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4 SEPTEMBER 2019 |COMPUTERSHOPPER|ISSUE 379

Contents

Issue 379September2 019

Regulars

6 Letters

Your monthlymissivesof wit and wisdom,

tips and tricks, and moans and groans

8 Mel’sWorld

Want to know what happenedin the great

social media app-ocalypseof summer2019?

Mel Croucherdodgesthe cannibalistic

crazies to bring you news from the front line

10 Kay’sCorner

SavvyShopperreadersknow not to believe

everythingyou read on the internet, but as

KayEwbankwarns, deep fakes mean you

can’t believe everythingyou see or hear,either

12 Rants &Raves

It’s easy to be cynical about advances in

technology,but we should be thankful

that we’re witnessingso much innovation.

And some of the best ideas don’t rely on

sky-high specs or blistering performance

138 Zygote

Despiteofficial claims to the contrary,

broadbandspeeds in the UK are falling

ever further behind the rest of world.

ButZygote’sin no hurry –he’sgot 68 million

flavours of whiskytoget through

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p 116

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122 TheLynxEffect

David Crookesremembe s

the Atari Lynx, a

cutting-edge,16-bit

handheldconsole,

which 30 years ago

could have been a

contender had it not

been crushedby the

Nintendo Game Boy

112 Unixat 50

Everythingfrom

cheap computers and

the RaspberryPi to

smartphonesand

the internet rely on

the Unix operating

system, which is 50 years old.

Nik Rawlinsoncelebrates the venerable

OS that underpinsthe modernworld

116 Artificial

NeuralNetworks

Intel, Google and

Microsoftare among

the tech giants

hoping to createan

alternativemodel

of computationthat mimics the human

brain.Mike Bedfordinvestigates the

pioneeringresearchthat could lead

to massiveperformancegains over

traditionalmethodsof computing

Features

ld.

Learn

128 Helpfile&BusinessHelp

Got aPCproblem,app annoyance or

Windowswoe? Fear not:Simon Handby

is here to answerall your queries

132 Advanced Projects

Banish all those irritationsand redundant

features from MicrosoftWord and customise

the programto make it work foryou with the

help of master wordsmithClive Webster

News

All the latest news and views from the

technologyworld, including:

14 News Round-up

AMD’s comebackgatherspace as chip-maker

reveals 3rd-generationRyzen processors;

and Huaweifaces US governmentban

amid securityfears

16 From the Lab

In-depthcoverage of all the latest scientific

and technologicaladvances

17 TheLowdown: Dual-screen Laptops

We’re seeing double this month as big tech

names unveil notebookswith two displays

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