products through their paces in 113…

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Top Things You Can Do For Yourself While Staying At Home

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With the pandemic ravaging the world, staying at home means saving your life and the lives of other people. Public places and non-essential activities outdoors should be avoided. However, this does not mean that you should spend your days lounging in bed, watching Netflix, or playing video games. Since weekend shopping and coffee with peers are out of the menu, you have the whole weekend to yourself. Why not use it productively? Here are some things that you can do with your excess free time. It can be as simple…

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Whatever Challenges Face Higher Education, the Collaborative Culture Lives On

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Reading Time: Less than 3 mins. Synopsis: This blog details recent events, blogs, and presentations from Explorance partners such as Cardiff University and Stockholm School of Economics. With many challenges and obstacles facing the Higher Education sector, the value of community and collaboration still prevails. University strike ballots over pay and pensions, rows around freedom of speech, fears over student safety with reports of spiking by injection, challenges around the sector’s commitment to climate change ahead of COP26 and IT cyber-attacks: these are just some of the stories making the headlines over…

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5 Content Trends that Demand Moderation

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Having an online presence is no longer a luxury reserved for tech-savvy companies and global brands. It’s 2021, and by now most organizations realize that a strong online presence is imperative. From local e-commerce marketplaces to worldwide online communities, most brands have a blog or social media channel at the very least. At the same time, content creators are churning out photos, videos, comments, and more at an unprecedented rate. To say that anyone may publish anything at any time is not an exaggeration. Unfortunately, this includes cyberbullies, online trolls,…

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Free Easter Speeches for Children

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     Easter celebrations range from commercial to Christian and include people of all ages. Writing or reciting a speech about Easter can help children better understand what they are celebrating. The speeches below are original, written by the author Michele Meleen. The final two speeches are original and written by Tamsen Butler. To open the printable, click on the image. If you have issues, see this guide for working with Adobe printables. Extraordinary Easter This short Easter speech for youth uses a more traditional format to explain why people of all faiths and beliefs enjoy celebrating…

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High-Efficiency Buck-Boost Converter Prolongs Battery Life

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Texas Instruments rolled out a new buck-boost converter with advanced power management that it said can boost the battery life of industrial and consumer Internet of Things devices by over 50%. According to TI, the TPS63900 integrates programmable input current limits and dynamic voltage scaling to prolong the life of smaller, cheaper batteries used in IoT devices, ranging from smart door locks to sensors slapped on a factory floor or on the side of a building. It is a high-efficiency synchronous dc-dc buck-boost converter with a wide range of input…

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